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PHP Alive and Kicking 2026.08.04

PHP Alive and Kicking 2026.08.04

🎙️ PHP Alive and Kicking – August 4, 2026 Hosts: Chris Miller (standing in solo while Mike is on holiday) Mike escaped to a beach so Chris hosts alone with special guest Derick Rethans. Expect date-time philosophy, PHP 8.6 goodies, Xdebug secrets, deprecation drama, and a heated debate about how to queue at a pub. […] The post PHP Alive and Kicking 2026.08.04 appeared first on PHP Architect.

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llm-anthropic 0.26

llm-anthropic 0.26

Release: llm-anthropic 0.26 Includes new features enabled by LLM 0.32: New models: claude-fable-5, claude-sonnet-5, and claude-opus-5. #75, #76 Added server-side tools for WebSearch, WebFetch, CodeExecution, and AnthropicMCP, available through LLM's -T interface or Python tools=. The previous -o web_search* options have been removed in favor of -T WebSearch. #79 Upgraded to llm>=0.32. Reasoning, tool calls, tool results, and server-side tool results now stream as typed events. Reasoning for…

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llm-anthropic 0.26

llm-anthropic 0.26

Release: llm-anthropic 0.26 Includes new features enabled by LLM 0.32: New models: claude-fable-5, claude-sonnet-5, and claude-opus-5. #75, #76 Added server-side tools for WebSearch, WebFetch, CodeExecution, and AnthropicMCP, available through LLM's -T interface or Python tools=. The previous -o web_search* options have been removed in favor of -T WebSearch. #79 Upgraded to llm>=0.32. Reasoning, tool calls, tool results, and server-side tool results now stream as typed events. Reasoning for…

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PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx

PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx

PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx MiniMax released MiniMax-H3 two days ago - they describe it as a "a general-purpose, omni-modal generative system", which in practice means it accepts text, images, audio and video and can use them to generate up to 15 second video clips with audio included. This Python package ports it to MLX for running on Apple Silicon. I got it running on my M5 Max MacBook Pro. I cloned the repo and ran the model like this: # First download the models uvx --from huggingface_hub hf…

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PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx

PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx

PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx MiniMax released MiniMax-H3 two days ago - they describe it as a "a general-purpose, omni-modal generative system", which in practice means it accepts text, images, audio and video and can use them to generate up to 15 second video clips with audio included. This Python package ports it to MLX for running on Apple Silicon. I got it running on my M5 Max MacBook Pro. I cloned the repo and ran the model like this: # First download the models uvx --from huggingface_hub hf…

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AWS Security Hub Adds Socket for Supply Chain Security

AWS Security Hub Adds Socket for Supply Chain Security

Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers can now adopt Socket directly through the AWS Security Hub Extended plan, apply committed AWS spend, and start with the first month free. Socket covers supply chain security in the program, with deep behavioral analysis that catches malicious packages signature-based tools miss. Supply chain security in the Extended plan # The AWS Security Hub Extended plan brings curated third-party security tools into AWS across 10 security categories, with pay-as-you-go…

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Popular npm Packages in the keyv and Cacheable Namespaces Compromised in Active Supply Chain Attack

Popular npm Packages in the keyv and Cacheable Namespaces Compromised in Active Supply Chain Attack

Socket’s Threat Research Team is tracking an active supply chain compromise affecting the widely used keyv and cacheable npm packages. On August 4, 2026, at least ten packages beginning with the keyv and cacheable namespaces and spreading to packages owned by other maintainers, were published with a malicious preinstall hook (setup.mjs) that downloads a standalone Bun runtime, executes an obfuscated second stage, harvests cloud and CI credentials, and republishes trojanized versions of other…

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Quoting Steve Yegge

Quoting Steve Yegge

Gas Town was intended to be reusable, but I only ever wound up using it to build itself. Gas Town fell apart at the seams with Opus 4.7. Up through 4.6 it was working brilliantly. With 4.7 we saw the introduction of the "just two more things" tic, which prevented Opus from ever converging on being ready to do real work—it always wanted to fiddle with Gas Town itself. The Opus tic never went away, so Gas Town effectively burned down. It had other problems, too, but 4.7 was the final straw.…

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Anne McCarthy Joins The PHP Foundation Board

Anne McCarthy Joins The PHP Foundation Board

The PHP Foundation Governing Board consists of a variety of folks from across the PHP ecosystem that share a vested interest in the success and sustainability of PHP. Representatives from the community, the core contribution team, and sponsors comprise this team to provide guidance and insight into the Foundation's objectives and initiatives. After a unanimous decision, we are incredibly pleased to be adding Anne McCarthy, Architect and Open Source Director for Automattic, to our Board as a…

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Don't be a meat proxy

Don't be a meat proxy

Don't be a meat proxy Niklas Gruhn coins an excellent new term - meat proxy - for people who blindly copy and paste the output of AI systems to their peers. By all means, prompt AI. But don't just relay the output. Read it, understand it, validate it, and then write a response in your own words (a decent certificate that you've done the prior steps). Making that effort is value you can add. Via Lobste.rs Tags: definitions, ai, generative-ai, llms, ai-misuse

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