Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming
Plus: Hackers use Meta’s AI bots to hack Instagram accounts, Anthropic helps NSA hackers, a decades-long GPS satellite mystery may have been solved, and more.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@sjmurdoch/116681186650836098
For the tl;dr, I wrote a summary of my analysis of the GPS Special Message “number station”, including entropy measurement, duplicated strings, a mysterious new “TEXT” prefix, and the system’s relationship with military key distribution. https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2026/06/02/the-quiet-numbers-station-decoding-nineteen-years-of-gps-cryptography/
The source code is available on GitHub, and the data is on Zenodo. I’d welcome follow-up analysis.
https://github.com/sjmurdoch/gps-special-messages
GitHub - sjmurdoch/gps-special-messages: Analysis of the GPS Special Message field
Analysis of the GPS Special Message field. Contribute to sjmurdoch/gps-special-messages development by creating an account on GitHub.
For 19 years, GPS satellites have secretly broadcast a “numbers station” in their public signals. We decoded 12M messages: a 2011 flash where 31 of 32 satellites flipped in hours, “ghost” substrings repeating years apart, and a “TEXT” prefix spreading now.
https://lsc-pagepro.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=865273&p=62&view=issueViewerClaude Opus 4.7 is out, and I’ve been interfacing it with the National Rail Live Departure Boards API. I leave you with a poem inspired by the current departures from St Pancras station.
MCP gives AI tools access to powerful capabilities but is notorious for heavy token use. AXI is a promising token-efficient alternative but it relies on predicting typical tool usage. I've proposed a modification where tools self-tune through an OODA loop.
https://github.com/kunchenguid/axi/pull/29
