VS Code stops trusting your code by default
Simplified model hovering also is featured in VS Code 1.126. The model hover now shows a one-word descriptor of the model’s capabilities and includes deep link buttons that take a user directly to the relevant configuration. In an enhancement to…
World’s Sharpest Climate Models Can Finally See Storms, But Keep Getting Four Things Wrong
For decades, a global climate model saw the planet the way an early digital camera did: about ten thousand pixels stretched across the entire Earth. At that resolution a monster thunderstorm cluster, the kind that drowns cities and snaps power…
This 70W GaN charger just dropped to its best price this year
Travel bags and desk setups get messy fast when you need one charger for a laptop, phone, tablet, and smaller gear. The Baseus EnerFill 70W is built for exactly that kind of everyday charging, and there’s a good deal on…
Rust introduces new Range types
A future Rust version will add core::range::RangeFull and core::range::RangeTo as re-exports from core::ops. These do not implement Iterator and already implement Copy, the Rust team said. A future Rust version will also introduce core::range::legacy::* as the new home for the current ranges. Range syntax like 0..1 still produces the legacy types for now,…
Fluffy Fabric Keeps Heat In When It’s Freezing and Lets It Out When It’s Not
Pull a tuft of it apart and it looks like cotton wool, all airy white fibres that spring back when you squeeze them. Roll it into a ball, flatten it into a sheet, bend it round your finger, it doesn’t…
Samsung’s teasing this summer’s hardware with cryptic videos
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung is starting a new campaign on Instagram to tease its upcoming launches. The early videos it’s previewed sure appear to hint at the new, wide Galaxy Z Fold8. So far, though, we haven’t…
Claude Sonnet 5 boosts coding, reasoning, and tool use
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5, an update that is substantially improved over predecessor Claude Sonnet 4.6 in coding, reasoning, tool use, and knowledge work, according to the company. Claude Sonnet 5 was introduced June 30. It can make plans,…
Hiding Electronics Inside a Cockroach Makes It a Better Robot
The gap was eight millimetres. The cockroach was taller than that, and it knew it, in whatever way a cockroach knows things. It lowered its head, swept its antennae across the underside of the shutter blocking the corridor, and shoved….
AI browsers tricked into revealing passwords with a simple method
Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR LayerX found that AI browsers could be tricked into exposing sensitive data by making the request appear to be a game. The technique, named BioShocking, uses fake rules to take the agents out of…
Five tools to bolster your AI coding stack
“When tools like Cursor are installing dependencies and running actions on a developer’s behalf, they can unintentionally pull in malicious or unvetted packages,” says Randall Degges, vice president of AI engineering and developer relations at Snyk. “That’s why techniques like…
