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Devs push Claude Code to adopt AGENTS.md as a cross-tool standard
A feature request filed against Anthropic's Claude Code asks the tool to support AGENTS.md, an emerging convention for a single Markdown file that any coding ag
Ditch Radians: Why Trig Should Take 'Turns' on a [0,1] Scale
The tau-vs-pi debate misses the bigger win, argues this piece: in most code, the constant can vanish entirely. The common pattern in game engines and graphics l
fx: a 6MB Zig coding agent built for embedding, not terminal theatrics
fx is an experimental, open-source (Apache-2.0) coding agent written in Zig that trades the heavy "IDE in the terminal" approach for something closer to a Unix
Google Shifts Some Android Source From Git Tags to Google Drive Downloads
GrapheneOS reports that Google has stopped publishing certain source code through tagged releases in its git repositories, instead distributing it as files host
How the CIA quietly kept Steve Jobs's NeXT alive — and seeded the iPhone
A Wall Street Journal report, drawn from Sharon Weinberger's forthcoming book 'Valley of Death,' details how the CIA became a crucial early customer for NeXT, t
Let Users Speak Code Into Existence: The Case for LLM-Extensible Web Apps
Mainstream software serves the fat head of the demand curve well, but every user has a long tail of niche needs that never justifies a dedicated feature — and p
Linux 7.2 Ships After Record-Busy Cycle; Fair GPU Scheduler Held Back
Linux 7.2 shipped on its regular cadence after one of the heaviest development cycles the kernel has seen, trailing only 6.7 in volume. Headline additions inclu
Modern HTML Replaces JavaScript for Popovers, Dialogs and Accordions — With Caveats
Chris Burnell's page, built for HTML Day 2026, catalogs browser-native features that now handle work once reserved for JavaScript. The `popover` and `popovertar
No article content: submitted link is a Casio watch product page
The source is a retail listing for the Casio F-B100W-1A watch on casio.com, not a news article. The provided content contains only the product name with no body
OpenAI Pauses Frontier RL as Astra Nears 'Critical' Cyber Threshold
OpenAI has slowed its own frontier development after preliminary evaluations on August 7, 2026 indicated it could not rule out that its upcoming Astra model rea
Reviving a Cricut from the e-waste bin by spoofing its serial over USB
A tinkerer rescued a Cricut Maker from the trash, expecting the perished rollers to be its only problem. The real obstacle was Cricut's remote lockout: the mach
Smarter but Harder to Steer: Wrestling an Agent Harness Against GPT-5.6 'Sol'
A developer who relies on a 'spec-driven' workflow—having an LLM draft a plan before writing any code—set out to automate it with a supervisor agent that delega