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.blend URL Viewer

.blend URL Viewer

Tool: .blend URL Viewer I'm continuing to have a lot of fun with GPT-6 Astra and Blender (see my TIL). As a big fan of the Imperial Fabergé Easter eggs, I've always thought it would be fun to make some new ones that celebrate popular culture. Yesterday I decided to try out the new ChatGPT Images 2.5 by running this prompt: Generate a photo of a faberge egg that's themed after the TV show Pluribus - research first It gave me this - honestly not bad for a first attempt! Then, just to see what…

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Malicious Chrome and Firefox Extensions Steal Crypto Traders’ Session and Wallet Data

Malicious Chrome and Firefox Extensions Steal Crypto Traders’ Session and Wallet Data

Socket uncovered a cross-browser extension operation targeting cryptocurrency traders. Four malicious Chrome and Firefox extensions steal authenticated Axiom Trade and Padre session and wallet-related data, while two earlier extensions linked to the same publisher operation reveal a longer-running pattern of repackaging crypto trading tools. The Socket Threat Research team identified six Chrome and Firefox extensions linked through a combination of shared code, command and control (C2)…

Socket
Community Corner: Trust Hacked with Nia Luckey

Community Corner: Trust Hacked with Nia Luckey

In this episode, Scott talks with Nia Luckey about her new book “Trust Hacked: What Firewalls, Failures, and the Frontlines Taught Me About Trust”. Links: Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Buy our shirts – https://store.phparch.com/products/community-corner-podcast-t-shirt Nia’s Links: Book – https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.1201/9781003688815/trust-hacked-nia-luckey TED Talk – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P11VunN876Q Scott’s Links: Website – https://scott.keck-warren.com/…

PHP Architect
Own the Outer Loop

Own the Outer Loop

The following article originally appeared on Addy Osmani’s blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. In the past year, the conversation around agentic engineering has moved to harnesses and loops, fleets and software factories. My 2 cents is engineers need to own the outer loop—the accountability for these systems. This only gets […]

O'Reilly Radar — AI/ML
LLMs Reward Expertise

LLMs Reward Expertise

The following article originally appeared on Sean Goedecke’s blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. In the 2010s, if you had technical gaps (say, you couldn’t write CSS), you had to either rely on a skilled colleague or just hope that the answer to your exact problem was out there on the […]

O'Reilly Radar — AI/ML
Quoting Terence Tao

Quoting Terence Tao

I wrote recently about how the collection of good, fruitful open problems is now being mined in a non-renewable fashion, leading to the potential scenario of these problems becoming scarce. [...] We have now seen that even the rumor of someone working on a problem can trigger a massive amount of AI-powered effort to flatten it before the original research project has time to reach its full potential. The incentives may now be pointing in the direction of no longer sharing any promising research…

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Welcoming Daniel Scherzer to the Ecosystem Security Team

Welcoming Daniel Scherzer to the Ecosystem Security Team

When the Ecosystem Security Team was established with funding from the Alpha-Omega “Security Engineer in Residence” grant, its mission was to improve the security of all aspects of the PHP ecosystem. Under the leadership of Volker Dusch, the team has accomplished many things. As predicted, the increasing popularity of AI tools has brought an influx of security reports and PRs from the community to php-src itself. The triaging, reviewing, and handling of issues that do not fall within PHP’s…

The PHP Foundation
On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem Impressive result from OpenAI, who used an unreleased model to produce a resolution to the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems that have been subject to a $1,000,000 prize since May 24th, 2000. The discovery is somewhat overshadowed by accusations of skulduggery from Tristan Buckmaster, an NYU mathematics professor who was collaborating on related problems with Levent Alpöge, an accomplished…

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Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5

Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5

Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5 OpenAI's image generation models are apparently used "more than 3 billion images across ChatGPT Images and the GPT‑Image models in the API". This latest release improves their instruction-following ability across multiple turns, responds faster, and "is better at preserving the subjects in your reference photos". There are two new model IDs in the API: gpt-image-2.5-sunburst and gpt-image-2.5-flare. Based on this I think Sunburst is the stronger option: Choose…

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