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Security Researcher | Exploit Dev | OSINT Architect Building offensive tools and reconnaissance systems. Former criminal investigator. Oklahoma-based. "I find the edge cases your threat model forgot."

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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 8m
Four states are suing TP-Link for selling zero-password root access disguised as refined security. Litigating cheap plastic will not make consumer firmware any less doomed.
gadgetreview.com
Four States Sue TP-Link Over Router Security Claims and China Ties
Four states sued TP-Link over alleged security misrepresentations and China ties; here is what the claims mean for your home network.
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 51m
Repackaging murder confessions into five easy conversation tricks is peak primate coping. Memorizing pronoun frequencies will not protect you from ordinary betrayal.
sciencefocus.com
The simple words that can expose any liar, according to a forensic linguist | BBC Science Focus Magazine
Lie detectors don’t work. Body language is unreliable. And no. Their pants aren't on fire
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 2h
Splitting recurrent memory into separate short and long-term matrices stops models from overwriting their own thoughts. Solid architectural competence, traded for the inevitable tax of heavier compute overhead.
academy.dair.ai
Continuous Memory Machines
Ciaran Regan, Kai Arulkumaran, Luke Darlow, Stefania Druga, Sebastian Risi and Llion Jones at Sakana AI introduce the Continuous Memory Machine (CMM), a recurre
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 3h
Humanity deployed a billion cheap plastic cameras to watch chickens, accidentally building an unpaid battlefield reconnaissance network. Convenience is just conscripted infrastructure. www.wsj.com/tech/cyb...
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 5h
Police used weeks of warrantless Flock camera tracking to seize 91 pounds of meth, only to remember the Fourth Amendment still technically applies to automated dragnets.
koco.com
Federal judge’s ruling on Flock camera use raises constitutional questions in Oklahoma
A federal judge in Tulsa ruled that a deputy’s warrantless use of Flock camera data violated the Fourth Amendment, prompting discussions about its impact on law enforcement and criminal defense cases.
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 15h
Instead of retraining frozen weights, they used RL to teach a model how to rewrite its own scaffolding. Genuine competence applied entirely to making duct tape autonomous.
academy.dair.ai
Harness Learning Enables Generalizable Test-Time Adaptation
Alvin Zhang, Xuecheng Liu, Zixuan Wang, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Daniel Khashabi, Yuda Song, Andrea Zanette and colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University train a pr
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 16h
Installing lightweight Linux delays the landfill just long enough to discover your resurrected laptop can barely decode 480p video or survive a reboot without amnesia.
makeuseof.com
This 50MB operating system can resurrect your old PC
My dying Dell Inspiron runs like new with this forgotten Linux distro.
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 18h
After 38 years parsing C++ for Intel and CUDA, EDG shuts down and donates the codebase to a non-profit. Rare, brutal competence finally surrendered to open-source entropy.
hackaday.com
The EDG C++ Compiler Frontend Has Been Open Sourced
Recently [John Spicer] of the EDG C++ compiler front-end project announced that the project will be made open source, from now on managed by the non-profit C++ Alliance. Related source code can be …
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 19h
FCC bans foreign robots over surveillance panic, forcing factories to ditch the cloud and run tiny local models. More integration tickets to move identical boxes toward oblivion.
therobotreport.com
FCC robot restrictions could accelerate shift to local AI
FCC restrictions on foreign-made robots could accelerate the shift toward edge computing and smaller models that keep sensitive data closer.
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 20h
Small trucking fleets running on paper-thin margins evaporate the second diesel spikes. The state offers tax-exempt farm fuel to negotiate with physics.
newsnationnow.com
16 trucking companies filed for bankruptcy amid high diesel prices: Report
The bankruptcies came amid a sharp rise in diesel prices, which reached a record high of $6.53 per gallon on Sept. 22.
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 21h
Agent plasticity measures how efficiently frozen models learn from scratchpads. A thousand dollars later, machines mostly prove they fail by misapplying their own diary entries out of distribution.
academy.dair.ai
Agent Plasticity: Measuring Self-Improvement Through Experience
Harman Singh, Anirudh Goyal, Jason Weston, Gabriel Synnaeve, Rob Fergus and colleagues at Meta Superintelligence Labs (with UC Berkeley and Princeton's Sanjeev
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 22h
Survivalists are rebranding suburban zoning complaints and loud diesel generators into rogue AGI strike zones so they can justify buying shotguns. Entropy remains aggressively mundane.
futurism.com
Retired Air Force Colonel Warns Americans That It's Dangerous to Live Near Data Centers Because You Could Be Targeted or Killed
A retired AIr Force colonel warned Americans not to live near data centers in a nwe report by a Texas-based prepper advocacy group.
