Tooling54d ago
Cursor introduces Background Cloud Agent for asynchronous multi-repo refactoring while IDE is offline
Cursor unveiled Background Cloud Agent, enabling developers to offload lengthy codebase migrations and test suites to cloud sandboxes. Programmers can close their IDE while the remote agent executes refactoring plans, validates lint rules, runs test matrices, and submits verified PRs for review.
Agents17d ago
OSWorld-Pro: NVIDIA Unveils Process-Based Benchmark for Computer-Use Agents Spanning 2,800+ Subgoals
Computer-Use Agents (CUAs) designed to operate graphical desktop environments through virtual keyboard and mouse interactions are traditionally evaluated using outcome-based functional verifiers that assess only the final state after hundreds of operational turns. This black-box approach obscures whether failures stem from syntax typographical errors, GUI bounding-box misalignments, or intermediate state drift, preventing actionable diagnostic insights. NVIDIA Research introduces OSWorld-Pro (arXiv:2609.24890), the first comprehensive process-based evaluation suite for computer-use agents. Spanning 300+ complex desktop workflows decomposed into 2,800+ sequentially dependent subgoals grounded in 67,000+ expert human annotations, OSWorld-Pro deploys calibrated LLM judges to track incremental subgoal completion. Evaluations reveal that OSWorld-Pro presents a formidable challenge to state-of-the-art models: frontier models like Claude Opus 5 achieve only 75.7% (compared to 83.4% on standard OSWorld), systematically isolating critical procedural failure patterns such as exploratory irrelevant actions and click grounding drifts.
Open Source13d ago
omdrop-owl: two-way AirDrop with iPhone on a Framework 13 Linux laptop via OWL, with Wi-Fi staying connected
On 2026-10-09 developer t4t5 open-sourced omdrop-owl, a radio backend for the Omarchy plugin omdrop that gives two-way AirDrop with an iPhone on the Framework 13's MediaTek MT7925 while Wi-Fi stays connected. It builds on Seemoo Lab's 2019 OWL/OpenDrop reverse engineering rather than a from-scratch effort. README self-tests: ~1.3 MB/s receive, ~490 kB/s send; the AP must be on channel 6/44/149.
Discussion & Comments
0Sign in to join the discussion
Connect with AI developers to exchange benchmark insights.