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New Open-Source Plugin Turns Complex Repositories Into Interactive Maps

Learn how the Understand-Anything Claude Code plugin transforms complex repositories into interactive knowledge graphs to ...
Tech Times

GitHub CISO Names Nx Console as Root of 3,800-Repo Breach: OpenAI, Grafana Also Hit

GitHub CISO Alexis Wales confirmed Thursday that a poisoned build of the Nx Console Visual Studio Code extension — live on ...

GitHub links repo breach to TanStack npm supply-chain attack

GitHub says the hackers who breached 3,800 internal repositories gained access via a malicious version of the Nx Console VS ...
The New York Times

DeepSeek’s Sequel Set to Extend China’s Reach in Open-Source A.I.

Chinese companies have embraced making their most advanced artificial intelligence models available to all. The Chinese start-up DeepSeek shook the industry in January 2025 with its claim that it had ...
MIT Technology Review

China’s open-source bet

The country’s top AI labs are undercutting US competitors and winning over developers by making their best models free. Silicon Valley AI companies follow a familiar playbook: Keep the secret sauce ...
FanSided

Fluke or force? Everyone's winning in the NL Central, but it's not built to last

The NL Central entered 2026 as one of baseball's most predictable divisions, but has become MLB's only division with five teams above .500 this season. Veteran additions and breakout performances have ...
Wall Street Journal

To Beat China, Embrace Open-Source AI

Speaking at WSJ Opinion Live in Washington, D.C., WSJ Editorial Page Editor Paul Gigot and SandboxAQ CEO Jack Hidary discuss Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) and their role in AI applications, the ...
Engadget

It's no longer free to use Claude through third-party tools like OpenClaw

Anthropic is no longer offering a free ride for third-party apps using its Claude AI. Boris Cherny, Anthropic's creator and head of Claude Code, posted on X that Claude subscriptions will no longer ...
TechCrunch

Anthropic says Claude Code subscribers will need to pay extra for OpenClaw usage

It’s about to become more expensive for Claude Code subscribers to use Anthropic’s coding assistant with OpenClaw and other third-party tools. According to a customer email shared on Hacker News, ...
Mashable

Google launches Gemma 4, a new open-source model: How to try it

Google just released its newest AI model Gemma 4, which is now both open and open source. Credit: Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Google just released the latest version of its ...
MLB Rumors

Poll: Who Will Win The NL Central?

The Pirates may have finished fifth in the NL Central last year, but it would be a shock to see them do so again in 2026. They’re a popular darkhorse pick to even take the division this year, and it’s ...