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Browserbase rebuilt it so the agent drives the browser from an extension loaded at startup instead of over CDP through Playwright, cutting round-trip time and CDP race conditions. Browserbase The repo has 24,475 stars with a September 18 push, but the newest tagged releases are still stagehand-server-v3/v3.7.6 and @browserbasehq/[redacted] from August 28. If you pin versions, v4 is announced ahead of a tagged artifact.
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The maintainer shipped a full modernization on August 15: Node-only, ES6, TypeScript definitions, Playwright and Puppeteer support, node:test, Biome, and the removal of CasperJS and PhantomJS, with Opus 4.8 writing most of it (stephen-cresswell.com). The argument beyond the re...
Olostep hit #4 on Product Hunt on August 30 selling natural-language live-web search, URL-to-format scraping, crawling, page-change monitoring and structured extraction for agents, with an 80%-off-first-month launch code. Its own list names Firecrawl, Context.dev, Browser Use,...
The report covers December 2025 through August 2026. It describes ShinyHunters affiliates who used "vibe hacking" to go from a single token to admin, then reached 200+ downstream organizations. In a separate case, operators pulled more than 2,100 Azure AD tokens from 40+ tenan...
The from-scratch Zig DOM browser cut 0.4.0 on August 31 and is at 34,635 stars (GitHub). Its own benchmark crawls 933 URLs on an AWS m5.xlarge with 25 concurrent processes at 4.81 seconds and 123 MB peak, against Chrome's 46.70 seconds and 2.0 GB. It speaks CDP so Playwright a...
Anthropic's new permanent level indexes to 125 against a 100 baseline, but subscribers have been running at 150 since a temporary 50% boost announced May 13 was extended past July 13, July 19, August 31 and September 13. Both "25% up" and "17% down" are true from different ref...
Anthropic shipped Sonnet 5 as the default in Claude Code v2.1.197, calling it the most agentic Sonnet yet with measurably lower rates of undesirable behavior than 4.6 in agentic settings. Intro pricing is $2/$10 per million input/output tokens through August 31, then $3/$15. I...
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