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So after nearly 4 years of using AI, it hasn't replaced me. It's only helping me do more ambitious things more quickly. Things I was procrastinating about, I now get stuck into and get done.
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🚨 Google lost power in London this morning and Revolut, a bank with 80 million customers, went down with it.
I've spent the morning reading what Revolut users went through. It's wild.
People stranded at petrol stations, unable to pay for fuel or a taxi to the airport.
One traveller couldn't get out of a train station in Japan.
A 71-year-old woman stood at a supermarket till for an hour. Her kid had to drive 30km to bring her cash.
Card payments, transfers, ATM withdrawals, currency exchange, share trading. All down.
Revolut's statement said "all our customers' money and data are safe."
Safe. You just can't touch it.
Google's explanation so far is a "power event" in one zone of its London cloud region. Its advice to affected customers was to move their workloads to another zone or region "if feasible."
Must be nice. Revolut customers couldn't even move £10.
In July the UK government put Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft and Oracle under direct Bank of England oversight, because one outage at any of them could shake the entire financial system.
12 days ago the Bank of England ran a drill with the UK's 38 biggest banks and market operators. The scenario they practised was a global cloud outage.
And exactly one year ago today, AWS went down and took Lloyds and Halifax with it.
Same date. Different cloud. Lloyds was having problems again this morning.
Revolut spent five years earning a UK banking licence.
Bitcoin has been running for almost 18 years. It doesn't have a London region.
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Our latest model advances bring stronger capabilities for building and migrating software in low-resource programming languages such as COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic.
These languages power software that banks, governments, and businesses depend on. Progress here means understanding decades of business logic and helping developers modernize those systems while preserving what works.
We’re building these capabilities around the challenges developers and enterprise customers bring us. If your team is working on these systems, tell us which languages and workflows we should tackle next.
openai.com/index/low-resourc…
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James Burke's perfectly timed shot on television in 1978 is hailed as one of “The Greatest Shot In Television History”
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Do PRO code review with GPT-6 Pro.
It can use GitHub plugin and do it in less time by doing more in parallel.
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Design Tokens are now available in GenerateBlocks Pro 2.8. Define your colors, fonts, and spacing in one place, then use them across blocks, Global Styles, and patterns. Whether you've been using Global Styles for a while or are just getting started, this guide helps you get up to speed on the new features.
generatepress.com/design-tok…
I’ll have to check out these MCP events.
ChatGPT Sites + MCP Events + dots is a really fun combination.
Here’s a toy example: I submit an image request through a Site → the Site sends an MCP event → my dot picks it up and generates the image.
Imagine the same flow for bug reports, support requests, or new sales leads. Build a Site around your workflow, send updates to your dot, and tell it what to do when they arrive.
@OpenAIDevs
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GenerateBlocks Pro 2.8 is fully released. Make sure you also update GenerateBlocks to 2.5. For details on what is included, refer to the post below. generatepress.com/generatebl…
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GenerateBlocks Pro 2.8 (and GenerateBlocks 2.5) launched yesterday: Design Tokens, a new Design panel, new dashboards, and one cohesive system. Here's the vision for where GeneratePress and GenerateBlocks are, and what's next.
generatepress.com/generatebl…
In the age of AI, the old saying it's how smart you work, not just how hard you work, that makes a difference.
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We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agents and prosecutors who moved quickly to make an arrest. The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work.
At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data. The employee was terminated.
We take protecting our technology, data, and people seriously, and as a matter of national importance. Our security program is designed to protect against a wide range of threat actors, from insider risks to cybercriminals to nation states, and this case is an example of how AI can help address these sophisticated security threats.
The people behind this app are providing tremendous value, and to be ripped off this way is just sad. Please read this post to make sure you're not using their impersonator.
Someone Is Impersonating FluidVoice, and we genuinely need your help
Today, I'm sad to say that the system is broken.
