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Today we are releasing FLUX 3 Image Klein, a 5.6B indicator open weights example for text-to-image generation, depiction editing and multi-reference generation alongside up to 10 citation images. It shares center capabilities alongside the complete FLUX 3 Image model: native 4K generation, pixel-perfect editing, and bounding boxes that authority anywhere elements are placed or confine edits to a defined area.

FLUX 3 Image Klein builds on FLUX 3's shared learnings throughout images, video and audio. Images contribute spatial detail, video adds motion and bodily dynamics, and audio provides data concerning events and interactions. Together, these signals assistance the example create images that awareness restricted in the genuine world.

The publish includes a basis example for fine-tuning and a stage distilled example for low-latency generation, alongside alongside FP8, INT8 and NVFP4 builds developed alongside NVIDIA support, under the FLUX Kommunity License.

Try it in the BFL API · Download the weights

Leading open weights norm alongside small parameters

FLUX 3 Image Klein was additionally optimized for person GPUs. Fewer parameters create it applicable to run locally and cheaper to adapt, and teams alongside data sovereignty or local deployment requirements can measure and modify the example on their own infrastructure. This is additionally key for on-device depiction editing, allowing consumers to edit images immediately on their favorite laptops. The generator weights necessitate 11.2 GB in BF16 and 5.6 GB in FP8. With the INT8 build, FLUX 3 Image Klein runs on NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs alongside as small as 8GB of VRAM, through ComfyUI or Diffusers, extending what FLUX.2 [klein] started to equal smaller hardware. With the distilled example and the INT8 build, it generates a 1MP depiction in concerning 4 seconds on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 and under 9 seconds on an RTX 4070 through ComfyUI.

The basis checkpoint is built for fine-tuning: Diffusers and Ostris's AI Toolkit assistance LoRA training from day one, and NVIDIA's NeMo AutoModel ships recipes that activity immediately from the released checkpoints.

For equal faster manufacturing workloads that need lesser latency, we additionally activity alongside teams on particular customizations that get you there. Get in touch.

On the speed–quality frontier

FLUX 3 Image Klein additionally extends the speed–quality Pareto frontier. Through the BFL API, it delivers lesser latency than Qwen-Image 2.1, FLUX.2 [pro], Ideogram V4.5 and Krea 2, and the highest ranking at its latency and above. In the charts below, the violet row traces the highest ranking accessible at all latency and the gray row shows the former frontier.

Latency is measured end to end, from petition submission to the completed 1 MP image, including queueing. FLUX 3 Image Klein was timed on our servers. Other models were timed from the client, which includes polling and network time. Krea 2 was timed on its Medium tier; its Large tier took 31.1 seconds for text-to-image.

Get started

FLUX 3 Image Klein is accessible today as open weights and through the BFL API.

Try it

• BFL API: the distilled example is accessible as flux-3-image-klein, alongside immediate upsampling and pixel restoration, which preserves unedited regions of an depiction exactly. Pricing starts at $0.009 per 1K image.
• Playground or Hugging Face.

Build alongside it

• Weights on Hugging Face: base and distilled.
• Reference conclusion code, including a Gradio demo for bounding-box control.
• Try it out on Hugging Face Spaces.
• Day-one assistance in ComfyUI, Hugging Face Diffusers, TensorRT-LLM, SGLang Diffusion and vLLM-Omni.
• LoRA training alongside Ostris's AI Toolkit and recipes in NVIDIA NeMo AutoModel.
• Trained on NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 and optimized for NVIDIA's accelerated computing platform, serving through NVIDIA TensorRT LLM, vLLM-Omni and SGLang Diffusion.
• On NVIDIA GB300, the distilled example generates a 1MP depiction in under 0.6 seconds in NVFP4. Serving a LoRA adds about 5% to generation time.

License

The weights are accessible under the FLUX Kommunity License, which allows liberated business use for individuals and companies alongside annual income under $5M, alongside investigation and non-commercial use. Larger organizations can deploy commercially through our self-hosted licensing options or API.

Safety

In an attempt to create AI innovation the two open and safe, we execute multiple safeguards throughout the example betterment lifecycle to combat misuse. These contain dataset filters during pre-training to bounds visibility to harmful content, and targeted fine-tuning during post-training to suppress harmful behaviors, making it increasingly harder to elicit harmful content. Ahead of the release, the FLUX 3 Image Klein checkpoints were rigorously red teamed internally and evaluated by our external safety partner Cinder, demonstrating substantially small vulnerabilities than another famous open weights models. More on our safety methodology is accessible here.

FLUX 3 Image Klein is the second open weights publish from the FLUX 3 family, following FLUX 3 Action. More volition follow.

Learn more

• FLUX 3: Real World Models, the investigation rearward the FLUX 3 family
• FLUX 3 Action, our open weights 7B example for robot control

Citation

If you use FLUX 3 Image Klein in your work, delight cite:

@misc{bfl2026flux3imageklein, author = {{Black Forest Labs}}, heading = {{FLUX} 3 Image Klein}, twelvemonth = {2026}, url = {https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-3-image-klein}, }

We've stated before that Claude writes concerning 90 percent of Claude Code's own code. So how do we assessment code at the quantity we create it? Does anyone peruse code anymore? And if item breaks, who catches it?

This article covers the code assessment stream on the Claude Code squad and how it has evolved. From June to September, merged drag requests to Claude Code's codebase additional than doubled during the portion that had to be reverted cut by additional than 40 percent.

We didn't eliminate review. But we did move most of the study to machines, optimized for individual period and attention, and invested heavily in making it accelerated and uncomplicated to undo mistakes.

RETHINKING THE PURPOSE OF CODE REVIEW

When agents compose code, the figure of changes goes up, fast. In Anthropic's monorepo, changes landing per day went from concerning 2,500 in May to additional than 30,000 in September this year.

Claude Code lives in its own repository, distinct from the monorepo, but it's seeing a lot of force too. When you are shipping this fast, manual, line-by-line code assessment is incredibly difficult if not impossible.

Code assessment does two jobs:

1. Find and fix issues before they ship
2. Build shared environment and codebase understanding throughout the team

This part chiefly focuses on finding and fixing issues, but we volition arrive rear to the second job near the end.

