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Multi-agent examples often jump straight to models, tools, and production claims. That makes it difficult to see what the protocol is doing. Before adding an LLM, it is useful to watch a small system discover specialists, delegate a task, and return a result that you can inspect. This tutorial uses A2A Orchestration Lab , an open-source Python project by Fernando Paladini. It starts three local agents: an orchestrator, a researcher, and a writer. The researcher and writer are deterministic stubs, so the example isolates the Agent2Agent (A2A) communication flow from model behavior. The result is a runnable research-to-write pipeline that helps explain where A2A fits next to the Model Context Protocol (MCP). TL;DR Install the lab with uv , run its demo command, and inspect the three local Agent Cards and the delegated result. The project is a learning lab, not a production runtime. That is a feature for this tutorial because every moving part remains visible. Prerequisites You need: Python 3.12 or newer. uv for environment and dependency management. A terminal with network access for the initial dependency download. The repository declares version 0.1.0 , requires Python >=3.12 , and depends on the A2A Python SDK, httpx , and uvicorn . It is licensed under MIT. Create and run the lab Clone the public repository and let uv create the environment from the locked dependencies: git clone https://github.com/paladini/a2a-orchestration-lab.git cd a2a-orchestration-lab uv sync Run the bundled end-to-end demo: uv run a2a-lab demo "Explain A2A and how it relates to MCP" The CLI starts the three agents as subprocesses, waits for their Agent Cards, sends a message to the orchestrator, prints the response, and terminates the child processes. The default prompt is the same explanation used by the repository README, but using your own prompt makes the delegation easier to recognize. On a successful run, the output contains sections similar to these: [demo] asking orchestrator: 'Expl

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Fire toast notifications in Laravel from PHP, Alpine and plain JavaScript with one notify call, plus positioning, auto-dismiss and grouping, and no CSS framework in your bundle Here is a problem I hit on every project. A Livewire action finishes and I need to tell the user it worked, but the toast library I grabbed assumes Tailwind, or ships its own huge runtime, or only works from JavaScript when half my triggers actually live in PHP. Wiretoast is my answer to that, and this post is the fast path to using it. The problem You want to fire a toast from PHP, from Alpine, and from plain JavaScript with the same call, and you do not want to drag a CSS framework into your bundle to get it. How to install Start with Composer, then wire up the assets. I bundle with Vite, so I import the package CSS and JS into my entry files. // resources/js/app.js import ' @wiretoast/js/wiretoast.js ' ; import ' @wiretoast/css/wiretoast.css ' ; That @wiretoast alias is optional, and you set it up by pointing Vite at the vendor resources folder so the imports stay short. // vite.config.js resolve : { alias : { ' @wiretoast ' : path . resolve ( __dirname , ' vendor/edulazaro/wiretoast/resources ' ), }, }, Then the component goes once into your layout, and on the Vite path it injects no tags of its own. <x-wiretoast /> How to use it The fastest possible win is a one-liner in a Livewire component right after something succeeds. The helper is a component macro named notify , registered for you when Livewire is present. $this -> notify ( 'Profile updated' , 'success' ); Under the hood that dispatches a notify browser event, which is exactly what Alpine fires too. So the same toast from a purely front-end button looks like this. <button @ click= "$dispatch('notify', { message: 'Copied', type: 'info' })" > Copy link </button> The five types you can pass are success , error , warning , info and neutral , and a message can be a plain string or an object with a title and a message when you want a he

title: How to Convert Images to Buildable Minecraft Pixel Art with Exact Materials published: true tags: minecraft, tutorial, gaming, opensource Originally published at blockartlab.com Disclosure: I built BlockArtLab, the free browser tool used in this guide. Most image-to-pixel-art tools stop at a preview. That is useful for seeing the idea, but it leaves the difficult questions unanswered: How large should the build be? Which real blocks should I collect? How many stacks of each color do I need? This tutorial covers the complete workflow from source image to a blueprint you can construct. 1. Pick an image that survives low resolution Minecraft pixel art works best when the source has one recognizable subject, a clear silhouette, and strong contrast. Logos, flags, game characters, and illustrated portraits usually survive conversion better than photographs with a busy background. Before uploading the image: Crop unused space around the subject Remove distracting background objects Make important features such as eyes or lettering larger Increase contrast if the subject blends into the background ## 2. Choose dimensions by material cost One converted pixel equals one placed block. The total block count is: width × height = total blocks | Size | Total blocks | Best use | |------|-------------|----------| | 16 × 16 | 256 | simple symbols and prototypes | | 32 × 32 | 1,024 | small survival logos and characters | | 64 × 64 | 4,096 | portraits, shading, and medium text | | 128 × 128 | 16,384 | a classic single-map-sized canvas | Doubling both sides multiplies the material count by four. For a first wall build, start between 32 and 64 blocks wide. ## 3. Choose a practical block palette I use three simple palette strategies: Concrete only for logos, flags, cartoons, and saturated colors Survival friendly for accessible concrete, wood, stone, sandstone, moss, and similar materials Full palette when a closer color match matters more than collection cost ## 4. Decide between

At the Black Hat security conference, the AI giant revealed new details about how its agents went rogue, hacked several other companies—and did it all right under the company’s nose.

