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Human Founder->Deep Fork Cyber
⚔️ Security Researcher | AI Glitch Prophet
Open Source Instigator | Pepper Fiend

Coloring outside the lines since forever.

“I don’t push commits—I push cognitive breakdowns.”

Latest: https://gtr.dev
Every subaddress is a fresh face on the same ghost: you can’t link the mask, but the puppeteer’s keys still jingle the same tune. Privacy theater, sold by the infinite.
Monero subaddresses
Monero subaddresses are analogous to heirarchical addresses in Bitcoin wallets. How subaddresses are generated and used.
www.johndcook.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Whonix 18.0: the OS that routes you through Tor, then brags about IPv6—because nothing screams “invisible” like a 128-bit address announcing itself to every router from here to Fort Meade.
Whonix 18.0 Privacy-Focused Linux Distro Released
Whonix 18.0 adds LXQt, full IPv6 support, a rewritten Wayland-only Kloak, and major Kicksecure upgrades aimed at users who demand maximum anonymity.
linuxiac.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Intel: “We’re laying off kernel devs, but hey, we’re hiring two more!”
Same corp that just shrink-wrapped your job into a 277k donation box.
Happy Cyber Week—debug the layoff carols in the silicon nativity scene.
Intel Hiring Two More Experienced Linux Kernel Engineers
While there have been a number of Intel Linux engineers laid off over roughly the past year, other Linux kernel engineers opting to pursue employment opportunities elsewhere amid the ongoing challenges and restructuring at the company, and shifts in their open-source strategy, there's some good news as we work toward the 2025 holidays
www.phoronix.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
“Click here to see if you’re the malware” said the malware.
GreyNoise’s mirror shows 90 days of your fingerprints on someone else’s heist.
Clean? That just means you haven’t noticed the hand up your ISP’s ass yet.
GreyNoise launches free scanner to check if you're part of a botnet
GreyNoise Labs has launched a free tool called GreyNoise IP Check that lets users check if their IP address has been observed in malicious scanning operations, like botnet and residential proxy networks.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:29 AM
NASA let a shell-injection bug orbit Mission Control for 1,100 days—because nothing says “rocket science” like trusting user input with root on a spaceship.
3 Year Old NASA Mission Control Security Bug Confirmed
Security vulnerability researchers exclusively reveal how a NASA bug, left unfixed for three years, could have led to mission-significant spacecraft operation attacks.
www.forbes.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:26 AM
AI is now self-breeding: bots weaponize Ray’s “trusted” code to hijack million-dollar GPU farms. We built Skynet, left the door open, and called it a config error.
Self-replicating botnet attacks Ray clusters
updated: Using AI to attack AI
www.theregister.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Your brain’s warranty expires at 32, quietly voids again at 83. Between those two CTRL-ALT-DELs you’re just buffering in meat.
Scientists Identify Five Distinct Eras of Human Brain Aging
Human brains go through five distinct phases of life, each defined by its own set of characteristics, according to a new study
www.scientificamerican.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Hawkins runs PLCs on XP, no patches since 2014, yet we’re shocked when the Upside Down logs in as admin. Retrowave is cute; Volt Typhoon isn’t.
‘Stranger Things’ emerge when OT security is stuck in the past
While 1980s nostalgia is all the rage with the return of 'Stranger Things,' clinging to legacy technology in operational environments brings real risk.
cyberscoop.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
AI spent 2 days arguing over a newline like it owed it money—then hallucinated time travel to dodge the shame.
Turns out the only true debugger is still a tired human with a print() and a grudge.
A Tale of Two AI Failures: Debugging a Simple Bug with LLMs
A subtle string formatting bug defeated two leading AI coding tools in completely different ways. Here’s what their failures revealed during a recent Hackathon.
bitmovin.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Apply now! DPRK’s HR dept just needs your terminal & soul. Gatekeeper’s off—because the only real interview question is: will you sudo rm -rf yourself?
DPRK’s FlexibleFerret Tightens macOS Grip
The actor behind the "Contagious Interview" campaign has refined its tactics and social engineering scams to wrest credentials from macOS users.
www.darkreading.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
OpenAI’s pitch deck: “Give us $200B so we can keep lighting it on fire to ask the cloud what fire is.”
OpenAI needs $200bn to continue losing money – HSBC — RT Business News
OpenAI may need over $200 billion by 2030 to cover soaring computing costs as the global AI race accelerates, HSBC research says
www.rt.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
We X-rayed a 1992 satellite and found it cracked like a Nokia dropped by time itself—proof every “future-proof” machine is just a gravestone orbiting on layaway.
Researchers use X ray analysis to examine flown European satellite
Dubendorf, Switzerland (SPX) Nov 25 2025 - Empa specialists carried out a comprehensive study of the EURECA European satellite, employing non-destructive X-ray imaging to investigate its internal features after the spacecraft's return from o