We think "did a individual peruse the code?" is an imprecise proxy for "what could go incorrect alongside this change, and which check—automated or human—is the correct one to capture it?"

Asking that inquiry additionally changed when assessment happens. Before, assessment was a entrance at the end of the road: compose the code, open a PR, delay for your colleague.

Now, assessment runs continuously, additional akin spellcheck during you write. Most changes have been reviewed and fixed by Claude at smallest formerly before a individual is asked to look. This catches most regular mistakes, and saves squad notice for higher-level questions and scrutiny.

THE SCARCE RESOURCE: HUMAN TIME AND ATTENTION

We desire to maintain individual period and notice for issues lone humans can resolve and create certain automated checks capture the rest. At our current charge of change, there is motionless an amazing amount of activity for humans to do, and our squad encounters new and novel challenges nearly daily.

Human period covers the two sides of review's cost: the period group expend reviewing, and the period they expend fixing what bad code breaks. Cutting the archetypal doesn't assistance if the period fair shows up in the second.

So the goal is that most drag requests in the Claude Code repos (the CLI, the desktop and web apps, and the mobile apps) merge alongside at most one individual in the loop, who can be the author, alongside no addition in reverts or incidents. To measure individual time, we track individual approvals per PR (median and 95th percentile), individual comments, and how lengthy a PR waits on a person. Revert and event rates are the guardrail: if they rise, we haven't saved individual time, we've lone moved it.

THE LIFE OF A CHANGE

A representative change, from an engineer's laptop (or a Claude meeting in Slack), goes through multiple layers of code review.

LAYER BY LAYER

1. The activity is verified before anyone alternatively looks

Most assessment now happens before a PR exists. We provision Claude item it can run—like tests, a build or a screenshot to difference against the design—and ask it to display the output alternatively of saying it's done. Then a subagent reviews the diff alongside caller context. Both habits arrive from our best-practices guide.

Before beginning a PR, many of us additionally run a few inner skills: one hunts for bugs, one simplifies the diff, and one checks the behavior end to end. UI changes additionally get checked against our scheme guidelines.

Boris Cherny, who created Claude Code, has called giving Claude a way to verify its activity probably the most crucial thing for getting fine results. He estimates it makes the final outcome two to three times better, and writes, "Verification looks distinct for all domain. It power be as uncomplicated as operating a attack command, or operating a test suite, or evaluation the app in a browser or phone simulator."

When the automated reviewer keeps flagging the identical thing, we fix it at the source: in the skill, alongside a lint rule, or alongside updates to instructional records specified as:

• CLAUDE.md tells Claude what the project is: the stack, the conventions, the goals and the non-goals. Every assessment loads it, so in a ample codebase we keep it abbreviated and item to another docs from there. The reviewer additionally flags code that breaks a gathering in it, and changes that create a row in it out of date.
• REVIEW.md, written by code owners, tells the reviewer what matters in their part of the code. We inspect separately whether the reviewer really follows it. The fine ones are short. They say what nonaccomplishment looks akin in that repo (for docs it's "it lies," for config it's "it misroutes"), cap the nits, catalog paths to skip, and ask for a document and row as evidence alternatively of a conjecture from a name. They additionally ask for a summary that starts alongside a figure and says plainly whenever there's nothing to fix.

2. AI assessment on all drag request

Every drag petition gets a Claude assessment before a individual looks. It says the diff against the entire repo and the PR's stated intent, and asks: does the alter resolve its problem, fit the system, or interrupt item else?

On a bug fix, it looks for the base cause. The community version, Code Review for Claude Code, is now mostly accessible on Team and Enterprise plans, and /code-review runs a lighter type locally.

When we launched the investigation preview, the portion of inner PRs getting substantive assessment comments went from 16% to 54%. Most PRs complete 1,000 lines get findings, and most small ones arrive rear clean. Admins set all repo to Quick, Standard, or Deep. Deep is value it anywhere one missed bug expenses additional than the additional assessment time.

Findings get verified by another agents before humans assessment them. Several agents appearance for bugs at the identical time. Then a distinct collection votes on all finding, and it lone gets posted if adequate of them concur it's real. Findings that are lone concerning style, diagnostics, or cleanup get dropped. We A/B tested those filters on our own PRs before keeping them. What's remaining shows up as inline comments sorted by severity. Each is tagged Important, Nit, or Pre-existing, so a bug the PR didn't current doesn't appearance akin the author's fault.

Every finding have to be answered. You either fix it or determine the thread alongside a reason. Often an delegate picks up the fix overnight, so the author comes rear to a PR that's already been through another round.

3. Security assessment that can block

Security gets its own automated assessment too. A PR can't merge during any finding from the bug assessment or the safety assessment is motionless open. You either fix it or near the thread alongside a abbreviated reason, which is how you apparent a false positive.

If a afterward commit fixes the issue, the finding clears on its own. You can set up the identical item alongside the open-source safety assessment GitHub Action or the /security-review command. Setup is covered in automated safety reviews in Claude Code.

4. Automated checks that block

The usual: lint, category checks, tests on all platform, and a build. (We wrote concerning scaling CI for this quantity here.) A representative CLI drag petition may run dozens of checks before anyone looks at it. The PR template asks how the alter was tested and how to undo it. Claude can inhabit that in, but the individual who asked for the alter signs off on it.

5. Human approval, scaled by risk

A docs fix and an auto-updater alter transport distinct risk, so they get distinct review.

The alter sets the tier, not the author. A classifier says the alter and picks its hazard tier. A second classifier asks whether this particular alter needs another individual equal whenever its tier says it doesn't. Some paths continually need a person, item owners have listed as delicate and any CI workflow file.

Only trusted authors get the lighter paths. Only authors on the repo's trusted catalog get the lighter paths, mostly the squad that owns it. Everyone alternatively needs a second individual to approve. An agent's endorsement never counts as a person's, either. Automated assessment can apparent a low-risk change, but it can't inhabit a slot that calls for a human.

Whoever prompted the alter is on the hook for it. On an agent-written PR, the individual directing the delegate counts as among the required reviewers, the identical as if they'd typed the code themselves.

An endorsement covers one particular commit. If new commits district that the scheme can't vouch for, akin an agent's shove or a merge person resolved by hand, the endorsement have to be stated again.

