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.

Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler

Over two weeks and nearly 2,000 Claude Code sessions costing about $20,000 in API fees, the AI model agents reportedly ...

Apple integrates Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s Codex into Xcode 26.3 in push for ‘agentic coding’

Apple's Xcode 26.3 integrates Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex, letting AI agents autonomously write, build, and test code—sparking debate over security and the future of software development.
Security Boulevard

NDSS 2025 – VeriBin: Adaptive Verification Of Patches At The Binary Level

Hongwei Wu (Purdue University), Jianliang Wu (Simon Fraser University), Ruoyu Wu (Purdue University), Ayushi Sharma (Purdue ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I made my own Google Nest Hub with an ESP32 and Claude Code, but I don't recommend it

It's a Google Nest Hub made with Claude Code... though it didn't work straight away.
GitHub

Language Server for Kotlin

The project is in an experimental, pre-alpha, exploratory phase with the intention to be productionized. We move fast, break things, and explore various aspects of the seamless developer experience ...

Cursor used agents to write a browser, proving AI can write shoddy code at scale

Writing a web browser is one of the most challenging general-purpose applications a programmer can take on. Chromium, the ...
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 ...