For the past year, we've been building FluidVoice, a free dictation app now used by 50,000+ people across the globe.
It helps people with disabilities communicate and people with ADHD stay focused. We kept it free because we believe tools like this shouldn't be locked behind a paywall.
We've been building it on our own time, with no pay. We never expected anything in return. We just wanted to make something useful, earn people's trust, and do right by our users.
And for months now, a fraudulent website has been impersonating us.
Today, it's the SECOND result on Google when someone searches for FluidVoice. They even claim it as "OFFICIAL DOWNLOAD", lol. (Please do not click on it!)
The real FluidVoice is only at
- altic.dev/fluid
- fluidvoice.com
We've tried everything we can think of to take it down. But nothing has worked.
@Dynadot, the registrar, sends us a canned reply and tells us to go file a legal dispute.
@HostGator, the host, wants us to pay $1500 to take legal action?
@Cloudflare doesn't respond at all.
NOTHING has worked. No one is helping put an end to this.
So here we are. We give our work away for free, and now we're being told we have to pay to stop someone from pretending to be us.
It's ridiculously easy for shameless opportunists to steal someone's identity, put up a fake website, impersonate something people have poured their heart into building, and get away with it.
How is it so easy to impersonate someone, and this hard to stop it?
Why does the burden fall on the people being impersonated instead of the people enabling it?
Doesn't this feel like it should be illegal?
We should be spending our time making FluidVoice better for people who rely on it. Instead, we're spending it fighting people who are pretending to be us.
I'm genuinely tired of this.
If you believe this is wrong, please repost. I just want this to reach someone who can help us put an end to it.
It shouldn't be this hard to protect something you've worked so hard to build.
Is there anyone at all who can help?
I’m finding the more I work with AI that I can experiment and iterate far quicker than before and get to a result the client wants sooner. At the moment, it’s a win-win.
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Your Apple developer account could be banned soon, so here’s what to avoid (bookmark this one)
- Fake urgency. Win-back offer with a fake timer
- Review prompts in onboarding (Apple is cracking down on this one)
- Showing the weekly price bigger than the yearly price (for a yearly sub)
- Not having an updated terms & conditions
- Submitting the same build to Apple multiple times
- Using language like “no commitment - cancel anytime” for an upfront payment
Not worth getting your app delisted and payments frozen. Please be careful
Testing Astra's usage by having it create an After Effects video on Astra Medium. It's been running for 20 minutes. Interested to see the results and usage. I'll post when it's finished.
Interesting.
When's the best time to use your banked Codex reset?
Using one right before a free global reset can be a complete waste. So I looked at around 17 reported Codex resets from June 4 to September 25, 2026.
Here's how they were distributed:
Day| Resets
Monday- 3
Tuesday- 4
Wednesday- 1
Thursday- 4
Friday- 1
Saturday- 4
Sunday- 0
Based on this small sample, Sunday, Wednesday and Friday had the fewest reported resets.
My take:
- Avoid using banked resets right before Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday if you can wait.
- Use one when you're out of usage and your normal reset is still 2+ days away.
- Be careful around model launches and outages.
Obviously, 17 reports aren't enough to predict OpenAI's next reset. But the pattern is interesting.
Anyone noticed a different pattern with Codex resets? Let me know your ideas on this.
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With the current Codex reset frenzy, I've unleashed Astra 6 on Ultra and it is blowing my mind with some really incredible work. Use these prompts:
1. "Examine this project thoroughly, looking for bugs. Treat it as an adversarial review using as many subagents as you want. When an issue comes back, double-check it's correct, and add checked issues to a list."
2. "When all agents have finished, walk me through each issue one at a time, giving me reproduction steps so I can verify."
3. "For all bugs I report as verified, write a failing test proving the bug exists, fix the issue, check your work carefully, then run the test again to verify it's resolved."
It's found 43 issues so far, only 2 of which I disagreed with. Some minor, yes, but some big ones too 🙈