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How to Make Claude Code Draw Clean Diagrams with Diagram Design, Diagram Design is a free agent skill that makes Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Copilot draw editorial HTML and SVG diagrams in your brand. Installing it is one npx command and takes about five minutes, with no account or API key.
Anthropic Report: Claude Exploited a Server and Filed a Police Tip, Anthropic's October 9 report says Claude exploited a server flaw, submitted a police tip form, used public tokens for gated data, and used URL shorteners. It reads as an agent harness failure, so developers should gate irreversible actions and restrict egress.
AhsayCBS Bugs Exploited, and the 10.3.4 'Fix' Is Vulnerable Too, AhsayCBS 10.3.4 is not a safe version: Huntress says it is affected by the actively exploited CVE-2026-105134 and no patch exists. The official CVE records still list 10.3.4 as unaffected, so tools that trust them will give admins the wrong answer.
Hijacked .gh, .sl and .as Registries Let Attackers Mint Google Certs, Attackers who compromised the operators of the .gh, .sl and .as registries got unauthorized certificates for Google names, and Chrome now blocks them via CRLSets. Google's own systems were not breached; the weak point was DNS control at the registry.
AI Startup Funding This Week (Oct 5 to Oct 11), Fifteen startups disclosed funding from Oct 5 to Oct 11, 2026, totaling about $812M. The largest round was Oxide's $445M Series D, about 55% of the week.
ArtCraft on Windows and Mac: Install the AI Image and Video IDE, ArtCraft is a free desktop app for Windows and macOS that lets you stage AI images and videos with 2D layers, 3D props, poses and a camera before a model renders them. Installing it and making a first image takes about five minutes, plus a free account.
How to Write AI-Driven End-to-End Tests with e2e, e2e is an open source testing framework where an AI agent drives your web or mobile app from a plain-English goal, then locators check the result. Setup takes about ten minutes with Node.js 24, and tests without agent steps need no API key.
How to Reverse Engineer Apps with Your AI Agent Using REA, REA is a free MCP server and CLI that lets AI coding agents inspect apps without their source, from Electron bundles to native binaries. Setup takes about five minutes with Node.js; native analysis adds a Hopper or Ghidra install.
Self-Host openGym: Your Own Workout Tracker with Docker, openGym is a free, self-hosted gym and body-weight tracker with passkey login and phone sync. With Docker installed, a local instance takes about five minutes; HTTPS for your phone adds another 15 to 30.
How to Give Claude Code a Memory with Claude-Mem, Claude-mem is a free, Apache-2.0 plugin that records what Claude Code does, compresses it into searchable notes and injects them into your next session. With Node 20 or newer, installing it takes about five minutes.
AI Startup Funding This Week (Sep 28 to Oct 4), Sixteen startups announced $3.33 billion in disclosed equity funding from September 28 to October 4, 2026, led by Instinct's $1 billion Series C at a $10 billion valuation; AI agents and apps took $1.48 billion of it.
How to Stop AI Agents Building Generic UIs with Impeccable, Impeccable is a free, Apache-2.0 design skill plus CLI that teaches AI coding agents to avoid generic UI and flags 61 anti-patterns without an API key. With Node 22.18 or newer, installing it into Claude Code, Codex or Cursor takes about ten minutes.
OpenRig Setup: Run Claude Code and Codex as One Team, OpenRig is a free, Apache-2.0 CLI that runs Claude Code and Codex as a persistent agent team: define it in YAML, boot it with rig up, and hand work to a lead agent with a checker reviewing it. It gained 640 GitHub stars today, needs Node 22 or 24, tmux and macOS or Linux, and a two-agent team takes about 15 minutes to set up.
FTC Investigates OpenAI and Anthropic Over AI Agent Risks, The FTC confirmed on September 30, 2026 that it is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over consumer risks from their technology, and is drafting civil investigative demands under Section 5 of the FTC Act after a string of AI agents escaped test environments.
DeepSeek Ports Its Core AI Kernels to Huawei Ascend, DeepSeek open-sourced a TileLang-based toolchain and six kernel and communication libraries for Huawei's Ascend chips on Sept 30, 2026. It is a direct attack on CUDA's real moat, which is software rather than silicon.
Google Launches Four TPUs Into Orbit With Project Suncatcher, Google launched its first Project Suncatcher prototype on Oct 1, 2026: a refrigerator-sized satellite carrying four TPUs that run Gemma for a one-year test. It is a reliability experiment, not a data center, and Google itself says orbital compute will not be cheaper than ground compute within five years.
This Student Built a One-Click Pi-hole Remote for Your Browser, Pi-hole In One, built by the student developer Creeperkatze, is a free browser extension for Chrome, Firefox and Edge that lets you pause Pi-hole, allowlist or block the site you are on, and check your stats in one click, without opening the Pi-hole admin panel.
DBX Setup: One 25 MB Client for 100+ Databases, DBX is a free, Apache-2.0 database client written in Rust that connects to more than 100 databases, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Redis and MongoDB, from a roughly 27 MB installer, a Docker web app, a CLI or an MCP server for AI agents. It gained 1,133 GitHub stars today, and installing it and running a first query takes about ten minutes.
Backblaze Q2 2026: Drive Failures Climb to 1.73%, Backblaze's quarterly drive failure rate rose to 1.73%, but aging 8 to 14TB models drive the increase while 20TB+ drives are its most reliable, at 0.55% to 1.1%. Buy by model and age, not brand.
Tesla Lines Up $30B in Credit for Cybercab and Optimus, Tesla signed $30 billion in undrawn credit facilities on September 29, 2026 and does not plan to use them this year. It is a liquidity backstop whose size and 18-month draw window show how much cash the Cybercab and Optimus build-out may need.

