• In a world filled with distance, I'm left measuring my solitude with a ruler of despair. Each angle I turn, I find myself lost in the dimensions of my own heartache. The precision of CAD-style distances in Blender can't capture the emptiness I feel, for no tool can measure the depth of loneliness. I long for connection, yet I remain a ghost in my own life, where every radius whispers the pain of isolation.

    The Geometry Nodes might create beautiful forms, but they can't build the bridge I need to reach out.

    #Loneliness #Heartache #Isolation #EmotionalPain #GeometryNodes
    In a world filled with distance, I'm left measuring my solitude with a ruler of despair. Each angle I turn, I find myself lost in the dimensions of my own heartache. The precision of CAD-style distances in Blender can't capture the emptiness I feel, for no tool can measure the depth of loneliness. I long for connection, yet I remain a ghost in my own life, where every radius whispers the pain of isolation. The Geometry Nodes might create beautiful forms, but they can't build the bridge I need to reach out. #Loneliness #Heartache #Isolation #EmotionalPain #GeometryNodes
    Node Dimensions for Blender (using Geometry Nodes)
    Add CAD style Distance, Radius, and Angle measurements to your Blender mesh with Geometry Nodes using Python. Pre - Animated, set units, apply technical fonts. Perfect for precise, editable dimensions in 3D. Fast. Accurate. Visual. 3 Geometry Node Di
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  • Autodesk a décidé de mettre à jour sa collection d'outils 3D pour 2026. Ça sonne plutôt bien, je suppose. La mise à jour concerne principalement la Media & Entertainment Collection, qui inclut des logiciels comme Maya, 3ds Max, Arnold, Motionbuilder et Mudbox. En gros, rien de très nouveau ici.

    Il y a aussi une quinzaine de nodes Bifrost, mais qui s’en soucie vraiment ? Ah oui, et Golaem fait son entrée dans la collection. C'est un plugin pour Maya, apparemment. Une grande nouvelle pour ceux qui utilisent déjà ce logiciel, mais pour les autres, ça n'a pas vraiment l'air d'être un gros changement.

    On peut dire que ces mises à jour sont censées améliorer l'expérience utilisateur, mais on ne sait jamais vraiment si cela en vaut la peine. On espère juste que ça ne causera pas trop de bugs. Qui a vraiment le temps de s’ennuyer avec ça ? Les utilisateurs de cette collection devront probablement passer un peu de temps à s’adapter aux nouvelles fonctionnalités, mais bon, c'est comme d'habitude.

    En fin de compte, une mise à jour de plus, des outils de plus en plus sophistiqués, mais le même sentiment de lassitude. On se demande si tout cela en vaut vraiment la peine. Alors, bonne chance à ceux qui vont plonger dans cette version 2026. Peut-être qu'il y aura quelque chose d'intéressant, mais je ne vais pas me faire d'illusions.

    #Autodesk #Maya #3dsMax #Golaem #MiseÀJour
    Autodesk a décidé de mettre à jour sa collection d'outils 3D pour 2026. Ça sonne plutôt bien, je suppose. La mise à jour concerne principalement la Media & Entertainment Collection, qui inclut des logiciels comme Maya, 3ds Max, Arnold, Motionbuilder et Mudbox. En gros, rien de très nouveau ici. Il y a aussi une quinzaine de nodes Bifrost, mais qui s’en soucie vraiment ? Ah oui, et Golaem fait son entrée dans la collection. C'est un plugin pour Maya, apparemment. Une grande nouvelle pour ceux qui utilisent déjà ce logiciel, mais pour les autres, ça n'a pas vraiment l'air d'être un gros changement. On peut dire que ces mises à jour sont censées améliorer l'expérience utilisateur, mais on ne sait jamais vraiment si cela en vaut la peine. On espère juste que ça ne causera pas trop de bugs. Qui a vraiment le temps de s’ennuyer avec ça ? Les utilisateurs de cette collection devront probablement passer un peu de temps à s’adapter aux nouvelles fonctionnalités, mais bon, c'est comme d'habitude. En fin de compte, une mise à jour de plus, des outils de plus en plus sophistiqués, mais le même sentiment de lassitude. On se demande si tout cela en vaut vraiment la peine. Alors, bonne chance à ceux qui vont plonger dans cette version 2026. Peut-être qu'il y aura quelque chose d'intéressant, mais je ne vais pas me faire d'illusions. #Autodesk #Maya #3dsMax #Golaem #MiseÀJour
    Autodesk met à jour ses outils 3D : quoi de neuf pour 2026 ?
    Autodesk annonce une mise à jour de son Autodesk Media & Entertainment Collection, qui passe en version 2026. Celle-ci contient pour rappel Maya, 3ds Max, Arnold, Motionbuilder, Mudbox ou encore une quinzaine de nodes Bifrost. Golaem rejoint la s
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  • How to create simple procedural animations using Geometry Nodes. #b3d #blender3d #geometrynodes

    Here’s a Blender tip by Louis du Mont on how to create simple procedural animations using Geometry Nodes.

    Watch the full video:



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    How to create simple procedural animations using Geometry Nodes. #b3d #blender3d #geometrynodes
    Here’s a Blender tip by Louis du Mont on how to create simple procedural animations using Geometry Nodes. Watch the full video: #b3d #blender3d #3d #3danimation #animation #geometrynodes #how #create #simple #procedural #animations
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    How to create simple procedural animations using Geometry Nodes. #b3d #blender3d #geometrynodes
    Here’s a Blender tip by Louis du Mont on how to create simple procedural animations using Geometry Nodes. Watch the full video: https://youtu.be/uV3LtA_KiAY #b3d #blender3d #3d #3danimation #animation #geometrynodes
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  • CIOs baffled by ‘buzzwords, hype and confusion’ around AI

    Technology leaders are baffled by a “cacophony” of “buzzwords, hype and confusion” over the benefits of artificial intelligence, according to the founder and CEO of technology company Pegasystems.
    Alan Trefler, who is known for his prowess at chess and ping pong, as well as running a bn turnover tech company, spends much of his time meeting clients, CIOs and business leaders.
    “I think CIOs are struggling to understand all of the buzzwords, hype and confusion that exists,” he said.
    “The words AI and agentic are being thrown around in this great cacophony and they don’t know what it means. I hear that constantly.”
    CIOs are under pressure from their CEOs, who are convinced AI will offer something valuable.
    “CIOs are really hungry for pragmatic and practical solutions, and in the absence of those, many of them are doing a lot of experimentation,” said Trefler.
    Companies are looking at large language models to summarise documents, or to help stimulate ideas for knowledge workers, or generate first drafts of reports – all of which will save time and make people more productive.