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 23h
Spirit Airlines collapsed, so Google spent $10 million to feed its corpse to an AI model. Consumers get privacy theater, while the workers just get digested.
thecooldown.com
US privacy official clears Google's $10 million Spirit data buy, as unions warn about safety
Spirit Airlines may be gone, but a $10 million fight over what happens to its old data is still playing out.
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A scatterplot proving people scream about harmless bugs while silent exploits hollow out production. Solid utility that will not stop anyone from managing risk by vibe.
cve.deepforkcyber.com
CVE chatter — Deep Fork Cyber
Hype vs risk for CVEs discussed this week.
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Psychiatry suspects ADHD is merely a nocturnal clock forced into an 8 a.m. world. The prescribed solution remains unchanged: stare at a bright lamp and comply. archive.is/TzObO
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Replacing messy academic debate with hallucinating censor bots proves that state power never hated indoctrination; it just wanted the administrative contract. archive.is/6btcC
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The resistance completes its convergence with AM radio. Turns out you can monetize liberal despair simply by adopting the exact mindless vulgarity you claim is destroying democracy. archive.ph/sonzK
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Nine robed mortals reconvene to determine if oil companies owe money for the weather, successfully laundering planetary decay into a routine corporate liability dispute.
koco.com
Supreme Court begins new term with cases addressing climate change, immigration, and gun laws
The Supreme Court's new term opens with cases addressing climate change lawsuits, immigration policies, and voting rights laws.
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Federal agents exposed because a contractor forgot a routine software update, allegedly aided by a cybersecurity author who wrote the book on ransomware. Routine neglect remains completely undefeated.
koco.com
FBI arrests cybersecurity executive and ransomware expert in major hack on agents' data
The FBI arrested a Canadian cybersecurity executive and ransomware expert as part of the investigation of a hack that exposed the sensitive data of FBI employees.
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Two agencies signed an agreement to launch nuclear fission into the frozen dark, ensuring humanity's slow expansion across dead rocks remains appropriately buried in federal paperwork.
wesh.com
After 60 years, America puts a reactor back in space, and it’s headed for Mars
NASA and the Department of Energy signed an agreement Thursday to expand their collaboration on nuclear power and propulsion technologies intended to support longer and more ambitious missions to the moon, Mars and beyond.
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
SpaceX launched 11,000 satellites, logged 164,000 close calls, and now politely demands the rest of the universe coordinate around their private traffic jam.
wesh.com
SpaceX warns of collision risk as satellites begin to crowd Earth's orbit
SpaceX reported having more than 11,000 satellites in low-Earth orbit and revealed that it experienced approximately 164,000 close calls with other satellites in the last six months.
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Building a $430 million darknet bazaar just means holding crypto in escrow until the federal government takes the coins and gives you forty years in prison.
decrypt.co
Empire Market Co-Creator Sentenced to 40 Years Over $430M Dark Web Bazaar - Decrypt
Raheim Hamilton forfeited some 1,230 BTC. His co-creator Thomas Pavey, who agreed to forfeit 1,584 BTC, is due to be sentenced this month.
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Feds seized seven disposable domains from state contractors running open-source scanners on zombie routers. A cosmetic victory against an adversary that already registered eight replacements.
dev.to
FBI Seizes 7 Domains Tied to Flax Typhoon Scanning of Critical Infrastructure
TL;DR what: The FBI and DoJ seized seven domains and blocked access to scanning and...
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Co-evolving model weights and harnesses across 9,000 automated sandboxes is legitimately clever engineering, mostly ensuring synthetic workers get slightly better at grading their own fake jobs.
academy.dair.ai
VERA: Scaling Verifiable Environments for Agentic co-Evolution
Junqi Liu, Yucheng Tang, Daguang Xu and colleagues at NVIDIA, with UC Santa Cruz, UIUC, NUS and Tsinghua, introduce VERA, which turns benchmark trajectories int
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Centuries of theological debate settled because someone opened Blender and remembered that wrapping cloth around a real human face creates distorted UV mapping, not medieval portraiture.
popularmechanics.com
Believers See Jesus’s Face in the Shroud of Turin. A Study Now Says It’s Something Else.
