datasette PR #2689: Replace token-based CSRF with Sec-Fetch-Site header protection
Datasette has long protected against CSRF attacks using CSRF tokens, implemented using my asgi-csrf Python library. These are something of a pain to work with – yo…
Trusted access for the next era of cyber defense
OpenAI’s answer to Claude Mythos appears to be a new model called GPT-5.4-Cyber:
In preparation for increasingly more capable models from OpenAI over the next few months, we are fine-tuning our mo…
Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now
The UK’s AI Safety Institute recently published Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview’s cyber capabilities, their own independent analysis of Claude Mythos which backs up Anthropic’s claims that it is …
The TL;DR is that Google engineering appears to have the same AI adoption footprint as John Deere, the tractor company. Most of the industry has the same internal adoption curve: 20% agentic power users, 20% outright refusers, 60% still using Curs…
Research: Exploring the new `servo` crate
In Servo is now available on crates.io the Servo team announced the initial release of the servo crate, which packages their browser engine as an embeddable library.
I set Claude Code for web the task …
The problem is that LLMs inherently lack the virtue of laziness. Work costs nothing to an LLM. LLMs do not feel a need to optimize for their own (or anyone’s) future time, and will happily dump more and more onto a layercake of garbage. Left unche…
Thanks to a tip from Rahim Nathwani, here’s a uv run recipe for transcribing an audio file on macOS using the 10.28 GB Gemma 4 E2B model with MLX and mlx-vlm:
uv run –python 3.13 –with mlx_vlm –with torchvision –with gradio \
mlx_vlm.generat…
SQLite 3.53.0
SQLite 3.52.0 was withdrawn so this is a pretty big release with a whole lot of accumulated user-facing and internal improvements. Some that stood out to me:
ALTER TABLE can now add and remove NOT NULL and CHECK constraints – I’ve …
Tool: SQLite Query Result Formatter Demo
See my notes on SQLite 3.53.0. This playground provides a UI for trying out the various rendering options for SQL result tables from the new Query Result Formatter library, compiled to WebAssembly.
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Lenny posted another snippet from our 1 hour 40 minute podcast recording and it’s about kākāpō parrots!
Tags: kakapo