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T3MP3ST: The Open-Source Tool That Turns AI Coding Assistants Into Security Testers

A new open-source project lets you point your existing AI tools — Claude, Codex, even a fully offline model — at a target system and have them hunt for vulnerabilities automatically. Here's what it is, how it works, and why it matters.

T3MP3ST is an open-source framework that turns your existing AI coding assistant into an automated security tester. It uses a team of eight specialised AI agents — each with a different job — to find vulnerabilities in websites, code, and cloud infrastructure. No extra API keys needed. All results are independently verifiable.

July 7, 2026·6 min read
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Cursor Just Split Into Two Tiers — And It Reveals Something About How AI Coding Is Actually Being Used

The Standard vs Premium pricing split isn't just a billing change. It's a signal that the market is bifurcating between developers who use AI as a tool and developers who run agents all day.

Cursor Teams now has two tiers: Standard at $40/seat and Premium at $120/seat. The split isn't just about usage limits — it's a window into how AI-assisted coding is actually being consumed in production teams, and which developers are treating it as infrastructure rather than a feature.

July 7, 2026·6 min read
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The AI Coding Paradox: 78% of Developers Code Faster But Software Delivery Hasn't Improved

GitLab's 2026 AI Accountability Report surveys 5,000 developers and finds a consistent pattern: AI accelerates writing code while bottlenecks migrate downstream. The productivity gains are real. The delivery problem just moved.

GitLab surveyed 5,000 developers for their 2026 AI Accountability Report and found something uncomfortable: 78% code faster with AI assistance, but software delivery timelines haven't meaningfully improved. The bottleneck didn't disappear — it migrated from writing code to reviewing it.

July 7, 2026·7 min read
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MCP Just Got Its Biggest Update Since Launch. Here's What Changed.

The July 28 specification release candidate delivers a stateless core, MCP Apps, the Tasks extension, and OAuth 2.1-aligned authorisation. If you're building anything that touches AI agents, this matters.

The Model Context Protocol's biggest revision since launch ships July 28. A stateless core that runs on ordinary HTTP infrastructure, interactive server-rendered UIs, long-running task handling, and enterprise-grade OAuth 2.1 authorisation. Here's what changed and what it means for developers building with agents.

July 7, 2026·7 min read
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Fable 5 Is Back. Here's What 18 Days Offline Actually Changed.

The US government lifted export controls on Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on June 30. Access was restored globally on July 1. The models are the same — but the situation developers are building in is not.

Fable 5 went offline on June 12 under a US government export control directive. It came back on July 1. The 18-day suspension is over — but the questions it raised about building on AI APIs aren't. Here's what actually happened, and what's different now.

July 1, 2026·6 min read
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The Job That Exists Because 95% of Enterprise AI Projects Fail

Forward Deployed Engineers are the fastest-growing role in tech, with 224 open positions across 118 companies and comp clearing $500K at senior level. They exist because the bottleneck in AI was never the model.

An MIT study examined 300 enterprise AI projects and found that 95% produced little or no measurable impact on profit and loss. The model wasn't the problem. Deployment was. The Forward Deployed Engineer role exists to fix that — and it's now the hottest job title in tech.

June 18, 2026·7 min read
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