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Amble, a European electric car company, has released a $25,000 electric buggy designed for places where a normal car feels out of place. The Amble One has a range of more than 60 miles with a top speed capped at 40 miles per hour. It takes five hours to charge the vehicle from any standard home socket. The vehicle weighs under 450 kilograms, which allows it to drive on public roads in Europe without being treated as a car.

This tutorial provides a guide on setting up a local coding agent using open-source tools and models, focusing on the advantages of local setups over proprietary services. Local LLMs have transparency, control, cost-effectiveness, and privacy. Additionally, best practices for evaluating model performance, ensuring safety during implementation, and optimizing local environments are discussed to support effective and responsible use of local coding agents.

Security researcher Sasha Romijn demonstrated an XSS attack vector that delivers malicious code over the air through Wi-Fi SSIDs or LoRa node names, exploiting infrastructure web interfaces that render these network identifiers without proper sanitization. The vulnerability is especially dangerous in environments that rely on outdated embedded browsers with infrequent security updates, where a successful injection can escalate from script execution to root access on the underlying device. Defenders should audit management interfaces that display SSID or node name fields, apply input sanitization and output encoding to those components, and update embedded browsers to current versions where patching is available.