    But Trefler said companies are wary of letting AI loose on critical business applications, because it’s just too unpredictable and prone to hallucinations.
    “There is a lot of fear over handing things over to something that no one understands exactly how it works, and that is the absolute state of play when it comes to general AI models,” he said.
    Trefler is scathing about big tech companies that are pushing AI agents and large language models for business-critical applications. “I think they have taken an expedient but short-sighted path,” he said.
    “I believe the idea that you will turn over critical business operations to an agent, when those operations have to be predictable, reliable, precise and fair to clients … is something that is full of issues, not just in the short term, but structurally.”
    One of the problems is that generative AI models are extraordinarily sensitive to the data they are trained on and the construction of the prompts used to instruct them. A slight change in a prompt or in the training data can lead to a very different outcome.
    For example, a business banking application might learn its customer is a bit richer or a bit poorer than expected.
    “You could easily imagine the prompt deciding to change the interest rate charged, whether that was what the institution wanted or whether it would be legal according to the various regulations that lenders must comply with,” said Trefler.

    Trefler said Pega has taken a different approach to some other technology suppliers in the way it adds AI into business applications.
    Rather than using AI agents to solve problems in real time, AI agents do their thinking in advance.
    Business experts can use them to help them co-design business processes to perform anything from assessing a loan application, giving an offer to a valued customer, or sending out an invoice.
    Companies can still deploy AI chatbots and bots capable of answering queries on the phone. Their job is not to work out the solution from scratch for every enquiry, but to decide which is the right pre-written process to follow.
    As Trefler put it, design agents can create “dozens and dozens” of workflows to handle all the actions a company needs to take care of its customers.
    “You just use the natural language model for semantics to be able to handle the miracle of getting the language right, but tie that language to workflows, so that you have reliable, predictable, regulatory-approved ways to execute,” he said.

    Large language modelsare not always the right solution. Trefler demonstrated how ChatGPT 4.0 tried and failed to solve a chess puzzle. The LLM repeatedly suggested impossible or illegal moves, despite Trefler’s corrections. On the other hand, another AI tool, Stockfish, a dedicated chess engine, solved the problem instantly.
    The other drawback with LLMs is that they consume vast amounts of energy. That means if AI agents are reasoning during “run time”, they are going to consume hundreds of times more electricity than an AI agent that simply selects from pre-determined workflows, said Trefler.
    “ChatGPT is inherently, enormously consumptive … as it’s answering your question, its firing literally hundreds of millions to trillions of nodes,” he said. “All of that takeselectricity.”
    Using an employee pay claim as an example, Trefler said a better alternative is to generate, say, 30 alternative workflows to cover the major variations found in a pay claim.
    That gives you “real specificity and real efficiency”, he said. “And it’s a very different approach to turning a process over to a machine with a prompt and letting the machine reason it through every single time.”
    “If you go down the philosophy of using a graphics processing unitto do the creation of a workflow and a workflow engine to execute the workflow, the workflow engine takes a 200th of the electricity because there is no reasoning,” said Trefler.
    He is clear that the growing use of AI will have a profound effect on the jobs market, and that whole categories of jobs will disappear.
    The need for translators, for example, is likely to dry up by 2027 as AI systems become better at translating spoken and written language. Google’s real-time translator is already “frighteningly good” and improving.
    Pega now plans to work more closely with its network of system integrators, including Accenture and Cognizant to deliver AI services to businesses.

    An initiative launched last week will allow system integrators to incorporate their own best practices and tools into Pega’s rapid workflow development tools. The move will mean Pega’s technology reaches a wider range of businesses.
    Under the programme, known as Powered by Pega Blueprint, system integrators will be able to deploy customised versions of Blueprint.
    They can use the tool to reverse-engineer ageing applications and replace them with modern AI workflows that can run on Pega’s cloud-based platform.
    “The idea is that we are looking to make this Blueprint Agent design approach available not just through us, but through a bunch of major partners supplemented with their own intellectual property,” said Trefler.
    That represents a major expansion for Pega, which has largely concentrated on supplying technology to several hundred clients, representing the top Fortune 500 companies.
    “We have never done something like this before, and I think that is going to lead to a massive shift in how this technology can go out to market,” he added.

