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AI 22 AUG

DeepSeek's 'Harness' repo hits 182,000 stars — but nobody's saying what it actually does

A TypeScript project from DeepSeek's GitHub org has rocketed to six-figure star counts in under a fortnight, yet the actual pitch amounts to a tagline and a folder full of AI agent scaffolding.

The Wire

  1. 01
    AI makes fast code cheap to write - so why does everything still feel sluggish?
    Software 22 AUG
  2. 02
    Modern Warfare 4 beta goes live, but Xbox Wire's own preview cuts off mid-sentence
    Gaming 22 AUG
  3. 03
    A 9.9-rated flaw in Red Hat's Kubernetes management tool isn't as apocalyptic as the score implies
    Security 22 AUG
  4. 04
    Zimbra email servers under active attack via obscure SNMP flaw
    Security 22 AUG
  5. 05
    Bathtub Rage Game Rolls Onto Xbox, But the Small Print Is Missing
    Gaming 21 AUG
  6. 06
    AWS quietly switches on a new 'Local Zone' in Las Vegas - but the announcement itself is oddly thin
    Software 21 AUG

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RuneScape: Dragonwilds lands on Xbox Game Pass on 15 September - but Microsoft isn't saying much else

20 AUG
Gaming

PlayStation's July charts: old favourites beat new releases across Asia and the US

18 AUG
Gaming

Cozy pixel-art game Whisper of the House opens Xbox and PC preorders, but there's no price yet

18 AUG
Gaming

The Gears of War: E-Day open beta ends today, and the real test was never the guns

17 AUG

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DeepSeek's new 'harness' has 169,000 GitHub stars — but nobody's checked if it's any good

20 AUG
AI

OpenRouter, the AI model marketplace, is being folded into Stripe

20 AUG
AI

Qwen 3.8 27B is genuinely impressive - if you can stop it thinking for 21 minutes

18 AUG
AI

Gemini 3.7 Flash arrives with benchmarks Google graded itself — and a price that doubles in January

17 AUG

Hardware

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Hardware

Sony's Pulse Elevate speakers get a launch date - but only if you live in Southeast Asia

19 AUG
Hardware

The Shared Rural Network hit its coverage target a year early. The 150 masts behind today's announcement cover 2 per cent of Britain

14 AUG
Hardware

Samsung’s earbuds just became hearing aids — but not yet in Britain

12 AUG

Software

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DeepSeek's 'Harness' tool hits 162,000 GitHub stars - but nobody's saying what it actually does

19 AUG
Software

Bluesky's screenshot watermark is a clever bit of iOS trickery, not magic

18 AUG
Software

Publishers were the most attacked industry on the internet in the first half of 2026

12 AUG

Security

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Security

SIA marks first 'National Day for Victims and Survivors of Terrorism' — but don't mistake it for new law

21 AUG
Security

Firefox patches a critical use-after-free bug - but is it really a 9.8?

21 AUG
Security

TrueConf Server flaw let attackers break out of its sandbox — CISA says it's already being exploited

21 AUG
Security

'Perfect 10' bug in an old TRENDnet Wi-Fi controller's nginx binary - but check who actually owns one

20 AUG

Science

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Science

Government promises to get 'everyone' off the streets by Christmas - here's what's actually confirmed

19 AUG
Science

Semaglutide "cuts dementia risk", say the headlines. The number is modelled, and the real trial already failed

17 AUG
Science

Google’s medical AI can now run a video consultation. The study was with actors.

12 AUG

Film & TV

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Film & TV

Netflix’s number one was watched for a third as long as the show beneath it

12 AUG
Film & TV

Britain’s competition regulator has cleared the Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery deal

12 AUG
Film & TV

Netflix Top 10: the week of 2026-08-09 in the UK, US and UAE

09 AUG
Film & TV

The Walking Dead – Isolation Review

29 OCT

Guides

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Guides

New planning rules promise a 'default yes' for homes near stations - but nobody's said what 'near' means

18 AUG
Guides

How to find out whether the kit on your network is already being attacked

12 AUG

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