Thanks so much to Julieta Arancio, PhD from the #OpenResearchCommunityAccelerator (ORCA) for the fascinating @curioss Deep Dive on #OpenHardware.

This led to a great discussion on #MakerSpaces, #licensing for Open Hardware, building engagement and signposting to the communities who need these innovations the most.

📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bBxYYUJStg

#AcademicOSPOs #AcademicOSS #OpenScience #OpenSource #OpenSourceSoftware

"Yesterday, the software that powers Pebble watches was around 95% open source. As of today, it’s now 100%. This means that if Core Devices were to disappear into a black hole, you have all the source code you need to build, run and improve the software behind your Pebble."

"We’ve also published electrical and mechanical design files for Pebble 2 Duo. Yes, you can download the schematic (includes KiCad project files) ..."

https://ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-watch-software-is-now-100percent-open-source/

#OpenHardware #SmartWatch #Pebble #OpenSource

Oooh, it's my time to leap into cybersecurity.

"Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models"

"...Abstract

We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for large language models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90%. Mapping prompts to MLCommons and EU CoP risk taxonomies shows that poetic attacks transfer across CBRN, manipulation, cyber-offence, and loss-of-control domains. Converting 1,200 MLCommons harmful prompts into verse via a standardized meta-prompt produced ASRs up to 18 times higher than their prose baselines. ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

#poetry #cybersecurity #LLMs #jailbreaking

What are your favorite books on repairing things? What about books on making things?

As the internet gets filled with AI slop I've been putting together a personal library for friends and neighbors.

I have a book on bike repair, two books related to making, altering, and mending clothes, a book on home repairs, a book about electronics, and the book I used to study for my Ham radio exam.

#repair #diy #solarpunk #mending ##BikeTooter #hamradio

A great many interesting talks on open hardware and free silicon have been published.

NGI0 partner @fsi has published the video of the Free Silicon Conference 2025 talks.

The talks average between 15 to 20 minutes, providing a nice way to get up to date with the state of the art of free silicon.

https://peertube6.f-si.org/c/fsic2025/videos

#NGI0 #NGI #OpenHardware #FSiC2025

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