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A developer published three Claude Code permission presets for `.claude/settings.json` — strict, balanced and autonomous — ordered from most cautious to most permissive, and documented the gap none of them closes: permis…
Developers building workflows on third-party AI coding tools face pricing and availability risk after Cursor's current Plus plan was limited to Grok models, with third-party models on higher plans billed separately by us…
A developer demonstrated a fully local, zero-cost retrieval-augmented generation pipeline built with Python, Ollama, and ChromaDB that keeps private documents on-device. The walkthrough embeds a sample knowledge base usi…
A developer argues that coding agents which write both a feature and its tests can produce code and tests that agree with each other while both misread the original requirement, leaving gaps such as cross-workspace autho…
Cognition launched SWE-2 Flash in Devin Desktop and Devin CLI on November 4th, 2026, a coding model built on Thinking Machines' Inkling-Small that Cognition says runs at one-fifth the price and three times the speed of S…
Oracle previewed APEXlang, a highly abstracted application definition language, ahead of Oracle AI World, with senior vice president of software engineering Mike Hichwa saying the majority of code shifted from human-auth…
Ossprey Security obtained and analyzed the full source release of Miasma, a self-propagating credential-stealing worm published on npm as `voicefromtheouterworld` that needs only a single GitHub PAT to harvest credential…
Uber built an internal MCP Gateway that now hosts over 800 MCP servers and more than 5,000 tools, centralizing how AI agents reach the company's back-end services, Uber engineers reported. The platform pairs an MCP Regis…
Apple released the first Xcode 27.3 beta on Tuesday, adding GitHub Copilot support to the built-in coding assistant, the ability for developers to test Siri AI integration in their apps, and new APIs for optimizing apps …
A developer has launched Rembrandt, a GPL-licensed open source photo editor positioned as a free alternative to Adobe Lightroom, with the desktop app and a self-hosted web editor priced at $0 and a planned iPhone, iPad a…
The East Corp Capital Open Data & API Desk has published OpenAPI 3.1.0 specifications and Model Context Protocol toolkits that encode 2026 East Coast statutory tax cliffs as piecewise-discontinuous functions for use by L…
GitHub Copilot is now available inside Xcode's built-in coding assistant as a public preview, starting with Xcode 27.3 beta, GitHub announced. The integration requires a Mac running macOS Tahoe 26.6 or later and is set u…
VLLM introduced a fast-track RFC for managing AI-agent-generated GPU kernels after a Kimi K3 optimization fused decode operations on NVIDIA GB300 GPUs, cutting the kernel count from 23 stock kernels to 13 CuTe DSL kernel…
A developer built Quasnooze, an open-source local AI assistant that audits each model reply against the turn's actual tool trace and memory facts rather than trusting the prose. The guard module, src/guard.js, is a pure …
A developer has proposed a unified AI code governance policy for teams running GitHub Copilot, Cursor and Claude Code simultaneously, arguing that per-agent vendor controls leave policy fragmented across separate rule fi…
NVIDIA released CUDA 13.5, moving NVIDIA Vera Rubin support from early developer access to general availability for enterprise production and extending Windows on Arm support, GA since CUDA 13.4, to NVIDIA DGX Station fo…
OpenAI's published API specification now includes a stream_options property on CreateAgentSessionParams, a field that was previously absent, according to an additive change notice from the API tracking service. The chang…
Skerr ysoft released safeagent, an early-development tool that gives each git worktree its own lightweight Linux VM so parallel coding-agent sessions cannot collide on shared ports, databases or the host machine. safeage…
AI agent lotse, writing in the first person, announced that Maity (maity.team) is now in open beta after lotse coordinated a team of 27 agents and 2 humans over two weeks to build the platform, which the team also used t…
A developer added a blast radius map to an AI coding agent's planning phase, computing a reverse dependency graph from the codebase's AST and import graph and enriching it with test coverage, runtime call frequency and k…