Juan Castillo Frankfurt
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Juan Castillo Frankfurt
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Physicist, Programmer, Occasional Gamer, Book lover, frustrated writer (not in this order)
This looks fun... Now that I was checking how Bluetooth works, they released this vulnerability... arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...
Many Bluetooth devices with Google Fast Pair vulnerable to “WhisperPair” hack
Even Google's own earbuds are vulnerable to the Fast Pair hack.
arstechnica.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:15 PM
AWS goes EU-compliant. Meet the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Given the current political situation, will you use it? Or most importantly, will "I" use it? (article in English and German, by the way) aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/op...
Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud | Amazon Web Services
Deutsch | English | Español | Français | Italiano As a European citizen, I understand first-hand the importance of digital sovereignty, especially for our public sector organisations and highly regula...
aws.amazon.com
January 17, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Well, I'm sure you know it. Now it's about to disappear. We'll miss it, I believe. In memory of StackOverflow davegriffith.substack.com/p/requiem-fo...
Requiem For Another Hellsite
There’s an old joke that circulates among developers, and like most of our jokes, it’s funny because it’s true:
davegriffith.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:58 PM
I'm speaking with my TV and speakers ("play this on Spotify", "start radio blablabla", and so on) since way before the AI boom... and after years of updates, it only gets worse. But it's fun because they are dumb. spyglass.org/vocal-comput...
"Hello, Computer."
With AI and an appetite for new hardware, vocal computing seems primed to take off, for real this time...
spyglass.org
January 14, 2026 at 12:34 PM
There it is. Written. Back to the Moon by 2028. I'll be waiting! arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...
Trump commits to Moon landing by 2028, followed by a lunar outpost two years later
Also, the Trump administration wants to put some nuclear power reactors there, too.
arstechnica.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Curious article. Never underestimate the power of Ethnolinguistics. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Ancient DNA solves mystery of Hungarian, Finnish language origins — Harvard Gazette
Parent emerged over 4,000 years ago in Siberia, farther east than many thought, then rapidly spread west, study finds.
news.harvard.edu
December 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Didn't test it, but I saw it working at the Osaka International Exposition 2025. Would you try it? www.ndtv.com/offbeat/japa...
Japan Unveils Human Washing Machine, Now You Can Get Washed Like Laundry
Japan's Science Inc. has launched a futuristic human washing machine after its successful debut at Expo 2025 in Osaka, with plans to sell just 50 units priced at 60 million yen.
www.ndtv.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Candidatus Sukunaarchaeum. A food for thought. Monday morning post to wake you up. www.quantamagazine.org/a-cell-so-mi...
A Cell So Minimal That It Challenges Definitions of Life | Quanta Magazine
The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by genome sequencing.
www.quantamagazine.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:40 AM
The Cloudflare thing, explained by Cloudflare. Because I care. This time it was not the new guy 😁 blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...
Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.
blog.cloudflare.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Another player in the game of who's first to sell the space in "Space". arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...
A commercial space station startup now has a foothold in space
Vast differs from its space station cohorts by flying a series of progressively more complex demos.
arstechnica.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:40 AM
A little bit old news, but still relevant. Do not update your hardware at the very last minute! www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/g...
9 in 10 Exchange servers in Germany are out of support
: Cybersecurity agency urges organizations to upgrade or risk total network compromise
www.theregister.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:51 AM
The cloud is dead, long live the cloud. Or should I say "The Cloud is us"? rameerez.com/send-this-ar...
Send this article to your friend who still thinks the cloud is a good idea
You've been lied to. You don't need the cloud – you can just run servers and save 10x your AWS costs. It's not that difficult.
rameerez.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Because of life, I'm not posting as frequently as before. But I'll try to be less selfish in the future. Have a look at this, let me know what you did with it 😜 github.com/charmbracele...
GitHub - charmbracelet/crush: The glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal 💘
The glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal 💘 - charmbracelet/crush
github.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
This is an old one. I never tried it, so I can't tell you if it's true or not... Interesting to know, in any case hackread.com/mic-e-mouse-...
New Mic-E-Mouse Attack Shows Computer Mice Can Capture Conversations
Follow us on Bluesky, Twitter (X), Mastodon and Facebook at @Hackread
hackread.com
October 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Just in case you didn't read it yet. arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Meet the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize winners
The annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and the 24/7 lectures.
arstechnica.com
September 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This is the world we're living in. Germany charges a hacker with the Rosneft (Russia's state-owned oil) cyberattack. The attacker took over all the VMs and UPSs, as well as triggered a remote wipe of 59 iPhones and iPads. Security is not a joke! www.exponential-e.com/blog/germany...?
Germany charges hacker with Rosneft cyberattack in latest wake-up call for critical infrastructure
Germany charges hacker over massive Rosneft cyberattack - 20TB stolen, IT crippled, €12M+ losses. A stark warning for energy-sector cyber resilience.
www.exponential-e.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:05 AM
I was a LARPer for a while, but this is seriously the next level! www.vice.com/en/article/p...
Meet the Polish LARPers Who Pretend to Be American
Roleplaying as people celebrating the 4th of July in Ohio is a unique take on LARP, to say the least.
www.vice.com
September 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Biergarten science? Biergarten science! Prof. Jan Wörner is speaking right now about the Universe in the Kalkofen Biergarten. In German, but fun for everyone! Picture of one of the biergarten lights
August 31, 2025 at 6:41 PM
We'll I'm no longer a student but it's interesting to know!
August 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Reposted by Juan Castillo Frankfurt
Exciting to see our protein binder design pipeline BindCraft published in its final form in @Nature ! This has been an amazing collaborative effort with Lennart, Christian, @sokrypton.org, Bruno and many other amazing lab members and collaborators.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Highball time. Because it's Saturday night
August 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
If I could, I would... write a book instead of a HOWTO or a paper. But for that, I need time and an argument 😆 #could #would
August 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM