Crawlee: Powerful web scraping in 2 minutes

Crawlee: Powerful web scraping in 2 minutes

Crawlee combines high-speed HTTP scraping and modern browser automation in a single, scalable Node.js library to extract complex web data more efficiently. Intelligent fallback mechanisms that only activate browsers when necessary can save up to 90 percent of system resources compared to pure Playwright setups. We take a look at the architecture, performance benchmarks, and real-world challenges in continuous operation.

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AI images in 2026: The big comparison – Midjourney v7 vs. Google Nano Banana

AI images in 2026: The big comparison – Midjourney v7 vs. Google Nano Banana

With the release of Gemini 2.5—known in the scene as “Nano Banana”—Google is launching a frontal attack on Midjourney v7’s artistic supremacy. While Midjourney remains the aesthetic benchmark, Google’s model now delivers perfect text in images and generates assets in a record-breaking two seconds. We analyze in detail whether raw utility speed ultimately triumphs over “artistic soul.”

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Security for AI agents: How OpenAI prevents data theft via links

Security for AI agents: How OpenAI prevents data theft via links

OpenAI details the security architecture behind its new “Operator” agent, which executes web interactions in an isolated cloud sandbox rather than locally on user devices. By implementing cryptographic signatures according to RFC 9421, server operators and firewalls should be able to mathematically verify that a request actually originates from an authorized AI agent. We analyze whether this server-side “walled garden” approach effectively eliminates the risk of SSRF attacks compared to open systems such as Claude Computer Use.

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Clawd.bot: How to bring the power of Claude 3 Opus to your Discord

Clawd.bot: How to bring the power of Claude 3 Opus to your Discord

Clawdbot positions itself as a radical self-hosted AI gateway that connects local hardware and daemons directly to Discord and LLM APIs. The tool does not act as a passive chatbot, but as an autonomous agent with full system access, which in practice causes massive security risks and sometimes ruinous API costs. We show why this Node.js daemon is only suitable for power users with strict budget management.

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Qwen 3 TTS Release: The new benchmark for open-source audio?

Qwen 3 TTS Release: The new benchmark for open-source audio?

Qwen has released Qwen3-TTS, a new open-source speech model that has been specifically optimized for extreme speed. With an impressive latency of just 97 milliseconds, the system enables true real-time dialogues on conventional consumer graphics cards, outperforming many of its competitors. We classify the technical specifications and show the decisive difference to the in-house rival CosyVoice 3.

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