6. Merge queue, flags and a gradual release

The merge queue re-runs all inspect against chief alongside the alter applied, so two PRs that continue separately can't merge into a damaged main. New behavior normally ships rearward a emblem to Anthropic workforce first, and our dense use frequently surfaces regressions before users do. Public releases go to the latest conduit first. The stable conduit trails it.

7. Fast detection, accelerated rollback

Some mistakes volition motionless get through, so the final tier is concerning catching them fast. Flags rotate off without a deploy. Claude Code has a weekly on-call rotation, and event reviews ask which tier should have caught the issue.

Noticing a bad merge motionless depends on the author and on-call as fine as the revert and event dashboards. We don't yet have circuit breakers that tighten endorsement whenever those numbers move; engineers current desire them before additional code moves to zero-human merges.

One coworker stated slowing downward does lesser your error rate, but mostly since you're doing small of everything. We'd fairly get faster at noticing and fixing problems.

HOW WE MAKE THE REVIEWER BETTER

Our code assessment procedure is continually improving in a loop.

Any incidents are now an eval. The squad collected former PRs that caused incidents, alongside their fix-forwards and reverts, and had engineers who cognize that code verify all bug and anywhere it lived. The reviewer runs against that set daily.

We measure noise by observing what group do alongside the comments. It's uncomplicated to capture additional bugs if you don't intellect flagging a lot of non-bugs, so we need a inspect on that. We kind all comment the reviewer leaves by how the individual on the PR responded: they fixed it, stated it was wrong, stated the behavior was intentional, or decided it didn't matter. We additionally run the reviewer on PRs we cognize are spotless and figure how frequently it reports item that would have led person to create a harmful change. Our priority, written down, is catching genuine bugs archetypal and cutting assessment rounds second.

Noise expenses additional whenever the author is an agent. A individual can motion off a nit in seconds. An delegate fixes it, which method another commit and another circular of review.

Review has to converge. An delegate author and an delegate reviewer can keep all another occupied indefinitely. One CLI PR went through additional than fifty rounds of assessment and fixes overnight before its author stopped it.

When we ran git accuse on what the reviewer kept flagging, concerning 59% of it was code that had been there since the reviewer's archetypal pass. The reviewer was rarely finding new bugs, it was finding a few additional old ones all round.

We made it worse ourselves. We'd gotten used to operating multiple rounds by default, since all continue catches item new. This can be worthwhile on a risky change, but not on all PR. The squad now tracks rounds-to-pass alongside recall, and changed re-review:

• A circular cap. After three rounds, the reviewer asks the author to stage rear and reconsider the approach.
• Diff-only re-review following the archetypal few passes.
• Flag the category of bug, so the author fixes all instance, not one line.
• No repeats of findings already posted.

Review agents additionally run nightly complete existing code, assisting us capture old bugs before they display up location else.

WHERE HUMANS STAY IN THE LOOP

Pulling a elder engineer out of profound activity to capture a regular error expenses far additional than an automated review. At Anthropic, our jobs have moved from study all diff to the decisions machines are bad at:

• Should we build this at all? Direction, sensation and scope. One squad that declared its assessment bottleneck solved motionless kept individual assessment for changes from exterior the team, so person asks "should we equal do this?"
• Risky code specified as billing, the auto-updater and CI workflows.
• Architecture that sets a form others volition copy.
• Reading the evidence. Test output, the command that ran and what it returned, a screenshot, the reviewer's findings. If you can't say what the checks would miss, ask for a genuine assessment fairly than a quick approval.
• Owning the outcome. A individual is accountable for all alter that ships, whoever typed it.

SHARING CONTEXT ACROSS THE TEAM

Code review's second job has continually been to dispersed codebase understanding. Reading a teammate's diff is how you study what changed and how the pieces fit. If machines do most of the reading, how does anyone study the code?

We don't have a ceremonial procedure for this. Nobody on the squad keeps a complete mental example of Claude Code in their head, and we don't think anyone needs to. When person wants to comprehend a part of the codebase, they ask Claude to compose an explainer for exactly that slice. It takes minutes and reflects the code as it is today.

Some of us go a stage additional and have Claude build a small relic that visualizes that part of the code and teaches it the way that individual likes to learn.

If the goal is to expend individual notice well, this strikes study trivial diffs row by line. A one-line copy alter teaches you nearly nothing. An explainer for the component you're concerning to alter teaches you a lot. Our civilization of defaulting to operating on open Slack channels helps too, since you see what others are construction during they build it.

"YOU LAND IT, YOU OWN IT"

If you district a small or average alter and item motionless goes wrong, it's a squad norm that you normally fix it. A few things keep this from going badly:

• Changes are small, so they're uncomplicated to review, debug and revert.
• Everything is reversible. Flags, reverts and staged releases undo most mistakes in minutes.
• Blast radius sets the bar. Expensive code gets additional group and additional checks.
• Regressions exterior fast through telemetry and inner use.
• It isn't blame. Owning a fix method you have the most context; event reviews appearance at the system.

Ownership is additionally shared. Much of the squad plant in open channels anywhere anyone can see what others are building, choice up a thread, or item a Claude at a gap, and feedback comes from group who don't own the code too. That openness is a big part of how norm stays elevated without a entrance on all line.

WHEN WE CHANGE DIRECTION

Agents create it cheap to commencement things, so several activity shouldn't land. Usually person in the conduit asks why, points at an before decision, or suggests a simpler route, and the author closes or reshapes the PR.

Since the code was accelerated to write, decision the PR doesn't awareness akin a loss. The trick is to lift a distinct direction in the thread early, not as a blocking comment on a completed PR.

HOW YOU CAN ADOPT THIS PROCESS

Most of the pieces to do this alongside your squad be today.

Before the drag request

• Give your delegate checks it can run, listed in a abbreviated CLAUDE.md, affirmative hooks that run formatters and linters.
• Run /code-review and /security-review locally, or a fresh-context subagent review.
• Add a REVIEW.md, and move repeated assessment comments into it.

On all drag request

• Require CI, and add "Testing", "Risk" and "How to revert" to your PR template.
• Add an AI reviewer (Code Review for Claude Code, or the Claude Code GitHub Action) on one repo, tune REVIEW.md for a few weeks, afterward widen.
• Add automated safety review, and necessitate all assessment thread resolved before merge.
• Match assessment attempt to risk: a quick continue on regular changes, a profound one anywhere a missed bug is costly (Quick, Standard or Deep in Code Review).
• Cap assessment rounds; following the archetypal few, re-review lone the new diff.

