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Daily Digest - June 8, 2026

The Miasma worm tears through Microsoft's GitHub repositories, a new wave of AI coding tools lands on the desktop, and Uber, Wayve, and Waymo line up for a robotaxi showdown in London.

Chapters

  1. Intro

  2. A self-replicating worm turns cloning a repo into a compromise

    https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/miasma-worm-hits-73-microsoft-github.html
  3. Google's Colab CLI hands AI agents a cloud supercomputer

    https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/08/google-colab-command-line-interface-cli/
  4. GitHub's standalone Copilot app becomes a control room for agents

    https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/08/github-copilot-app-ai-coding-agents/
  5. Simon Willison's plugin lets agents edit text without mangling it

    https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/7/datasette-agent-edit/
  6. Dries Buytaert: agents abandon tools that cost too much to adopt

    https://dri.es/friction-abstraction-and-verification
  7. Uber burned its AI budget early, and the bill was a warning

    https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/p/ai-token-cost-management
  8. OpenAI's Lockdown Mode for ChatGPT cuts off the exits

    https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/08/openai-lockdown-mode-available/
  9. TechCrunch's midyear roundup of the worst breaches of 2026

    https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/07/the-worst-hacks-and-breaches-of-2026-so-far/
  10. Sign-off

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