Perplexity just launched the ultimate defense tool to stop hackers. And the crazy part, they open-sourced it for free. Welcome to day 37 of AI update of the day. For the past 6 months, hackers have been slipping malicious code into free software [music] packages that are the building blocks behind almost every app on the internet. And to stop this, Perplexity just open-sourced one of their internal security tools for [music] Mac and Linux. It is called Bumblebee. It sits on your laptop and quietly scans for hidden dangers inside the tools developers use every single day. Most security scanners accidentally trigger the very attack they are hunting. Bumblebee refuses to do that. And as [music] a check, independent security researcher reviewed the code and confirmed there was no tracking, no data collection, and no hidden backdoors. And here is how you can set it up for yourself. You download Bumblebee and run one command in your terminal. It then scans your machine in three different [music] ways. A quick baseline scan for daily checks, a project scan for specific code folders, and a deep scan when something feels wrong. It checks your installed software packages, your AI agent settings, and even your browser extension. For 2 years, AI coding tools shipped with zero security around them. We celebrated speed. Nobody talked about the risks sitting underneath. [music] Perplexity just shipped the first real defense and they gave it away free. If you use Claude, Codium, Cursor, or Codex daily, install this today. Run it weekly. It could [music] save your entire codebase. If you want to install it, I dropped a free step-by-step guide and link [music] to download it in my WhatsApp community. Link in bio.
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