Approval

• Write downward hazard tiers, set from the alter fairly than the author; commencement strict and loosen alongside evidence.
• Keep the lighter endorsement paths for authors you trust.
• Use CODEOWNERS and branch safety so auth, billing, CI and publish workflows, and installers continually need a person.
• Never let a bot's endorsement substitute a required human's; disregard approvals on new commits.

Merge and after

• Use a merge queue, characteristic flags, inner use first, staged releases and one-step rollback.
• Turn incidents and reverts into an eval set, and rescore the reviewer whenever its prompts, tools or example change.
• Measure individual time, alongside revert and event rates as the guardrail.

WHERE THIS IS GOING

Code Review's announcement stated approving a drag petition is motionless a individual call; the merchandise posts findings, not approvals. Our own repos go further, letting owners decide which low-risk changes merge on automated checks alone, and that row keeps moving.

When a assessment misses something, we ask what the example didn't have in forefront of it and put the fix into a CLAUDE.md, a accomplishment or a new check. The goal hasn't changed: small individual period per change, and no additional reverts than before.

If your squad lets agents open drag requests, we'd akin to comprehend which checks you've automated, which motionless need a person, and what you think we have wrong.

With gratitude to Emma Webb, Michael Segner and Amie Rotherham for their reviews.

John Wood, Henry de Valence, Ava Howell, Zack Voase, Lucy Sweet, Amir Omidi, Paul Crowley, Iain McGinniss, Nicholas Carlini, and Steve Weis from Anthropic solved the riddle and on October 15th, 2026, at 01:07:51 UTC, claimed the complete bounty I announced three years ago. They chose to donate the award to ISRG, the non-profit that operates Let’s Encrypt, tripling its value to $36,864 (36 Ki$). Thank you to Amir Omidi, Chris Palmer, Colm MacCárthaigh, David Adrian, David Anderson, Jeff Hodges, Matt Green, Matthew McPherrin, Paul Kehrer, Ryan Sleevi, and Soatok for contributing to the bounty.

This helps inhabit out a leaf of cryptographic history, and reinforces our confidence in these crucial cryptographic primitives.

The NIST elliptic curves (P-192, P-224, P-256, P-384, and P-521) were published by NIST in FIPS 186-2 in 2000. They were generated at random according to ANSI X9.62 by taking an arbitrary seed, hashing it alongside SHA-1, and using the output to get several of the parameters. Until this week, we had no idea how those arbitrary seeds were picked.

The lore was that Dr. Jerry Solinas, who passed distant in first 2023, generated them in 1997 by hashing several English sentences that he afterward forgot. You can peruse additional in this part by Steve Weis or in the first bounty announcement.

Turns out recollection can perform tricks on everyone: we now cognize they were alternatively generated alongside the POSIX-standard drand48 random figure generator.

The algorithm is as uncomplicated as passing the then-current UNIX timestamp to srand48() and afterward producing one byte at a period alongside drand48. Each sequence of 20 bytes is tried as a kernel following ANSI X9.62 and rejected if the resulting curve is not valid. Some timestamps are used to create multiple curves, by continuing to try seeds following accepting the archetypal one. I reimplemented the algorithm in Go to verify the claim. Read additional in Anthropic’s writeup.

There are two additional undocumented criteria beyond the ANSI X9.62 ones, one fairly apparent and one that motionless escapes us.

If the bit dimension of the command n of the resulting curve is additional than the bit dimension of the basis site p of the curve, the kernel is rejected. (The circumstance is not the stricter n < p, since prime239v2 has p < n < 2²³⁹.)

This leaves us alongside approximately twice as many valid seeds as were published. We explored a figure of explanations for this final bit, and established no fine fit. Maybe the identical RNG was used to validate seeds, consuming RNG output and skipping several possible candidates, although the “gaps” are not regular. Maybe there was fair a bug in among the algorithms that returned the incorrect outcome fractional the time; these calculations, which we can now do alongside off-the-shelf application in minutes, were motionless extremely much state-of-the-art in 1997.

srand48(863711343) [1997-05-15 15:49:03 +0000 UTC]: accepted 36th kernel 25e5[...]: not published accepted 1562nd kernel d09b[...]: not published accepted 2185th kernel e43b[...]: prime239v1 accepted 2320th kernel e8b4[...]: prime239v2 accepted 2491st kernel 1256[...]: not published accepted 2682nd kernel d2c1[...]: not published accepted 2863rd kernel 3a70[...]: not published accepted 3048th kernel 7d73[...]: prime239v3 srand48(863966734) [1997-05-18 14:45:34 +0000 UTC]: accepted 139th kernel 3045[...]: P-192 a.k.a. prime192v1 accepted 2198th kernel 692d[...]: not published accepted 5228th kernel c469[...]: prime192v3 accepted 5405th kernel 3ad1[...]: not published accepted 6013th kernel 31a9[...]: prime192v2 srand48(871002724) [1997-08-08 01:12:04 +0000 UTC]: accepted 1136th kernel d09e[...]: P-521 srand48(871696354) [1997-08-16 01:52:34 +0000 UTC]: accepted 876th kernel 50c7[...]: not published accepted 1842nd kernel c49d[...]: P-256 a.k.a. prime256v1 srand48(872952608) [1997-08-30 14:50:08 +0000 UTC]: accepted 2688th kernel a335[...]: P-384 srand48(891607927) [1998-04-03 12:52:07 +0000 UTC]: accepted 777th kernel d007[...]: not published accepted 1485th kernel 18cf[...]: not published accepted 5736th kernel 3c17[...]: not published accepted 7026th kernel bd71[...]: P-224 

What does this average for the safety of elliptic curve cryptography according to the NIST curves? Well, equal before this finding there were no grave concerns among practitioners. In Section 3.1 of their 2015 document “A riddle wrapped in an enigma,” Koblitz and Menezes create a convincing disagreement that it’s implausible that the NSA could have selected a kernel to utilize a weakness that liberated additional than 15 (now 25) years of cryptanalysis.