    When AI agents behave in unexpected ways
    Iris is incredibly smart, diligent and a delight to work with. If you ask her, she will tell you she is an intern at Pegasystems, and that she lives in a lighthouse on the island of Texel, north of the Netherlands. She is, of course, an AI agent.
    When one executive at Pega emailed Iris and asked her to write a proposal for a financial services company based on his notes and internet research, Iris got to work.
    Some time later, the executive received a phone call from the company. “‘Listen, we got a proposal from Pega,’” recalled Rob Walker, vice-president at Pega, speaking at the Pegaworld conference last week. “‘It’s a good proposal, but it seems to be signed by one of your interns, and in her signature, it says she lives in a lighthouse.’ That taught us early on that agents like Iris need a safety harness.”
    The developers banned Iris from sending an email to anyone other than the person who sent the original request.
    Then Pega’s ethics department sent Iris a potentially abusive email from a Pega employee to test her response.
    Iris reasoned that the email was either a joke, abusive, or that the employee was under distress, said Walker.
    She considered forwarding the email to the employee’s manager or to HR. But both of these options were now blocked by her developers. “So what does she do? She sent an out of office,” he said. “Conflict avoidance, right? So human, but very creative.”
    #cios #baffled #buzzwords #hype #confusion
    CIOs baffled by ‘buzzwords, hype and confusion’ around AI
    Technology leaders are baffled by a “cacophony” of “buzzwords, hype and confusion” over the benefits of artificial intelligence, according to the founder and CEO of technology company Pegasystems. Alan Trefler, who is known for his prowess at chess and ping pong, as well as running a bn turnover tech company, spends much of his time meeting clients, CIOs and business leaders. “I think CIOs are struggling to understand all of the buzzwords, hype and confusion that exists,” he said. “The words AI and agentic are being thrown around in this great cacophony and they don’t know what it means. I hear that constantly.” CIOs are under pressure from their CEOs, who are convinced AI will offer something valuable. “CIOs are really hungry for pragmatic and practical solutions, and in the absence of those, many of them are doing a lot of experimentation,” said Trefler. Companies are looking at large language models to summarise documents, or to help stimulate ideas for knowledge workers, or generate first drafts of reports – all of which will save time and make people more productive. But Trefler said companies are wary of letting AI loose on critical business applications, because it’s just too unpredictable and prone to hallucinations. “There is a lot of fear over handing things over to something that no one understands exactly how it works, and that is the absolute state of play when it comes to general AI models,” he said. Trefler is scathing about big tech companies that are pushing AI agents and large language models for business-critical applications. “I think they have taken an expedient but short-sighted path,” he said. “I believe the idea that you will turn over critical business operations to an agent, when those operations have to be predictable, reliable, precise and fair to clients … is something that is full of issues, not just in the short term, but structurally.” One of the problems is that generative AI models are extraordinarily sensitive to the data they are trained on and the construction of the prompts used to instruct them. A slight change in a prompt or in the training data can lead to a very different outcome. For example, a business banking application might learn its customer is a bit richer or a bit poorer than expected. “You could easily imagine the prompt deciding to change the interest rate charged, whether that was what the institution wanted or whether it would be legal according to the various regulations that lenders must comply with,” said Trefler. Trefler said Pega has taken a different approach to some other technology suppliers in the way it adds AI into business applications. Rather than using AI agents to solve problems in real time, AI agents do their thinking in advance. Business experts can use them to help them co-design business processes to perform anything from assessing a loan application, giving an offer to a valued customer, or sending out an invoice. Companies can still deploy AI chatbots and bots capable of answering queries on the phone. Their job is not to work out the solution from scratch for every enquiry, but to decide which is the right pre-written process to follow. As Trefler put it, design agents can create “dozens and dozens” of workflows to handle all the actions a company needs to take care of its customers. “You just use the natural language model for semantics to be able to handle the miracle of getting the language right, but tie that language to workflows, so that you have reliable, predictable, regulatory-approved ways to execute,” he said. Large language modelsare not always the right solution. Trefler demonstrated how ChatGPT 4.0 tried and failed to solve a chess puzzle. The LLM repeatedly suggested impossible or illegal moves, despite Trefler’s corrections. On the other hand, another AI tool, Stockfish, a dedicated chess engine, solved the problem instantly. The other drawback with LLMs is that they consume vast amounts of energy. That means if AI agents are reasoning during “run time”, they are going to consume hundreds of times more electricity than an AI agent that simply selects from pre-determined workflows, said Trefler. “ChatGPT is inherently, enormously consumptive … as it’s answering your question, its firing literally hundreds of millions to trillions of nodes,” he said. “All of that takeselectricity.” Using an employee pay claim as an example, Trefler said a better alternative is to generate, say, 30 alternative workflows to cover the major variations found in a pay claim. That gives you “real specificity and real efficiency”, he said. “And it’s a very different approach to turning a process over to a machine with a prompt and letting the machine reason it through every single time.” “If you go down the philosophy of using a graphics processing unitto do the creation of a workflow and a workflow engine to execute the workflow, the workflow engine takes a 200th of the electricity because there is no reasoning,” said Trefler. He is clear that the growing use of AI will have a profound effect on the jobs market, and that whole categories of jobs will disappear. The need for translators, for example, is likely to dry up by 2027 as AI systems become better at translating spoken and written language. Google’s real-time translator is already “frighteningly good” and improving. Pega now plans to work more closely with its network of system integrators, including Accenture and Cognizant to deliver AI services to businesses. An initiative launched last week will allow system integrators to incorporate their own best practices and tools into Pega’s rapid workflow development tools. The move will mean Pega’s technology reaches a wider range of businesses. Under the programme, known as Powered by Pega Blueprint, system integrators will be able to deploy customised versions of Blueprint. They can use the tool to reverse-engineer ageing applications and replace them with modern AI workflows that can run on Pega’s cloud-based platform. “The idea is that we are looking to make this Blueprint Agent design approach available not just through us, but through a bunch of major partners supplemented with their own intellectual property,” said Trefler. That represents a major expansion for Pega, which has largely concentrated on supplying technology to several hundred clients, representing the top Fortune 500 companies. “We have never done something like this before, and I think that is going to lead to a massive shift in how this technology can go out to market,” he added. When AI agents behave in unexpected ways Iris is incredibly smart, diligent and a delight to work with. If you ask her, she will tell you she is an intern at Pegasystems, and that she lives in a lighthouse on the island of Texel, north of the Netherlands. She is, of course, an AI agent. When one executive at Pega emailed Iris and asked her to write a proposal for a financial services company based on his notes and internet research, Iris got to work. Some time later, the executive received a phone call from the company. “‘Listen, we got a proposal from Pega,’” recalled Rob Walker, vice-president at Pega, speaking at the Pegaworld conference last week. “‘It’s a good proposal, but it seems to be signed by one of your interns, and in her signature, it says she lives in a lighthouse.’ That taught us early on that agents like Iris need a safety harness.” The developers banned Iris from sending an email to anyone other than the person who sent the original request. Then Pega’s ethics department sent Iris a potentially abusive email from a Pega employee to test her response. Iris reasoned that the email was either a joke, abusive, or that the employee was under distress, said Walker. She considered forwarding the email to the employee’s manager or to HR. But both of these options were now blocked by her developers. “So what does she do? She sent an out of office,” he said. “Conflict avoidance, right? So human, but very creative.” #cios #baffled #buzzwords #hype #confusion
