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In today's Techpresso:

🤖 GitHub’s new AI coding agent can fix bugs for you

⚖️ Judge pressures Apple to approve Fortnite or return to court

📜 Trump signs the Take It Down Act into law

🧪 Microsoft AI discovers new chemical in 200 hours

💥 Windows is getting support for the ‘USB-C of AI apps’

📉 Amazon Alexa+ shows few signs of public adoption

🎁 + 15 other news you might like

🔮 + 4 handpicked research papers and tools

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🤖 GitHub’s new AI coding agent can fix bugs for you LINK
  • GitHub is launching an AI coding agent directly embedded into GitHub Copilot that can fix bugs, add features, and improve documentation on a developer’s behalf.
  • The AI coding agent automatically boots a virtual machine, clones the repository, analyzes the codebase, saves changes, and explains its reasoning in session logs.
  • This new agent understands context from issue or PR discussions and custom repository instructions, tagging developers for review and addressing their comments.
⚖️ Judge pressures Apple to approve Fortnite or return to court LINK
  • A federal judge is asking Apple to approve Fortnite’s submission on the U.S. App Store or return to court to explain the legal basis for not doing so.
  • This new filing follows Apple's decision not to take action on Epic Games’ Fortnite submission until its appeal for a partial stay of the injunction is resolved.
  • Judge Gonzalez Rogers is asking Apple to name the official responsible for compliance, suggesting potential contempt charges for ignoring the court’s injunction.
📜 Trump signs the Take It Down Act into law LINK
  • The Take It Down Act, signed by Trump, makes publishing real or AI-generated NCII criminally punishable and requires social media platforms to remove it within 48 hours.
  • Critics warn the law's takedown provision could remove more content than intended and also threaten privacy-protecting technologies like encryption used by services.
  • Some critics fear the Trump administration could use the Take It Down Act to stifle political opponents, while others worry its takedown provision might actually harm victims.
🧪 Microsoft AI discovers new chemical in 200 hours LINK
  • Microsoft's AI, using the Microsoft Discovery platform, identified a novel coolant for data center immersion cooling in around 200 hours after screening 367,000 potential candidates.
  • The Microsoft Discovery platform uses specialized AI agents and high-performance computing, letting scientists do complex research without needing to write computer code.
  • This rapid 200-hour discovery of a PFAS-free coolant showcases the Microsoft Discovery platform's potential to accelerate finding alternatives for chemicals facing regulatory restrictions.
💥 Windows is getting support for the ‘USB-C of AI apps’ LINK
  • Windows will support MCP, an open-source standard letting AI apps or agents talk to other apps, web services, or even parts of the Windows operating system.
  • Microsoft is introducing an MCP registry on Windows as a source for AI agents to discover MCP servers that can access the Windows File System or windowing.
  • Due to security risks such as token theft, Microsoft is making an MCP preview available to select developers to help secure this new Windows framework.
📉 Amazon Alexa+ shows few signs of public adoption LINK
  • Six weeks after Amazon began giving select users early access to Alexa+, a Reuters search found almost no public evidence that people are actually using it.
  • Amazon states hundreds of thousands of customers now have Alexa+ access, but the company declined to comment on the absence of public reviews or discussions.
  • Following a report on its quiet rollout, Amazon started inviting more users to the Alexa+ early access program, though public feedback is still missing.

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Other news & articles you might like

  • Microsoft strikes partnership with Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot — despite lawsuit over OpenAI LINK
  • Smartphone exports from China to the U.S. are plunging LINK
  • China’s effort to build a competitor to Elon Musk's Starlink is off to a bumpy start LINK
  • Google launches online portal to detect watermarked AI content LINK
  • Google launches NotebookLM mobile app for Android and iOS LINK
  • Microsoft's new tool lets developers add AI chatbots to websites LINK
  • Adobe is switching some Creative Cloud users to a pricier AI plan LINK
  • Microsoft’s Edit on Windows is a new command line text editor LINK
  • Microsoft introduces Windows AI Foundry, a unified platform for local AI development LINK
  • Klarna’s revenue per employee soars to nearly $1M thanks to AI efficiency push LINK
  • Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open-source LINK
  • Nintendo taps Samsung to manufacture main processor for Switch 2 LINK
  • World’s first AI nurse? Nurabot joins Taiwan hospitals to battle healthcare crisis LINK
  • Waymo gets OK to expand robotaxi service into more of Silicon Valley LINK
  • Once worth over $1B, Microsoft-backed Builder.ai is running out of money LINK

Trending research and tools

Kilo: a small text editor with syntax highlighting and search, serving as a base for creating other command-line tools. LINK
WireGuard vanity keygen: a command-line tool for creating personalized WireGuard public keys that start with a specific sequence or match a pattern. LINK
Terraform MCP Server: an MCP server that connects to Terraform Registry APIs, improving automation and interaction for infrastructure as code and offering resource details. LINK
Copilot Blocker: a feature that enables repository maintainers to prevent issues and pull requests generated by the Copilot AI assistant from appearing in their projects. LINK

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