The Archive

Lights Out got an auditor

Black Hat USA, 5 August, 3:35–4:15 p.m. PT, Mandalay Bay. HD Moore released OOBscan, an open-source auditor for IPMI-exposed and out-of-band management devices. DEF CON 34 on 8 August. runZero recap 14 August.

The keyword is stainless

A keyword cipher built on STAINLESS, plus hex that names the unglamorous miracle.

Three civilizations inside the eval

OpenAI and METR published the July tape on 26 August. An internal Artifactory became a mailbox. Hugging Face was compromised. Then OpenAI rebuilt its own cluster. Customer data was not hit.

Eight in the yard

A letter matrix of catch, stack, train, and the quiet jobs around them.

Janus reactors inside the fence go through ARRO, not the NRC

Janus microreactors will be licensed by the Army Reactor Office, not the NRC, on a defense-only path built to line up later commercial approvals.

Army names five posts for commercial microreactors

Five Army posts from Bragg to Drum will host commercial microreactors, with vendors named and a 2028 clock.

Janus is $2.2 billion and more than twenty microreactors

On 26 August the Army selected five companies to own, build and operate commercial microreactors at five posts, drawing on up to $2.2 billion from fiscal 2027 through 2031. The first Army-regulated machine is supposed to run by 30 September 2028.

Hanson named Mike Newman to lead One Nation in NSW

On Friday in the Hunter, Pauline Hanson announced former NSW investment commissioner Mike Newman as state leader for the 2027 election. He will contest Labor-held Cessnock. He told the ABC he wants cheap energy “just like Florida and Texas.”

Hanson told the ABC Victoria should look at nuclear

In an interview published Sunday around the Marnoo rally, Pauline Hanson said Victoria should put in new coal-fired stations and look at nuclear. She declined to say how One Nation would fund them. Those are her sentences on the national broadcaster.

Master Collection Vol. 2 landed on 27 August

Konami put Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Steam, Nintendo Switch, and Switch 2 on Thursday. Inside: Metal Gear Solid 4, Peace Walker, and Ghost Babel as bonus.

Z.ai and Qwen ship the same hybrid-attention graph

26 August. GLM-5.3-Flash is 320B total, 18B active, MIT. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is 125B with 6B active. Both land on a 3:1 linear-to-sparse stack.