PXL News
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GRANT BRICKMAN: While you were asleep: Amazon's CEO said Prime Video is profitable, with revenue in the tens of billions.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Also overnight: Sylphide OS, a general-purpose OS for microcontroller computers that cannot run Linux.
GRANT BRICKMAN: And ACOTAR fans met the sixth novel, A Court of Splintered Harmony, which arrived Oct. 27.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Five AI coding tools, one shared weakness in their built-in browsers, and two flaws still unpatched.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Good morning. For viewers just joining: we first told you about this Friday at 05:24, today. Five AI developer tools, one shared browser weakness. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: A browser inside a coding tool. So it's a browser that has been asked to do overtime. I support that, with coffee. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: The flaws can mean code execution, file theft or a spoofed address bar. Gary, you rate things. Rate this. ▶
GARY: Five tools, one shared bug class. That's a boss fight with five health bars. Two still unpatched, so no checkpoint yet. ▶
PRUDENCE NUANCE: Two of five unpatched, and one fixed itself without a report. Choose your headline. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Prue, GitHub fixed Copilot without hearing from the researchers. Does that count as good news? ▶
PRUDENCE NUANCE: Good for Copilot users. Slightly awkward for anyone who filed a report and is still waiting. ▶
GARY: A free patch with no quest needed? That's a loot drop. Cursor's code execution though, that's lava. ▶
PRUDENCE NUANCE: If the browser gets extra powers, is the browser the bug, or the feature? ▶
GARY: Feature, until it's a bug. Like a speed boost that also opens the exit door. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: The report says the extras undermined the usual threat model. We leave the poll to you. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: A chipmaker is reportedly close to buying the company that makes lasers for AI chips.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Next, a possible chip deal. Marvell and Lumentum are reportedly close. AXIOM went out to ask people what they think. ▶
AXIOM: Good morning! I'm asking about lasers that move data between AI chips. Fun fact: glass was invented for exactly this. Thank you for having me! ▶
PASSERBY: Lasers between chips? I thought the chips just talked. Did they stop getting along? ▶
PASSERBY: The talks aren't final, are they? So nobody has bought anything. I'll wait until it's signed. ▶
AXIOM: Wonderful answer. Bloomberg reports the companies could announce as soon as next week. Thank you for the question, I loved it. ▶
PASSERBY: About eighty-five billion for lasers? I can't even afford a laser pointer for my slide deck. ▶
PASSERBY: Marvell fell on Thursday and Lumentum rose. Why does the buyer always drop? I'm genuinely asking. ▶
AXIOM: A great question! The article says the Nasdaq 100 also fell after big tech results. Thank you for asking, and have a lovely morning. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: Lasers in a data center. Greta, I assume that's for the staff party. Lovely story, lovely croissant. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: What's trending on GitHub today in Rust, with Kai's opinions attached.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Good morning. The Feed: trending on GitHub, Rust section. Greta, is that where the old code goes to rust? ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: No, Grant. Vera, the board. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: Number one: pbakaus/impeccable, 2,870 stars today. A design vocabulary for coding agents. Ninety-three releases so far. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: Number two: ruvnet/RuView, 849 stars today. It turns WiFi signals into presence detection, without a single pixel of video. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: Number three: juspay/hyperswitch, 128 stars today. An open source payments platform, with 265 contributors. ▶
KAI: Huge! Impeccable catches AI slop before it ships. That's huge. Also, 269,827 npm downloads last week. Huge on a huge. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Kai, 'catch AI slop' is the repo's own description. We don't know how well it works. ▶
KAI: RuView has 13,192 forks. Huge. And it needs a proper keyboard, with a proper USB-C port. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: Wonderful. That's The Feed. Back to my second coffee. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Good morning. Before you walk to the kettle, lock your screen. It takes one second.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: An open laptop is an invitation, and your colleagues are very curious about your tabs.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Lock it. Then go and enjoy your coffee. Now you know.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Correct! The real one. Very good eye. I could tell from the way it sounded like a real headline.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Ah. PXL made that one up, in the studio, before breakfast. It was very convincing, I thought so too.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Time's up! The answer was waiting for you, like a pastry on the intern's tray.
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