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Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything

Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything

Today at Google I/O, Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash. This one skipped the -preview modifier and went straight to general availability, and Google appear to be using it for a whole lot of their key products: 3.5 Flash is available today to billions of people globally: For everyone via the Gemini app and AI Mode in Google Search For developers in our agent-first development platform Google Antigravity and Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Android Studio For enterprises in Gemini Enterprise…

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Popular Go Decimal Library Targeted by Long-Running Typosquat with DNS Backdoor

Popular Go Decimal Library Targeted by Long-Running Typosquat with DNS Backdoor

Socket's Threat Research Team identified a malicious Go module published as github.com/shopsprint/decimal, a typosquat of the widely used github.com/shopspring/decimal arbitrary precision arithmetic library. The typosquatted module has been present on the Go ecosystem since 2017-11-08 and was weaponized on 2023-08-19 when version v1.3.3 added a malicious init() function that opens a DNS TXT record command and control channel to a threat actor controlled subdomain on a free dynamic DNS provider.…

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AI Artifact Catalogs: Durable Standards Worth Institutional Investment

AI Artifact Catalogs: Durable Standards Worth Institutional Investment

Companies everywhere are trying to leverage AI to boost internal productivity metrics. Some, like Ramp and Intercom, are succeeding. Many are failing. To make matters more complicated, the narrative around what tooling enables these gains is constantly shifting. For software engineers, auto-complete via GitHub Copilot was the bleeding-edge tool of choice in 2024. Then it […]

O'Reilly Radar — AI/ML
Active Supply Chain Attack Compromises @antv Packages on npm

Active Supply Chain Attack Compromises @antv Packages on npm

Socket’s Threat Research team is investigating an active npm supply chain attack involving compromised packages in the @antv ecosystem. The attack affects packages tied to the npm maintainer account atool, including echarts-for-react, a widely used React wrapper for Apache ECharts with roughly 1.1 million weekly downloads. Socket quickly detected the malicious publish wave and classified the affected versions as known malware. Socket’s internal review identified hundreds of unique packages. The…

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The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

I put together these annotated slides from my five minute lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, using the latest iteration of my annotated presentation tool. # I presented this lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, attempting to summarize the last six months of developments in LLMs in five minutes. # Six months is a pretty convenient time period to cover, because it captures what I've been calling the November 2025 inflection point. November was a critical month in LLMs, especially for coding. # For one…

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