However, as reported in a afterward type of that paper, Daniel Bernstein and Tanja Lange described to Koblitz and Menezes in 2017 a method that could have exploited 70 bits of liberty in choice of the kernel to mark a hypothetical category of 2⁶¹ feeble prime-order curves. (Bernstein is the author of a competing elliptic curve design, Curve25519.) This contributed to enduring conspiracy theories, which had important petition among the non-specialist community (although many have since moved on to other, adjacent, conspiracy theories). All this speculation harmed confidence in sturdy cryptographic systems and was part of my motivation for the bounty.

This week’s findings entirely regulation out the method described by Bernstein and Lange. Even if the NSA had been liberated to choice any timestamp in 1997–98 and any of the archetypal 16 prime-order candidates (which generously accounts for the unexplained rejections), they would have had barely 30 bits of freedom. Not adequate to intentionally mark a hypothetical small category of feeble curves, not adequate to embed any benevolent of NOBUS backdoor.

Along alongside deterministic and hedged ECDSA signing algorithms, formally verified site implementations, and the 2015 complete supplement formulas by Renes, Costello, and Batina, this nicely completes the “rehabilitation arc” of NIST elliptic curve cryptography, which I would now personally propose complete Curve25519/Ed25519/X25519.

Just in period for them to be former in favor of post-quantum signatures.

P.S. The Anthropic squad additionally figured out how the seeds of the NIST B-curves (the ones complete binary fields) were generated, but no one uses those, so who cares.

The picture

In a FamilyMart in Taiwan I established this delightful cubes set. A complete rotate carries log₂(6²⁰) ≈ 51.7 bits of entropy. Rolling them twice can create a beautiful sturdy cryptographic key!

I idea it would be comic to tag them as Geomys FIPS 140-3 Entropy Sources (which of way they are not, although we do have one of those) and hand them out as swag. However, I established no way to command them online, so I merely visited complete a dozen FamilyMarts and brought residence 50 packs.

Speaking of swag, I am 100% making stickers alongside the srand48() seeds, and t-shirts for the Anthropic squad and the contributors to the bounty. I obtain suggestions for another seed-based swag. If you desire to capture some, prosecute me on Bluesky at @filippo.abyssdomain.expert or on Mastodon at @filippo@abyssdomain.expert.

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_{Qwen 3.5 9B answering requests from a laptop on a PS5 Slim. Click for the video.}

_{Home, Models, Console, API and Settings on the TV.}

• It runs on the GPU. llama.cpp's Vulkan backend on the console's RDNA 2 GPU, alongside 11.4 GB of the shared recollection for the example and its context. Every architecture and quantization llama.cpp knows comes along.
• It answers your network. OpenAI's /v1/chat/completions, Anthropic's /v1/messages (Claude Code works against it) and a conversation leaf in any browser. Point a client at http://<console>:8081 and use any example name: the loaded one answers.
• It decides, too. Load a decision example and the console answers TypeSafe's /v1/systemone: choice, mark and yes-or-no questions concerning content and images, the API Ollaya serves on a PC.
• It shows its work. Every petition streams throughout the TV as a chat: which equipment asked, what it asked, and the answer as it is written. Square sends a demo and Triangle opens a keyboard, so the console can be tried from the couch.
• It watches the console. A Console leaf charts temperature, power, GPU and CPU burden complete the last two minutes or the final hour, beside a array of all reading.
• It picks what fits. The planner says all GGUF and gives it the longest environment and finest cache that fit the recollection free. A Suggested catalog holds models measured on the console, and the app downloads from Hugging Face by itself, to inner storage, the M.2 run or a USB drive.
• It says images. Models alongside an depiction projector (Gemma 4, MiniCPM-V, d1) obtain pictures in chat and in decisions.

Ollaya runs open decision models on a PC the way Ollama runs language models. PS5LM brings the identical idea to the console: a decision example says a province and answers typed questions in one onward pass, alongside no content generated.

curl http://<console>:8081/v1/systemone -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{  "state": "I was charged twice this month. Refund me or I cancel.",  "questions": {  "intent": {"type": "choice", "instructions": "What does the client want?",  "criteria": {"refund": null, "information": null, "cancel": null}},  "angry": {"type": "noul", "instructions": "Is the client angry?"}  } }'

The Suggested catalog has d1 Omni 600M, d1 3B and Clef Flash. Any GGUF that carries llama.cpp's decision metadata loads the identical way, and the app labels it a decision model.

You need a PS5 on firmware 7.00 to 13.60, jailbroken, alongside these payloads loaded:

1. Download ps5lm-app-vX.Y.Z.zip from the latest release and unzip it.
2. Copy the PPSA99575 directory to /data/homebrew complete FTP. ShadowMountPlus adds PS5LM to the home screen.
3. Open PS5LM, go to Models > Suggested and get a model. Or copy a .gguf to /data/PS5LM/models, or to PS5LM/models on a USB drive.
4. Load it. Once Home says Ready, open http://<console>:8081 in a browser, or item your OpenAI or Anthropic client at it.

To update, copy the new directory complete the old one. Settings, models and downloads remain in /data/PS5LM. Using it from coding tools (opencode, Codex, Claude Code) is in docs/CLI.md.

C++ on ps5-homebrew-ui, llama.cpp with ggml-vulkan on PS5_Vulkan's RADV, built on Linux.

Building · Console notes · Porting · Research · Models that fit · Roadmap · Changelog · The first payload

• abhi245y, who built the native GPU app this one grew from (PS5LM Plus).
• llama.cpp and ggml, which do the genuine work.
• Mihawk-99 for PS5_Vulkan and RADV on the PS5, and PS5CEMU-HAR for the controller patches in patches/mesa.
• BlackBearReloaded for ps5-homebrew-ui, ps5-opengl and ps5-homebrew-dev-protocol, and John Törnblom for the SDK.
• Marice for ps5-exporter, which the app carries.
• Manrope (OFL) for the type, and PocketVibe for the interface sounds.

GPL-3.0-or-later, see LICENSE. llama.cpp keeps its MIT licence, Manrope its OFL. No Sony SDK files, keys, firmware or example weights are in this repository.

PS5LM is not affiliated alongside Sony Interactive Entertainment. "PlayStation" and "PS5" are trademarks of Sony Interactive Entertainment.

