Weekly briefing: No. 3, Week ending 14 November 2026

Week ending 14 November 2026 · Weekly briefing

The week's 5 most useful developments in AI, technology and Australian property. Each one answers the same questions: what changed, who it affects, what failed or is still missing, and what to check before you act on it.

Labels inside every story: reported by the provider, tested in our code lab, or not yet tested. Reply and tell us the AI decision you are weighing; reader questions set next week's worked examples.

nvm trending on GitHub: 96,000 stars at age 16 nvm-sh/nvm appeared on GitHub's daily trending list with 96,075 stars, showing Node version management remains an active concern for developers. Read the full story →

AI agents fail at geography when the world keeps changing A new benchmark called LiveGeo tests whether AI agents can revise their plans when geographic facts change, and even the best models struggle. Read the full story →

G0DM0D3 'liberated AI' chat hits GitHub trending with 12,000 stars The elder-plinius G0DM0D3 repo offers multi-model red-teaming chat with 60 OpenRouter models, but its privacy and bypass claims stay unverified. Read the full story →

Prompt-injection defense blocks all 13,935 attacks on small AI agents Researchers found small AI agents can't write reliable security rules, then built a defense that blocked all 13,935 prompt-injection attacks. Read the full story →

Claude Code templates repo hits 33,000 GitHub stars Claude Code Templates, an unofficial registry of 1,980 agents and skills for Anthropic's terminal tool, is trending on GitHub with 33,000 stars. Read the full story →

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