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User builds a Plex-like app with Claude
Someone used Claude to build their own all-in-one home server app similar to Plex, weighing just 15MB. This avoids the complexity of running many separate apps like Sonarr, Radarr, or Prowlarr.
Full story at XDA ↗ - Artificial intelligence · Programming & dev tools
Vercel adds DeepSeek tools to AI Gateway
Vercel's AI Gateway now includes DeepSeek Search and Fetch tools. This gives developers more options for building AI-powered search features.
Full story at Vercel ↗ - Programming & dev tools · Artificial intelligence
GoLand's profiler now supports AI agents
JetBrains' GoLand 2026.3 lets AI agents use the built-in profiler introduced earlier. This aims to make profiling Go performance issues less of a manual chore.
Full story at blog.jetbrains.com ↗ - Programming & dev tools
JetBrains releases Scala Plugin 2026.3
The new IntelliJ Scala Plugin adds more accurate Scala 3 analysis, reworked Twirl support for Play Framework, and more efficient compiler-based highlighting. It also improves build-tool support, debugging, and everyday editing.
Full story at blog.jetbrains.com ↗ - Programming & dev tools · Artificial intelligence
Vercel's Chat SDK streams generative UI
Agents built with Chat SDK can now stream generative UI using json-render. This makes it easier for developers to build dynamic AI chat interfaces.
Full story at Vercel ↗ - Artificial intelligence · Programming & dev tools · New AI models
Coding agents struggle on real-world tasks
Alibaba's new Co-Design Bench tests agents on real user requests that already tripped them up. Even the top performer, GPT-6 Astra, fully solves only 26.4 percent, while older benchmarks show above 99 percent.
Full story at The Decoder ↗ - Artificial intelligence · New AI models · Programming & dev tools
Karpathy builds a curated video site with Claude
Andrej Karpathy used Claude's Opus 5.5 to filter 43 million Hacker News comments into 6,454 curated videos. He says the result beats YouTube's own recommendations.
Full story at The Decoder ↗ - Cybersecurity · Programming & dev tools
Palo Alto Networks flags critical PHP flaws
Palo Alto Networks describes two critical PHP vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. Because PHP powers more than half of the web, the text says traditional patch cycles are no longer viable.
Full story at paloaltonetworks.com ↗ - Programming & dev tools · Open source
GitHub surfaces ACCESSIBILITY.md files
An ACCESSIBILITY.md file is now visible on repository overview pages. It gives a project one place for accessibility goals, contributor expectations, supported environments, known limitations and barrier reporting.
Full story at github.blog ↗ - Programming & dev tools · Artificial intelligence
Chat SDK agents can stream UI using json-render
Vercel reports that agents in the Chat SDK can now stream generative UI with json-render. The source gives no further details.
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