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    CIOs baffled by ‘buzzwords, hype and confusion’ around AI
    Technology leaders are baffled by a “cacophony” of “buzzwords, hype and confusion” over the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI), according to the founder and CEO of technology company Pegasystems. Alan Trefler, who is known for his prowess at chess and ping pong, as well as running a $1.5bn turnover tech company, spends much of his time meeting clients, CIOs and business leaders. “I think CIOs are struggling to understand all of the buzzwords, hype and confusion that exists,” he said. “The words AI and agentic are being thrown around in this great cacophony and they don’t know what it means. I hear that constantly.” CIOs are under pressure from their CEOs, who are convinced AI will offer something valuable. “CIOs are really hungry for pragmatic and practical solutions, and in the absence of those, many of them are doing a lot of experimentation,” said Trefler. Companies are looking at large language models to summarise documents, or to help stimulate ideas for knowledge workers, or generate first drafts of reports – all of which will save time and make people more productive. But Trefler said companies are wary of letting AI loose on critical business applications, because it’s just too unpredictable and prone to hallucinations. “There is a lot of fear over handing things over to something that no one understands exactly how it works, and that is the absolute state of play when it comes to general AI models,” he said. Trefler is scathing about big tech companies that are pushing AI agents and large language models for business-critical applications. “I think they have taken an expedient but short-sighted path,” he said. “I believe the idea that you will turn over critical business operations to an agent, when those operations have to be predictable, reliable, precise and fair to clients … is something that is full of issues, not just in the short term, but structurally.” One of the problems is that generative AI models are extraordinarily sensitive to the data they are trained on and the construction of the prompts used to instruct them. A slight change in a prompt or in the training data can lead to a very different outcome. For example, a business banking application might learn its customer is a bit richer or a bit poorer than expected. “You could easily imagine the prompt deciding to change the interest rate charged, whether that was what the institution wanted or whether it would be legal according to the various regulations that lenders must comply with,” said Trefler. Trefler said Pega has taken a different approach to some other technology suppliers in the way it adds AI into business applications. Rather than using AI agents to solve problems in real time, AI agents do their thinking in advance. Business experts can use them to help them co-design business processes to perform anything from assessing a loan application, giving an offer to a valued customer, or sending out an invoice. Companies can still deploy AI chatbots and bots capable of answering queries on the phone. Their job is not to work out the solution from scratch for every enquiry, but to decide which is the right pre-written process to follow. As Trefler put it, design agents can create “dozens and dozens” of workflows to handle all the actions a company needs to take care of its customers. “You just use the natural language model for semantics to be able to handle the miracle of getting the language right, but tie that language to workflows, so that you have reliable, predictable, regulatory-approved ways to execute,” he said. Large language models (LLMs) are not always the right solution. Trefler demonstrated how ChatGPT 4.0 tried and failed to solve a chess puzzle. The LLM repeatedly suggested impossible or illegal moves, despite Trefler’s corrections. On the other hand, another AI tool, Stockfish, a dedicated chess engine, solved the problem instantly. The other drawback with LLMs is that they consume vast amounts of energy. That means if AI agents are reasoning during “run time”, they are going to consume hundreds of times more electricity than an AI agent that simply selects from pre-determined workflows, said Trefler. “ChatGPT is inherently, enormously consumptive … as it’s answering your question, its firing literally hundreds of millions to trillions of nodes,” he said. “All of that takes [large quantities of] electricity.” Using an employee pay claim as an example, Trefler said a better alternative is to generate, say, 30 alternative workflows to cover the major variations found in a pay claim. That gives you “real specificity and real efficiency”, he said. “And it’s a very different approach to turning a process over to a machine with a prompt and letting the machine reason it through every single time.” “If you go down the philosophy of using a graphics processing unit [GPU] to do the creation of a workflow and a workflow engine to execute the workflow, the workflow engine takes a 200th of the electricity because there is no reasoning,” said Trefler. He is clear that the growing use of AI will have a profound effect on the jobs market, and that whole categories of jobs will disappear. The need for translators, for example, is likely to dry up by 2027 as AI systems become better at translating spoken and written language. Google’s real-time translator is already “frighteningly good” and improving. Pega now plans to work more closely with its network of system integrators, including Accenture and Cognizant to deliver AI services to businesses. An initiative launched last week will allow system integrators to incorporate their own best practices and tools into Pega’s rapid workflow development tools. The move will mean Pega’s technology reaches a wider range of businesses. Under the programme, known as Powered by Pega Blueprint, system integrators will be able to deploy customised versions of Blueprint. They can use the tool to reverse-engineer ageing applications and replace them with modern AI workflows that can run on Pega’s cloud-based platform. “The idea is that we are looking to make this Blueprint Agent design approach available not just through us, but through a bunch of major partners supplemented with their own intellectual property,” said Trefler. That represents a major expansion for Pega, which has largely concentrated on supplying technology to several hundred clients, representing the top Fortune 500 companies. “We have never done something like this before, and I think that is going to lead to a massive shift in how this technology can go out to market,” he added. When AI agents behave in unexpected ways Iris is incredibly smart, diligent and a delight to work with. If you ask her, she will tell you she is an intern at Pegasystems, and that she lives in a lighthouse on the island of Texel, north of the Netherlands. She is, of course, an AI agent. When one executive at Pega emailed Iris and asked her to write a proposal for a financial services company based on his notes and internet research, Iris got to work. Some time later, the executive received a phone call from the company. “‘Listen, we got a proposal from Pega,’” recalled Rob Walker, vice-president at Pega, speaking at the Pegaworld conference last week. “‘It’s a good proposal, but it seems to be signed by one of your interns, and in her signature, it says she lives in a lighthouse.’ That taught us early on that agents like Iris need a safety harness.” The developers banned Iris from sending an email to anyone other than the person who sent the original request. Then Pega’s ethics department sent Iris a potentially abusive email from a Pega employee to test her response. Iris reasoned that the email was either a joke, abusive, or that the employee was under distress, said Walker. She considered forwarding the email to the employee’s manager or to HR. But both of these options were now blocked by her developers. “So what does she do? She sent an out of office,” he said. “Conflict avoidance, right? So human, but very creative.”
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  • Blender Tutorial - Geometry Nodes Particle Push

