WordPress Risks, Nvidia Chips & AI Tools 🔒💻🛠️
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🗞️ IN THE NEWS
- Popular WordPress anti-spam plugin contains vulnerabilities. Could allow attackers to compromise sites. Time to review your WordPress security stack.
- Russian hackers exploiting Firefox and Windows zero-days. Patch your shit ASAP if you haven't already.
- Nvidia's Blackwell chips about to drop. Several times more powerful than current gen, shipping in next couple months. Driving trend towards massive AI superclusters.
- Uber now hiring gig workers for AI projects. Recruiting contractors globally for large-scale annotation tasks. The gig economy comes for coders.
🛠 TOOLS YOU'LL ACTUALLY USE
- Ant Design X: AI-driven interface builder
Usage:npm install antd-x
Stars: 1.2k, Last commit: 2 days ago - screenshot-to-code: Convert screenshots to HTML/Tailwind/React/Vue
Usage:pnpm install && pnpm run dev
Stars: 35.5k, Last commit: 3 days ago
🧵 REPO OF THE WEEK
NexaAI/nexa-sdk: Comprehensive toolkit for GGML and ONNX models. Supports text/image gen, vision-language models, audio language models, ASR, and TTS.
from nexa import TextGeneration
model = TextGeneration("llama-2-7b-chat.gguf")
response = model.generate("Tell me a joke about programming.")
print(response)
Recent changes: Added support for quantized models, improved error handling.
🤔 SHOWER THOUGHTS FOR DEVS
Every time you write a TODO comment, you're really writing a PROBABLY_WONT_DO comment.
Thanks for reading!
Andrew Pierno
