Walmart's Code Puppy was born from rage at AI's lock-in trap

Walmart's viral Code Puppy AI tool helps avoid vendor lock-in, cut costs, and reduce dependence on Claude Code and Codex.
PCMag

Gemini 3.5 Flash Is the Fastest AI Coding Model I've Used...and Extremely Error-Prone

Gemini 3.5 Flash is shockingly fast at generating code and spinning up agents, but that speed comes at a cost: sloppy ...
MIT Technology Review

Anthropic’s Code with Claude showed off coding’s future—whether you like it or not

As tools like Claude Code get better, more and more developers are happy to hand off coding tasks to them. The way software gets built has changed for good. The vibes were strong at Code with Claude, ...
BGR

Xbox Mode Turns Your PC Into A Console, But It Can't Hide Windows 11 Bloat

After a long alpha and beta period lurking in preview builds while being officially exclusive to Asus Xbox ROG Ally PC handhelds, Xbox mode for Windows 11 has launched. It marks a massive shift in ...
Wired

I’m a Normie. Can Normies Really Vibe Code?

The dog that ushered me into the technological future was “low and thick.” That’s all my mother registered before it T-boned her in a city park earlier this year: dense, heavy, and traveling fast ...
Mashable

Get Windows 11 Pro for $10 and make your older PC feel faster again

The following content is brought to you by Mashable partners. If you buy a product featured here, we may earn an affiliate commission or other compensation. If your computer’s been dragging lately — ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft Exchange, Windows 11 hacked on second day of Pwn2Own

On the third day of Pwn2Own, the hackers will target Microsoft Windows 11, VMware ESXi, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Microsoft SharePoint, and several AI coding agents. The full schedule for the second ...
The Verge

Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses

Thousands of Microsoft developers will use GitHub Copilot CLI instead Thousands of Microsoft developers will use GitHub Copilot CLI instead is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has ...
9to5Mac

Xcode 26.5 adds two features that make agentic coding more useful

Apple released Xcode 26.5 yesterday, with two features that build on the agentic coding capabilities introduced with Xcode 26.3. Since then, developers have been able to plug AI tools such as OpenAI’s ...
Nature

How to vibe code in science: early adopters share their tips

Nicola Jones is a freelance writer in Pemberton, Canada. Last year, climate researcher Zeke Hausfather was playing around with climate-data visualizations, trying to find new and shocking ways to show ...
ZDNet

Windows 11's new Low Latency Profile may give your PC the speed boost it deserves

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Best laptop cooling pads Best flip ...