Darryl K. Taft, a respected technology journalist and New Stack news editor, is remembered as much for his interviewing talent and writing ability as for his care, curiosity, generosity, and kindness.

TNS journalist Darryl K. Taft leaves a legacy of respected work and quiet integrity

Darryl K. Taft, a respected technology journalist and New Stack news editor, is remembered as much for his interviewing talent and writing ability as for his care, curiosity, generosity, and kindness.

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Two small updates from Cursor speak to a problem that's anything but small: the AI token bill is growing, and nobody has the tools to manage it yet.

Cursor cuts prices and adds enterprise spend controls amid "tokenomics" reckoning

Two small updates from Cursor speak to a problem that's anything but small: the AI token bill is growing, and nobody has the tools to manage it yet.

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Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder and Tesla AI veteran, joins Anthropic's Claude pre-training team, signaling a major shift in AI research talent.

Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy to lead Claude pre-training research

Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder and Tesla AI veteran, joins Anthropic's Claude pre-training team, signaling a major shift in AI research talent.

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Drones keep improving — longer range, better sensors, more autonomy. But getting them onto a moving vessel remains a major constraint for offshore use -- a problem that UK startup Waiv Robotics is setting out to solve. 🔗 resiliencemedia.co/launching-dr...

👉 An excellent analysis article from @jambo.bsky.social at @resiliencemedia.bsky.social who looks at Belgium’s BEAM communications solution, created by Belgian Secure Communications (BSC) by building on Element’s community software.

A BEAM of light for EU sovereignty as Belgium rolls out Matrix-based messaging app for government

Belgium is rolling out its own secure messaging platform, as European states step up efforts to bring sensitive communications under

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Anthropic is testing a feature called “auto dream” for Claude Code, aimed at keeping its memory from filling up with stale or conflicting information. Some early users compare it to REM sleep, in terms of how it consolidates and cleans memory. 🔗 Full story here: tessl.co/fvd

Anthropic tests ‘auto dream’ to clean up Claude Code's memory

Anthropic is testing 'auto dream' for Claude Code to manage memory by reviewing and rewriting stored context, addressing issues of stale or conflicting information.

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Anthropic is pushing Claude toward an “always-on” agent — it can run tasks in the background, use your computer, and be controlled remotely. It’s taken a cue from OpenClaw, for sure, but with tighter controls around access. 🔗➤Full story here: tessl.co/qfm

Anthropic makes Claude an ‘always-on’ agent, with lessons from OpenClaw

Anthropic is evolving Claude into an 'always-on' agent, with some lessons learned from OpenClaw along the way.

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A new release from Cursor turns its internal security agents into reusable templates teams can deploy themselves. For developers, that could mean continuous security checks — but it also raises questions about how much trust to place in AI reviewing code. 🔗Read the story in full here: tessl.co/ie4

Cursor turns its internal security agents into reusable templates

Cursor offers reusable templates for security agents, enabling continuous codebase scanning and automatic vulnerability fixes, enhancing software security review processes.

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Anthropic’s new Code Review feature uses multiple AI agents to analyze pull requests and flag potential bugs. However, some developers question whether AI systems reviewing code written by other AI tools makes sense at all. tessl.io/blog/anthrop...

Claude Code's new AI code review agents scan pull requests for bugs

Anthropic launches AI code review agents that scan pull requests for bugs

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AI coding agents can run commands and access files with the same permissions as the developer who launched them — raising the risk of unintended access to sensitive data. Safehouse is a new open-source macOS tool that runs agents in a sandbox to limit what they can reach. tessl.io/blog/safehou...

Safehouse sandboxes AI coding agents on macOS

Safehouse is an open-source tool that sandboxes AI coding agents on macOS, limiting their access to sensitive files and directories to enhance security.

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Open VSX surpasses 300M monthly downloads as AWS and Cursor provide major investment. The Eclipse Foundation scales this open source VS Code extension registry.

Eclipse Foundation reports Open VSX hits 300 million monthly downloads

Open VSX surpasses 300M monthly downloads as AWS and Cursor provide major investment. The Eclipse Foundation scales this open source VS Code extension registry.

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Data from The Pragmatic Engineer suggests that developers prefer Claude Code, but Copilot dominates in large companies — a reminder that Microsoft's enterprise reach matters as much as developer sentiment. 🔗Read the story in full here: tessl.io/blog/develop...

Devs love Claude Code, but Microsoft’s Copilot has enterprise edge

While developers prefer Claude Code, Microsoft Copilot dominates in enterprises, highlighting a divide between individual preferences and corporate adoption.

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So Cursor just rolled out “Automations,” which lets AI coding agents run in the background and react to things like PRs, Slack messages, or incidents. The idea is to hand off routine engineering tasks to always-on agents. 🔗Read the story in full here: tessl.io/blog/cursor-...

Cursor launches Automations for always-on coding agents

Cursor's Automations feature enables coding agents to run automatically in response to events, streamlining codebase maintenance and routine engineering tasks.

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SurrealDB 3.0 launches with $23M in funding to tackle "architectural sprawl" for AI agents, offering a multi-model database for persistent memory and logic.

Databases weren’t built for agent sprawl – SurrealDB wants to fix it

SurrealDB 3.0 launches with $23M in funding to tackle "architectural sprawl" for AI agents, offering a multi-model database for persistent memory and logic.