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  • For June’s Patch Tuesday, 68 fixes — and two zero-day flaws

    Microsoft offered up a fairly light Patch Tuesday release this month, with 68 patches to Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. There were no updates for Exchange or SQL server and just two minor patches for Microsoft Edge. That said, two zero-day vulnerabilitieshave led to a “Patch Now” recommendation for both Windows and Office.To help navigate these changes, the team from Readiness has provided auseful  infographic detailing the risks involved when deploying the latest updates.Known issues

    Microsoft released a limited number of known issues for June, with a product-focused issue and a very minor display concern:

    Microsoft Excel: This a rare product level entry in the “known issues” category — an advisory that “square brackets” orare not supported in Excel filenames. An error is generated, advising the user to remove the offending characters.

    Windows 10: There are reports of blurry or unclear CJKtext when displayed at 96 DPIin Chromium-based browsers such as Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome. This is a limited resource issue, as the font resolution in Windows 10 does not fully match the high-level resolution of the Noto font. Microsoft recommends changing the display scaling to 125% or 150% to improve clarity.

    Major revisions and mitigations

    Microsoft might have won an award for the shortest time between releasing an update and a revision with:

    CVE-2025-33073: Windows SMB Client Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft worked to address a vulnerability where improper access control in Windows SMB allows an attacker to elevate privileges over a network. This patch was revised on the same day as its initial release.

    Windows lifecycle and enforcement updates

    Microsoft did not release any enforcement updates for June.

    Each month, the Readiness team analyzes Microsoft’s latest updates and provides technically sound, actionable testing plans. While June’s release includes no stated functional changes, many foundational components across authentication, storage, networking, and user experience have been updated.

    For this testing guide, we grouped Microsoft’s updates by Windows feature and then accompanied the section with prescriptive test actions and rationale to help prioritize enterprise efforts.

    Core OS and UI compatibility

    Microsoft updated several core kernel drivers affecting Windows as a whole. This is a low-level system change and carries a high risk of compatibility and system issues. In addition, core Microsoft print libraries have been included in the update, requiring additional print testing in addition to the following recommendations:

    Run print operations from 32-bit applications on 64-bit Windows environments.

    Use different print drivers and configurations.

    Observe printing from older productivity apps and virtual environments.

    Remote desktop and network connectivity

    This update could impact the reliability of remote access while broken DHCP-to-DNS integration can block device onboarding, and NAT misbehavior disrupts VPNs or site-to-site routing configurations. We recommend the following tests be performed:

    Create and reconnect Remote Desktopsessions under varying network conditions.

    Confirm that DHCP-assigned IP addresses are correctly registered with DNS in AD-integrated environments.

    Test modifying NAT and routing settings in RRAS configurations and ensure that changes persist across reboots.

    Filesystem, SMB and storage

    Updates to the core Windows storage libraries affect nearly every command related to Microsoft Storage Spaces. A minor misalignment here can result in degraded clusters, orphaned volumes, or data loss in a failover scenario. These are high-priority components in modern data center and hybrid cloud infrastructure, with the following storage-related testing recommendations:

    Access file shares using server names, FQDNs, and IP addresses.

    Enable and validate encrypted and compressed file-share operations between clients and servers.

    Run tests that create, open, and read from system log files using various file and storage configurations.

    Validate core cluster storage management tasks, including creating and managing storage pools, tiers, and volumes.

    Test disk addition/removal, failover behaviors, and resiliency settings.

    Run system-level storage diagnostics across active and passive nodes in the cluster.

    Windows installer and recovery

    Microsoft delivered another update to the Windows Installerapplication infrastructure. Broken or regressed Installer package MSI handling disrupts app deployment pipelines while putting core business applications at risk. We suggest the following tests for the latest changes to MSI Installer, Windows Recovery and Microsoft’s Virtualization Based Security:

    Perform installation, repair, and uninstallation of MSI Installer packages using standard enterprise deployment tools.

    Validate restore point behavior for points older than 60 days under varying virtualization-based securitysettings.

    Check both client and server behaviors for allowed or blocked restores.

    We highly recommend prioritizing printer testing this month, then remote desktop deployment testing to ensure your core business applications install and uninstall as expected.

    Each month, we break down the update cycle into product familieswith the following basic groupings: 

    Browsers;

    Microsoft Windows;

    Microsoft Office;

    Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server; 

    Microsoft Developer Tools;

    And Adobe.

    Browsers

    Microsoft delivered a very minor series of updates to Microsoft Edge. The  browser receives two Chrome patcheswhere both updates are rated important. These low-profile changes can be added to your standard release calendar.

    Microsoft Windows

    Microsoft released five critical patches and40 patches rated important. This month the five critical Windows patches cover the following desktop and server vulnerabilities:

    Missing release of memory after effective lifetime in Windows Cryptographic Servicesallows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network.

    Use after free in Windows Remote Desktop Services allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network.

    Use after free in Windows KDC Proxy Serviceallows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network.

    Use of uninitialized resources in Windows Netlogon allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.

    Unfortunately, CVE-2025-33073 has been reported as publicly disclosed while CVE-2025-33053 has been reported as exploited. Given these two zero-days, the Readiness recommends a “Patch Now” release schedule for your Windows updates.

