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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 JScript: How Microsoft Cloned JavaScript
03:28 Ryan Dahl’s Fight to Free the JavaScript Trademark
05:48 The Rise of Micro Ducks and DIY Robotics
13:58 VeriSign Is Killing Third Level .name Domains
18:31 How Many Domains Do You Own? Registrar Pricing and Transfers
21:00 GPT-6 Astra Is Here: Is This Actually AGI?
Exploding 3D Rendering
Formula 1 Rendering
Astra in Three.JS
23:40 Computer Use: Letting AI Draw Our Thumbnail in MS Paint
Astra Using MS Paint
33:10 Can AI Edit Video? The DaVinci Resolve MCP Hype
40:18 Blender, 3D Workflows and the Death of Educational Content
47:45 Audacity 4: A Long Overdue Facelift
52:31 Ripping CDs and Owning Your Music Library Again
55:35 Vitest 5: Faster Tests, Benchmarks and Trace View
59:45 Brought to you by Sentry.io
01:00:24 Prompt Injecting Claude Opus 5 With a Malicious Zip File
01:05:46 The Shai-Hulud Hackers Got Arrested: How They Slipped Up
01:09:15 The VS Code Documentary Is Out (and Wes Is In It)
01:11:14 216 Million Spy TVs: LG Is Watching and Listening
Disconnect Your LG TV Now
01:17:05 Roku, Walmart and What Your Data Profile Really Knows
01:19:12 Google AI Mode Shows Products 21% More Expensive
01:22:31 Agentic Shopping and the Sameness of AI Taste
