140: Cloudflare is Coming for WordPress

About this episode

The episode discusses the release of Pretext, a TypeScript library for fast text measurement, and Anthropic's new cybersecurity initiative, Project Glasswing.

One of the former React Core team members caused quite the stir last week when he released Pretext, a TypeScript library that uses math to make text measurement and layout super fast. Handy for niche use cases? Definitely. Controversial online? Extremely. Also this week, Anthropic announced Project Glasswing, a new initiative bringing together all the biggest players in tech to reshape cybersecurity because Anthropic's latest frontier model Mythos has identified thousands of high-severity vul...

People in this episode

Hosts: TJ VanToll, Paige Niedringhaus, Jack Herrington

Topics covered

• TypeScript
• text measurement
• layout
• cybersecurity
• React
• technology

Keywords

• TypeScript
• text measurement
• Cloudflare
• Anthropic
• cybersecurity
• React
• Mythos

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cloudflare, Anthropic

Products: Pretext, Mythos

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