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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 21/08/2026
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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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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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 05/06/2026
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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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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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 19/05/2026
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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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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Paul Sawers @jambo.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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...
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Element @element.io · 30/03/2026
👉 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.
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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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Paul Sawers @jambo.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
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
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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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Paul Sawers @jambo.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
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
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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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Paul Sawers @jambo.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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
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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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Paul Sawers @jambo.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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...
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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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Paul Sawers @jambo.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
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...
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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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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 09/03/2026
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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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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Paul Sawers @jambo.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
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...
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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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Paul Sawers @jambo.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
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-...
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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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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 25/02/2026
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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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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Paul Sawers @jambo.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
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
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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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Paul Sawers @jambo.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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...
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The 20 hottest open source startups of 2025
AI agents with everything
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Paul Sawers @jambo.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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...
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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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Paul Sawers @jambo.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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-...
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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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Paul Sawers @jambo.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
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
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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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Paul Sawers @jambo.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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...
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Paul Sawers @jambo.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
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...
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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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The Linux Foundation @linuxfoundation.org · 15/04/2025
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
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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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Paul Sawers @jambo.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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...
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Top Secret! (1984) ⭐ 7.2 | Comedy, Crime, Music
1h 30m | PG
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Paul Sawers @jambo.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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...
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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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Paul Sawers @jambo.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
It's happening.
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Paul Sawers @jambo.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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-...
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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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Paul Sawers @jambo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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.
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IBM bets on open source with DataStax acquisition
Plus: Shock-horror! Most commercial codebases still contain open source vulnerabilities.
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Paul Sawers @jambo.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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.
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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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Paul Sawers @jambo.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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.
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Europe wants its own open source LLMs
Plus: Google-led open source silicon project advances.
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Paul Sawers @jambo.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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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{forkable} | Paul | Substack
Your weekly open source digest. Click to read {forkable}, by Paul, a Substack publication.
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Paul Sawers @jambo.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
E-bikes are all the rage. So this London startup developed a device that can transform any disk-brake bike into an e-bike without compromising the integrity of the bike itself. I spoke with none other than Sir Chris Hoy, one of the company's early investors, about why he's backing Skarper.
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Why Olympic champion cyclist Sir Chris Hoy is backing Skarper to make any bike an e-bike | TechCrunch
Sir Chris Hoy might not seem an obvious candidate to throw his weight behind the burgeoning electric bike movement.
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Paul Sawers @jambo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
TIL that Apple was one of the first companies to bring a consumer digital camera to market, in 1994. The QuickTake 100 could store 8 photos at 640×480 resolution.
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Becca Szkutak @becca.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Howdy friends 🤠 I'm pleased to announce that as of today I'm moving over to @techcrunch.com's enterprise team! I'll still be covering startups and VCs through the enterprise lens but the big tech giants as well. Who should I meet? What companies should I track? Let me know!
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Paul Sawers @jambo.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Not a big fan of voice notes in general, but this will solve one of the core issues with the feature.
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Paul Sawers @jambo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Popular MacOS package manager Homebrew now has a VC-backed business associated with it, which includes Homebrew project lead and long-serving maintainer as co-founder. Meet Workbrew:
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Workbrew makes open-source package manager Homebrew enterprise-friendly | TechCrunch
Workbrew emerges from stealth with the mission of mitigating the risks of "shadow IT" practices around Homebrew package manager deployments.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
cartoon of the day
A satirical cartoon of a passenger on a plane saying the pilot has lost touch with regular passengers before adding: “who thinks I should fly the plane?” Everyone puts their hands up.
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Sarah Perez @sarahp.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
How to use Bluesky, the Twitter-like app that’s taking on Elon Musk’s X techcrunch.com/2024/...
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Tim De Chant @dechant.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
If you're new here and like tech news coverage, check out the @techcrunch.com starter pack, full of some of the best reporters in the biz. bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Paul Sawers @jambo.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
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Open Source Pledge ⇌ @opensourcepledge.com · 11/11/2024
Thanks to @jambo.bsky.social for covering the Pledge in this article about folks who are trying to make a dent in the OSS sustainability crisis!
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Paul Sawers @jambo.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Buy now, pay later company Klarna is gearing up to go public in the U.S. -- likely in the first half of 2025.
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Klarna kickstarts U.S. IPO plans with confidential SEC filing | TechCrunch
Klarna is taking its first tentative steps toward becoming a public company, submitting a draft registration statement with the SEC.
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 23/06/2023
Running 24/7, it'll be the Zity that never sleeps.
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Lithuania's capital Vilnius to get 'Europe's largest tech campus,' costing €100M
Tech Zity is a €100M initiative to create Europe's largest tech campus, located in the heart of Lithuania's capital, Vilnius.
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Paul Sawers @jambo.bsky.social · 23/06/2023
Just setting up my Bsky...
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