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