Aeryn OS Continuing To Focus On Tooling & Infrastructure In 2026
The Aeryn OS Linux distribution formerly known as Serpent OS has published a 2025 retrospective to recap the project changes over the past year as well...
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Qron0b: a Minimalist, Low-Power BCD Wristwatch
Over the decades we have seen many DIY clocks and wrist watches presented, but few are as likely to get you either drawing in the crowds,...
Read moreNo, Grok can’t really “apologize” for posting non-consensual sexual images
Despite reporting to the contrary, there’s evidence to suggest that Grok isn’t sorry at all about reports that it generated non-consensual sexual images of minors. In...
Read moreHealthy 18-year-old welder nearly died of anthrax—the 9th such puzzling case
With the new year comes a new report of a deadly, puzzling infectious disease. In a January 1 case study, health officials with the Centers for...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Squid Found in Light Fixture
Probably a college prank. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered....
Read moreLouis-Philippe Véronneau: 2025 — A Musical Retrospective
2026 already! The winter weather here has really been beautiful and I always enjoy this time of year. Writing this yearly musical retrospective has now become...
Read moreOpenAI reorganizes some teams to build audio-based AI hardware products
OpenAI, the company that developed the models and products associated with ChatGPT, plans to announce a new audio language model in the first quarter of 2026,...
Read moreAdding Solar Power to an Electric Tractor
In my country, we have a saying: the sun is a deadly lazer. Well, it’s not so much a folk saying as a meme, and not...
Read moreMicrosoft Research Develops Novel Approaches to Enforce Privacy in AI Models
A team of AI researchers at Microsoft introduces two novel approaches for enforcing contextual integrity in large language models: PrivacyChecker, an open-source lightweight module that acts...
Read moreResearchers spot Saturn-sized planet in the “Einstein desert”
Most of the exoplanets we’ve discovered have been in relatively tight orbits around their host stars, allowing us to track them as they repeatedly loop around...
Read moreGrok is undressing anyone, including minors
xAI’s Grok is removing clothing from pictures of people without their consent following this week’s rollout of a feature that allows X users to instantly edit...
Read moreBillion-dollar Bitcoin hacker Ilya Lichtenstein thanks Trump for early prison release
Just over a year after being sentenced to five years in prison for the theft of billions of dollars in Bitcoin, hacker Ilya Lichtenstein is free....
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