A developer has published a walkthrough for building a WebMCP tool from scratch, registering a "score_facts" tool directly on a web page via the native document.modelContext API in Chrome or a polyfil…
Public Browser, a Chrome MCP server that connects to Chrome directly via the DevTools Protocol, reported 30% fewer tokens, 25% lower cost, 41% fewer tool calls and 40% less time than Playwright MCP at…
The W3C published an updated Candidate Recommendation of the Web Neural Network API (WebNN) on 22 January 2026, marking the first major revision since April 2024 and formally inviting browser vendors …
Developer Bassim Eledath released Karen, a development-only React overlay that captures spoken or typed feedback on specific components and packages it with component names, source locations, and opti…
Anthropic says Claude now authors roughly 80% of the code merged into its repositories, with test counts up 10x and continuous-integration job volume up 25x in six months, according to a September 14 …
GLM-5.3-Flash matched the cyber-exploitation performance of Claude Mythos Preview on ExploitBench at roughly 6% of the cost, according to a September 2026 blog post by James Mann. Running with a 1 bil…
A developer demonstrated WebMCP, Chrome's experimental API that lets a web page register tools directly for AI agents via document.modelContext.registerTool(), eliminating the need for a working direc…
A developer built Social Memory, a local-first evidence library that captures liked, bookmarked, and reposted posts from X/Twitter and Threads into a searchable SQLite/FTS5 database. The tool uses an …
Google has lost two antitrust rulings to the U.S. Department of Justice in the past 12 months, with judges finding it a monopolist in both search and ad tech but declining to order divestiture of Chro…
A developer built an AI-callable developer portfolio at techiewithbeard.com using Angular 22 and the emerging WebMCP (Web Model Context Protocol) standard, exposing structured tools that AI agents can…
LanguageTool is an AI-based grammar, spelling, style, and punctuation checker that supports more than 30 languages across browser add-ons, email clients, and office apps, with its core checker availab…
The AI Lab has released the Trust Identity Protocol (TIP), a free, open standard that lets verified people sign their published content and label it as Original Human, AI-Assisted, AI-Generated or Mix…
Sorify has open-sourced an AI-first browser testing and automation platform built on Playwright, offering low-token MCP control for Claude and Codex agents. The platform includes a Chrome extension th…
Google confirmed it has increased the Chrome security update cycle to every 14 days, effective immediately, in response to concerns about AI vulnerability discoveries. The change follows AI-driven fla…
A developer behind the Chrome extension suite Legacy Tools designed the extensions so that page content is analyzed locally in the browser rather than sent to a remote server, arguing that host permis…
A new Firefox extension and public API called Pangram flags and hides LLM-generated posts on the Hacker News front page by assigning each thread an AI-probability score, with users able to set a thres…
Roblox announced at its developers conference on Friday that creators will be able to distribute their games as standalone apps across mobile, PC and consoles, with Roblox providing the underlying tec…
A software engineer reported that Google's Gemini "Ask" side-panel in Chrome spawned multiple hidden background iframes playing overlapping audio when he clicked AI-generated video timestamps, while t…
A developer released Gemini Auto Image Saver, a Chrome and Edge extension that automates the repetitive workflow of generating and downloading images on gemini.google.com. The tool offers an Auto Save…
Papiers.ai launched a desktop app and Chrome extension for Mac, Windows, and Ubuntu, positioning the product as a workspace for reading and research. The developer said that as AI improves at writing,…