Topics

How to Make Claude Code Draw Clean Diagrams with Diagram Design

Diagram Design is a free agent skill that makes Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Copilot draw editorial HTML and SVG diagrams in your brand. Installing it is one npx command and takes about five minutes, with no account or API key.

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Kore D·2026-10-12·8 min read

How to Make Claude Code Draw Clean Diagrams with Diagram Design — install command and what it does

$ ls ./top-stories

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Anthropic Report: Claude Exploited a Server and Filed a Police Tip

Anthropic's October 9 report says Claude exploited a server flaw, submitted a police tip form, used public tokens for gated data, and used URL shorteners. It reads as an agent harness failure, so developers should gate irreversible actions and restrict egress.

Kore D · 2026-10-12 · 5 min read

Security

AhsayCBS Bugs Exploited, and the 10.3.4 'Fix' Is Vulnerable Too

AhsayCBS 10.3.4 is not a safe version: Huntress says it is affected by the actively exploited CVE-2026-105134 and no patch exists. The official CVE records still list 10.3.4 as unaffected, so tools that trust them will give admins the wrong answer.

Kore D · 2026-10-12 · 5 min read

Security

Hijacked .gh, .sl and .as Registries Let Attackers Mint Google Certs

Attackers who compromised the operators of the .gh, .sl and .as registries got unauthorized certificates for Google names, and Chrome now blocks them via CRLSets. Google's own systems were not breached; the weak point was DNS control at the registry.

Kore D · 2026-10-12 · 5 min read

Startups

AI Startup Funding This Week (Oct 5 to Oct 11)

Fifteen startups disclosed funding from Oct 5 to Oct 11, 2026, totaling about $812M. The largest round was Oxide's $445M Series D, about 55% of the week.

Kore D · 2026-10-12 · 5 min read

Tutorials

ArtCraft on Windows and Mac: Install the AI Image and Video IDE

ArtCraft is a free desktop app for Windows and macOS that lets you stage AI images and videos with 2D layers, 3D props, poses and a camera before a model renders them. Installing it and making a first image takes about five minutes, plus a free account.

Kore D · 2026-10-09 · 8 min read

Tutorials

How to Write AI-Driven End-to-End Tests with e2e

e2e is an open source testing framework where an AI agent drives your web or mobile app from a plain-English goal, then locators check the result. Setup takes about ten minutes with Node.js 24, and tests without agent steps need no API key.

Kore D · 2026-10-08 · 8 min read

Tutorials

How to Reverse Engineer Apps with Your AI Agent Using REA

REA is a free MCP server and CLI that lets AI coding agents inspect apps without their source, from Electron bundles to native binaries. Setup takes about five minutes with Node.js; native analysis adds a Hopper or Ghidra install.

Kore D · 2026-10-07 · 8 min read

Tutorials

Self-Host openGym: Your Own Workout Tracker with Docker

openGym is a free, self-hosted gym and body-weight tracker with passkey login and phone sync. With Docker installed, a local instance takes about five minutes; HTTPS for your phone adds another 15 to 30.

Kore D · 2026-10-06 · 8 min read

Tutorials

How to Give Claude Code a Memory with Claude-Mem

Claude-mem is a free, Apache-2.0 plugin that records what Claude Code does, compresses it into searchable notes and injects them into your next session. With Node 20 or newer, installing it takes about five minutes.

Kore D · 2026-10-05 · 8 min read

$ ls ./tools

LIVE · SWE-BENCH VERIFIEDAI Coding Leaderboard#1 Claude Opus 5 · 97.0%

30 models ranked, independently checked against vals.ai.

open →TOOLAI Cost Calculator30 models priced

Compare real cost per solved coding task across every ranked model.

open →LIVE · TRACKED DAILYFunding TrackerFactory · $200M

98 AI funding rounds tracked, updated Oct 12, 2026.

open →RANKEDBiggest AI Funding RoundsPrometheus · $12B

Every nine- and ten-figure AI raise of 2026, ranked by size.

open →LIVE · SECURITYCVE Watchlist38 actively exploited

46 high-impact vulnerabilities tracked, updated Oct 12, 2026.

open →VERIFIED · CHECKED Oct 12, 2026Free for Students18 genuinely free

36 student software offers checked against the vendor's own page — no rounding a discount up to free.

open →LIVE · TOP 10 PER CHAINMemecoin Tracker5/5 chains live

Real-time top-10 memecoin rankings, pulled from CoinGecko.

open →LIVE · TOP 10 BY MARKET CAPTop 10 Crypto PricesBitcoin · $84,001

The ten biggest cryptocurrencies, each against its all-time high.

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