See How Anthropic Rebuilt Source Control. Anthropic went from 2,500 to over 30,000 merged changes a day in 2026. It replaced git with Scion, an in-house version control system, in five months. MORE

Turn a Google Cookie Into a $90,000 RCE. A Flask session cookie on developers[.]google[.]com carried its own signing secret. Pulling it out allowed forged sessions and code execution across Google's developer sites. MORE

Patch Two New PHP Remote Bugs. Calif found CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, fixed in PHP's October 2026 security release. The write-up traces the bug class back to a 2004 exploit. MORE

Talk to an AI Trained Only on Speech. Block's Dessa is a full-duplex voice model trained from scratch on human conversation, with no text at all. It chooses what to say, when to say it, and how. MORE

Replace Cloud Subscriptions With a Personal Intranet. Follow a self-hosted build with remote video editing from Linux, an IRL stream setup and more. MORE

Track Changes to the Chrome VRP. Google is restructuring Chrome Vulnerability Rewards Program payouts and categories. The goal is to reward deeper research and high-value fixes across more severity tiers. MORE

Lock Down Your OpenAI Account With a YubiKey. OpenAI and Yubico now offer a YubiKey bundle for account login security. The help article covers the offer and how to get it. MORE

Upgrade to OpenCode 2.0. The open source coding agent now runs as one background service shared by its terminal, web and desktop apps. Scripts and scheduled tasks find it automatically. MORE

Meet XBOX LABS. XBOX is standing up a small team of game makers, engineers and scientists to explore emerging tech. The note cites games being decompiled and ported to new hardware and browsers. MORE

Remember Margaret Hamilton. Sarah Drasner pays tribute to the late Apollo software pioneer. Hamilton studied failure patterns, and her code kept Apollo 11's landing on track during an overload. MORE

Pay to Skip the Bug Bounty Queue. Sam Curry would pay $100 per report for priority triage, automated dupe checks and payouts under 48 hours. The idea aims to curb low-effort AI reports. MORE

Face Your Fear on Stage. LiveOverflow shares what giving a talk to 500 people meant after years of severe anxiety and panic attacks. MORE

Ask If the Newsletter Is Dead. Dan Shipper of Every argues persistent AI agents now filter inboxes, so an email address no longer guarantees a reader. Publishers may need to live inside readers' agents instead. MORE

Build Your Own Personal Wiki. Matt Pocock says a self-built wiki is now critical infrastructure for the business. It powers courses and agents while avoiding vendor lock-in for memory. MORE

@fortelabs - Tiago Forte, the Second Brain guy

@TheAlexLichter - Alexander Lichter, DevRel at VoidZero, Nuxt team member and web engineering consultant

@wesbos - Wes Bos, fullstack JS developer and Syntax co-host

@spencer_5cent - Jon Nichols, bug bounty hunter from New York living in Taiwan

@robd4k - Robert

Browse Every Ben's Bites Issue. This archive holds 1,137 issues of the AI newsletter from 2022 to 2026. Each issue shows its send stats and most-clicked links. MORE

See What Top Sites Put in Their Head. Deadhead linted the home pages of the top 10,000 sites. 44.4% ship at least one harmful finding, and 14.4% block users from zooming. MORE

Spend a Tuesday With Le Corbusier. This sourced calendar recreates the architect's daily routine in Paris in 1948. It includes original excerpts and notes on estimated times. MORE

Search the World's Patents and Papers. The Lens is an open public search tool for patents and scholarly work. It treats user privacy as a top priority. MORE

Know the Best Time to Buy Everything. Former Deloitte CPA Brennan Schlagbaum shares when to buy common purchases in America to avoid overpaying. MORE

Make a Document That Lives in a Link. Tiny Little Office is a small office suite where the URL is the document. No accounts, and nothing is saved unless you keep it on your device. MORE

Feel Local LLM Speed Before You Buy. Pick hardware and a model to simulate tokens per second and time to first token. Numbers come from benchmarks for GPUs, Macs and more. MORE

Render Mermaid Diagrams as Themeable SVG. Pele is a lightweight open source library that renders Mermaid diagrams to SVG, themed with CSS variables. MORE

Reverse Engineer Anything With Agents. rea lets coding agents analyze apps, from app behavior down to native binaries. It is an MIT-licensed CLI built for tools like Claude Code and Codex. MORE

Run SEO Research on a Free Cloudflare Worker. Rodrigo Rocco self-hosts OpenSEO on Cloudflare and connects it to coding agents over MCP. Only DataForSEO costs money, about $0.05 per keyword search. MORE

Put Your Codebase on Autopilot. One developer shipped 122 PRs in 24 hours from a software factory, mostly while doing other things. The video walks through the system that makes it work. MORE

Let Your Code Fix Itself With Pi Durable. A Sentry error kicked off an agent with nobody typing. It was stopped mid-fix, then picked up right where it left off. MORE

Win Hackathons With Claude Code. A builder who placed at 5 hackathons at Stanford, Yale and Columbia breaks down a 4-step workflow. It covers finding better ideas and building fast. MORE

Hand Off YouTube Uploads to Grok Bot. This walkthrough shows Grok Bot finding a video on a laptop, fixing the audio and prepping it for YouTube. Nothing goes public until you approve. MORE

Build Your Own RSS Hub With Tailscale. Tailscale shows how to run a private RSS reader you can reach from any browser. It stays off the open web and away from algorithms. MORE

Build Wealth as a Career Person. Big wealth is not only for founders and investors. Asher Adeniyi lays out how employees can build substantial wealth too. MORE

Get Paid $112,000 for a Race. Marc Lou landed $112,000 in sponsorships to run a HYROX race. The video shares the sponsor website built to make it happen. MORE

Shop Local Banks for Your Next Loan. Amanda Orson suggests using iBankNet to list banks in your state by assets, then calling them. Local banks often work harder on terms. MORE

Automate Your Brag Doc. This Notion setup tracks your wins at work automatically. It helps with 1:1s, promotion cases and bad imposter syndrome days. MORE

Steal These 10 Grok Bot Use Cases. Corey Ganim runs bots for week planning, lead follow-ups, press pitches and more. Anything sent to clients stays a draft for human review. MORE