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Monday, October 19, 2026

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AISimon Willison

llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1

Release: llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1 When I switched LLM over to httpx2 in LLM 0.33 I forget that this would break any plugins which used httpx without directly depending on it. llm-tools-datasette was one of those plugins, now fixed. Tags: datasette , llm

AISimon Willison

llm-echo 0.5

Release: llm-echo 0.5 I'm working towards a new LLM release, and testing PRs caused me to revisit the llm-echo debug plugin. This plugin provides a "model" which doesn't involve an LLM at all - it just repeats back the prompts that have been fed to it. The new release now updates

AIThe Decoder

Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without any human help

Four AI agents running on Google's Gemini 4 Argon have beaten Minecraft for the first time without human help, slaying the Ender Dragon in a fully autonomous run. With no predefined roles or strategies, they coordinated on their own, wrote 2,783 programs, exchanged 229 chat messa

AIThe Decoder

Two German courts now hold Google liable for what its AI overviews say

Google tried to overturn a landmark Munich ruling on AI search liability by appealing, then quietly settled. The strategy isn't working. The Aachen Regional Court just applied the exact same reasoning in a new case where Google's AI falsely attributed criminal offenses to a docto

TechHacker News

RepRapMicron

Article URL: https://github.com/VikOlliver/RepRapMicron/wiki Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50141076 Points: 323 # Comments: 51

TechHacker News

Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1x8cycd/namecheap_just_seized_and_disabled_all_my_domains/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50142866 Points: 393 # Comments: 188

BioFierce Biotech

China looks to ban foreign acquisitions of critical biopharma platforms

As Washington ramps up efforts to tighten cross-border life sciences deals involving Chinese assets, Beijing is moving to tighten its own grip on biomedical innovation, rolling out a draft policy that would ban or restrict the export of key biopharmaceutical technologies.

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