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Writer Ploum recounts telling businesses he has no smartphone to avoid being pressured into installing apps or scanning QR codes for basic services. He says he had to push back against 18 separate app installation demands in the past year, including for kitchen appliances, a car, and even a toilet with separate apps for its seat, flush, and ventilation.
REI is running a Labor Day sale where members can apply the code LABORDAY26 for an additional 20 percent off one outlet item. The store's lifetime membership costs $30, and several sale items are discounted enough to offset that fee. Darn Tough socks are highlighted among the deals, currently marked down 25 percent.
After curl founder Daniel Stenberg ran OpenAI's Codex Security and Anthropic's Mythos against the widely-used curl codebase and got zero findings, AISLE's autonomous AI system produced 29 vulnerability reports. Six of those were validated by curl's security team and assigned CVE identifiers, all rated Low severity, and fixed in the newly released curl 8.22.0.
Zed, the Rust-based multiplayer code editor from the team behind Atom and Tree-sitter, positions itself as a faster, lighter alternative to VS Code and Cursor. Its latest update adds tabular previews for CSV, TSV, PSV and SSV files with sortable columns and filtering, plus new Git blame and stashing actions and reduced memory usage for large files. Community contributors also improved DeepSeek model support, JetBrains-style keymaps, Markdown table sizing, and SSH authentication handling.
Runway introduced Solaris, which it calls an interface world model, letting users build interactive apps, websites and digital scenes by directly clicking and dragging on-screen elements instead of writing code. The system pairs a language model that determines how an interface should evolve with a rendering engine that generates each frame live, treating clicks and drags as signals to produce new visuals in real time. Runway demonstrated use cases such as virtually trying on clothes by dragging garments onto a photo of yourself, plus text-prompt edits like recoloring or repositioning objects.
Security researchers have observed active exploitation of CVE-2026-0768, a critical flaw in Langflow, the low-code platform used for building AI applications. This marks the latest in a series of attacks targeting the platform, which has drawn increasing attention from threat actors this year.
A user inspecting disk usage discovered that OpenAI's Codex desktop app, now rebranded as part of ChatGPT, stores a 1.7GB cache folder containing full Python and Node.js runtimes alongside native binaries for Poppler, git, and the LibreOffice office suite. Accompanying 'skills' files instruct Codex on how to locate and invoke these bundled tools when handling document-related tasks.
9to5Mac's report details four months of using OpenAI's Codex agent on the Mac, highlighting its April addition of a Computer Use plugin that lets the AI see, click, and type within apps using its own cursor. The feature traces back to Sky, an AI assistant previewed by former Apple Shortcuts creator Ari Weinstein's startup, which OpenAI acquired before folding its tech into Codex.
Advances in AI tools like Cursor and Claude Code have automated much of the routine work of writing code, allowing agents to generate pipelines, tests, and API integrations from plain-language prompts. As a result, the role of software engineers is shifting away from producing logic themselves and toward defining the guardrails, intent, and system constraints that keep AI-generated work coherent and correct.
SlideOps is a new pair of Agent Skills for Claude Code and compatible coding assistants that generates presentation slides directly from a codebase, then tracks the source each slide came from. When the underlying code changes, it detects which slides no longer match reality and rebuilds only those, rather than the whole deck. It installs via a two-line Claude Code marketplace command or a git clone plus install script for Codex, Copilot CLI, and OpenCode.
Marty Lamb argues that as coding agents drive the cost of writing software toward zero, the deeper skill of understanding that code is quietly becoming optional. He warns that offloading writing, review, and testing to AI lets developers skip building the mental models that manual coding used to force on them by default.
The Debian Project has decided against banning AI-generated contributions to its Linux distribution, instead requiring that all submissions meet existing standards for quality, correctness, maintainability, and legal compliance regardless of the tools used. Contributors must review, test, and modify AI-assisted output before submission, though disclosing AI involvement remains optional rather than mandatory.