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🔊Introducing Voxtral TTS: our new frontier open-weight model for natural, expressive, and ultra-fast text-to-speech 🎭Realistic, emotionally expressive speech. 🌍Supports 9 languages and accurately captures diverse dialects. ⚡Very low latency for time-to-first-audio. 🔄Easily adaptable to new voices

Software horror: litellm PyPI supply chain attack. Simple `pip install litellm` was enough to exfiltrate SSH keys, AWS/GCP/Azure creds, Kubernetes configs, git credentials, env vars (all your API keys), shell history, crypto wallets, SSL private keys, CI/CD secrets, database passwords. LiteLLM itself has 97 million downloads per month which is already terrible, but much worse, the contagion spreads to any project that depends on litellm. For example, if you did `pip install dspy` (which depended on litellm>=1.64.0), you'd also be pwnd. Same for any other large project that depended on litellm. Afaict the poisoned version was up for only less than ~1 hour. The attack had a bug which led to its discovery - Callum McMahon was using an MCP plugin inside Cursor that pulled in litellm as a transitive dependency. When litellm 1.82.8 installed, their machine ran out of RAM and crashed. So if the attacker didn't vibe code this attack it could have been undetected for many days or weeks. Supply chain attacks like this are basically the scariest thing imaginable in modern software. Every time you install any depedency you could be pulling in a poisoned package anywhere deep inside its entire depedency tree. This is especially risky with large projects that might have lots and lots of dependencies. The credentials that do get stolen in each attack can then be used to take over more accounts and compromise more packages. Classical software engineering would have you believe that dependencies are good (we're building pyramids from bricks), but imo this has to be re-evaluated, and it's why I've been so growingly averse to them, preferring to use LLMs to "yoink" functionality when it's simple enough and possible.

In Nano Banana 2 you can generate images with new aspect ratios: 4:1, 1:4, 8:1 and 1:8. Try it with these prompts: 1. A 4:1 panoramic photo I took on my phone, showing the luscious jungle view from my cabin 2. A 4:1 panoramic photo I took on my phone, showing the view from my apartment, when the sunset looked perfect with rows of deep red cirrocumulus

now: openclaw gives me a daily personalized news brief through angela merkel posing as a news anchor with a heavy german accent no one understands the age of PERSONALIZED SOFTWARE is HERE

Introducing Perplexity Computer. Computer unifies every current AI capability into one system. It can research, design, code, deploy, and manage any project end-to-end.