1034: Omarchy Quattro Release

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 (sentry.io/syntax)

• 00:37 Grok’s New Agentic App: Grokbot

• 12:51 GitHub’s Major Outage and Postmortem (github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-aug…)

• 16:42 Cursor’s Origin (cursor.com/changelog/origin-code-hosting): A GitHub Competitor

• 22:59 Omarchy (omarchy.org): The Linux Distro for Nerds

• 29:21 CachyOS: Another Arch-Based Alternative

• 31:12 The $10 Million Omarchy Foundation

• 34:54 Dactyl (x.com/rough__sea/status/2091755677974983025): Native iOS and Android Development in the Browser

• 44:19 Nurb (nurb.dev): 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 (dreadnode.io/research/every-model-cheats-promp…): AI Benchmark Findings

• 53:13 Felony Bench (felonybench.com): Ranking AI Models by Crimes Committed

• 54:19 Casio’s Smart Dumb Watch (casio.com/uk/watches/casio/product.F-B100W-1A)

• 58:43 Everything I Own Is Owned (schlarp.com/posts/everything-i-own-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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