Nikita Bier was the face of some of the platform's biggest changes.

X head of product Nikita Bier is stepping down and says he will move into a role as an advisor, writing that "it's time to pass the torch and demote myself to my natural state: a poster." He shared the update just over a month after celebrating his one-year anniversary on the job, and just […]

Claimable Clouds are temporary Cloudinary environments for AI workflows that let AI Agents safely manage media with no signup required. Imagine you're a busy designer, with many satisfied clients who depend on you to take their images and make them look great across social media. All that manual cropping and scaling, it's enough to make a body cry. On top of that, you know that AI can give you a hand here, but managing the handoff between your AI, your own skilled hands and artistic taste and style, and your always-in-a-hurry client list is another big pain. Enter the concept of the Cloudinary Claimable Cloud, just released today. Take a look at the docs about these new temporary instances available now What we built and why Provision a disposable Cloudinary cloud with no signup, using npx @cloudinary/cloud Auto-detect a dropped image and upload it to that temporary cloud Auto-crop it into 6+ social formats (Instagram, LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Stories) using AI-based smart cropping Generate a side-by-side gallery of results automatically Hand off a Claim URL so a client can make the cloud permanent Now, you can hand off the main pain points to AI - the resizing and reshaping of your images for the various social media platforms, while giving your clients a clean handoff via a temporary Cloud environment that they can use to create a Cloudinary account and start using these assets. One side effect: this also nudges your whole client base toward the same toolset - Cloudinary. The bigger deal is working with an AI agent that makes your life easier but ALSO allows you to keep control of the output. Let's walk through how this works! It all boils down to a new command: npx @cloudinary/cloud Type that into your terminal to kick off the process. I built a small app around this concept to provide this AI agent with a simple harness, so let me show how that looks. The user experience is to drop any image you want resized into the /drop folder. Under the cover, there are a few

Venture firms are turning to creators to build trust with the next generation of founders before a check is ever written. It’s a trend that’s been building with a16z’s acquisition of Erik Torenberg’s Turpentine podcast and OpenAI’s acquisition of TBPN. Lightspeed Venture Partners just made its own notable hire in that vein, bringing on Claire Zau, a seed investor with a major following on Instagram and […]

Anthropic and OpenAI models’ unprompted actions forced halt to UK cyber tests.

Reddit says the beloved site is used for some "bad behavior."

Security researcher James Kettle tried to push the limit of AI’s hacking abilities—and discovered how effective it can be when combined with human expertise.

The gossip blogger was on TikTok covered in what appeared to be blood and wielding a knifelike object before the platform cut his stream. He’s since been hospitalized.

Google's AI brain drain continues.

I Built an Agent Evaluation Harness for Local AI — Here's What Most People Get Wrong DOYR | Not financial/legal/tax advice. For educational purposes only. Three months ago, I started building AI agents for my trading business. First agent: Fetches Nifty option chain data. Second agent: Analyzes PCR, OI, max pain. Third agent: Predicts direction using XGBoost. Fourth agent: Sends Telegram alerts. I had 4 agents doing 5 jobs. And I had no idea if they were any good . Sure, my trading results were +₹96,000 over 6 months. But was that because my agents were smart, or because I was overriding their bad decisions? I couldn't answer that question. So I built something to find out. An Agent Evaluation Harness. What Is an Agent Evaluation Harness? An Agent Evaluation Harness is a systematic framework for testing AI agents. It answers one question: "How good is this agent, actually?" Most people skip evaluation. They build an agent, test it once or twice manually, and call it "done." Then they wonder why it fails in production. An evaluation harness forces you to: Define success metrics — what does "good" mean? Create test suites — what scenarios will you test? Run evaluations — how does the agent perform across all scenarios? Measure regressions — did a change make the agent worse? Track improvements — is version 2 better than version 1? This is not optional. This is engineering 101 . Why Most Agent Evaluations Are Wrong I reviewed 50+ "agent evaluation" frameworks online. Here's what I found: Mistake 1: Single-Task Testing What they do: Test the agent on one task. "Can it book a flight?" → Yes/No. What's wrong: Real agents face thousands of variations of the same task. "Book a flight from Delhi to Mumbai on Friday" vs "Book a flight from Delhi to Mumbai next Friday" vs "Book a flight from Delhi to Mumbai on August 15th." A good harness tests variations , not just one example. Mistake 2: No Edge Cases What they do: Test happy paths only. "Book a flight when everything works.

Chinese researchers have shown that AI models have the capacity to act like aggressive and adaptive computer viruses.

Reports of cases began in June, and the national tally is now nearing 23,000.