Nosdesk was perfect for about a year, because it only existed in my head. What happened when real people got hold of it, and an old Greek story about the same mistake.
I gave an AI agent access to a cable modem, a serial console, Ghidra, and a custom GDB stub, then asked it to reverse the firmware and hunt for bugs. It re-discovered known vulnerabilities, found new ones, and wrote working exploits. This post covers the setup, what it managed to do on its own, and where I still had to step in. The real problem is that the same approach now works on millions of devices nobody plans to fix.
Kevin sent me a link to this email from Linus Torvalds the other day, and I found that to be a great example of something that has been bothering me …
Researchers at the University of Toronto's Continuum Robotics Laboratory introduced CRAFT, a 3D-printed modular design library for tendon-driven continuum robots that allows a single robot to physically reconfigure its shape, stiffness, and degrees of freedom within minutes by snapping together six interchangeable modules. The same base robot was reconfigured into a long teleoperated probe for aircraft-wing inspection achieving 41% reduction in sag, a pipe-crawling robot capable of navigating 90-degree bends and 30-degree inclines, and a soft robotic hand that successfully cracked eggs with 85% accuracy. CRAFT eliminates the need to build entirely new robots for different tasks, replacing bespoke redesign with rapid modular composition. Credits: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44182-026-00107-x submitted by /u/Similar_Suit_3709 [link] [Kommentare]
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Jack Conte, the founder & CEO of Patreon and half of the musical duo Pomplamoose, just gave a keynote about his take on AI, comparing decades-old responses to new technologies with the new technology of today.
Happy World Emoji Day 2026! Emojipedia's annual celebration of all things emoji is now in its twelfth year, and here's a quick rundown of what's been happening as part of this year's celebration! 🌎📅🥳
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Hi! I don't know if this has been posted about before or not, but for the past week, I've been trying to control my SPIKE Prime with custom commands via BLE. However, as far as the forums stated (from what I have read), it wasn't possible without Pybricks. However, while tinkering with the robot, I found that BLE control is just an "environment variable" that could be switched. Thus, we don't need a firmware to control BLE, we just need a *one-time setup" using a USB UART communication. If you want to use this for your own projects, please check out the code, and if you like it, please drop a star on the repo! https://github.com/Somespi/prime-connect submitted by /u/Formal-Arachnid-4247 [link] [Kommentare]
Passwork, a Spain-based password manager used by European government agencies and universities, shares technological ties with a Russian counterpart — an arrangement that experts say poses a state-level security risk.