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Cursor launches a web app and Slack integration for managing AI coding agents from mobile and desktop (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/cursor-launches-a-web-app-to-manage-ai-coding-agents/

Cursor launches a web app to manage AI coding agents | TechCrunch
Cursor is launching a web app thats allow users to manage a network of AI coding agents via browser, on desktop and mobile.

Der 16-KByte-Trick: Russische Provider blockieren erneut ausländische Inhalte
Große Provider und CDNs sind betroffen: Nur ein Bruchteil der Daten wird durchgelassen. Eine offizielle Bestätigung der russischen Behörden steht aus.

Interview with Lovable CEO Anton Osika on competition, staying in Europe, and more; the company now has 2.3M active users, including 180K paying subscribers (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/01/lovables-ceo-is…

Lovable's CEO isn't too worried about the vibe-coding competition | TechCrunch
Lovable specializes in helping people build apps and websites, especially people with no coding experience. It's one of the standouts in the popular AI category known as vibe-coding, which lets users guide AI models as they produce code, websites, or whole applications.

As for “but it's great for coding!“…
…world-wide there's about 3.6 billion jobs or so, of which ~25 million are in software development; this means maybe about 0.7% of all jobs world-wide can use "great for coding".
Writing actual code amounts to maybe, if you're lucky, 10% of the work a software developer does.
The rest is meetings, high-level specifications, email and chat, more meetings, learning new things, updating stuff, lots of testing and debugging, etc.
The gist is, the supposed gains from "AI" are completely irrelevant (and indeed there's signs and studies that show it doesn't do anything for programmer productivity either).
tl;dr: This is the worst economic bubble in history, pushing a dream of a magical technology that unfortunately doesn't work, by appealing to investor greed.

CBS Deceptively Edits Secretary Noem's Answers, Cutting More than 23% of Footage from Face the Nation Interview (Department of Homeland Security)
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/08/31/cbs-deceptively-edits-secretary-noems-answers-cutting-more-23-footage-face-nation
http://www.memeorandum.com/250901/p50#a250901p50

Vibe coding: programming through conversation with artificial intelligence
Advait Sarkar, Ian Drosos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23253 https://

Vibe coding: programming through conversation with artificial intelligence
We examine "vibe coding": an emergent programming paradigm where developers primarily write code by interacting with code-generating large language models rather than writing code directly. We analysed a curated set of videos depicting extended vibe coding sessions with rich think-aloud reflections. Using framework analysis, we investigated programmers' goals, workflows, prompting techniques, debugging approaches, and challenges encountered. We find that vibe coding follows iterative goal satis…

Cline, which offers an open-source AI coding tool with transparent billing, raised a $27M Series A led by Emergence at a $110M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/20…

AI Coding Tool Cline Has Raised $27 Million To Help Developers Control Their AI Spend
Software developers are often frustrated by obscure pricing plans for the AI coding tools they use. With $27 million in new funding, Cline is developing tools to help them manage their AI bills.

Sources: Sweden-based AI-powered app builder Lovable is set to raise $150M led by Accel at a ~$1.8B valuation, as investors rush to back "vibe coding" startups (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/01bc8e7e-6c45-4348-b89f-00e091149531

Swedish AI ‘vibe-coding’ start-up Lovable valued at almost $2bn
Two-year-old group nears more than $150mn in new funding as investors swarm around AI coding businesses

Apple will delay rolling out some iOS 26 features in the EU later this year, including "visited places", citing the difficulty of complying with the DMA (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-to-delay-so