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title: "Z.ai open sources its coding harness ZCode and disables certain features after users said ZCode was uploading codebases onto overseas servers without consent (Laurie Chen/Reuters)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/z-ai-open-sources-its-coding-harness-zcode-and-disables-certain-9ee02261
published: 2026-09-21T15:15:00.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# Z.ai open sources its coding harness ZCode and disables certain features after users said ZCode was uploading codebases onto overseas servers without consent (Laurie Chen/Reuters)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-09-21 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/z-ai-open-sources-its-coding-harness-zcode-and-disables-certain-9ee02261

Laurie Chen / Reuters : Z.ai open sources its coding harness ZCode and disables certain features after users said ZCode was uploading codebases onto overseas servers without consent — Chinese startup Z.ai said on Monday it had disabled some features of its flagship AI coding assistant after some users reported …

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## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/260921/p37#a260921p37)

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