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Claude for Chrome

We're piloting Claude in Chrome to test browser-based AI capabilities while addressing prompt injection risks and building the safety measures needed before wider release. ‍

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Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine

Anyone who’s spent any amount of time on the Internet has a good idea of how prevalent meme usage has become in online discourse. Finding new memes on the latest happening and sharing them with various friend groups to share in the humor is a long-enjoyed pastime of mine. Working in tech and in the InfoSec field has…

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Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim

You're not alone, jclancy. In the five years since this question was asked, there have been over a million other developers who got stuck in Vim and couldn't escape without a bit of help. Indeed, the difficulty of quitting the Vim editor is a common joke among developers.

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Dropbox Project Infinite

Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.

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Resetting Xbox

This message was just sent to Team XBOX employees globally. Team, We are beginning the most significant restructure in XBOX history. After careful

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Claude Integrations

Claude can now connect to your apps and tools through Integrations, while advanced Research searches across the web, Google Workspace, and connected services to quickly deliver comprehensive reports.

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Bitbucket now rocks Git

Automating releases, semantic version bumps, and API calls often involves configuring branch permissions and storing long-lived credentials in pipeline variables. Managing credential rotation adds an ongoing maintenance burden. Today, we’re introducing granular step-level permissions and container tokens in Bitbucket…