Rambling on Tech
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2026 · 07
- chatbox: Hermes/OpenClaw Based Voice Assistant A Pi Zero W, a 3D printer display board, and a microphone in a printed wedge: press the knob, ask out loud, and the answer streams onto a 128×64 LCD or to an Amazon Echo. Keep it it local.
- Building pi in a World of Slop Refreshing video from Mario Zechner (Pi creator) on building deterministic code generation tools in a market flooded with unreliable AI-generated "slop".
- Claude Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are back July 2nd Anthropic has received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
- Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests A security researcher claims to have found hidden Unicode markers in Claude Code that subtly alter the date string in its system prompt based on the API base URL's hostname and system timezone—apparently to flag custom gateways, proxies, or resellers (especially Chinese AI-related domains)—raising privacy and transparency concerns about undisclosed steganographic fingerprinting in a widely-trusted developer tool.
- Introducing Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5, a more agentic and cost-efficient model that approaches Opus 4.8's performance on many tasks, shows improved safety metrics over its predecessor Sonnet 4.6, and is now available across all Claude plans and the API with introductory pricing through August 31, 2026.