Electrical Construction & Maintenance

Code Q&A: Portable Cords

Underlined text indicates a change in the rules for the 2017 NEC. A. Unless specifically permitted in Sec. 400.10, flexible cords sets (extension cords) and power‑supply cords aren’t permitted for the ...
Electrical Construction & Maintenance

Code Q&A: Surface Extensions

This answer is based on the 2017 NEC. A. Surface extensions can only be made from an extension ring installed over a box [Sec. 314.22]. Exception: A surface extension can be made from the cover of a ...
InfoWorld

Amazon Q Developer review: Code completions, code chat, and AWS skills

Amazon Q Developer works well for completing lines of code, doc strings, and if/for/while/try code blocks, but can’t generate full functions for certain use cases. When I reviewed Amazon CodeWhisperer ...
Bleeping Computer

Amazon AI coding agent hacked to inject data wiping commands

A hacker planted data wiping code in a version of Amazon's generative AI-powered assistant, the Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code. Amazon Q is a free extension that uses generative AI to ...