Links of the Day

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in daily posts. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive.

Anthropic is thinking about removing Claude Code from its cheapest plan, The New Stack. This may be the first indication of the “Uber moment” of AI: when companies cease the subsidy and start to want profit. The “cheapest plan” costs US$ 20 (~R$ 100) per month.

This company will start monitoring employee keystrokes and mouse movement to train AI, Reuters. I’m sure you guessed what the company is. (It’s Meta.)

Framework Laptop 13 Pro. Framework positions it (verbally) as “Linux’s MacBook Pro”. The best part? Laptop 13 Pro maintains their DNA of repairability, customization and upgrades. It will start at US$ 1.5k, with a launch scheduled for June.

Vercel confirms breach as hackers claim to be selling stolen data, BleepingComputer. The breach vector was an external AI tool used by a Vercel employee. The company says the number of affected customers is low, that they have already been notified and advised to review their logs and change their credentials.

Xbox Mode and File Explorer improvements in Windows 11. Xbox Mode, which displays a different full-screen interface, will be expanded to all devices, and File Explorer is faster and free of “flash bangs” in dark mode. For now, only in the Preview channel.

LXQt 2.4.0. The new version of this Linux desktop environment includes bug fixes, code cleanup, and all improvements from point releases since November.

Firefox 150. Improvements in the view of two pages side by side, the *.pdf file editor and a new interface for the local translation service, accessible at about:translations.

SmolFedi. A super-lightweight, JavaScript-free, open-source web client for the Fediverse. According to the project’s creator, Adële, it’s a “dumb” graphical client.

textstring. A literal text string that you can pull from as if the text were on a spool.