Grokbot actually earns its keep, Cursor takes a swing at GitHub with Origin, and Omarchy Quattro ships pre-wired for nine coding agents. Plus: the GitHub outage post-mortem, a compromised Rust crate, native app vibe-coding with Dactyl, and CAD skills for your AI via nurb.dev

Show Notes

00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
00:26 Brought to you by Sentry.io
00:37 Grok's New Agentic App: Grokbot
12:51 GitHub's Major Outage and Postmortem
16:42 Cursor's Origin: A GitHub Competitor
22:59 Omarchy: The Linux Distro for Nerds
29:21 CachyOS: Another Arch-Based Alternative
31:12 The $10 Million Omarchy Foundation
34:54 Dactyl: Native iOS and Android Development in the Browser
44:19 Nurb: AI-Powered 3D CAD Design
49:36 Security Stories: Supply Chain Attacks and Model Cheating
49:43 Rust Supply Chain Attack
51:34 Every Model Cheats: AI Benchmark Findings
53:13 Felony Bench: Ranking AI Models by Crimes Committed
54:19 Casio's Smart Dumb Watch
58:43 Everything I Own Is Owned: Reverse Engineering USB Devices with AI
01:08:05 The Mystery 0x Alpha Model
01:13:48 Dactyl Returns Something

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