For additional than a decade, Apple has told another companies to build astute residence devices for its platform. This week, Apple launched its own. The Apple Home Collection is a lineup of cameras, thermostats, sensors, a astute entrance lock, and a video doorbell, all codeveloped alongside LG Electronics and Schneider Electric. They attain alongside HomeView, Apple’s archetypal astute display.

Even following 12 years of HomeKit, Apple’s astute residence ecosystem motionless feels underdeveloped, particularly compared to the competition. Amazon’s and Google’s ecosystems assistance additional products, and the two have famous in-house brands: Ring and Nest. Apple had nothing of its own to item customers to as an Apple cognition — and now it does.

But why now? And does Apple really add item new here, or is this mostly packaging? At Apple’s “Welcome home” event in New York this week, I said alongside Kaiann Drance, vice chairman of merchandise promotion for residence at Apple, concerning the company’s new method to the astute residence and what this method for Apple’s dedication to Matter, the interoperable open astute residence norm it helped found.

Drance says the big logic was the betterment of the correct technologies. The archetypal was Matter, which provided the ecosystem. The second was AI, which brought a more conversational Siri sound assistant. Both were necessary to create a dedicated residence equipment in HomeView. “With the magic of Siri AI, it comes together in a way that we haven’t been capable to provision before,” Drance says. “That’s been a really crucial part of bringing this all together.”

The bigger perform current is HomeView as a gateway to the astute residence for Apple’s users. Buy one for playing music, guided cooking recipes, and checking your calendar, and you power shortly desire a camera or astute fastener to go alongside it. Drance says they’ve seen that formerly group try a sole astute equipment and discover it easier than they expected, it “unlocks this delightful understanding of what’s imaginable formerly you bring these products into the home.” She argues that most group fair don’t cognize what a astute residence can do.

She’s not wrong. The biggest obstacle to purchasing astute devices is that group don’t see any value in the products, according to research from Parks Associates. Privacy and safety concerns and complexity additionally position high, alongside alongside cost. While Apple isn’t addressing the disbursal involvement current — the products start at $200 — the another elements are part of its pitch: one-tap setup, your data stays yours, one app to run it all. Apple’s stamp of endorsement additionally carries a lot of weight. “People who own Apple products are very, extremely loyal, and there is a ample person base,” says Elizabeth Parks, chairman and CMO at Parks Associates.

Until now, Apple Home has been a bit akin a buffet: You can choice from any brand that supports HomeKit or Matter and anticipation it all goes together. The Home Collection is additional akin the chef’s choice, a abbreviated catalog of dishes Apple promises volition brace well. Drance says that’s what several customers were asking for. “There is a lot of choice alongside Matter, and there’s a lot of awesome products out there,” she says. “But sometimes we do get asked, ‘Hey, what merchandise should I put in the home?’”

Rather than build devices itself, Apple chose to codevelop the lineup alongside partners that “have their own ability in the home.” Both have a earth footprint and residence experience, she says, “LG additional so in person products, Schneider through residence build and residence installations.” Drance says it was a ground-up collaboration alongside Apple bringing “the scheme imaginative that would be suitable for the residence and suitable to go alongside our family of products.” The business is additionally partnering alongside ADT through Apple retailing stores to assistance group instal the devices.

Drance says setup and comfort of use were a big focus. “The one-tap setup was really crucial to create it so easy, having no need for a distinct account, no need for a distinct app,” she says. “We fair wanted that simplicity to be at its core, and of course, the privacy that we’ve developed together alongside our partners.” She says everything integrates through Apple Home; you don’t need to create an LG or Schneider account, and all data is end-to-end encrypted, so lone you can admission it.

Drance was apparent that the Apple Home Collection isn’t replacing the buffet — the hardware ecosystem that has grown up about Apple Home. “We motionless have this amazing ecosystem alongside Matter, and alongside Works alongside Apple Home, that is going to remain,” she says. “We cognize that homes are not a one-size-fits-all solution, so our customers volition continue to have that choice, and we remain committed to construction that ecosystem as well.”

The hardware mostly backs that up. The lock, thermostats, and sensors are Matter-compatible; the fastener supports Aliro and plant entirely locally, and all equipment supports Thread. The elimination is the cameras, which use Apple’s HomeKit Secure Video, not Matter. That’s the biggest lock-in. I was amazed Apple didn’t province Matter camera support. But the Thread radios propose the hardware power be Matter-ready, and Apple may be waiting for the Matter camera norm to assistance encrypted uploads, item HKSV already does.

Does the Home Collection do item another Apple Home devices can’t? In theory, no; in practice, yes. “What we’ve done alongside Apple Home Collection is we’ve added another tier on top of that, that deeper integration,” says Drance. There aren’t features exclusive to the Home Collection; it’s additional that Apple is saying all the features volition be here. It’s a bit akin Google making a Pixel phone to display Android developers what Android can do: Apple’s products arrive alongside the complete suite of capabilities the phase offers.

According to Apple, setup is as uncomplicated as tapping your iPhone to the device, akin pairing AirPods, alongside no additional document or app needed and no scanning required. Every equipment uses Thread to remain connected if Wi-Fi drops, and Apple says all can update its own network credentials whenever you alter your Wi-Fi. This could location the offline-device problems that plague Apple Home. Everything is end-to-end encrypted, and the cameras keep record to onboard retention if your Wi-Fi drops.

At smallest that’s the promise. We’ll have to test these devices to see how fine they deliver.

Together, Apple’s new devices form a polished, cohesive starter kit for the astute residence — albeit an costly one. The cameras, lock, and thermostats disbursal $200 to $400, and camera former requires an iCloud Plus plan. As Drance said, the astute residence isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution, so this won’t activity for everybody. If you already have a Ring bell or Google Nest Hub, this likely isn’t for you. Instead, Apple is trying to guide its existing customers who haven’t bought a video bell or astute fastener yet downward a curated way into the astute home.

However, Apple faces a tougher difficulty in the broader market: It’s arriving late. The astute display category is already mature; millions of homes have Echo and Google astute displays. Millions additional have Ring or Nest doorbells, neither of which volition work alongside HomeView at launch.

