Kore D.
Education: McGill University, University of Toronto
Areas of expertise: Web design, Web development, Cryptocurrency, Memecoins, DePIN, Ethical hacking, Data engineering
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Tutorials
How to Audit Your AI Agent with iFixAi Before It Ships
iFixAi is a free, open-source CLI that runs 60 behavioral inspections on an AI agent and grades it A to F. Installing it and running the keyless mock audit takes about ten minutes; a citable grade needs API keys from two different vendors.
Tutorials
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.
Security
AhsayCBS Bugs Exploited, and the 10.3.4 'Fix' Is Vulnerable Too
AhsayCBS 10.3.4 is not a safe version: Huntress found it affected by the actively exploited CVE-2026-105134, and Ahsay now says its 10.3.4.0 patch fell short and ships hotfix 10.3.4.45. CVE records still list 10.3.4 as unaffected.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Software
How to Get a Notch on Windows 11 and 10 with NotchPixel
Install NotchPixel from the Microsoft Store to get a notch on Windows 11 or Windows 10 (version 2004 or later). It opens into a card for music, volume, files to your phone, a one-key mic mute and an FPS strip in games, with a 7-day free trial and then $9.99 once.
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.
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.
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.
Startups
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.
Tutorials
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.
Tutorials
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.
Tutorials
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.
Startups
EliseAI Raises $350M at $4B to Run Apartments on AI
EliseAI raised $350M at a $4B valuation, led by a16z and Bessemer, about 20x its $200M+ ARR. The round suggests the richest AI bets may be vertical businesses that replace measurable admin labour in housing and healthcare.
Tutorials
OpenShell Setup: Sandbox AI Agents on Your Own Machine
OpenShell is NVIDIA's free, Apache-2.0 runtime that locks an AI agent inside a kernel-enforced sandbox where your policy decides every file, system call and network request it makes. It gained 978 GitHub stars today, and on Linux or an Apple Silicon Mac setup takes about 15 minutes: one install script, a free OpenRouter key and one sandbox command.
AI
GPT-6.1 Sol: OpenAI's Cheap Model Nears Astra's Power
OpenAI shipped GPT-6.1 Sol on September 29, 2026, a mid-tier model that lands within a few points of flagship GPT-6 Astra on coding and professional-work benchmarks while billing one-fifth of Astra's API price, $2 per million input tokens against Astra's $10.
Security
Apple Patches CoreGraphics Zero-Day Used in Spyware Attacks
Apple fixed CVE-2026-86950, an out-of-bounds write in CoreGraphics that it says was exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack on specific targeted individuals; update to iOS 26.7.1, iPadOS 26.7.1, macOS Tahoe 26.7.1 or macOS Sequoia 15.8.1 now.
Tutorials
Univer Setup: Embed an Excel-Like Spreadsheet in Your Web App
Univer is DreamNum's Apache-2.0 Office SDK for embedding an Excel-like spreadsheet, with a real formula engine, into your own web app. It gained about 1,100 GitHub stars today after its 1.0 release, and setup takes about ten minutes: scaffold a Vite project, install two npm packages and paste twenty lines of code.
Startups
Instinct's AI Agent Hits $10B Valuation, 4x in a Month
Instinct raised $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation, about 4x what it was worth a month earlier, for a texting-only AI agent that books, buys and calls on your behalf.
AI
Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5.5, Cuts Task Costs 30%
Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5.5 on September 28, 2026, keeping its $2/$10 per-million-token pricing but claiming tasks now cost up to 30% less thanks to a Terminal-Bench 4.0 score of 70.6%, up from Sonnet 5's 10.3% and ahead of Anthropic's own Opus 5.5.
Tutorials
Hindsight Setup: Give Your AI Agent Memory That Learns
Hindsight is Vectorize's MIT-licensed memory server for AI agents: it stores what an agent learns as facts, experiences and evolving observations, then recalls them with four search strategies at once. It is trending on GitHub with about 4,500 new stars today on top of 37,000, and a working setup takes 15 minutes: one Docker command with an LLM key, one pip install for the client, and three calls to retain, recall and reflect.
Security
F5 BIG-IP and Check Point Zero-Days: What to Patch First
CISA added an F5 BIG-IP APM flaw and two Check Point bugs to its exploited-vulnerabilities catalog on September 22, 2026, with a three-day federal deadline. Patch the internet-facing Check Point VPN RCE first, then the management path traversal, then confirm whether your F5 setup is actually exposed.