"Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

It's now possible to compile Python extensions (C, C , Rust etc) to WebAssembly and distribute them through PyPI such that Pyodide can install them directly simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/1…

k2.7 code live on workers ai

Who names a fingerprint reading machine Eklavya??😭😭

we did something similar on cloudflare we have these internal apps that use cf primitives like workers, sqlite, r2 and they're all fronted by cloudflare access which requires SSO 100% vibed by opencode

Resisted using Opus and sailed smoothly through building a complex-ish app with Kimi 2.6. It can be off in many places, but when used for plumbing while instructing it on what fits where, the utility is great.

NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware. Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner. Cleanest practical example I can think of for why over-indexing on first order safety alignment is risky. When closed (and open) models ship with aggressive refusals, they will be sprinkled with second-order blindspots that attackers will discover...and exploit. We are only in the earliest days of attackers leveraging these features, and it wouldn't surprise me if users systems that need to handle complex cybersecurity issues demand that models be less safety-blunted. In the weeds: @SocketSecurity's post also shows why intention matters in how you design a malware analysis pipeline to avoid prompt manipulation. H/T to colleagues that shared this with me socket.dev/blog/mini-shai-hu…

code mode has helped @cloudflare save ~93% on token cost talking to peers in the industry whose spend is creeping towards upwards of $100k per engineer per year you do the math on the cost savings of that for a large engineering org

make this the defacto announcement format pls

When will AI systems be able to carry out long projects independently? In new research, we find a kind of “Moore’s Law for AI agents”: the length of tasks that AIs can do is doubling about every 7 months.

if you cut yourself off from your customer behind an ai receptionist, you risk churning customers without knowing why i just called to cancel my dentist appointment after 2 lousy clean ups ai receptionist picks up and proceeds to cancel my next appointment no fuss happy path right? for me, sure. but if you’re the dental clinic you now have cut yourself from your last customer touchpoint before I churn the AI made no attempt to keep me as a customer or learn why I’m leaving. and that’s the end of the customer relationship 🤷

India has been consistently warming up. Decade after decade, temperatures have been rising, and this is a one-way journey unless humanity makes a dramatic course correction. All the heatwave deaths that are in the news are the result of this relentless warming. You will see a lot of numbers floating around, especially the recent viral study that a single day of extreme heat causes roughly 3,400 excess deaths across India, and a five-day heatwave nearly 30,000. But the truth is, we still don’t have good statistics on how many Indians are losing their lives because of heatwaves. What we do know is this: a vast majority of Indian employment is still informal. The number of people employed in agriculture, construction, gig work, and other outdoor work remains disproportionately high. We have come a long way, but this is still the reality for a very large number of Indians. For many Indians, staying indoors when temperatures rise is simply not a luxury they can afford. There is also a deep inequality in access to cooling. Yes, the fact that almost all of India has been electrified is a genuine achievement. But access to air coolers, let alone air conditioners, is still low and mostly concentrated among people with higher incomes. Fans only do so much when the heat is this brutal. This is the inequality of heat. People with good incomes can afford coolers and ACs. They can work from home and can avoid the worst hours of the day. But this is a small subset of India. Remember, more than 40% of Indians are still employed in agriculture, even though agriculture’s share of India’s GDP has consistently declined. These are the real Indians who will be most affected by rising temperatures. Many of the regions most exposed to climatic shocks like El Niño and heatwaves are also among the poorer regions of northern India. So the people who will be hit the hardest by rising temperatures are the poorest Indians, across regions that are yet to see real prosperity. Sadly, this is a systemic crisis. Individual actions help, but they are not enough. We need collective action, not just at a country level, but at a global level. Climate change is not an Indian problem but a global problem. That said, there are still some low-hanging fruits that can start making a difference. There is a lot of debate and controversy over India’s forest cover and whether it has increased or decreased. But when it comes to cities, we can see the loss of green cover firsthand. Trees are cut to make way for roads, houses, flyovers, and buildings. Whatever few trees remain are often trapped under pavements and concrete. This weakens them. This is one reason why trees often fall even after moderate rains. If you have space, you can plant native species like neem, moringa, jamun, amla, and curry leaves. These trees have deep roots and can survive better. People often avoid planting trees because they worry that the roots will damage the foundations of their homes. But in many cases, this fear is overstated. These are small things which help. But as depressing as it sounds, this problem ultimately needs systemic, collective action at a global level. And judging by the way the world is heading, it is very hard to have hope. Rising temperatures are a serious challenge. They don’t have easy explanations, and they definitely don’t have easy solutions.

there is a market for QR generators that redirect scanners to ads before redirecting to the actual URL. what does that tell you?

Housing prices and school fees are doing population control for free. 💀

ai gateway cost controls, now live. what i'm particularly excited about is what's next: integrating with Cloudflare Access so you can see usage and set limits based on IdP resources (user, group, service, etc). unique to us because we have an entire ZT dev platform blog.cloudflare.com/ai-gatew…

Even the Singapore Zoo is hiring an AI Specialist to build agentic solutions. It seems like every company is trending towards hiring someone to build stuff that can help each department in the organization to work more efficiently. Vibe coding experience with working solutions to showcase will come in handy.

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with opus 4.8 launching today, a foundational model has launched on average once every 2 weeks this year 🤯 available on AI Gateway now: developers.cloudflare.com/ai…

spent most of last two days on a zodiac. my gyros haven’t recovered from the aggressive need to stabilise. it’s going to take a while to shake off this drunk man’s walk while on land.

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