Google's AI Overview feature continues to hallucinate basic facts, as demonstrated by a user's search for Python 3.12 dict union operator syntax, where the overview incorrectly implied that the '|' op…
Mozilla announced three new features for Firefox's Smart Window (formerly AI Window) on Tuesday, including web search with sources via a partnership with Exa, automatic tab grouping, and visual previe…
A developer building an autonomous AI agent named Hermes Commander encountered cascading failures when the agent attempted to invoke a web search tool that was not registered, leading to a blind fallb…
DuckDuckGo No-AI is the best free alternative to Google, scoring 55 out of 60 in a 12-query desktop test, compared to Google's 58, according to Search Engine Watch's testing. Other recommended alterna…
DuckDuckGo, in collaboration with sunglasses brand Knockaround, has launched a limited-edition pair of “Normal F***ing Sunglasses” for $35, marketed as having zero AI, no camera, microphone, or electr…
A Hacker News 'Who is hiring' thread lists open roles at Better Stack, Sumble, Republic Services, Railway, MixRank, DuckDuckGo, Seeq, Temporal Technologies, and Checkly, with positions including full-…
DuckDuckGo has unveiled a privacy-first vision with sunglasses that block visual data collection, challenging smart-glasses trends like Ray-Ban Meta and Google Glass. The company has not announced rel…
DuckDuckGo partnered with sunglasses maker Knockaround to sell 'Normal F***ing Sunglasses,' a $35 pair of matte black sunglasses with no camera, microphone, AI, battery, or electronics, marketed as an…
The Datos x SparkToro State of Search Report for Q2 2026 reveals that zero-click searches have reached an all-time high, with only 40% of U.S. searches and 40.7% of EU/UK searches sending clicks to th…
DuckDuckGo and Knockaround have released the DuckDuckGo Paso Robles sunglasses, marketed as 'Normal F***ing Sunglasses,' with no camera, microphone, AI, battery, or electronics, offering infinite batt…
DuckDuckGo's anti-surveillance sunglasses, sold in partnership with Knockaround, sold out after going on sale in late July, with a new batch available for preorder and estimated to ship Nov. 19–30. Th…
DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine and browser company, partnered with eyewear brand Knockaround to sell 'Normal F* ****** Sunglasses,' a $35 pair of analog sunglasses designed as a satiric…
DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine and browser company, partnered with eyewear company Knockaround to release 'Normal F* ******* Sunglasses,' analog sunglasses with no camera, microphone, B…
In a retrospective essay, AI forecaster and author of the 2021 science fiction story 'Bayeswatch' reflects on how the AI landscape has changed, noting that AI now writes all of his software at 10× to …
Ollama is an open-source tool that enables running large language models locally on personal hardware, offering full privacy and zero API costs. It supports models like Llama 3, Mistral, and Gemma, an…
A developer who posted 31 articles on DEV found that a post with 300 views and zero reactions attracted search traffic as a technical manual, while a post with only 47 views and five comments sparked …
A developer built Slick, an independent, privacy-focused search engine from scratch, learning that search is far more complex than it appears. The engine combines traditional keyword matching with sem…
A fake website at corepack[.]org is impersonating the Node.js Corepack tool and distributing malware to developers, Socket's Threat Research team reported. The site delivers an infostealer that access…
Kolega Code, an open-source CLI tool for multi-agent coding in the terminal, has been released by developer Kolega AI. The tool features Gigacode orchestration that fans out specialized sub-agents for…
A new curated list of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers enforces a strict open-source, self-hostable, no-lock-in policy, excluding any tool that requires a paid proprietary backend or vendor cloud …