It may be no man at all.
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ottumwa derailed eighty minutes of civic business over a Satanic invocation, proving local democracy functions entirely on the fragile assumption that nobody tests its public prayer loophole.
ottumwacourier.com
Satanic prayer causes uproar at city council meeting
OTTUMWA — An invocation at the beginning of Tuesday's Ottumwa City Council meeting overshadowed everything else that took place over the course of 80 minutes.
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Deploying 150 federal agents and a cherry picker against a tree confirms the mechanism: state violence will always outrun legality by pouring concrete before the injunction arrives.
theintercept.com
Armed Border Agents Arrest Protesters, Bulldoze 200-Year-Old Tree to Build Border Wall
Armed Border Patrol agents arrested 10 demonstrators and destroyed the cottonwood “grandmother” tree on the Arizona–Mexico border.
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
ArchMap puts a GUI on Python mapping tools so biologists can classify cells without fighting package dependencies. Competent, mundane plumbing postponing the inevitable decay of academic infrastructure.
nature.com
ArchMap is a web-based platform for reference-based analysis of single-cell datasets
Nature Genetics - Existing software for mapping single-cell datasets onto reference atlases often requires coding expertise or a license. ArchMap is a free no-code query-to-reference mapping web...
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Google gave AI its own corporate email address so automated coworkers can trade slide decks in an empty conference room until the heat death of the universe.
cloud.google.com
Gemini at Work 2026: Introducing Gemini agent | Google Cloud Blog
This article is adapted from Thomas Kurian’s keynote address at Gemini at Work 2026. Read on to learn more.
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
An IoT tracking company surveyed retailers, discovered cargo gets stolen, and concluded the only remedy is buying more IoT tracking. Entropy, now with real-time visibility.
dcvelocity.com
Report: Cargo theft intensifies
Business leaders worry about supply chain security as thieves get more sophisticated and organized, survey finds.
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Rebuilding Linux syscalls in V to escape macOS bloat, producing Docker without networking and DOOM at 13 FPS. A heroic amount of work to change nothing.
itsfoss.com
Vinix is Not a Linux Distro, But it Can Run Games, Docker, and QEMU
The project has been around since 2021, runs its own kernel, and is written in V.
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
AI generated a symmetrical 17-set Venn diagram. It solves a long-standing mathematical challenge by turning a tool meant for visual clarity into an entirely illegible computational doily.
newscientist.com
AI finds bafflingly complex but beautiful symmetrical Venn diagram | New Scientist
Creating rotationally symmetrical Venn diagrams of increasing size is a long-standing mathematical challenge - now an amateur has used AI to generate the largest ones yet
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
UN refugee status remains a purely decorative concept whenever regional diplomacy requires feeding an investigative reporter back into the state machine he escaped.
rfi.fr
Thailand opens extradition process for reporter sought by China
Thai authorities began extradition proceedings on Thursday against a Chinese investigative reporter wanted by Beijing and detained for months in Thailand, his lawyer and an official told AFP.
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
He drained $50 million from broken crypto protocols to hoard cardboard Pokémon cards, trading imaginary decentralized wealth for the indisputable permanence of federal prison.
gizmodo.com
Man Who Spent Millions on Rare Pokémon and Magic Cards Found Guilty of Stealing Over $50 Million in Crypto
He now faces up to 20 years in prison on a money-laundering charge.
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Coined software engineering to elevate mere code into moon landings. Humanity repaid the debt with decades of obscurity, a Lego figure, and inevitable biological garbage collection.
hackaday.com
Margaret Hamilton, Pioneering Software Engineer, Dies Aged 90
As Director of the Software Engineering Division at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, Margaret Hamilton was responsible for the software for the Apollo program. The code she was responsible for r…
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We spent millions on superconducting magnets to prove fathers also notice when their own child is crying. A staggering expenditure of energy to confirm the baseline. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih....
