I am not going to review a bad AI generated paper. It’ll get a one sentence review and a request to desk reject it. Happy to get banned as a reviewer for doing so.

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This is Pele, my new rendering library for diagrams and charts, compatible with the latest Mermaid syntax. - 100-500× faster than mermaid.js - 6× smaller bundle - No dependencies - Easy to theme - Responsive to device width - Open source (MIT) Try it at pele.run

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How far behind the closed frontier are open-weight cyber capabilities? About 6–7 months. Zai’s GLM-5.3 is the highest-scoring open-weight model on our Cyber ECI. Its score of 160 beats OpenAI’s GPT-5.4, released in March.

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I just met with a landscaper, we're having our front yard redone. One of the most interesting bits was his extensive use of Gemini Nano Banana to show us proposed pictures of the work. The way he generated them surprised me a bit.

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Still working out some kinks but I thought I'd share for people in a similar situation. We have a mostly nonverbal autistic kid who can actually do sight-words OK. I realized I could make music videos with exactly his sight-word set and favorite topics using Claude (the model was sonnet 5.5).

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