Daily Tech News 7 April 2026

• A critical security vulnerability has been discovered in the leaked version of Claude Code. (Adversa)
  
  If you've used Claude Code, you've noticed that it loves running shell commands to examine your codebase, rather than, say, reading it. Or having simple fixed-function code built into the software to do it on your computer.
  
  And it also loves to ask you for permission to run those shell commands.
  
  The vulnerability comes into play when a very long string of shell commands are run together. For the first fifty commands it will check - manually if needed, and in its history of permitted and denied commands if it's in there already.
  
  And on the fifty-first command, it rests. And executes it regardless.
  
  So if someone triggers a long string of commands and the first fifty are innocuous, after that they can take full control of your computer - because Claude Code runs on your computer, and just communicates with the Claude AI service as needed.
  
  The particularly lovely thing here is that Anthropic already fixed this.
  
  But both versions are present inside Claude Code and it using the broken one.
  
  
  
• The cult of vibe coding is insane. (Bram Cohen)
  
  Claude Code is the preeminent vibe coding tool.
  
  Guess how it was coded? Guess how that horrible bug stayed in, even after it was fixed.
  
  You'll never guess.
  
  Oh, you guessed.

• Why the majority of vibe coded projects fail. (Reddit)
  
  It's a war zone in that thread, between the crusty old hardboiled engineers and the idiots vibe coders no, idiots.
  
  
  
• Intel's Bartlett Lake CPUs are here - sort of - and the top of the line 12 core model competes with AMD's 9900X3D and Intel's own 13900K. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Bartlett Lake has up to 12 performance cores, the most of any mainstream Intel processor. Except that while it runs on common Socket 1700 motherboards, it's not a mainstream processor and only sells to industrial users, and is not supported by common Socket 1700 motherboard BIOSes.
  
  Except it turns out that by changing one digit in the BIOS and reflashing it, it works fine.
  
  
  
• OpenAI is once again calling for public funds to clean up the mess it is creating. (Business Insider)
  
  The best time for a Butlerian Jihad is now.
  
  
  
• What various Nova Lake models bring to the table. (WCCFTech)
  
  Anything from 6 cores at 15W to 52 cores at 200W.
  
  Base TDP. Intel's peak TDP can be several times higher.
  
  
  

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