I tried a Claude Code alternative that's local, open source, and completely free - how it works

I was curious if Block's Goose agent, paired with Ollama and the Qwen3-coder model, could really replace Claude Code. Here's how I got started.

Quesma Releases OTelBench: Independent Benchmark Reveals Frontier LLMs Struggle with Real-World SRE Tasks

New benchmark shows top LLMs achieve only 29% pass rate on OpenTelemetry instrumentation, exposing the gap between ...
IEEE

Attributing ChatGPT-Generated Source Codes

Abstract: AI assistants such as ChatGPT have remarkable human-like capabilities, producing natural language and programming language utterances. Despite that, ChatGPT could facilitate academic ...
Homeland Security Today

Hegseth Orders Pentagon Review of SBA 8(a) Contracting Program

Secretary of War Hegseth announced that his department is "taking a sledgehammer to the oldest DEI program in the federal government—the 8(a) program." (Source: X @SecWar) On January 16, 2026, ...
Bleeping Computer

Target employees confirm leaked source code is authentic

Multiple current and former Target employees have reached out to BleepingComputer to confirm that the source code and documentation shared by a threat actor online match real internal systems. A ...
Ars Technica

Even Linus Torvalds is trying his hand at vibe coding (but just a little)

Linux and Git creator Linus Torvalds’ latest project contains code that was “basically written by vibe coding,” but you shouldn’t read that to mean that Torvalds is embracing that approach for ...