Archive for January, 2026
Eugenics: IVF “Genetic Optimization”
January 28th, 2026Via: CBS: Big leaps in science have made a once-impossible, much-debated question come to life: Would you design your unborn child? Kian Sadeghi, the 25-year-old founder and CEO at Nucleus Genomics, believes every parent has a right to do just that, selecting qualities they desire – from height to weight to intelligence. He calls it […]
Tesla Ending Models S and X Production, Converting Factory Lines to Make Optimus Robots
January 28th, 2026Via: CNBC: Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday that the automaker is ending production of its Model S and X vehicles, and will use the factory in Fremont, California, to build Optimus humanoid robots. “It’s time to basically bring the Model S and X programs to an end with an honorable discharge,” Musk said […]
Langley Plants The Flag: CIA Takes Point In Post-Maduro Venezuela
January 28th, 2026Via: ZeroHedge: The CIA is “quietly working” to establish a permanent footprint inside Venezuela to shape the country’s post-Maduro trajectory, according to a CNN report Tuesday – or rather it’s not-so-quietly, with sources saying Washington intends to run Caracas much the way it penetrated Ukraine after 2014. While the State Department is planning an eventual […]
Planned Obsolescence Documentary: The Light Bulb Conspiracy
January 28th, 2026Via: Documentary For Better World: Related: Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America by Giles Slade
AI Found 12 Vulnerabilities in SSL
January 27th, 2026If this was the case with OpenSSL… Via: AISLE: AISLE’s autonomous analyzer found all 12 CVEs in the January 2026 coordinated release of OpenSSL, the open-source cryptographic library that underpins a substantial proportion of the world’s secure communications. Some of these vulnerabilities had persisted in OpenSSL code for decades, evading the notice of thousands of […]
“Scientists Use AI to Create a Virus Never Seen Before”
January 26th, 2026Via: Daily Mail: Lab–grown life has taken a major leap forward as scientists use AI to create a new virus that has never been seen before. The virus, dubbed Evo–?2147, was created by scientists from scratch using new technologies that could revolutionise the course of evolution. With just 11 genes, compared to the 200,000 in […]
LED Lighting (350-650nm) Undermines Human Visual Performance Unless Supplemented by Wider Spectra (400-1500nm+) Like Daylight
January 26th, 2026Via: Scientific Reports: Life evolved under broad spectrum sunlight, from ultraviolet to infrared (300–2500 nm). This spectrally balanced light sculpted life’s physiology and metabolism. But modern lighting has recently become dominated by restricted spectrum light emitting diodes (350–650 nm LEDs). Absence of longer wavelengths in LEDs and their short wavelength dominance impacts physiology, undermining normal […]
In Conversation with Andrew Bridgen: Digital ID, Excess Deaths & Political Silence
January 26th, 2026Via: Digby Furneaux:
Microsoft Gave FBI a Set of BitLocker Encryption Keys to Unlock Suspects’ Laptops
January 23rd, 2026Letting Microsoft hold copies of your Bitlocker keys is very convenient—for the police. Via: Forbes: Early last year, the FBI served Microsoft with a search warrant, asking it to provide recovery keys to unlock encrypted data stored on three laptops. Federal investigators in Guam believed the devices held evidence that would help prove individuals handling […]
Korg Phase8 Acoustic Synthesizer
January 23rd, 2026There are probably fewer than five people who read Cryptogon who will be interested in the Korg Phase8, but I want to make sure they know about it. 🙂 Via: loopop: Related: Korg Phase8 Acoustic Synthesizer
