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

I was curious if Block's Goose agent, paired with Ollama and the Qwen3-coder model, could really replace Claude Code. Here's how it worked.
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OpenAI launches Codex app to manage multiple AI agents across software projects

OpenAI launches the Codex desktop app to help developers manage multiple AI agents working on software projects.
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New Clickfix variant ‘CrashFix’ deploying Python Remote Access Trojan

CrashFix crashes browsers to coerce users into executing commands that deploy a Python RAT, abusing finger.exe and portable Python to evade detection and persist on high‑value systems.

With GPT-5.3-Codex, OpenAI pitches Codex for more than just writing code

Today, OpenAI announced GPT-5.3-Codex, a new version of its frontier coding model that will be available via the command line, IDE extension, web interface, and the new macOS desktop app. (No API ...

OpenAI's new GPT-5.3-Codex is 25% faster and goes way beyond coding now - what's new

OpenAI has a published Preparedness Framework, which it uses for measuring and protecting against severe harm from frontier AI capabilities. In the blog post announcing GPT-5.3-Codex, the company says ...