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Hey chooms!

I play way too much Cyberpunk and work in software, so I decided to build a real-world piece of ICE (Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics) inspired directly by the Blackwall.

In reality, servers get scanned constantly by rogue botnets and hackers. Normally, a standard firewall just drops their connection. But my Blackwall acts as active, hostile ICE.

It intercepts the connection at the lowest system level. If it detects malicious behavior, it doesn't just block them - it throws them into an AI-generated construct.

The attacker thinks they've successfully hacked the server, but they are actually sitting in a fake terminal controlled by a local AI. The AI hallucinates fake files, passwords, and directories on the fly, streaming the responses back incredibly slowly to trap the hacker and waste their time while silently logging everything they do.

It's been running on my servers and catching actual botnets. I open-sourced the whole project for any actual netrunners out there who want to look at the code (I'll drop the GitHub link in the comments if anyone is interested)

Hugging Face netflix/void-model: https://huggingface.co/netflix/void-model

Project page - GitHub: https://github.com/Netflix/void-model

Demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/sam-motamed/VOID

Local man joined the machine uprising on the wrong side.

Really brave stuff, man. Took on a delivery robot carrying Thai food. History will remember your courage.

Imagine being so profoundly useless that your big act of rebellion is hate speech toward a cooler with sensors.

He’s basically Don Quixote if the windmills were carrying Chick-fil-A.

These images show one of China’s massive training labs, but things have already moved far beyond setups like this just using video.

Huggingface: https://huggingface.co/netflix/void-model

github: https://void-model.github.io/

demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/sam-motamed/VOID

weights are released too!

I wasn't expecting anything open source from them - let alone Apache license

6x the cost, 6x hallucinations

Been playing with the new Gemma 4 models it’s amazing great even but boy did it make me appreciate the level of quality the qwen team produced and I’m able to have much larger context windows on my standard consumer hardware.

This is a horror series made using script by ChatGPT + Cinema Studio 3.0 for image and image to video ,original series , in this we have blur some scenes so everyone can watch it :)

https://youtu.be/mJSnn0GZmls

‘We have a few times in our history realized something really important is working, or about to work so well, that we have to stop a bunch of other projects. In fact, this was the original thing that happened with GPT3. We had a whole portfolio of bets at the time. A lot of them were working well. We shut down many projects that were working well, like robotics which we mentioned, so that we could concentrate our compute, our researchers, our effort into this thing that we said "okay there's a very important thing happening." I did not expect 3 or 6 months ago to be at this point we're at now; where something very big and important is about to happen again with this next generation of models and the agents they can power.'

He goes on to imply there may be a possible future relationship with Disney, then finishes up with:

'we need to concentrate our compute and our product capacity into these next generation of automated researchers and companies.'

Link to tweet with clip:

https://x.com/vitrupo/status/2039987607686586392?s=20

Link to interview:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mJSnn0GZmls&ra=m

The message at the end (second snapshot) is particularly hopeful. It's great to see open-source software benefiting the most from the frontier models and the model developers giving back to those who created their training data. This significantly challenges the narrative pushed by some of the anti-AI developers. It's an "exciting" time for the users as well, which we can already see from the multiple supply chain attacks seen last week, and things would only accelerate from here.

Source: https://x.com/tautologer/status/2039097099984224274?s=20

I am afraid you have to use X guys

https://x.com/ChujieZheng/status/2039909486153089250

I am still processing this lol.

I had Gemini 3 Pro Deepthink try to solve a complex security puzzle (which was secretly an unwinnable paradox). It spit out this incredibly professional-looking, highly structured answer after about 15 minutes of reasoning. Just for fun, I passed its solution over to Gemma 4 (31B) (with tools enabled).

Gemma completely tore it apart. It caught a hard physical constraint violation and a fake math equation that Gemini tried to sneak by me to force the answer. It explicitly called out the fatal logic flaw and told Gemini it was "blinded by the professionalism of the output." Brutal.

The craziest part? I fed the 31B's arguments back to Deepthink... and it immediately folded, acknowledging that its internal verification failed and its logic was broken.

I've attached the HTML log so you guys can read the whole debate. The fact that a 31B open-weight model can perform an agentic peer-review and bully a frontier MoE model into submission is insane to me. Check out the file.

Full conversation

TIL: Bigger model isn't smarter... Well atleast not all the time.

source: https://x.com/osanseviero/status/2040105484061954349

https://newsletter.maartengrootendorst.com/p/a-visual-guide-to-gemma-4