The best voice AI model in the world Run locally in Mac.
Jack Dorsey’s company, Block drop Dessa.
- a full-duplex model trained entirely on human speech
- It hears emotion, sarcasm, and pauses like a human then talks back in real time.
- No more robotic voice assistants
and runs locally on an M4 Max MacBook Pro.
The demo is wild.
- https://t.co/FqiJJSm36q
China's ordered every government agency to draw up plans for mass AI job losses. We should be doing the same tbh.
We're a services country, ~80% of the economy is people answering messages, entering data, writing reports. That's the exact work this stuff does first, and does better. Only thing in the way is compliance and we're still early.
Nobody I know is hiring juniors or mids. I've been the youngest in my team for 5 years and I'm 29.
Yes it's a change, a big one. But it's only a problem if we sit on our hands. Get ahead of it and it's the biggest opportunity this country's had in my lifetime.
The models aren't causing this. Decades of sloppy, inserious bs and corner cutting is causing this. Decades of "quick, let's outsource to the cheapest codemonkeys we can find" are causing this.
You can cry about it, or you can actually FIX THINGS. Either way, it's time for some reaping what was sewn. Burying your head in the sand doesn't fix anything. After a period of time, the vulnerabilities will be patched and things will stabilise again. Literally nothing has happened, except long standing problems have been identified that you were blissfully unaware of
I like to say "he's thinking about jesus" when somebody takes his time and now with ai i do that too and imagine the llm like a monk doing my bidding:]
Tonights bug brought to you by deepseek as a hat tip to PHP: Fixed — offerCollectItems() used PHP-style array() inside JavaScript. It now uses [], so saving offers should work.
Tesla says they have officially started Optimus production in Fremont on their high-volume lines.
"The bots coming off this line are the first production quality bots that we have manufactured. While we will continue to iterate on the hardware and manufacturing process, we have proven that the current manufacturing process for Optimus is suitable for a commercial product."
The compatibilty loss in upgrading php versions was a bad thing and with current owners being assholes i wouldnt mind switching to a new stable php base. Vibe code time? Librephp?
Security called me at 6:12 AM today.
"Patch every PHP server immediately."
I asked what happened.
"Two critical vulnerabilities. Remote code execution. No authentication required."
Cool.
How many PHP servers do we have?
According to inventory: 12
According to reality:
Nobody knows.
We found one running WordPress.
Three running old internal tools.
One under someone's desk.
Two inside vendor appliances.
A forgotten employee directory from 2016.
And a server named:
PHP-OLD-DO-NOT-TOUCH
Naturally, that one runs payroll exports.
Then we found a PHP 5.6 box.
I asked who owned it.
The documentation said:
BRIAN.
Brian left in 2019.
We called Brian.
He said:
"Oh wow, that's still running?"
Excellent.
By 8 AM, leadership joined the incident call.
CEO:
"Can hackers actually get in?"
Security:
"Potentially yes."
CEO:
"Without a password?"
Security:
"Yes."
CEO:
"Then why do WE need passwords?"
Not the lesson.
Finance asked if we could wait until the weekend to patch because downtime affects revenue.
Security explained that the alternative was letting strangers execute code on our servers.
Finance asked for a cost comparison.
At 9:17, someone suggested temporarily taking the vulnerable websites offline.
Marketing refused.
"Our campaign is live."
So for the next hour, the company officially decided maintaining a landing page for 20% off webinar registration was more important than preventing remote server takeover.
We finally patched everything we could find.
Then our scanner discovered another PHP server.
Hostname:
TEMP-PHP-2014
Uptime:
4,512 days.
Nobody knows what it does.
Nobody owns it.
Nobody can shut it down.
But every time we block network access, the warehouse stops printing shipping labels.
Security has classified it as critical infrastructure.
It is running PHP 5.4.
The vulnerability has existed longer than half our employees.
The emergency patch took four hours.
Finding out what PHP actually runs took eleven.
The internet isn't held together with code.
It's held together with servers everyone is afraid to turn off.
And also for food and fitness. I already had an app to photograph my food intake and analyse, then i made an app which i liked but never remembered to take the photo on time:) Now i just send a picture to my bot on telegram.
AI will be able to compute the perfect delta of what you understand and don't, helping you progressively learn any idea and unravel any mystery.
If you so desire, you'll reach the maximum of your capability and intelligence. The ultimate education. For free.
Five-axis measurement is quietly changing how parts are inspected.
This setup combines the Renishaw REVO five-axis probe with the MetrologX4 platform.
Instead of fixed probe paths, the system scans complex surfaces from almost any angle, adjusts orientation on the fly, and avoids collisions automatically.
• Real-time 3D data during scanning
• Full freedom in probe positioning
• Built-in collision avoidance
• Calibration time cut roughly in half
• Higher throughput with fewer manual steps
It is a good example of how metrology is moving from rigid programs to adaptive measurement systems.
Credit Renishaw, MetrologX4
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