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Rage4J, a Java library for evaluating LLM applications, is now available at version 1.0.4 through Maven, according to its project page. The tool measures accuracy, relevance, and faithfulness of AI responses and offers a…
Developer lencx, creator of the open-source ChatGPT desktop client, has released Minke, a local-first desktop agent workspace powered by DeepSeek Harness under the Apache-2.0 license. The Electron app unifies conversatio…
A developer has published a tutorial showing how to add a verification loop to an AI agent in about 30 minutes, separating the component that generates work from the one that judges it. The approach builds a verifier as …
Cursor launched Origin Code Hosting on August 17, 2026, letting paid users host repositories directly inside its AI IDE with pull requests, CI integrations, and bidirectional GitHub sync. The company, which has passed $2…
Pydantic AI released a dedicated ImageGenerator API that lets developers generate images directly without running an agent, supporting OpenAI GPT Image, Google Gemini via both the Gemini Developer API and Vertex AI, and …
OpenCV, the computer vision library first released in 2000 as an Intel Research project, has reached version 5.0, a significant cleanup and reorganization of the toolkit with a modernized API structure and better compati…
Software developer Stacknaut published a detailed breakdown of his agentic coding setup, built around three coding agents — Factory's Droid, Anthropic's Claude Code, and OpenAI's Codex — that share a single AGENTS.md con…
LinkBunny launched a marketplace that lets site owners use coding agents to exchange nofollow backlinks, charging $20 per month for up to 10 active sites with no per-backlink fees. The service matches sites within a Doma…
Kache v0.21.0 was released by the kunobi-ninja project, adding opt-in caching for C/C++ whole-program links, single-source nvcc -c compiles, and clang-cl flags used by Firefox Windows builds. The release also introduces …
The Agentic AI Foundation announced the Model Context Protocol Associate (MCPA) certification on September 14th, calling it the first official MCP credential and tying it directly to the MCP specification released July 2…
Electron 44, released August 25, makes every clipboard method asynchronous, removes the clipboard module from renderer processes, and eliminates eight convenience methods in favor of a MIME-type-based ClipboardItem API m…
NVIDIA released OSMO, an Apache-2.0-licensed, Kubernetes-native workflow orchestrator that lets robot developers describe an entire physical AI pipeline in a single YAML file and run it across training, simulation, and e…
Mikey Sklar released CircuitPython Turbo, a project built with help from Anthropic's Claude LLM that adds precompiled 'native' and 'viper' execution modes to CircuitPython, the Adafruit-focused fork of MicroPython. Accor…
A developer has released OpenArch, a repository of hand-written PyTorch implementations of modern open-source LLM architectures, cataloged against Sebastian Raschka's LLM Architecture Gallery. The project currently provi…
A new public Git platform called rickub, launched Monday by developer ogirardot, published a self-run CI benchmark claiming its large runner (4 vCPU / 8 GiB) is 1.8× faster than GitHub Actions' ubuntu-latest (4 vCPU / 16…
An open-source diagram skill for Claude Code and other Agent Skills-compatible hosts now ships 39 editorial diagram types in version 2.5.10, adding ten layout grammars including Sankey, fishbone, Wardley map, kanban, use…
A developer outlined a practical approach to configuring the CLAUDE.md file in Claude Code projects, placing recurring instructions at the repository root and in subdirectories so the agent retains context across session…
A study of 256 private coding tasks found no reliable overall performance advantage for vendor-native harnesses over neutral third-party harnesses on the same models, with Opus 4.8 scoring 48.8% versus 50.0% and GPT-5.5 …
AgentsDock released an open-source beta workspace that unifies Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor with multi-server connectivity across desktop and mobile platforms. The workspace lets engineers monitor active agent runs, in…
A developer who runs a small API gateway has mapped the four practical routes for buying DeepSeek API access from countries where international card and PayPal payments are blocked, including Nigeria, Indonesia, Vietnam,…