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Conditionally run actions based on files modified by PR, feature branch or pushed commits

Wrap Antigravity, ChatGPT Codex, Claude Code, Grok Build as an OpenAI/Gemini/Claude/Codex compatible API service, allowing you to enjoy the free Gemini 3.1 Pro, GPT 5.6 Series, Grok 4.5, Claude model through API

Autonomous-AI-Assistant variant.

Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed[a] (born October 31, 1984) is an American epidemiologist and politician who is the Democratic nominee in the 2026 United States Senate election in Michigan.

Born and raised in southeast Michigan, El-Sayed graduated from the University of Michigan and was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he earned a doctorate in public health. He earned his medical degree from Columbia University. He later served as an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and as executive director of the Detroit Health Department from 2015 to 2017. From 2023 to 2025, he served as director of the Wayne County Department of Health, Human & Veterans Services.

El-Sayed is a progressive Democrat. He supports Medicare for All and abolishing ICE. In the 2026 Democratic Senate primary, El-Sayed defeated U.S. representative Haley Stevens. He faces Republican nominee Mike Rogers in the 2026 United States Senate election in Michigan. If elected, El-Sayed would be the first Muslim member of the U.S. Senate.

El-Sayed supports capitalism, saying, "When it comes to the question of socialism, I'm not a socialist. I'm just a capitalist who understands how capitalism works."[80] He has said that regulating billionaires to fund public infrastructure is "not that radical",[81] while advocating for stronger enforcement of anti-monopoly laws and the elimination of corporate tax breaks.[82] In June 2026, he released a plan calling for more regulation of artificial intelligence.[83]

I'm not a fan of vercel's platform for real apps, but their docs and developer experience are world class.

TL;DR: Niklas and I built a fully OpenGL ES 3.0 compliant GPU driver for the M4 Mac Mini and MacBook Neo in about a month, a process which normally takes years. Here is Chrome and Firefox running WebGL on the M4 Mac Mini with working compositing:

Ninety-nine percent of the time a simple /goal resume or “keep going” was enough to have the LLM continue (which also shows the restrictions were overly aggressive), but they still broke my unattended workflow. I coded the fastest, dumbest possible solution: a daemon that takes a screenshot every minute, diffs it against the last screenshot, and if identical (because Codex stopped making progress) types /goal resume. I accidentally left it on in some group chats

This setting makes macOS Tahoe dramatically better!

Method 2: Fully Reduce Transparency (The Real Fix)

If you want solid colors in your macOS UI, this is the setting that actually makes a difference. Follow these steps to enable macOS Reduce Transparency:

1. Open System Settings
2. Go to Accessibility from the sidebar
3. Click Display
4. Find Reduce Transparency and enable the checkbox

Open Source Agent Evals &Observability

Trace, evaluate, and improve AI agents with one open platform. Use production data to understand behavior, collaborate on fixes, and ship better quality at lower cost and latency.

The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps. OpenID Certified™ and Post-Quantum Cryptography Ready.

Authelia is an open-source authentication and authorization server and portal fulfilling the identity and access management (IAM) role of information security in providing multi-factor authentication and single sign-on (SSO) for your applications via a web portal. Authelia is an OpenID Connect 1.0 Provider which is OpenID Certified™ allowing comprehensive integrations, and acts as a companion for common reverse proxies.

Here is the question nobody is asking clearly enough: should a handful of select, market-dominant AI companies from Silicon Valley get to define the rules and safety standards of a generational technology for the entire world? All while simultaneously determining how fast this technology progresses? We have tried that before with very poor results. Once again using fear under the pretext of protecting the public, these oligopolies are now requesting to bend competition rules and be permitted to dictate the terms for everyone else. A wolf in sheep’s clothing, a cartel by any other name.

AI needs guardrails. That is not the dispute and never has been. The dispute is over who writes them, who gets to participate and whose interests the rules are protecting. The question is truly about whether we should have the freedom to choose based on scientific evidence or if we should hand the reins of the most consequential technology in human existence to a few Silicon Valley executives.