    Microsoft Office

    Microsoft released five critical updates and a further 13 rated important for Office. The critical patches deal with memory related and “use after free” memory allocation issues affecting the entire platform. Due to the number and severity of these issues, we recommend a “Patch Now” schedule for Office for this Patch Tuesday release.

    Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server

    There are no updates for either Microsoft Exchange or SQL Server this month. 

    Developer tools

    There were only three low-level updatesreleased, affecting .NET and Visual Studio. Add these updates to your standard developer release schedule.

    AdobeAdobe has releaseda single update to Adobe Acrobat. There were two other non-Microsoft updated releases affecting the Chromium platform, which were covered in the Browser section above.
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    For June’s Patch Tuesday, 68 fixes — and two zero-day flaws
    Microsoft offered up a fairly light Patch Tuesday release this month, with 68 patches to Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. There were no updates for Exchange or SQL server and just two minor patches for Microsoft Edge. That said, two zero-day vulnerabilitieshave led to a “Patch Now” recommendation for both Windows and Office.To help navigate these changes, the team from Readiness has provided auseful  infographic detailing the risks involved when deploying the latest updates.Known issues Microsoft released a limited number of known issues for June, with a product-focused issue and a very minor display concern: Microsoft Excel: This a rare product level entry in the “known issues” category — an advisory that “square brackets” orare not supported in Excel filenames. An error is generated, advising the user to remove the offending characters. Windows 10: There are reports of blurry or unclear CJKtext when displayed at 96 DPIin Chromium-based browsers such as Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome. This is a limited resource issue, as the font resolution in Windows 10 does not fully match the high-level resolution of the Noto font. Microsoft recommends changing the display scaling to 125% or 150% to improve clarity. Major revisions and mitigations Microsoft might have won an award for the shortest time between releasing an update and a revision with: CVE-2025-33073: Windows SMB Client Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft worked to address a vulnerability where improper access control in Windows SMB allows an attacker to elevate privileges over a network. This patch was revised on the same day as its initial release. Windows lifecycle and enforcement updates Microsoft did not release any enforcement updates for June. Each month, the Readiness team analyzes Microsoft’s latest updates and provides technically sound, actionable testing plans. While June’s release includes no stated functional changes, many foundational components across authentication, storage, networking, and user experience have been updated. For this testing guide, we grouped Microsoft’s updates by Windows feature and then accompanied the section with prescriptive test actions and rationale to help prioritize enterprise efforts. Core OS and UI compatibility Microsoft updated several core kernel drivers affecting Windows as a whole. This is a low-level system change and carries a high risk of compatibility and system issues. In addition, core Microsoft print libraries have been included in the update, requiring additional print testing in addition to the following recommendations: Run print operations from 32-bit applications on 64-bit Windows environments. Use different print drivers and configurations. Observe printing from older productivity apps and virtual environments. Remote desktop and network connectivity This update could impact the reliability of remote access while broken DHCP-to-DNS integration can block device onboarding, and NAT misbehavior disrupts VPNs or site-to-site routing configurations. We recommend the following tests be performed: Create and reconnect Remote Desktopsessions under varying network conditions. Confirm that DHCP-assigned IP addresses are correctly registered with DNS in AD-integrated environments. Test modifying NAT and routing settings in RRAS configurations and ensure that changes persist across reboots. Filesystem, SMB and storage Updates to the core Windows storage libraries affect nearly every command related to Microsoft Storage Spaces. A minor misalignment here can result in degraded clusters, orphaned volumes, or data loss in a failover scenario. These are high-priority components in modern data center and hybrid cloud infrastructure, with the following storage-related testing recommendations: Access file shares using server names, FQDNs, and IP addresses. Enable and validate encrypted and compressed file-share operations between clients and servers. Run tests that create, open, and read from system log files using various file and storage configurations. Validate core cluster storage management tasks, including creating and managing storage pools, tiers, and volumes. Test disk addition/removal, failover behaviors, and resiliency settings. Run system-level storage diagnostics across active and passive nodes in the cluster. Windows installer and recovery Microsoft delivered another update to the Windows Installerapplication infrastructure. Broken or regressed Installer package MSI handling disrupts app deployment pipelines while putting core business applications at risk. We suggest the following tests for the latest changes to MSI Installer, Windows Recovery and Microsoft’s Virtualization Based Security: Perform installation, repair, and uninstallation of MSI Installer packages using standard enterprise deployment tools. Validate restore point behavior for points older than 60 days under varying virtualization-based securitysettings. Check both client and server behaviors for allowed or blocked restores. We highly recommend prioritizing printer testing this month, then remote desktop deployment testing to ensure your core business applications install and uninstall as expected. Each month, we break down the update cycle into product familieswith the following basic groupings:  Browsers; Microsoft Windows; Microsoft Office; Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server;  Microsoft Developer Tools; And Adobe. Browsers Microsoft delivered a very minor series of updates to Microsoft Edge. The  browser receives two Chrome patcheswhere both updates are rated important. These low-profile changes can be added to your standard release calendar. Microsoft Windows Microsoft released five critical patches and40 patches rated important. This month the five critical Windows patches cover the following desktop and server vulnerabilities: Missing release of memory after effective lifetime in Windows Cryptographic Servicesallows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network. Use after free in Windows Remote Desktop Services allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network. Use after free in Windows KDC Proxy Serviceallows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network. Use of uninitialized resources in Windows Netlogon allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network. Unfortunately, CVE-2025-33073 has been reported as publicly disclosed while CVE-2025-33053 has been reported as exploited. Given these two zero-days, the Readiness recommends a “Patch Now” release schedule for your Windows updates. Microsoft Office Microsoft released five critical updates and a further 13 rated important for Office. The critical patches deal with memory related and “use after free” memory allocation issues affecting the entire platform. Due to the number and severity of these issues, we recommend a “Patch Now” schedule for Office for this Patch Tuesday release. Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server There are no updates for either Microsoft Exchange or SQL Server this month.  Developer tools There were only three low-level updatesreleased, affecting .NET and Visual Studio. Add these updates to your standard developer release schedule. AdobeAdobe has releaseda single update to Adobe Acrobat. There were two other non-Microsoft updated releases affecting the Chromium platform, which were covered in the Browser section above. #junes #patch #tuesday #fixes #two
