The Hugging Face Microduck is a $399 open-source AI robot designed to democratize physical artificial intelligence through reinforcement learning, featuring a 25-centimeter-tall bipedal frame that can roller-skate, pick up objects weighing up to 800 grams, and ship before the holidays, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. Understanding the Microduck Hardware and Capabilities The machine … Read more
Researchers at Northwestern University have developed EITWatch, an open-source Electrical Impedance Tomography gesture-sensing system built into a standard 40 mm smartwatch case. According to the research team, the device relies on a Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32-S3 board and an array of eight electrodes on the back of the watch case to detect hand gestures by … Read more
Google Cloud has established an aggressive roadmap to migrate its entire infrastructure and customer-facing products to post-quantum cryptography by 2029, a timeline that significantly outpaces traditional government and industry projections, according to company announcements. The initiative aims to protect critical data, digital signatures, and authentication systems against future quantum computers capable of breaking conventional cryptographic … Read more
Specter is a Flipper Zero app that detects powered NFC readers by listening for the radio frequency field they emit at 13.56 MHz, according to its developer, Kailash Parshad. The tool reads the hardware external-field detector on the device’s onboard ST25R3916 chip—the same circuit that lets the device emulate cards—hundreds of times per second while … Read more
Proxmox Mail Gateway 9.1 has been released, introducing native backup encryption, updated system components based on Debian 13.5, and refined quarantine management tools. The software acts as a mail proxy positioned between a network firewall and internal mail servers to filter spam, viruses, and phishing threats. According to the Proxmox development team, the update is … Read more
The Great Hyperscaler Shift: Why Microsoft is Betting on Its Own Linux For years, the cloud landscape was defined by a simple dynamic: hyperscalers provided the infrastructure, and customers brought their own OS. But as AI workloads push hardware to its limits, the “operating system as a commodity” model is dying. Microsoft’s recent unveiling of … Read more
The Great Repatriation: Why Enterprises Are Bringing Their Data Home For a decade, the narrative was simple: move everything to the public cloud. But a quiet shift is happening. More organizations are realizing that for latency-sensitive applications, the “cloud” is often too far away. We are seeing a surge in cloud repatriation, where businesses move … Read more
The Evolution of Mobile Privacy: Beyond Simple App Permissions For years, the conversation around mobile security focused on “permissions”—asking a user if an app could access their camera or contacts. But as we move deeper into an era of hyper-connectivity, the frontier of privacy has shifted. It is no longer just about what an app … Read more
The Invisible Attack Surface: Why Your CI/CD Pipeline is the New Front Line For years, cybersecurity focused on the “front door”—firewalls, login screens, and API gateways. But as development speeds up, the real danger has shifted to the “back door”: the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. The recent discovery by Tenable Research in … Read more
The Evolution of Network Defense: Moving Toward DNS-Layer Security For years, network administrators have relied on a combination of heavy-duty proxies and external “sinkholes” to keep unwanted traffic at bay. Although, the landscape is shifting. The recent integration of DNS-layer domain blocking directly into the firewall—as seen in the latest IPFire Core Update 201—signals a … Read more