Chrome 146 has added a way to let AI Agents directly interface with it. The advantage over existing browser automation projects like the Playwright MCP is that this lets you control already running, potentially logged-in, browser sessions. The feature flag to be enabled for this is “Allow remote debugging for this browser instance”: chrome://ins... Read more... 16 Mar 2026
OpenAI have released the Codex Desktop App for Windows. It support WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux), as well as running natively. As with the macOS app, Codex is positioned towards developers, but can actually do more, e.g. translating Excel files. As the Windows version uses PowerShell (and others), it can tap into COM-Automation, giving it f... Read more... 05 Mar 2026
Heise reports that Chrome added “digital signatures” and annotations. Google’s own release wording (“annotate, highlight and draw a signature on a PDF”) conveys the same, but is only accurate for UX, not for standards semantics: this is proprietary scribbling, not digital signing. Worse, it breaks real digital signatures that are already in a do... Read more... 21 Feb 2026
OpenAI’s LLMs have improved utility in Swift coding a lot since GPT-4. But still, the Apple Swift Playground(s) variety - particularly on iPad - is not covered well. (Swift Playgrounds is positioned for programming beginners, but another plus is that it’s a dynamic code execution environment on iPad). With a recent EPUB creation project from onl... Read more... 15 Feb 2026
I have published Aileen 3, a Generative AI system to help with cutting down on the steady information (over-)flow through podcasts, conference sessions etc. Its predecessor Aileen 2 was about building personalized summaries of German parliament proceedings. Aileen 3 broadens the scope and narrows the output by moving to the concept of expectatio... Read more... 08 Feb 2026