1054: Reddit Closing it’s Doors

Wes, Scott, and CJ are back with two weeks of news: Reddit is forcing everyone to log in, r/opensource bans anything AI, and CSS-Tricks is independent again. Plus Anomaly's Hex dictation app, Mitchell Hashimoto's Rex terminal, TanStack Redact, Cloudflare's TypeScript port to Rust, Vercel's Agent Desktop, the new touchscreen MacBook Pros, a flood of CVEs, and a certificate authority whose private key was the number 4.

Show Notes

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
• 01:11 Anomaly’s Hex Dictation App
• 05:00 The Battle to Own Your Computer
• 07:45 Raycast’s iOS Keyboard
• 10:11 The New AI Design Meta
• 11:05 Rex: A Next Gen Terminal
• 17:37 Rex Remote Hosts and Scripting
• 22:55 Reddit Is Closing Its Doors
• 28:46 Bots and Captchas
• 33:29 r/opensource Bans AI
• 37:41 CSS-Tricks Has a New Owner
• 41:08 Brought to you by Sentry!
• 41:34 Silent Dictation Glasses
  • Silent dictation with Airpods
  • Silent dictation on Mac
• 45:49 Arc Is Dead
• 49:42 Pico CSS Is Unmaintained
• 50:49 TanStack Redact
• 52:37 tsrs: TypeScript in Rust
• 55:34 Vercel’s Agent Desktop
  • Launch post
  • Cua
• 59:26 Agents in a macOS VM
• 01:00:38 Claude Is Back in OpenCode
• 01:01:41 Touchscreen MacBook Pros
• 01:11:21 Discord Goes Discoverable
  • AnswerOverflow
• 01:13:31 Notification Overload
• 01:14:50 Security Roundup
• 01:15:33 What Is a CVE?
  • Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure
  • CVE Tracker
• 01:18:01 PHP, Linux and GitLab CVEs
• 01:22:18 Abliterated Models
• 01:23:38 eMudhra’s Private Key Was 4
  • eMudhra’s CA keys cracked in milliseconds
  • mitmproxy
• 01:31:09 Apple Music’s iPod 404 Page
• 01:33:18 Norway’s Best Toilets

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