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Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) has been inserting the phrase "Co-Authored-by Copilot" into commit messages, even when users have not enabled the feature. This issue affects users who have the GitHub Copilot extension installed and have not explicitly opted out of the feature. The issue is currently being investigated by the VS Code team.
The article discusses the concept of agent harnesses in the context of AI DevOps, specifically highlighting the tradeoffs between two architectures for running agent harnesses. It also explores how skills and memories work when the harness is not local.
A proposed standard environment variable called DO_NOT_TRACK is being developed to allow users to opt out of telemetry, analytics, and tracking in command-line interface (CLI) and text-based user interface (TUI) applications. The variable is intended to provide a simple and consistent way for users to control data collection and tracking in these types of applications.
Clojurists Together has announced funding for five projects in Q2 2026, totaling $31,000 USD. The projects include work on Malli, a library for validating recursive data structures, and Uncomplicate AI: Clojure LLM, a project focused on developing a Clojure-based large language model. Additionally, funding has been awarded to projects on SciCloj documentation and plotting libraries, Gloat, and PluMCP.
A Tesla owner, Ben Gawiser, has won a $10,000 court judgment against Tesla for allegedly misleading him about the capabilities of the company's Full Self-Driving (FSD) technology. Gawiser paid for FSD in 2021 and sued Tesla five years later, claiming the company had lied about the system's capabilities. Despite the court ruling in his favor, Tesla is still attempting to delay paying Gawiser the awarded amount.
A project has been developed to track the popularity and user sentiment of coding models on Hacker News. The project uses a pipeline to collect data from the Hacker News API, identify relevant posts, and analyze comments to determine the sentiment towards specific models. The results are logged to a Google Sheet for auditing and debugging purposes. The top 10 model popularity is displayed, showing the total mentions and user sentiment of specific models over a 10-day trailing aggregate period.
Little Magazines Are Back, a literary quarterly edited by Micah Mattix, has been launched, marking a resurgence of the traditional publishing format. The magazine features a mix of established and emerging writers, with a focus on in-depth analysis and critique of literature. This new publication joins a growing trend of small, independent magazines that are reviving the spirit of literary journalism.
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