ArtCraft founder Brandon Thomas says the team does not use REA or other reverse-engineering tools, but instead develops open-source alternatives based on public documentation and software behavior.
Open-source AI penetration-testing tool ARTEX After it was alleged to have been used to attack South Korean financial institutions, the author announced that it would become closed-source and cease updates. The original GitHub repository has been taken down, but the publicly released source code has already been backed up.
ArtCraft founder Brandon Thomas used Claude Opus 5.5 to open-source 7 Adobe alternative applications covering image, video, layout, and PDF processing, but most features remain immature.
Roman Storm said that the U.S. Treasury acknowledged in a document that mixer rules could have a chilling effect on legitimate activities, but the DOJ continues to pursue a conviction in his case.
The Pi development team Earendil released Pi 1.0, along with the experimental Pi Durable framework for long-running Agent. The framework supports task-state persistence, fault recovery, and multi-client collaboration.
BlockBeats reports that the open-source Computer Use tool Cua adds an optional Cua Driver extension to Perception recognize text, controls, and positions from screenshots when webpage structure and the accessibility tree fail.
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