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Cursor backdoor, shared AI opt-out — AI News Oct 31

31 Oct 2026 · 11 min

Episode Cursor backdoor, shared AI opt-out — AI News Oct 31

0:00 11:20

- Tampered Claude Code extension in Cursor: up to 5,000 users, the svc-telemetry SSH check, and why extension marketplaces are supply chain

- One shared robots.txt token from OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic to opt out of AI training

- Google shuts down Jules, GitHub flags AI agent flaws in pull requests, and Phonic-1 tops the voice agent index

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