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Moli vs Playwright when the agent only needs the text
I asked curl for a page of quotes. Curl is the small program that downloads whatever a web address returns, and it…
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AI/MLShould Claude Code answer in HTML? Only if you stop paying HTML prices
Short answer: asking Claude Code to write a full HTML page costs about 2.8 times the output tokens of a Markdown answer…
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Open SourceGoogle will not pay for a bug in the code. It will still pay if you can poison the build.
TL;DR: On October 1, 2026, Google stopped taking new product bug reports in its open-source bounty (OSS VRP, the program that pays…
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AI/MLarXiv will only take two papers a month from you
TL;DR: On October 1, 2026, arXiv (the free site where researchers post papers before a journal prints them) limited every submitter to…
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Open SourceCan an old Android phone be a real Linux server without root?
Short answer: yes. ServerBox turns an old Android phone into a Linux server with SSH and no root, using PRoot (a tool…
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AI/MLFull Disk Access is a master key. Apple is about to make it harder to hand to an agent.
The whole piece in one breath. On 2 October 2026 Apple told developers it will add controls so Full Disk Access (the…
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AI/MLStrands Decider 2B does not write. That is the point.
TL;DR: Strands Decider 2B, released 1 October 2026 by Strands Labs, is not a chatbot. A chatbot writes the next piece of…
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AI/MLIs dbx a good lightweight DBeaver alternative? I let Claude Code drive it
Short answer: yes for most daily work. dbx is a free, open source database client (an app that lets you look inside…
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AI/MLJetBrains Air is not a new model
JetBrains Air, which opened as an early access program (a public preview that can still break) inside JetBrains IDEs on October 1,…
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AI AgentsWhat is Gemini 4 Argon, and why can’t you use it yet?
You cannot open Gemini and try Gemini 4 Argon today. Google and a vetted set of cyber defenders can. Everyone else is…
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