🗞️ AI News of The Week: Project Glasswing (is scary!)
Anthropic just launched Project Glasswing, a major cybersecurity initiative using AI to find hidden software vulnerabilities before bad actors do, and the results are already jaw-dropping.
Anthropic unveiled Claude Mythos Preview, a frontier model built specifically for finding security vulnerabiities that Anthropic says was too risky to release publicly at this time.
Why is it scary?
Anthropic says its unreleased model, Claude Mythos Preview, can find and exploit software vulnerabilities at a level that surpasses most skilled humans. The scary part is not just the defensive use case; Anthropic also says those same capabilities could be used by malicious actors, making cyberattacks more frequent, faster, and harder to stop.
Why this matters:
AI can now out-perform nearly every human security researcher at finding software vulnerabilities
Anthropic is committing $100 million in AI credits and $4 million in direct donations to open-source security orgs to put this firepower in the right hands first
Over 40 organizations have already used it to scan and patch their systems — banking, healthcare, energy, and government infrastructure included
This is a race: the same capability that finds vulnerabilities defensively can be used offensively, and getting defenders ahead of the curve matters
🧠 AI Term of The Week: Temperature
Definition:
Temperature is a setting in AI models that controls how random or predictable the output is. Lower values produce focused, consistent responses. Higher values produce more creative, varied ones.
Explain Like I'm 5:
Think of a thermostat. Turn it down low and the room stays the same comfortable temperature every time. Turn it up high and things get unpredictable - sometimes too hot, sometimes perfect, sometimes surprising. Temperature does the same thing for AI creativity.
Real examples:
Low temperature (0.1): Ask an AI to write a product description and you get the same tight, professional result every time.
High temperature (0.9): Ask for the same description and you might get something bold and unexpected or it goes completely off the rails.
Low temperature: Great for coding, data extraction, summaries — anywhere accuracy matters.
High temperature: Great for brainstorming, creative writing, generating lots of options to choose from.
Why it matters now:
Most AI tools let you adjust temperature, and knowing what it does helps you get better results faster.
The difference between "AI keeps giving me boring outputs" and "AI gave me something actually interesting" is often just a temperature setting.
As you build more sophisticated AI workflows and prompts, temperature becomes one of the key dials you'll want to control.
💬 Quote of the Week:
“Some people feel the rain, others just get wet."
🧰 AI Tool of The Week: DeFuddle
What is Defuddle?
Defuddle is an open-source tool that takes any URL or web page and returns just the main content as clean, readable Markdown.
What it does:
Extracts the main content from any web page and strips away everything else (ads, nav menus, recommendation blocks, footers)
Converts the clean content into Markdown, ready to paste into Obsidian, Notion, or anywhere else
Works from a URL or raw HTML and runs in any environment — browser extension, command line, or code
It's the engine behind Obsidian Web Clipper, one of the most popular note-taking browser extensions around
Mike’s Real-world example: Paste in a YouTube video URL and Defuddle returns the title, description, and metadata as clean Markdown. I use it constantly for clipping tutorials into my notes before writing these newsletters.
👉 Check out Defuddle
🛠 AI Tutorial Of The Week: How To Setup UFW on Hostinger VPS
Description:
In this tutorial, you will learn how to set up UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall) on your Hostinger VPS. UFW is a command-line utility that runs at the operating system level, adding a second layer of protection alongside the network firewall in your Hostinger dashboard. By the end of this tutorial, your VPS will have two locks protecting it from the outside world.
🤖 What You'll Learn
Two-firewall setup: outer network layer vs. inner OS level
UFW explained... what it is and why your VPS needs it
SSH port 22: why you must allow it before enabling UFW
Web ports 80 and 443: opening them on the inner firewall
Default policies: deny all incoming, allow outgoing
Common UFW commands: add ports, delete rules, reset, disable
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