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Grok Build open-sourced, VS Code agents, Microsoft's sales script - July 16, 2026

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xAI open-sources its coding agent after a privacy blowup, Microsoft patches a record 622 flaws and credits AI scanners, and eleven signed bootloaders quietly undo Secure Boot. (0:00) - Intro (0:24) - xAI open-sources Grok Build after a privacy backlash - source (1:15) - VS Code moves coding agents into their own process - source (2:03) - Microsoft trains its sales force to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic - source (2:54) - OpenAI ships a 230 dollar keyboard for Codex - source (3:48) - Microsoft patches a record 622 vulnerabilities - source (4:37) - An unpatched Windows zero-day lands on patch day - source (5:26) - Eleven signed bootloaders undo Secure Boot - source (6:15) - Ransom demands fall, email still gets attackers in - source (7:05) - Nine memory-corruption flaws in the NTFS driver - source (7:51) - Meta will alert parents about teen self-harm chats - source (8:41) - Sign-off

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