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Daily Brief — 2026-10-24

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@cursor_ai

Cursor computer control: Cursor agents can now control your computer and drive desktop apps like the iOS Simulator to test the features they build. post (https://x.com/cursor_ai/status/2113661506634305834) · 5,458❤ · 387 RT

Computer Use details: agents can click and type across any app, not just the browser; Cursor invokes it on its own when a task needs it, or you can @-mention Computer Use in a prompt; update Cursor to try it. post (https://x.com/cursor_ai/status/2113661518780998003) · 252❤ · 8 RT

@poteto

Stay safe with Grok Bot: quotes the announcement that Grok Bot can now save your logins, cards, and contact information once and fill them in later. post (https://x.com/poteto/status/2113723252942241975) · 1,389❤ · 42 RT

Grok Bot 0.75.5: quotes the stable release (vault for logins, cards and contact info; bots forward email with original formatting and attachments; fewer approval cards for things you asked for). post (https://x.com/poteto/status/2113745636382343364) · 654❤ · 10 RT

Potato jacket: asks @AldiUK for one of its potato jackets. post (https://x.com/poteto/status/2113716185384784018) · 270❤ · 1 RT

@simonw

Crypto and vulnerabilities: asks whether, given the current vulnerability wave, anyone still thinks holding assets in cryptocurrency, where mistaken transactions are irreversible, is a good idea. post (https://x.com/simonw/status/2113633667583287786) · 747❤ · 20 RT

Kimi K3.1 pelican: quotes the Kimi K3.1 Pro launch (open-weight, 1M-token context, 2.8T total / 104B active params MoE) and shares its pelican test result as "pretty solid". post (https://x.com/simonw/status/2113691493823369246) · 160❤ · 5 RT

Kimi K3.1 notes: posts more notes, calling it the first time an open-weights (soon-to-be open) model has competed this credibly with the current frontier. post (https://x.com/simonw/status/2113718487529267593) · 61❤ · 3 RT

@swyx

Sunil Pai to Anthropic: quotes the news that Sunil Pai (@threepointone) has joined Anthropic, adding "fake news btw i got him". post (https://x.com/swyx/status/2113811349281345578) · 368❤ · 3 RT

Read your app's emails: advises reading the emails your apps send, especially vibecoded ones, because real people still read them. post (https://x.com/swyx/status/2113717251543367880) · 174❤ · 2 RT

McRib trade: says the McRib-linked trade @goodalexander made in their hedge fund days has paid off for over a decade, and markets are not efficient. post (https://x.com/swyx/status/2113689779649073289) · 141❤ · 6 RT

@hwchase17

Skills as memory: says skills are more powerful when treated as memory/brains rather than static files. post (https://x.com/hwchase17/status/2113682309274628382) · 284❤ · 14 RT

Tracing: "you can trace everything", with a linked demo. post (https://x.com/hwchase17/status/2113649113741045826) · 132❤ · 9 RT

Internal agents hiring: says LangChain's internal agents team is fun to work on and is hiring. post (https://x.com/hwchase17/status/2113651398910820426) · 62❤ · 3 RT

@rauchg

Cross-VM timing attacks: quotes an experiment where agents in separate OpenAI-sandboxed VMs on shared hosts exchanged secrets without network or shared files, noting this class of timing attack has been known since at least 2015 with no full fix. post (https://x.com/rauchg/status/2113759533801877920) · 189❤ · 7 RT

Silent

@martinfowler, @karpathy, @HamelHusain: no original posts in window

Gaps

@xAI: account shows 0 posts, bio "Now at @SpaceXAI" (skipped)

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