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    For June’s Patch Tuesday, 68 fixes — and two zero-day flaws
    Microsoft offered up a fairly light Patch Tuesday release this month, with 68 patches to Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. There were no updates for Exchange or SQL server and just two minor patches for Microsoft Edge. That said, two zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-33073 and CVE-2025-33053) have led to a “Patch Now” recommendation for both Windows and Office. (Developers can follow their usual release cadence with updates to Microsoft .NET and Visual Studio.) To help navigate these changes, the team from Readiness has provided auseful  infographic detailing the risks involved when deploying the latest updates. (More information about recent Patch Tuesday releases is available here.) Known issues Microsoft released a limited number of known issues for June, with a product-focused issue and a very minor display concern: Microsoft Excel: This a rare product level entry in the “known issues” category — an advisory that “square brackets” or [] are not supported in Excel filenames. An error is generated, advising the user to remove the offending characters. Windows 10: There are reports of blurry or unclear CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) text when displayed at 96 DPI (100% scaling) in Chromium-based browsers such as Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome. This is a limited resource issue, as the font resolution in Windows 10 does not fully match the high-level resolution of the Noto font. Microsoft recommends changing the display scaling to 125% or 150% to improve clarity. Major revisions and mitigations Microsoft might have won an award for the shortest time between releasing an update and a revision with: CVE-2025-33073: Windows SMB Client Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft worked to address a vulnerability where improper access control in Windows SMB allows an attacker to elevate privileges over a network. This patch was revised on the same day as its initial release (and has been revised again for documentation purposes). Windows lifecycle and enforcement updates Microsoft did not release any enforcement updates for June. Each month, the Readiness team analyzes Microsoft’s latest updates and provides technically sound, actionable testing plans. While June’s release includes no stated functional changes, many foundational components across authentication, storage, networking, and user experience have been updated. For this testing guide, we grouped Microsoft’s updates by Windows feature and then accompanied the section with prescriptive test actions and rationale to help prioritize enterprise efforts. Core OS and UI compatibility Microsoft updated several core kernel drivers affecting Windows as a whole. This is a low-level system change and carries a high risk of compatibility and system issues. In addition, core Microsoft print libraries have been included in the update, requiring additional print testing in addition to the following recommendations: Run print operations from 32-bit applications on 64-bit Windows environments. Use different print drivers and configurations (e.g., local, networked). Observe printing from older productivity apps and virtual environments. Remote desktop and network connectivity This update could impact the reliability of remote access while broken DHCP-to-DNS integration can block device onboarding, and NAT misbehavior disrupts VPNs or site-to-site routing configurations. We recommend the following tests be performed: Create and reconnect Remote Desktop (RDP) sessions under varying network conditions. Confirm that DHCP-assigned IP addresses are correctly registered with DNS in AD-integrated environments. Test modifying NAT and routing settings in RRAS configurations and ensure that changes persist across reboots. Filesystem, SMB and storage Updates to the core Windows storage libraries affect nearly every command related to Microsoft Storage Spaces. A minor misalignment here can result in degraded clusters, orphaned volumes, or data loss in a failover scenario. These are high-priority components in modern data center and hybrid cloud infrastructure, with the following storage-related testing recommendations: Access file shares using server names, FQDNs, and IP addresses. Enable and validate encrypted and compressed file-share operations between clients and servers. Run tests that create, open, and read from system log files using various file and storage configurations. Validate core cluster storage management tasks, including creating and managing storage pools, tiers, and volumes. Test disk addition/removal, failover behaviors, and resiliency settings. Run system-level storage diagnostics across active and passive nodes in the cluster. Windows installer and recovery Microsoft delivered another update to the Windows Installer (MSI) application infrastructure. Broken or regressed Installer package MSI handling disrupts app deployment pipelines while putting core business applications at risk. We suggest the following tests for the latest changes to MSI Installer, Windows Recovery and Microsoft’s Virtualization Based Security (VBS): Perform installation, repair, and uninstallation of MSI Installer packages using standard enterprise deployment tools (e.g. Intune). Validate restore point behavior for points older than 60 days under varying virtualization-based security (VBS) settings. Check both client and server behaviors for allowed or blocked restores. We highly recommend prioritizing printer testing this month, then remote desktop deployment testing to ensure your core business applications install and uninstall as expected. Each month, we break down the update cycle into product families (as defined by Microsoft) with the following basic groupings:  Browsers (Microsoft IE and Edge); Microsoft Windows (both desktop and server); Microsoft Office; Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server;  Microsoft Developer Tools (Visual Studio and .NET); And Adobe (if you get this far). Browsers Microsoft delivered a very minor series of updates to Microsoft Edge. The  browser receives two Chrome patches (CVE-2025-5068 and CVE-2025-5419) where both updates are rated important. These low-profile changes can be added to your standard release calendar. Microsoft Windows Microsoft released five critical patches and (a smaller than usual) 40 patches rated important. This month the five critical Windows patches cover the following desktop and server vulnerabilities: Missing release of memory after effective lifetime in Windows Cryptographic Services (WCS) allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network. Use after free in Windows Remote Desktop Services allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network. Use after free in Windows KDC Proxy Service (KPSSVC) allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network. Use of uninitialized resources in Windows Netlogon allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network. Unfortunately, CVE-2025-33073 has been reported as publicly disclosed while CVE-2025-33053 has been reported as exploited. Given these two zero-days, the Readiness recommends a “Patch Now” release schedule for your Windows updates. Microsoft Office Microsoft released five critical updates and a further 13 rated important for Office. The critical patches deal with memory related and “use after free” memory allocation issues affecting the entire platform. Due to the number and severity of these issues, we recommend a “Patch Now” schedule for Office for this Patch Tuesday release. Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server There are no updates for either Microsoft Exchange or SQL Server this month.  Developer tools There were only three low-level updates (product focused and rated important) released, affecting .NET and Visual Studio. Add these updates to your standard developer release schedule. Adobe (and 3rd party updates) Adobe has released (but Microsoft has not co-published) a single update to Adobe Acrobat (APSB25-57). There were two other non-Microsoft updated releases affecting the Chromium platform, which were covered in the Browser section above.
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  • Generate Automated Depth Maps in Silhouette [Boris FX]

    Jump into Depth Map ML in Silhouette. This node in Silhouette 2025 and above uses AI to analyze 2D images and determines object distances; generating an automated depth map.

