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Oct 27, 2026, 6:47 AM EDT
JetBrains IDEs Swap Their Built-In Terminal to libghostty in 2026.3: Shift+Enter, Modifier Keys and Theme Sync Now Work for Claude Code and Codex
Starting with 2026.3, JetBrains IDEs use libghostty instead of JediTerm for terminal emulation. Agent CLIs get the Kitty keyboard protocol, theme notifications and almost 50 newly handled control sequences. Here is what changes and how to check it.
Oct 27, 2026, 1:43 AM EDT
GitHub Copilot Assisted Permissions Is GA: A Model Now Pre-Approves Agent Commands, Paths and URLs
Copilot CLI, the Copilot app and VS Code can now let a large language model approve clearly safe agent requests and send the rest to you. Here is how to turn it on, what admins can lock down, and why it is not a sandbox.
Oct 26, 2026, 11:57 PM EDT
Cursor Adds DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Putting Every Effort Tier on Its Cost Frontier at $0.60-$0.98 per Task
Cursor's model picker now includes DeepSeek V4.1 Flash with no BYOK proxy required. CursorBench 4.0 data shows all four effort tiers beat every other benchmarked model at the same or lower price per task.

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October 14, 2026

Claude Code Desktop Now Runs Parallel Sessions in Git Worktrees With a Tasks Pane, Side Chats and Cloud Handoff

Anthropic's Oct. 14 desktop refresh turns Claude Code into a control room: start parallel sessions from the sidebar, isolate each in its own Git worktree, watch subagents in the tasks pane, ask side questions off-thread, and move long runs to the cloud.

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