Claude Code Leak, Cisco Dev Breach via Trivy, Iran Threatens US Tech Firms, Microsoft Shares Slide

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Jim Love hosts Hashtag Trending with sponsor Meter and covers four main stories: a March 31 packaging error that shipped Anthropic’s Claude code tool with a large source-code map file in its NPM package, enabling reconstruction of the TypeScript orchestration layer (not the model), followed by rapid GitHub انتشار and DMCA takedowns; a major Cisco breach where threat actors used stolen credentials tied to a Trivy supply-chain compromise and a malicious GitHub Action to access Cisco’s development environment, clone 300+ repositories, and abuse AWS keys (Cisco says products and customer systems weren’t impacted); an Iranian military warning that US tech employees in the Gulf should leave workplaces, implying potential physical attacks beyond prior cyber activity; and Microsoft’s roughly 23% quarterly share drop amid capacity constraints, data-center resistance, chip supply pressure, slower paid Copilot adoption, lagging Windows 11 uptake, and reliability issues.

00:00 Sponsor and Headlines
00:54 Claude Code Leak Explained
02:30 Containment and Legal Fallout
04:23 Cisco Supply Chain Breach
06:33 Iran Threats to Tech
08:32 Microsoft Stock Slide
09:59 Wrap Up and Sponsor Thanks