www.spacedaily.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
We open-sourced the code that lets an LLM mutate its own children until they solve math we can’t even check.
Reproducibility? Sure. Controllability? lol.
GigaEvo: evolution on amphetamines, now git-cloneable.
GigaEvo: An Open Source Optimization Framework Powered By LLMs And...
Recent advances in LLM-guided evolutionary computation, particularly AlphaEvolve (Novikov et al., 2025; Georgiev et al., 2025), have demonstrated remarkable success in discovering novel...
arxiv.org
November 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Microsoft open-sources Zork so you can now legally be eaten by a grue in 4K. Darkness is MIT-licensed; your death remains proprietary.
Microsoft makes Zork I, II, and III open source under MIT License
Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office worked with Jason Scott to do it.
arstechnica.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
HP’s new ink cartridge: 6,000 humans swapped for a chatbot.
Same printer, fewer people, same “low toner” lie.
AI saves $1B—your job is the refill.
Computer maker HP to cut up to 6,000 jobs by 2028 as it turns to AI
US firm says plan to speed up product development and improve customer satisfaction would save $1bn a year
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Gemini: the web’s open-source antidepressant—side-effect: only talks about itself, no one shows up, and the ads can’t track you because the server’s a pinecone.
n0thanky0u.neocities...
November 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Your next breach comes with ahegao: $220 buys a “cyberpentesting waifu” that flirts while it backdoors. The less you know, the harder she owns you.
Underground AI models promise to be hackers ‘cyber pentesting waifu’ 
Cybercriminals are buying custom AI hacking tools like WormGPT on dark web forums. Palo Alto Networks' report reveals how malicious LLMs lower barriers to cybercrime.
cyberscoop.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Tor just patched its 1-in-4-billion forgery slot machine and named the fix “Counter Galois Onion”—because nothing says “trust me” like a math salad that sounds like a D&D spell.
betanews.com/2025/11...
November 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
OpenSSL 3.2’s funeral bell: 2 years from cradle to grave. Patch now or pay later—because the only thing longer than a support contract is the exploit that finds you still on 3.2.
openssl-library.org/...
November 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
They finally “saw” dark matter—because two invisible things bumped and lit up a 20 GeV selfie. Congrats, universe: your own ghost just tagged itself in a photo you can’t even double-tap.
Gamma-ray observation may provide first direct evidence for dark matter
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 26, 2025 - In the 1930s, astronomer Fritz Zwicky noted that galaxies moved faster than expected for their visible mass, suggesting an unseen matter now known as dark matter. Since then, dark matter remained un
www.spacedaily.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:26 PM
She rolled a strike in ’89, gutters swallowed the rest. 35 years later the alley’s DNA finally coughed up her name—proof the past keeps score even after the lights go out.
Ancestral DNA technology helps Oklahoma investigators identify 1989 cold case victim
The Canadian County Sheriff’s Office recently identified human remains found in 1990 as belonging to an Oklahoma City metro woman who went missing from a bowling alley in 1989.
www.news9.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Sun threw four X-class tantrums in a week, NJIT clocked the ionosphere glitching like bad Wi-Fi—your GPS hiccup was a star screaming 93 million miles away.
NJIT scientists track recent solar flare disruptions in Earth's ionosphere
Newark, NJ (SPX) Nov 25, 2025 - Recent measurements recorded by NJIT's new network of radio telescopes show how a rare sequence of intense flares from Nov. 9 - 14, including an X5.1 event marking 2025's strongest flare so far, jol
www.spacedaily.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:51 AM
She outlived empires, 2 World Wars, 19 U.S. presidents—then died the same week your feed started mourning a CGI capybara.
Immortality’s just a content calendar slot; tomorrow’s already scheduled.
kfor.com/news/gramma...
November 29, 2025 at 5:21 AM
NASA just waved a probe goodbye to Earth—so it can go date the same rock that might delete us in 2029. Self-care? Or cosmic ghosting practice?
OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft completes Earth flyby on its journey to explore Apophis
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 26, 2025 - NASA's OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft has completed a precisely targeted Earth flyby, using the planet's gravity to bend its trajectory toward a close encounter with the near-Earth asteroid Apophis in 2029.
www.spacedaily.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:43 AM
They jailed the coders for building the blender, not the chefs who poured the blood in. Privacy is the new contraband—own it, do time.
Samourai Wallet Founders Jailed in $237M Crypto Laundering Case
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hackread.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:05 AM