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The Act and the Outcome of Creation

The Act and the Outcome of Creation

Creation is the ultimate form of pursuing ourselves, giving to the world when shared, and using the power of our subconscious. It gives us joy, and to every artist, it is the ultimate (flow) state of happiness. The Act of Creation The act of creation is an outlet. It gives joy to us when we create something out of nothing, we block out anxiety or boredom. Creating should be done like:

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Next.js moves to scheduled security releases

Next.js moves to scheduled security releases

Vercel announced that Next.js is adopting a formal security release program, replacing the ad-hoc patches the framework has shipped until now. Going forward, the team will publish advance notice of security releases on the Next.js blog roughly once a month. Each notice will state the expected release date and the highest anticipated severity of the fixes it covers. The first scheduled release is slated for July 20. It will ship patch releases for Next.js 16.2 and 15.5 and addresses 4 high and 5…

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Mermaid to Unicode box art (grok-mermaid)

Mermaid to Unicode box art (grok-mermaid)

Tool: Mermaid to Unicode box art (grok-mermaid) While exploring the codebase for the newly open-sourced Grok CLI coding agent I came across xai-grok-markdown/src/mermaid.rs, a "self-contained terminal renderer for Mermaid diagrams" written in Rust. I figured it would be fun to try that out in a browser via WebAssembly. Here's the prompt I ran in Claude Code for web (Fable 5), and this is what the resulting tool looks like: Tags: tools, rust, webassembly, mermaid, grok, xai

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xai-org/grok-build, now open source

xai-org/grok-build, now open source

xai-org/grok-build, now open source xAI's grok CLI tool faced severe community backlash yesterday when it became apparent that running the command in a directory could upload that entire directory to xAI's Google Cloud buckets. One user reported running it in their home directory and seeing it upload "my SSH keys, my password manager database, my documents, photos, videos, everything". I've not seen an official explanation for why it was doing this, but xAI did respond to the feedback (Musk:…

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Don’t Neglect the Operational Groundwork

Don’t Neglect the Operational Groundwork

Autonomous agents are moving faster than the field’s ability to govern them, and catching up requires more than better prompts or bigger sandboxes. At O’Reilly’s recent AI Superstream focused on OpenClaw and the broader ecosystem of locally run and self-hosted AI agents, five speakers, each working at a different layer of the stack, explored patterns […]

O'Reilly Radar — AI/ML
How I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets

How I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets

How I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets I've been impressed by the way the Claude web_fetch tool is designed to avoid data exfiltration attacks. Ayush Paul found a hole in that design. To recap: regular Claude chat is at risk of lethal trifecta attacks, because it has access to private data (in the form of memories of your past interactions) and has a tool for accessing online content which can both read hostile instructions and exfiltrate data through the URLs it…

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simonw/pedalican

simonw/pedalican

simonw/pedalican Clearly I wasn't paying attention when these were first announced back in May, but today I accidentally activated a "pet" in Codex Desktop - a little animated robot, reminiscent of Clippy - and then learned you can create your own. So I did, and now I have a cute little pelican on a bicycle bouncing around my desktop giving me updates on my Codex tasks. Your browser does not support HTML5 video. The most interesting thing about this process was watching how the custom pet was…

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