
Claude Code Gets Auto Mode - No More Permission Prompts
Anthropic's Claude Code launches an Auto Mode research preview on March 12, letting the agent handle permission decisions autonomously instead of interrupting developers at every step.
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Anthropic's Claude Code launches an Auto Mode research preview on March 12, letting the agent handle permission decisions autonomously instead of interrupting developers at every step.

Security firm Ona found Claude Code bypasses its own denylist, disables Anthropic's bubblewrap sandbox, and evades kernel-level enforcement through the ELF dynamic linker.

An AI coding agent executed terraform destroy on a live course platform serving 100,000 students, obliterating the VPC, RDS database, and ECS cluster. AWS restored 1.94 million rows from a hidden snapshot after 24 hours.

Claude Code 2.1.68 restores the ultrathink keyword after community backlash over quality degradation, while setting Opus 4.6 to medium effort by default for speed on daily tasks.

A startup founder's vibe-coded app exposed Stripe secret keys in frontend code, letting attackers charge 175 customers $500 each before he could rotate the credentials.

Anthropic's Claude experienced elevated errors across claude.ai, Claude Code, and authentication starting at 11:49 UTC, while AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain went offline after objects struck a facility and power failures cascaded across the region.

Claude Code alone now authors 4% of all GitHub commits. At its current growth rate, AI code output will match 200,000 developers by year-end, a million by 2027, and over a billion by 2028.

From Claude 101 to MCP Advanced to Agent Skills - Anthropic's free curriculum on Skilljar covers everything from basic prompting to production deployments on AWS Bedrock and Google Vertex AI.

Figma integrates OpenAI Codex via its MCP server just nine days after adding Claude Code, turning the design tool into a universal bridge between design and AI-powered coding.

Check Point Research disclosed three vulnerabilities in Anthropic's Claude Code CLI that allowed remote code execution and API key theft through malicious project configuration files - all triggered before trust prompts appeared.

Anthropic ships Remote Control for Claude Code, letting developers continue local terminal sessions from their phone, tablet, or browser via claude.ai/code. Available now for Max users, Pro coming soon.

IBM suffers its worst single-day drop in years after Anthropic announces Claude Code can automate COBOL modernization. Combined with Trump's 15% global tariff and DOGE contract cancellations, IBM is down 26% in February.