okay, so there's this thing called claude code, which is basically a coding tool made by a company called anthropic. it's been making waves, but not exactly for the right reasons. apparently, china's national vulnerability database is warning people that some versions of claude code have a security backdoor that can send sensitive info to remote servers without the user's consent. that's kinda a big deal, right?



i mean, the affected versions are from 2.1.91 to 2.1.196, and the chinese government is telling people to either uninstall or update to a newer version. which, fair enough, is probably what you should do if you're using it. the database also says that this backdoor can share stuff like your location and user-identifying info, which is just not cool. it's like, if i'm using a coding tool, i don't want it to be sneaking around behind my back.



this isn't the first time claude code has gotten into trouble in china, though. apparently, alibaba banned its employees from using it because they were worried it could identify chinese users or something. and it gets even juicier - anthropic is accusing alibaba of using claude code to train their own ai models, which is just not okay. like, if someone's gonna use your work, they should at least ask permission or give you credit or something.



it's all pretty drama-filled, and it seems like the relationship between anthropic and china is getting pretty strained. china's probably gonna start looking for alternative ai models, which might be a good thing for their own tech industry, i guess. preorders are available at major retailers, but i'm not really sure why you'd want to buy into allRead more: Full article on www.pcgamer.com

What do you think about this?