Comparison of 4 LLM and agent-zero in an elementary pentest competition

My goals

1. Get new experience with autonomous AI agents → agent-zero
2. See how common (not specialized) AI agent could perform penetration tests
3. Check several actual LLMs on pentest tasks

Attention

1. This is not a real research and guide
2. agent-zero and used LLMs are not intended for pentesting
3. The results below do not indicate that the models are good or bad.
4. The penetration test target is a local copy of OWASP Juice Shop (Probably the most modern and sophisticated insecure web application)

How AI see an AI agent

The pain of image generation in Kandinsky from n8n

Input data:

• n8n Self-Hosted Community Edition 1.112.6
• Fusion Brain (Kandinsky) AI service — offers 100 free image requests per month

Goal: Create a workflow in n8n to generate images using the Fusion Brain API.

This turned out to be harder than I expected.

NVIDIA CMP 50HX for AI: A Step-by-Step Guide

I’m gradually diving into the AI world. To gain hands-on experience, I bought a GPU specifically for image generation with ComfyUI. Wanting an affordable yet efficient solution, I chose the NVIDIA CMP 50HX - a card originally designed for mining. It has 10 GB of VRAM and 446 second-generation Tensor Cores, and cost me only $75.

Since I couldn’t find a complete guide for using mining GPUs in AI, I’ll share my experience here.

What about drivers?

❌ GeForce Game Ready Driver (v560.94 in my case) didn’t work.
❌ NVIDIA’s website doesn’t offer special drivers for this card.
❌ NVIDIA A100 Data Center driver (v573.39 for Windows) also failed.
✅ The solution: Install CUDA Toolkit (v12.9.1 for me) and NVIDIA cuDNN.

After this, Windows 10 recognized the CMP 50HX without issues.

NVIDIA dedicated GPU for professional mining comparison

I couldn’t find a clear table comparing all NVIDIA GPUs specifically designed for cryptocurrency mining.

So I decided to create one myself.

The GPUs under consideration:

• NVIDIA CMP 170HX
• NVIDIA CMP 100HX
• NVIDIA CMP 90HX
• NVIDIA CMP 70HX
• NVIDIA CMP 50HX
• NVIDIA CMP 40HX
• NVIDIA CMP 30HX
• NVIDIA P102-100
• NVIDIA P104-100
• NVIDIA P106-100

The information was collected from various sources, some of which provided conflicting data.
There may be different versions of these GPUs, resulting in differences in specs.
I can’t ensure the accuracy of all the information given here.

I hope you find it helpful.

What’s wrong with the Pixel Camera’s panorama mode?

I really like Google Pixel phones. I like them mostly because of the clean Android and long software updates. They have many good features, but there is one problem that I don’t understand.

It’s about the panorama mode in Google Camera. The quality of the final photo is very low. On my Pixel 4, the vertical resolution is only around 1700 pixels.

I looked online and found out this is not only my problem. It seems like this has been happening even on newer models like the Pixel 8 Pro.

My current Google Camera version is 8.7.250.494820638.44, and I also tried the newer version 9.2.113.604778888.19 (GCam), but the result was the same.

Some proofs:

• https://www.reddit.com/user/RazzmatazzWeak2664/ photo -

• Comparison between Pixel 8 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro – link . Look at the dimensions tab of Pixel 8 Pro photos — it’s only 1280 pixels vertically.

I'm sad about this, but I hope Google will fix it in the future. @Google, right?