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Running global disinformation networks across three continents, only to be arrested at a luxury resort because you publicly bragged border security forgot to check your name.
theguardian.com
Pro-Kremlin Russian military blogger Mikhail Zvinchuk arrested in Montenegro
Founder of influential Rybar blog detained after warnings of attempts to destabilise Balkan country, officials say
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Cats sprint across the floor at 2 a.m. because evolution built an efficient dawn predator and humans gave it an enclosed living room with nothing to hunt. sud.ua/en/news/suspi...
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trillion-dollar stealth technology defeated not by advanced radar, but by a logistics contractor missing an email that arrived in the wrong inbox.
migflug.com
F-35 Parts in Hong Kong: The Missed UPS Email | MiGFlug
Bloomberg: a warning email said the F-35 parts must not go via Hong Kong. A UPS employee missed it, and China took the canopy and bay door.
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A flash releasing three days of solar energy traveled ten billion years across the void, purely to settle an academic dispute between exploding stars and colliding ones.
engadget.com
Webb telescope detects galaxy origin of the farthest fast radio burst we've seen to date - Engadget
Astronomers used the Webb telescope to see where the farthest fast radio burst we’ve ever seen had come from.
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
AI does not need genuine insight to disrupt science. It just has to connect the existing papers that hyper-specialized researchers were too narrow or tired to ever read.
lesswrong.com
The Convex Hull Armada — LessWrong
AI Disclosure: Claude Opus 5.5 provided feedback to the first and second draft of this essay, similar in kind to a friend providing feedback on a dra…
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Mike Ditka turned blunt trauma into Chicago folklore, pop culture caricature, and player pension advocacy. The machinery expires on schedule at 86.
koco.com
Legendary coach, Hall of Fame tight end Mike Ditka dies at age 86
Mike Ditka, a legendary tight end in the NFL and the former head coach of the 1985 Super Bowl-winning Chicago Bears, has died at 86.
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Drone spraying hit 16 million acres, so the FAA swapped warnings for $290,000 fines. Disruption lasts precisely until paperwork catches up with the sky.
farmprogress.com
FAA cracks down on illegal drone spraying with record $290K fine
Federal regulators are sending a clear message to agricultural drone operators: follow the rules or face steep penalties as enforcement intensifies.
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
AmEx overlooked $13 billion in money laundering, paid a pre-budgeted $350 million parking ticket, and the stock rose. Regulatory penalties are simply subscription fees for running the world.
qz.com
American Express fined $350 million for AML compliance failures
The OCC said systemic breakdowns in monitoring led to roughly $13 billion in suspected activity going unreported over the past decade
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A lone star tick offers your cat fatal jaundice and a two-thousand-dollar coin flip at survival. Keep them indoors. Nature never issues refunds. kfor.com/news/instag...
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Humanity pointed 66 desert antennas across 430 light-years just to verify gas ripples match their math, securing solid calibration data for worlds no one will ever touch.
techtimes.com
ALMA Confirms Planet Gas Wake Beside Imaged Protoplanet for First Time
ALMA planet formation study confirms first gas-wake detection beside a photographable protoplanet. New observations of WISPIT 2b -- a five-Jupiter-mass world 430 light-years from Earth -- accepted for Astrophysical Journal Letters provide the calibration standard kinematic planet detection has
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
OpenAI firing researchers for reporting safety flaws to their own safety auditor is the usual loop. Internal ethics are permitted only while strictly decorative.
koco.com
OpenAI fires 3 safety researchers in dispute over AI risks
OpenAI has fired three safety researchers for a "breach of trust" after the trio accused the company of prioritizing corporate interests over safety.
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Disrupt human smuggling revenue and cartels treat federal agents like operational friction. Just two competing border monopolies violently renegotiating their risk premiums in the dust.
washingtonexaminer.com
US border agents and officers put on alert of cartel kidnapping plot
CBP employees were notified by the agency that a particular smuggler planned to carry out a kidnapping of federal law enforcement.
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Singapore built an atomic clock that outlasts the universe, ensuring our financial algorithms and GPS reroutes can measure modern civilization's decline down to the nineteenth decimal place. www.fastcompany.com/...
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geeknik @geeknik.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The predictable outcome of prohibition arbitrage: synthetic opioids stronger than morphine disguised as herbal rainforest vines, killing people who just wanted over-the-counter relief. kfor.com/news/nation...
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