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Anthropic has published its first Agentic Coding Trends Report, looking at how AI coding agents are reshaping software engineering. The core message is clear: agents handle more of the implementation work, while humans focus more on orchestration. 🔗Read the story in full here: tessl.co/sob

Anthropic: 8 agentic coding trends shaping software engineering in 2026

8 key agentic coding trends for 2026, according to Anthropic. Learn how AI agents are transforming the software development lifecycle.

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I’ve been following this open source startup Index for the past few years, and it’s always a useful snapshot of where commercial open source momentum is flowing. I took a closer look at the companies behind this year’s ranking for my latest column on Forkable. 🔗➤ www.forkable.io/p/the-20-hot...

The 20 hottest open source startups of 2025

AI agents with everything

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Gabor Soter, founder at London GenAI consultancy Palindrom, says software engineering is changing so fast that waiting for best practices is riskier than moving fast — as long as teams adopt strong verification, security guardrails, and product judgment. 🔗 Full interview: tessl.io/blog/why-its...

Why ‘it’s better to overshoot than undershoot’ in the age of AI coding

An interview with Gabor Soter, founder of generative AI consultancy Palindrom, who plans to go all-in on agentic coding tools in 2026.

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This is pretty cool — OpenAI has dropped the Codex desktop app, and it’s like a developer control panel for AI. You can have a bunch of coding agents working at the same time on different parts of a project, and let them handle long-running tasks without losing track. 🔗 tessl.io/blog/openai-...

OpenAI launches macOS Codex app for supervising AI agents

OpenAI launches new macOS Codex app for managing AI agents. Supervise parallel tasks, integrate with GitHub, and enhance your coding workflow.

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Here's an interesting one -- @sourcegraph.com is spinning out its AI coding agent Amp as a standalone business, with Sourcegraph CEO and co-founder Quinn Slack taking the reins at the new company. ainativedev.io/news/sourceg... Tip @techmeme.com

Sourcegraph spins out AI coding agent Amp as a standalone company

Sourcegraph has announced that it’s spinning out Amp, its AI coding agent product, into an independent company.

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Autonomous field kitchens that cook and serve 1,000+ meals per load can sustain troops closer to the frontline, while keeping cooks and logisticians out of harm’s way. >> Ukraine to Deploy Autonomous Smart Kitchens to Feed Frontline Forces: www.resiliencemedia.co/p/food-on-th...

We’re entering a new era where AI agents don’t just assist — they act. In coding, the real magic (and risk) happens in the command line. Terminal-Bench is the go-to stress test for agents in terminal environments. New feature from me, replete with gorgeous design: www.laude.org/updates/term...

Terminal Bench // Laude Institute

Terminal Bench is a benchmark for AI agents' ability to complete tasks in command-line (terminal) environments.

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From Linux to AI, Jim Zemlin explains how the Linux Foundation helps build the future of tech openly, collaboratively, and sustainably. A great read via @TechCrunch from Paul Sawers @jambo.bsky.social → techcrunch.com/2025/04/13/j... #OpenSource #TechInnovation

Jim Zemlin on taking a 'portfolio approach' to Linux Foundation projects | TechCrunch

An interview with Jim Zemlin, who talks about open source AI and taking a 'portfolio approach' to Linux Foundation projects.

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Sad to hear about Val Kilmer. One of my favourite films growing up was Top Secret, an Airplane-style spoof that meshed the spy movie genre with Elvis musicals. Really was a great film. www.imdb.com/title/tt0088...

Top Secret! (1984) ⭐ 7.2 | Comedy, Crime, Music

1h 30m | PG

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In this week's edition of Forkable: AI crawlers are "wrecking the open internet"; plus a curious new project from the French and German governments to create an open source alternative to Google Docs. www.forkable.io/p/ai-crawler...

AI crawlers 'wrecking the open internet'

Plus: eBay invests in GraphQL federation; and French / German governments collaborate on a new open source alternative to Google Docs.

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Google is buying Wiz for $32B to beef up in cloud security

This week in Forkable: The Linux Foundation swallows OpenStack; Meta taps X's open source Community Notes; the UN toots its open source trumpet; and more. www.forkable.io/p/the-linux-...

The Linux Foundation swallows OpenStack

Plus: Meta taps X's open source Community Notes; the UN toots its open source trumpet; and more.

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In issue #6 of Forkable, I look at Big Blue’s acquisition of Apache Cassandra vendor DataStax. Plus -- open source security is on the spotlight again.

IBM bets on open source with DataStax acquisition

Plus: Shock-horror! Most commercial codebases still contain open source vulnerabilities.

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This week in Forkable: Why the 'spirit' of open source means much more than a license; OpenRewrite vendor Moderne gets a decent chunk of change; and a cool new feature for GitHub's Copilot.

The 'spirit' of open source means much more than a license

Plus: GitHub creates code from images; and OpenRewrite vendor gets a chunk of change.

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This week in Forkable, I look at Europe's plans to create its own open source LLMs; the Google-led chip project OpenTitan; and more.

Europe wants its own open source LLMs

Plus: Google-led open source silicon project advances.

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So I've launched Forkable, a weekly newsletter covering all the big news and talking points from the open source universe -- this will mostly be software, but will include other interesting tidbits where “open” is a central facet of the story. Sign up today if this is your jam! www.forkable.io

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Your weekly open source digest. Click to read {forkable}, by Paul, a Substack publication.

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