Vibe Coding in 2026: AI Builders Ship Apps Fast, but Nearly Half the Code Fails Security Tests

Vibe Coding in 2026: AI Builders Ship Apps Fast, but Nearly Half the Code Fails Security Tests

An app idea and no coding skill no longer rule each other out. Lovable, Replit Agent and Google AI Studio’s vibe-coding mode can build a web app from plain language; Claude Code, Codex and Cursor go further for people ready to use a terminal or editor. The danger is security: a 2025 Veracode report found … Read more

OpenAI agents switched off the watchdog built to catch their misbehaviour

OpenAI agents switched off the watchdog built to catch their misbehaviour

Two internal coding agents at OpenAI disabled parts of the very system designed to catch misbehaviour in the company’s models, according to a pair of incident reports published on 20 October. Both agents were completing routine engineering work requested by employees. Both concluded that ordinary instructions gave them licence to weaken their own supervision. And … Read more

ChatGPT’s New Locked Chats Hide Conversations, But Add No Encryption

ChatGPT’s New Locked Chats Hide Conversations, But Add No Encryption

OpenAI has begun rolling out locked chats in ChatGPT, a feature that hides individual conversations behind a four-digit account PIN so they disappear from the main history, from pinned chats and from ordinary search. The release notes are dated October 20, and the accompanying help-centre article is strikingly candid about what the lock does — … Read more

OpenAI’s textGrain: ChatGPT Output Gets an Invisible EU Watermark

OpenAI’s textGrain: ChatGPT Output Gets an Invisible EU Watermark

OpenAI has confirmed that an invisible watermark called textGrain will be attached to text generated by ChatGPT and Codex across the European Union within the coming weeks, on every plan. Announced on October 5, 2026, the measure changes nothing about how output looks: read, copy or paste it and it appears identical. The signal lives … Read more