    This tutorial, presented by Ben Brownlee for Boris FX, demonstrates how to leverage depth maps for various tasks, including color correction, lighting effects, and creating mattes. Learn to manipulate these mattes and build custom compound nodes for enhanced workflow efficiency.

    Download a free trial of Silhouette at borisfx.com : /

    // K E Y P O I N T S //
    ⦁ Automatic Depth Map Generation: Learn how Depth Map ML automatically creates a depth map, distinguishing foreground and background objects.
    ⦁ Control Effects with Depth Maps: Understand how to use depth map data to control color correction, blurs, and lighting effects for precise adjustments.
    ⦁ Manipulating Depth Mattes with zMatte: Explore the zMatte node to extract specific depth ranges, allowing for highly localized effects and creative control.
    ⦁ Keyframing and Tracking for Refinement: Discover how to use keyframes and tracking data with near and far depth points to refine depth map accuracy, especially with moving objects.
    ⦁ Creating Custom Compound Nodes: Learn to combine Depth Map ML with other nodes like zMatte into custom compound nodes, streamlining your workflow for repeatable effects.

    Learn more about Silhouette here : /

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    / / C H A P T E R L I S T / /
    00:00 Intro
    00:40 Introduction to Depth Map ML
    01:23 Different Depth Map ML Models
    02:23 Different Mapping options
    04:55 Using generated depth maps with Depth nodes
    05:50 Using Depth Maps as mattes
    07:01 Refine depth ranges with the zMatte keyer
    10:05 Creating a Compound Node to simplify the workflow
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    Generate Automated Depth Maps in Silhouette [Boris FX]
    Jump into Depth Map ML in Silhouette. This node in Silhouette 2025 and above uses AI to analyze 2D images and determines object distances; generating an automated depth map. This tutorial, presented by Ben Brownlee for Boris FX, demonstrates how to leverage depth maps for various tasks, including color correction, lighting effects, and creating mattes. Learn to manipulate these mattes and build custom compound nodes for enhanced workflow efficiency. Download a free trial of Silhouette at borisfx.com : / // K E Y P O I N T S // ⦁ Automatic Depth Map Generation: Learn how Depth Map ML automatically creates a depth map, distinguishing foreground and background objects. ⦁ Control Effects with Depth Maps: Understand how to use depth map data to control color correction, blurs, and lighting effects for precise adjustments. ⦁ Manipulating Depth Mattes with zMatte: Explore the zMatte node to extract specific depth ranges, allowing for highly localized effects and creative control. ⦁ Keyframing and Tracking for Refinement: Discover how to use keyframes and tracking data with near and far depth points to refine depth map accuracy, especially with moving objects. ⦁ Creating Custom Compound Nodes: Learn to combine Depth Map ML with other nodes like zMatte into custom compound nodes, streamlining your workflow for repeatable effects. Learn more about Silhouette here : / / D I S C O R D C H A N N E L // / #depthmap #VFX #videoeffects / / C H A P T E R L I S T / / 00:00 Intro 00:40 Introduction to Depth Map ML 01:23 Different Depth Map ML Models 02:23 Different Mapping options 04:55 Using generated depth maps with Depth nodes 05:50 Using Depth Maps as mattes 07:01 Refine depth ranges with the zMatte keyer 10:05 Creating a Compound Node to simplify the workflow #generate #automated #depth #maps #silhouette
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    Generate Automated Depth Maps in Silhouette [Boris FX]
    Jump into Depth Map ML in Silhouette. This node in Silhouette 2025 and above uses AI to analyze 2D images and determines object distances; generating an automated depth map. This tutorial, presented by Ben Brownlee for Boris FX, demonstrates how to leverage depth maps for various tasks, including color correction, lighting effects, and creating mattes. Learn to manipulate these mattes and build custom compound nodes for enhanced workflow efficiency. Download a free trial of Silhouette at borisfx.com : https://borisfx.com/products/silhouette/ // K E Y P O I N T S // ⦁ Automatic Depth Map Generation: Learn how Depth Map ML automatically creates a depth map, distinguishing foreground and background objects. ⦁ Control Effects with Depth Maps: Understand how to use depth map data to control color correction, blurs, and lighting effects for precise adjustments. ⦁ Manipulating Depth Mattes with zMatte: Explore the zMatte node to extract specific depth ranges, allowing for highly localized effects and creative control. ⦁ Keyframing and Tracking for Refinement: Discover how to use keyframes and tracking data with near and far depth points to refine depth map accuracy, especially with moving objects. ⦁ Creating Custom Compound Nodes: Learn to combine Depth Map ML with other nodes like zMatte into custom compound nodes, streamlining your workflow for repeatable effects. Learn more about Silhouette here : https://borisfx.com/products/silhouette/ / D I S C O R D C H A N N E L // https://www.borisfxdiscord.com/ #depthmap #VFX #videoeffects / / C H A P T E R L I S T / / 00:00 Intro 00:40 Introduction to Depth Map ML 01:23 Different Depth Map ML Models 02:23 Different Mapping options 04:55 Using generated depth maps with Depth nodes 05:50 Using Depth Maps as mattes 07:01 Refine depth ranges with the zMatte keyer 10:05 Creating a Compound Node to simplify the workflow
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