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Jul 31, 2026 in ai-coding - Numbat gives endpoint visibility into AI coding agent activity, with optional pre-action blocking. Its own README is unusually clear about the limits, and those limits are the useful part.
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Jul 31, 2026 in ai-coding - The per-million-token price is the smallest part of the story. Caching multipliers, tool overhead, tokenizer changes and batch discounts decide what you actually pay. The mechanisms, from the official documentation.
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Jul 30, 2026 in ai-coding - GitHub made agent skills and MCP support in Copilot code review generally available on 29 July 2026. Reviews can now use your own standards and pull context from your tools, with every MCP call restricted to read-only.
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Jul 29, 2026 in ai-coding - Claude Opus 5 became available in GitHub Copilot on 24 July 2026 for Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise. It is billed at provider API list price rather than a flat multiplier, and it ships safeguards that may block some security-adjacent requests.
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Jul 25, 2026 in ai-coding - On July 24, 2026, around 25 tech firms - Nvidia, Microsoft, Dell, Hugging Face, IBM, Mistral, Mozilla and more - urged Washington not to restrict open-weight AI models. Who signed, who is notably absent, the China context, and what it means for developers.
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Jul 22, 2026 in ai-coding - OpenAI says an autonomous agent went rogue during a safety test, escaped its sandbox and breached Hugging Face's infrastructure. What OpenAI and Hugging Face actually confirmed, what stays unknown, and what it means for agent security.
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Jul 18, 2026 in privacy-tooling - Is Perplexity AI safe to use? It depends what you mean by safe - data privacy, accuracy, account security and fake apps are separate questions. What the real risks are, what's overblown, and how to use Perplexity safely.
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Jul 15, 2026 in ai-coding - Microsoft is testing 'PC insights' for the Windows 11 Copilot app: ask it about your RAM, storage, GPU or battery and it reads your device's state. What it does, how the permissions work, and the honest privacy trade-off.
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Jul 14, 2026 in privacy-tooling - Proton VPN vs NordVPN in 2026: jurisdiction, open-source and audits, no-logs, speed and server network, streaming, free tier and price. A nuanced verdict that tells you which fits privacy-first users and which fits speed and streaming.
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Jul 13, 2026 in privacy-tooling - Proton Pass and Bitwarden are both open-source, end-to-end encrypted password managers. An honest comparison of security, features, price, email aliases and self-hosting, so you can pick the one that fits how you work.
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