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 …
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…