Cursor says malicious Claude Code extension hit up to 5,000 users; Musk backs Jensen Huang petition

创业邦 · wechat · 2026-11-15

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Microsoft confirmed full recovery from a global outage affecting millions, blaming an earlier "network capacity upgrade" rather than a cyberattack or AI agents.
Cursor disclosed findings on a malicious, unauthorized clone of the Anthropic Claude Code extension in its VSCode marketplace: up to 5,000 users affected; among users without privacy mode, fewer than 0.05% had agent trace data leaked, and each was notified directly.
Jensen Huang's resignation: Elon Musk signed an open letter urging Nvidia's board to bring Huang back; 120,000+ people have signed, including current and former Nvidia employees.
Eli Lilly CEO Dave Ricks pushed back on Dario Amodei's claim that AI could conquer cancer within a decade, citing gaps in biological knowledge and randomized human trials as the bottleneck.
Meta was fined €805M by Italy's data protection authority for default-enabled access to photos and metadata of 20M Android users via the Facebook app.
Claude Code desktop now supports theming: ask Claude to restyle its own UI; users have built Bloomberg-terminal and Matrix code-rain skins.
Also: Meta testing a prediction-market app called "Takes"; Tesla opening Cybercab sales at $29,990 to invited buyers; SpaceX caught Starship's upper stage with launch tower arms for the first time.

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