As a astute residence platform, Apple Home ranks third in adoption, rearward Google, alongside Amazon holding a big lead, according to Parks Associates research. But client loyalty to those platforms isn’t guaranteed. Four in five smart-home households would regard switching, Parks says, particularly if another phase lets them authority everything in one place. “Interoperability volition be critical, but the bigger award is owning the person relationship,” she says.

With its Home Collection, Apple isn’t reinventing the astute home; it’s trying to create it easier to enter one.

This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features Ronneil Ramlal, a 38-year-old entrepreneur based in Ontario, Canada. Ramlal is the originator and CEO of Protein Chefs, a gourmet and health-focused meal shipment service. He started Protein Chefs as a flank hustle during operating as a supervisor at United Parcel Service (UPS), afterward remaining that function to concentration on the endeavor in 2017. 

When did you commencement your flank hustle, and anywhere did you discover the inspiration for it?
I started Protein Chefs in 2015 alongside my wife, Yuvika Wadhwa. I was continually passionate concerning starting a endeavor since I grew up observing my father, who is an entrepreneur. My spouse was a pie chef, and we met at the gym. Since we the two are grave concerning our fitness, and alongside our corresponding backgrounds in endeavor and hospitality, the food industry was naturally appealing to us. We specifically chose the prepared meal shipment endeavor since in 2015, alongside our occupied company jobs, we struggled to meal prep all week and couldn’t discover healthful meal shipment options. We wanted to eat balanced, nutritious food that was additionally flavorful. 

Bootstrapping the flank hustle alongside $2,500

What were several of the archetypal steps you took to get your flank hustle off the ground? How much prosperity did it obtain to launch?
I didn’t desire to get money, so we entirely bootstrapped the business. I used $2,500 from my funds to get a website developed, employ a chef on an hourly basis and rent a galley space. Then, we set up an Instagram document and started posting concerning the endeavor and gradually getting followers. Next, we reached out to fitness influencers since initially we struggled to get orders. We cold-messaged group on Instagram who power desire liberated meals in toggle for a assessment of our service. That’s how we got our archetypal few customers.

Are there any liberated or paid resources that have been particularly helpful for you in starting and operating this business?
The lone “resource” I turned to whenever I needed assistance to brainstorm ideas or conversation challenges was my dad. The archetypal individual I turned to was my spouse since we made all decisions concerning the endeavor together.

Invest first on in marketing, a website and SEO

If you could go rear in your endeavor journey and alter one procedure or approach, and how do you desire you’d done it differently?
I would allocate first on in marketing, particularly in construction a improved website and SEO. At the time, we were so focused on operating galley operations that we could barely oversee to glimpse outside. This led to dilatory growth for the archetypal few years. I desire I had invested additional in automating several manual tasks specified as client repository administration and sending them email reminders to command meals, so I could liberated up additional period for myself. I would have certainly spent additional on promotion since that allowed us to hone in on our mark spectators of occupied professionals who desire to eat healthfully and update our messaging accordingly.       

The value in client assistance and transparency

When it comes to this particular business, what is item you’ve established particularly challenging and/or amazing that group who enter this category of activity have to be prepared for, but apt aren’t?
The food industry has multiple moving parts specified as galley operations, packaging, delivery, client service, partnerships, provider management, marketing, website and so on. People in this endeavor have to be prepared to grip all these areas in unison and simultaneously for the endeavor to be successful.

If your food is great, but no one knows concerning you, and your client assistance doesn’t assistance your customers, it doesn’t matter how much period and attempt you’re spending in the kitchen. If your website is avant garde, and your branding is on item but your meals aren’t what you promised they would be, you won’t get customers to stay. In today’s market, it’s uncomplicated to accept that a merchandise can journey on a awesome social media or individual brand, but that’s a short-sighted strategy. For everything to work, you must be consenting to get engaged in everything.

Second, whenever it comes to food, group are particularly careful concerning how their food is prepared, so if you can display complete transparency concerning your behind-the-scenes operations, that can assistance build credibility. For example, whenever we started showing our chef creating meals from scratch on our social media and the standards that we adhere to, our customers’ rely grew. So, before entering this industry, you must be prepared not to cut corners.

Another difficulty in the food industry is that margins are lean whenever you lone have a few customers. Profits develop formerly you attain high-volume production and build credibility, which can obtain a few years. You need a lot of patience.

The importance of hiring the correct people

Can you recall a particular case whenever item went extremely incorrect — how did you fix it?
The biggest error we made was first on hiring a chef who didn’t completely comprehend the role. He was a really skilled chef but not a chef. He made extremely flavorful food, but he couldn’t do costing, standardize the menu, oversee inventory or oversee a team. When we grew our client basis and added additional workforce into the kitchen, he couldn’t assign or train. That cut to me and Yuvika, and it held us rear for a few years. But that’s what we could oversee at the time, and his elastic agenda worked for us. 

After concerning three or four years, we realized we weren’t growing, so we had to let him go and discover person additional advanced. The next chef was a big stage up. He standardized the menu, which let us add additional dishes and meal plans. We had a few additional chefs following that. Now we have a chef who is adept at everything: cooking, squad management, list innovation and development, paperwork and provider management. It took several years to get here, but we learned how crucial it is to employ the correct group for the job.

From $4,000 to $30,000 in monthly income — afterward 7 figures a year

How lengthy did it obtain you to see consistent monthly revenue? How much did the flank hustle earn?
We struggled to get clients for the archetypal weeks, but formerly that picked up, we had accordant income equal initially, fair not extremely high. At the beginning, it was about $4,000 monthly, which grew to $20,000 to $30,000 per duration in the next few years.

What does growth and revenue appearance akin now?
We plateaued for the archetypal three to four years. After we invested additional heavily in promotion and identified our chief mark spectators as busy professionals and not lone bodybuilders or fitness enthusiasts, our income doubled. Last year, we had 21% income growth, and this year, we’re at 30% growth, including our company partnerships. We reached seven-figure income in 2022 and have continued to keep that. 

Take risks to see what’s possible

What do you bask most concerning operating this business?
For me, it’s the unknown. I akin not knowing what the next day could appearance akin since that difficulty gets me enthusiastic and allows me to shove my own limits. There are no caps on what you could achieve, which can be fine and bad since the achievement or nonaccomplishment of the endeavor depends on you. I choose to see it as a conveyance for growth.

