1038: OpenAI Releases GPT 6 Astra

Wes and CJ dig into OpenAI’s GPT‑6 Astra; the massive jump in computer use, the wild Blender MCP 3D demos, and whether all the AGI talk actually holds up. Plus Hugging Face’s robot duck, Vitest 5 and the arrest behind the shai‑hulud supply chain attacks

Show Notes

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!

• 00:52 30 Years of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JScript: How Microsoft Cloned JavaScript

• 03:28 Ryan Dahl’s Fight to Free the JavaScript Trademark

• 05:48 The Rise of Micro Ducks (x.com/tspy/status/2097282050055438414) and DIY Robotics

• 13:58 VeriSign Is Killing Third Level .name Domains (daily.dev/posts/neil-fraser-news-name-terminat…)

• 18:31 How Many Domains Do You Own? Registrar Pricing and Transfers

• 21:00 GPT-6 Astra Is Here: Is This Actually AGI (fastcompany.com/91601838/openai-unleashes-astr…)?

• Exploding 3D Rendering (dayring-for-kids.vercel.app)

• Formula 1 Rendering (x.com/reach_vb/status/2096271854193271229)

• Astra in Three.JS (x.com/scottstts/status/2096364764054131119)

• 23:40 Computer Use: Letting AI Draw Our Thumbnail in MS Paint

• Astra Using MS Paint (x.com/The_Alex/status/2096294580006354985)

• 33:10 Can AI Edit Video? The DaVinci Resolve MCP (blackmagicdesign.com/media/release/20260908-03) Hype

• 40:18 Blender, 3D Workflows and the Death of Educational Content (youtube.com/@fern-tv)

• 47:45 Audacity 4 (audacityteam.org/audacity-4): A Long Overdue Facelift

• 52:31 Ripping CDs and Owning Your Music Library Again (jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-release-12.0)

• 55:35 Vitest 5 (vitest.dev/blog/vitest-5): Faster Tests, Benchmarks and Trace View

• 59:45 Brought to you by Sentry.io (sentry.io/syntax?)

• 01:00:24 Prompt Injecting Claude Opus 5 With a Malicious Zip File (embracethered.com/blog/posts/2026/breaking-cla…)

• 01:05:46 The Shai-Hulud Hackers Got Arrested: How They Slipped Up (aikido.dev/blog/teampcp-arrested-supply-chain)

• 01:09:15 The VS Code Documentary (youtube.com/watch?v=kHL3XzjpT5w) Is Out (and Wes Is In It)

• 01:11:14 216 Million Spy TVs: LG Is Watching and Listening (youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA)

• Disconnect Your LG TV Now (appleinsider.com/articles/26/09/07/disconnect-…)

• 01:17:05 Roku, Walmart and What Your Data Profile Really Knows

• 01:19:12 Google AI Mode Shows Products 21% More Expensive (productrise.app/blog/google-ai-mode-prefers-mo…)

• 01:22:31 Agentic Shopping and the Sameness of AI Taste

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