A developer known as M. built Effatà, a multi-search engine that aggregates results from eight search engines and a flight search tool, overcoming challenges like Firefox extension incompatibility and…
Quiche Industries has updated Quiche Browser to disable AI overviews in search results by default, routing queries to AI-free versions of Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, and Brave. Founder Greg de J. called…
A developer built an AI agent using Claude's tool-use loop, enabling it to perform web searches, SQL queries, and calculations autonomously. The agent iteratively selects and executes tools until it h…
SEO.bike launched a free suite of SEO and generative engine optimization (GEO) tools, plus a managed service that connects to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster to automate site improvements whi…
Cloudflare's latest data reveals Anthropic's AI bots scraped websites about 2,800 times for every one referral sent back during the first week of July, making it the biggest outlier among AI companies…
DuckDuckGo announced that its free browser now blocks most YouTube video ads by default on iPhone, Windows, and Mac, with Android support coming soon. The feature uses community-driven filter lists fr…
A developer provides a hands-on guide to building an AI agent using LangChain in 2026. The tutorial covers creating a research assistant agent with tools like web search and Wikipedia, adding memory f…
Developer MarcellM01 released TinySearch, an open-source, self-hosted web research tool for local AI agents that integrates with MCP clients like Cursor and Claude Desktop. The tool performs search, r…
Tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and Meta are embedding AI features across services, but users and publishers criticize the lack of opt-out options. DuckDuckGo saw a 30% increase in U.S. installs a…
Sidequest, a new extension for the Pi AI agent, provides a side channel for context-aware questions without disrupting the main conversation. It offers threaded, persistent, and tool-capable interacti…
A small Home Assistant blog received 18,209 AI crawler requests in nine days, accounting for 5.2% of total traffic. The majority came from ChatGPT-User (6,687 requests), which performs live fetches fo…
DuckDuckGo's AI search feature falsely told users that former President Donald Trump died of rabies, after ingesting fabricated content from a fake news site and a Reddit community designed to trick A…
A three-agent CrewAI pipeline backed by a locally running Llama 3.1 model via Ollama autonomously produces structured, cited research reports without requiring an OpenAI key. The pipeline uses a Resea…
DuckDuckGo's AI-powered search results falsely claimed President Donald Trump died of rabies after contracting the infection from Vice President J.D. Vance, who also died of rabies. The misinformation…
DuckDuckGo's AI search feature falsely reported that President Donald Trump died of rabies earlier this month, citing a fabricated news article. The misinformation originated from the Reddit subreddit…
Gen Z is embracing 'cyberdecks'—DIY, customizable computers that explicitly reject AI—as part of a broader trend toward single-purpose, anti-AI devices. The movement reflects a consumer backlash again…
Google faces a crisis as search volume hits an all-time high but the company struggles with user backlash against AI integration and a decline in ad revenue. Competitors like ChatGPT and DuckDuckGo ga…
Google posted $109.9 billion in Q1 2026 revenue, its fastest growth since 2022, and still controls 90% of search, but talent defections, rising competitors like ChatGPT and Bing, antitrust remedies, a…
AI can assist Linux users with system management tasks such as creating bash scripts, parsing log files, understanding journalctl output, and generating iptables firewall rules, helping newcomers and …
DuckDuckGo hit an all-time traffic high and saw a 30% surge in U.S. app installs after Google replaced traditional search results with AI Overviews by default at its May I/O conference. The privacy-fo…