Best damn hacking video in decades and it's my dude, Mr @joegrand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhJoJRqJ0Wc

We've been testing a pretty sweet new feat for RAPTOR with the exploitability validation pipeline, which sits between vulnerability discovery & exploit generation.

Before, we be like:

scan → analyse → exploit

now, we is:

scan → validate exploitability → analyse → exploit

Typical flow now becomes:

1. Static or dynamic analysis identifies candidate vulnerabilities
2. Exploitability validation stage runs
3. Only validated findings proceed to exploit generation
4. Exploit proof of concept or patch generation follows

For us on the team, this is significant because it:

1. Reduces false positives that lead to meaningless exploit generation and token wastage (gotta be cost aware)
2. Forces the agent to reason about realistic attacker capabilities
3. Enables prioritisation based on real impact

RAPTOR now standardises human readable exploitability statuses, namely:

Exploitable
Confirmed
Proven
Disproven
Ruled Out

It's a big step forward and hopefully gives all insight into what we are working on moving forward.

Remember kids, Gobbles were amazing. Love you all

https://github.com/gadievron/raptor

When bugs actually cost lives. Great bit of research by CheckPoint on how cyber and trad war intersect

https://research.checkpoint.com/2026/interplay-between-iranian-targeting-of-ip-cameras-and-physical-warfare-in-the-middle-east/

Totes not a fan of digital watches, but the SQFMI Watchy kinda appealed to me in a hacker/tinkererer sense.

https://watchy.sqfmi.com/

It had been 5 years since I made my first watch face, so this weekend me the the kids made a new one for 2026, Bauhaus inspired

Kids actually enjoyed working out where to put the boxes, compiling the firmware and pushing it to the watch and seeing what worked and what didnt.

Based off an esp32 and with PlatformIO helping, this is a good fun exercise for kids I feel (and adults too)

https://github.com/danielcuthbert/watchy-marina

So now that vibe coding has gripped the world, who’s going to be first to create the app, or apps, that start helping people block Automated Content Recognition (ACR) from working?

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-secures-major-win-stopping-samsung-using-its-smart-tvs-illegally-spy

Not that we need another set of firewalls, but it’s kinda clear we need something to understand when such tech is tracking you