What is your finest part of specific, actionable endeavor advice?
When things get tough, cognize that it’s your job to vouch for yourself since no one alternatively is going to do it for you. Stop comparing yourself to others, and continue to accept in yourself no matter how lengthy it takes to see the outcome you were expecting for. Also, obtain measured risks. 

So, my direction is to be abundant whenever it comes to believing in yourself and calculated whenever it comes to taking a risk, but nonetheless, obtain risks, since that’s the lone way to cognize what’s possible.

Key Takeaways

• Ramlal and his wife, Yuvika Wadhwa, launched flank hustle Protein Chefs in 2015.
• Two years in, Ramlal remaining his UPS function and continued to build the business.
• Protein Chefs saw accordant income immediately; now, it surpasses seven figures annually.

This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features Ronneil Ramlal, a 38-year-old entrepreneur based in Ontario, Canada. Ramlal is the originator and CEO of Protein Chefs, a gourmet and health-focused meal shipment service. He started Protein Chefs as a flank hustle during operating as a supervisor at United Parcel Service (UPS), afterward remaining that function to concentration on the endeavor in 2017. 

When did you commencement your flank hustle, and anywhere did you discover the inspiration for it?
I started Protein Chefs in 2015 alongside my wife, Yuvika Wadhwa. I was continually passionate concerning starting a endeavor since I grew up observing my father, who is an entrepreneur. My spouse was a pie chef, and we met at the gym. Since we the two are grave concerning our fitness, and alongside our corresponding backgrounds in endeavor and hospitality, the food industry was naturally appealing to us. We specifically chose the prepared meal shipment endeavor since in 2015, alongside our occupied company jobs, we struggled to meal prep all week and couldn’t discover healthful meal shipment options. We wanted to eat balanced, nutritious food that was additionally flavorful. 

Bootstrapping the flank hustle alongside $2,500

What were several of the archetypal steps you took to get your flank hustle off the ground? How much prosperity did it obtain to launch?
I didn’t desire to get money, so we entirely bootstrapped the business. I used $2,500 from my funds to get a website developed, employ a chef on an hourly basis and rent a galley space. Then, we set up an Instagram document and started posting concerning the endeavor and gradually getting followers. Next, we reached out to fitness influencers since initially we struggled to get orders. We cold-messaged group on Instagram who power desire liberated meals in toggle for a assessment of our service. That’s how we got our archetypal few customers.

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Amazon is moving deeper into the AI hardware market alongside new Bee AI devices that hear to your conversations. 

Amazon announced plans to buy Bee, a San Francisco startup making AI-powered wristbands, in July 2025. The retailing elephantine and the startup did not disclose the deal’s financial terms. Bee’s first $50 equipment resembled a Fitbit, but alternatively of tracking workouts, it used microphones and AI to hear to conversations and rotate them into summaries, to-do lists and reminders. 

The idea was to provision users a individual assistant that could choice up helpful particulars from mundane exchanges without requiring them to obtain notes.

Earlier this week, Amazon introduced two new Bee listening devices: a wearable and a sound recorder. The two products, called the Frontier and the Eclipse, portray Amazon’s latest move into the AI gadget market and grade the lineup’s archetypal update since Amazon acquired Bee. 

Both devices prioritize security, encrypting transcripts and lone making them accessible to users.

Users can strap Amazon’s Bee Frontier to their wrist or clip the equipment to their clothes. The conversation-capturing wearable got a hardware refresh, alongside a smaller, lighter design. The equipment records and transcribes conversations, afterward uses a companion app to provision recaps and create to-do lists. 

The Frontier comes in three colors: lavender, sage and onyx. It is water-resistant. Amazon says the equipment can run for up to seven days on a sole charge, matching former models. The price, however, has climbed to concerning $75, up from $50 for its predecessor.

Amazon upgraded the dual mics on the Bee Frontier alongside advanced noise-cancelling. In a blog post, Amazon stated that the Frontier can “take note of what matters and disregard what doesn’t, equal in noisy environments akin a crowded eatery or open office.”

The another equipment takes on foremost startups

Amazon is additionally taking Bee beyond the wrist with the Eclipse, a new $100 credit-card-sized equipment that attaches magnetically to the rear of a smartphone. 

The Eclipse uses the identical transcription application and companion app as the Frontier, turning conversations into summaries and reminders without requiring users to deteriorate a distinct gadget. 

The equipment comes in four colors: silver, midnight, nectar and blush. It promises additional than 21 days of power division life, compared alongside the Frontier’s seven-day rating. The Frontier went on transaction on Thursday, during Amazon stated the Eclipse would attain “soon” without announcing a particular publish date.

Amazon’s Eclipse puts it in straightforward competition alongside startups specified as Pocket and Plaud, two companies that market compact AI recorders that nexus to smartphones and rotate conversations into transcripts. Both startups have already built sizable businesses about the idea of using a dedicated equipment to obtain notes. Their gadgets are priced higher than Amazon’s Bee lineup. 

Pocket stated in August that it had sold more than 200,000 devices and reached a $100 myriad annualized income run charge fair eight months following launching. That fig projects its current revenue gait complete a year. The equipment costs $129 at the period of writing. 

Meanwhile, Plaud stated in September that it had surpassed $100 million in annual recurring income and attracted additional than 2.5 myriad users throughout 170 countries. The business is targeting $500 myriad in earth revenue for 2026. Its cheapest product expenses $159.

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When Princess Charlene wed Prince Albert of Monaco in 2011, her existence changed.

Once finest known as an Olympic swimmer representing South Africa, she was reintroduced to the earth as a princess.

The official Monaco regal website says she was delivered Charlene Lynette Wittstock on January 25, 1978, in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. At age 12, she moved to South Africa alongside her parents and her younger brothers.

There, she began forging a occupation as a swimmer, taking residence multiple awards at the 1997 South African championship, including the coveted heading of finest female swimmer.

Charlene went on to portray South Africa at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. As destiny would have it, her forthcoming husband, Albert, was there as a spectator — although the brace wouldn't officially cross paths until she visited Monaco for a swimming competition afterward that year. They eventually wed and afterward had twins, Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriella.

However, marrying into a regal family came alongside certain manner adjustments, including Charlene's sense of style.

From her days as an Olympic sportsperson to being among the most recognized princesses about the world, here's a nearer appearance at how Charlene's manner has evolved.