Anthropic launches Claude Code in Slack, letting developers delegate coding tasks from chat threads. It's part of a shift toward AI-embedded collaboration that could reshape software workflows.

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Slack users can now access Anthropic's Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview. When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it's a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories you've authenticated in Claude Code. Slack users can also directly tell Claude that a request is a coding task. For instance, you could ask Claude to investigate a bug report you're discussing in Slack without needing to manually copy all the conte … Read the full story at The Verge.

Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLED to effectively transform its screen into an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio screen, with left and right edges that extend far outside the bottom chassis. The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable will be its first gaming laptop to feature a rollable horizontal … Read the full story at The Verge.

At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West fetishist, or the hero shooters that all look like Pixar but shredded as hell and ready for fan artists to go places I shall not. On occasion, however, new visual ground is staked. Octopath Traveler 0 is an example of this. The third game in the O … Read the full story at The Verge.

Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House "Border Czar" Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration's "unlawful threats" made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did. "We promised you we would fight back. Well, today's the day we make good on the promise," according to a post from ICEBlock's official account on Bluesky. Aaron, Apple, and the Department of Homeland Security, didn't immediately respond to a request for comment fr … Read the full story at The Verge.