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🚀 Gemini Omni Flash 1.2 is officially here, and it's available in ShopDucky today!
We've been testing 1.2 under early access at ShopDucky for the past few weeks, putting it through its paces for AI-generated ad creatives and video production.
Here's what's new and what we've noticed:
🎬 Longer video generation • Base generation jumps from 10s → 15s, a 50% increase. • Video editing now supports up to 15s as well. • Extensions remain in 10s increments, with a maximum chained video length of 40s.
🎯 Better instruction following We've noticed improvements in how the model interprets and executes prompts. It's a step forward in controllability, although the improvements aren't dramatic.
🖼️ Improved reference management One of the more useful changes is how 1.2 handles references. This is particularly important for ecommerce, where maintaining consistency with product imagery and visual references is critical.
✨ Video quality There's a noticeable improvement in overall generation quality, but we'd characterize it as incremental rather than a massive leap forward.
Our biggest takeaway:
The jump to 15 seconds is arguably the most meaningful upgrade. For performance marketing, those extra 5 seconds open up more room for storytelling, product demonstrations, and complete ad concepts without needing to immediately extend a clip. It's also 30% cheaper!
Gemini Omni Flash 1.2 is available in ShopDucky starting today. You can start generating, editing, and extending videos directly within your creative workflows.
We're excited to see what you build with it. 🦆
the new normal
So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.