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After many months of previews, Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash have reached general availability with new, memorable model IDs: gemini-2.5-pro and gemini-2.5-flash. They are joined by a new preview model with an unmemorable name: gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-06-17 is a new Gemini ...

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The Steering Council (SC) approves PEP 779 [Criteria for supported status for free-threaded Python], with the effect of removing the “experimental” tag from the free-threaded build of Python 3.14 [...]

With these recommendations and the acceptance of this PEP, we as the Python developer community should broadly advertise that free-threading is a supported Python build option now and into the future, and that it will not be removed without following a proper deprecation schedule. [...]

Keep in mind that any decision to transition to Phase III, with free-threading as the default or sole build of Python is still undecided, and dependent on many factors both within CPython itself and the community. We leave that decision for the future.

— Donghee Na, discuss.python.org

Tags: gil, python

I'm lucky enough to have a weird niche ISP available to me, so I'm paying $35 a month for around 600MBit symmetric data. Unfortunately they don't offer static IP addresses to residential customers, and nor do they allow multiple IP addresses per connection, and I'm the sort o...

Every time I get into an online conversation about prompt injection it's inevitable that someone will argue that a mitigation which works 99% of the time is still worthwhile because there's no such thing as a security fix that is 100% guaranteed to work. I don't think that's...

Cloudflare Project Galileo I only just heard about this Cloudflare initiative, though it's been around for more than a decade: If you are an organization working in human rights, civil society, journalism, or democracy, you can apply for Project Galileo to get free cyber se...

In conversation with our investors and the board, we believed that the best way forward was to shut down the company [Dark, Inc], as it was clear that an 8 year old product with no traction was not going to attract new investment. In our discussions, we agreed that continuity of the product [Darklang] was in the best interest of the users and the community (and of both founders and investors, who do not enjoy being blamed for shutting down tools they can no longer afford to run), and we agreed that this could best be achieved by selling it to the employees.

— Paul Biggar, Goodbye Dark Inc. - Hello Darklang Inc.

Tags: entrepreneurship, programming-languages, startups

Things are heating up. Millions of people are taking to the streets against Trump's rising authoritarianism. Communities around the US are organizing to defend against ICE raids, to protest Israeli genocide, for mutual aid, and for other forms of fighting fascism. Signal can help people safely organize in

If you are a user of LLM systems that use tools (you can call them "AI agents" if you like) it is critically important that you understand the risk of combining tools with the following three characteristics. Failing to understand this can let an attacker steal your data. Th...

i have gone a little above and beyond trying to get all the features of VSCode

This post is a secret to everyone! Read more about RSS Club. I’ve been reading Apple in China by Patrick McGee. There’s this part in there where he’s talking about a guy who worked for Apple and was known for being ruthless, stopping at nothing to negotiate the...

I am a huge fan of Richard Feyman’s famous quote:

“What I cannot create, I do not understand”

I think it’s brilliant, and it remains true across many fields (if you’re willing to be a little creative with the definition of ‘create’). It is to this principle that I believe I owe everything I’m truly good at. Some will tell you should avoid reinventing the wheel, but they’re wrong: you should build your own wheel, because it’ll teach you more about how they work than reading a thousand books on them ever will.

— Joshua Barretto, Writing Toy Software is a Joy

Tags: careers, programming

Programming Note: You may have subscribed to this blog because of a snarky post about YouTube that for some reason was popular. Instead of more insightful(?) content like that, you’re getting a complaint to no audience in particular about XML in Golang. You’re welcome.

I recently found myself needing to change the monitor that a cheap HDMI “dummy plug” pretended to be. It was a random one I had bought on Amazon several years ago that acted as a 4K monitor, and I needed it to be something simpler that didn’t support a 4K resolution. The story behind why […]

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This essay lives at Ink & Switch.

Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper – and why they fall short A few weeks ago Apple Research released a new paper The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity. Through extensive exp...

Here's another new paper on AI agent security: An Introduction to Google’s Approach to AI Agent Security, by Santiago Díaz, Christoph Kern, and Kara Olive. (I wrote about a different recent paper, Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents against Prompt Injections just a few d...

I made Anubis, a lightweight, open-source Web Application Firewall designed to block automated bot attacks without frustrating real users. Anubis uses techniques like TLS fingerprinting and JavaScript proof of work to keep your site safe while staying flexible, fast, and easy to deploy.

Anthropic: How we built our multi-agent research system OK, I'm sold on multi-agent LLM systems now. I've been pretty skeptical of these until recently: why make your life more complicated by running multiple different prompts in parallel when you can usually get something u...