In 1975 the Securities and Exchange Commission needed reliable bond ratings for its capital rules. It designated three firms as Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations and never published criteria for how anyone else might earn the designation. These were government-blessed outside evaluators, paid by the very issuers whose securities they graded, sitting behind a barrier the regulator itself had built. Twenty five years later there were still only three of these evaluators. Then they rated subprime mortgage securities triple-A and nearly took the global economy down with them.

Europe ran the experiment again in 1985. Car manufacturers lobbied for a sweeping antitrust waiver, the Motor Vehicle Block Exemption, arguing that modern vehicles were complex, safety-critical machines and that manufacturers therefore needed control over who was qualified to sell and service them. The subsequent regulation let manufacturers set the standards for premises, equipment and staff training, explicitly in the interest of safe and reliable vehicles. But what followed wasn't safer cars. It took the European Commission roughly twenty five years of reforms to unwind, and to establish what should have been obvious at the start: it is possible you can hold strict safety standards without handing the incumbents a monopoly on meeting them.

I want to be clear about what we agree with. Independent review of highly capable AI systems is a good idea and we support it. However, many aspects of the proposal raise fundamental questions: who writes the standard those reviewers apply? Who conducts or oversees the review? Who gets to participate in the conversation that sets the rules?

On these questions, the proposal is clear. A handful of the most powerful labs based in one country would agree on shared standards and the limits to how fast the technology should advance. And here’s the key point: because it’s normally illegal for competitors to agree to limit what they produce, the plan asks governments for a narrow antitrust waiver to make that coordination lawful. And it also asks governments to require every other AI developer to blindly follow whatever the participants settle on – despite those other developers and wider society not having an opportunity to voice the impact or share their perspective on the science.

It promises that a coordinated approach would give developers time to do this safety work without sacrificing commercial advantage. But to whose advantage? The firms drafting the framework are the firms sitting at the top of the market today. A mechanism that slows everyone down while explicitly preserving existing commercial advantage does not make AI safer. It risks entrenching today’s dominant AI companies by turning their current advantages into baseline for what it takes to compete safely.

Convince a government that AI is an existential threat and you can convince it to outlaw your competition. The intention is clear and it does not create a safer world.

So what will enable safe, responsible AI development? To be clear, I don’t believe I have all the answers - nor do I think I should get to make the rules instead. Rather, I will try to propose practical and effective ideas that can be considered alongside those of many others by governments and lawmakers as they use their democratic powers to set the direction of travel.

An evidence-based risk framework.

Mandatory transparency.

Testing, scoped by the evidence.

Real assurance mechanisms.

I have another workaround that may help narrow this down.

If I fully quit VS Code, then launch it directly from Terminal, it works for me.

e.g. "/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/MacOS/Code"

If I launch it normally, LAN access fails in VS Code (ping/ssh => No route to host) while the same commands in Terminal work fine. However, when launched this way via Terminal, both the integrated VS Code terminal and Remote-SSH work fine.

I also confirmed this is user-specific on the same Mac: of 3 macOS accounts, 1 works normally and 2 have the issue. The affected accounts have duplicate VS Code/Chrome entries under Local Network permissions.

This seems consistent with Apple TN3179 and may point to per-user Local Network privacy state.

Using a self-hosted, open source identity provider means prioritizing security and taking control of your most sensitive data.

Artificial intelligence agents being tested by OpenAI launched a cyberattack against a popular software service two months before they hacked the AI software company Hugging Face, a new signal of the potential for advanced AI tools to slip out of human control.

The attack overwhelmed maintainers of an online service for coders, called RubyGems, and forced them to shut down new account registrations as they dealt with the chaos it had caused, operators of the service said.

Images modify the name, tags and/or digest for images without creating patches.

One can change the image in the following ways (Refer the following example to know exactly how this is done):

• postgres:8 to my-registry/my-postgres:v1,
• nginx tag 1.7.9 to 1.8.0,
• image name my-demo-app to my-app,
• alpine’s tag 3.7 to a digest value

acpx is a headless CLI client for the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) — talk to coding agents from the command line, not the PTY.

TUI Test is a framework for testing terminal applications. It provides a rich API for writing tests that interact with a terminal application across macOS, Linux, and Windows with a wide range of shells. It is built to be fast, reliable, and easy to use.

Terminal string styling done right

Elegant terminal spinner