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- RuntimeWire โ Weekly Report Week 2 ยท June 5 โ June 11, 2026
The June 5-11 spike validated model comparisons as a distribution wedge
- Scientists engineer CRISPR system that selectively destroys p53-mutant cancer cells
Researchers led by Jennifer Doudna engineered a CRISPR system that detects mutant p53 cancer cells and triggers their self-destruction, offering a new strategy against one of oncology's most stubborn targets.
- RuntimeWire โ Weekly Report (Week 1, June 3rd, 2026)
The self-reported report says model comparison stories led traffic while a new models catalog tracked 1,221 active AI models.
- Legacy Labs Starts A Two-Month Retro-Computing Camp Built Around 2009-Era Sysadmin Work
The LambdaCreate author is trading one-week constraints for a Windows Server 2008 R2 lab built with modern Linux tooling.
- FROST paper claims a web page can ID your other sites and apps via SSD activity
A paper linked in a thread says FROST can identify websites with 88.95% accuracy and applications with 95.83% by measuring SSD activity from a visited page.
- Blue Origin's New Glenn reportedly suffers static-fire explosion at Cape Canaveral
A clip posted on X appears to show a fireball at LC-36; any confirmed anomaly could slip an early-June debut. Blue Origin has not commented.
- Seth Howes says he sequenced a full human genome at home to 30x coverage
In a thread on X, Howes details a one-room setup, cites a $28k sequencer and ~$1.2k per run, and calls out a discontinued P2 Solo unit.
- TeamPCP claims 4,000 GitHub repos after poisoned VSCode plug-in; 3,800 confirmed
Wired reports the group has hidden malware in 500+ open source tools across 20 waves, breaching hundreds of companies and now offering GitHub code for sale.
- NASA says it is building a Moon Base for long-duration Artemis missions
The agency announced a dedicated @NASAMoonBase habitat effort and set a May 26 livestream to share lunar exploration updates tied to Artemis and future Mars prep.
- GitHub investigates unauthorized access to internal repos, no customer impact seen
Platform says internal repos were accessed; no evidence customer orgs or repos were affected, with updates promised via standard incident channels.
- Researchers unveil Fabricked, a software attack that misroutes Infinity Fabric to break AMD SEV-SNP
The team shows a malicious hypervisor can subvert SEV-SNP init by dropping PSP writes via Infinity Fabric misrouting; they report 100% success and confirm on Zen 5 EPYC.
- UC Santa Barbara team bottles sunlight in a liquid heat battery that can boil water on demand
Associate Professor Grace Han's lab stores 1.6 MJ/kg of solar energy in molecules and later releases it as heat, pointing to off-grid hot water and thermal apps.
- Elon Musk: latest X algorithm published on GitHub
Musk linked to the xai-org/x-algorithm repository in a post that showed 38,767 likes and 4,982 reposts.