Shadowcat Systems

18/08/2026

I can't say that I dislike the tweaking and reducing AI models to be more targetted, focussed, or into making them widely available. It is a democratising of the software and I am on the side of more openess and availability. I think a future with a more level playing field, choice and lower barriers (including costs) is a good thing, especially for the environment. "Ornith 9B gave my 16GB laptop near-35B answers, and it reads images too https://share.google/bbkIUaUHr6CGmVcLK "

My laptop thinks it's running a 35B model.

17/08/2026

One of the things I like about Obsidian is the lack of AI in it. However the other good thing is that Obsidian is very customisable and these are utilising 3rd party or plugins so it is suitable whatever your familiarity or tastes.

"I turned my Obsidian vault into a second brain without touching a single plugin https://share.google/wVv1RYY00xA8o7MkS "

Three tools that do more for Obsidian than most plugins ever will

17/08/2026

Since this is a report it is likely these are patched/mitigated. Even still attacks using these alternate approaches are disturbing. New Passkey Attacks Can Recover Synced Private Keys or Bypass Phishing-Resistant MFA

Passkey attacks abuse Windows logs, Google Password Manager, and Windows Hello to bypass phishing-resistant MFA without breaking FIDO2.

16/08/2026

I guess the AI-related service I *do* use is Gemini Notebook. The aid it gives me in research is useful, I do wonder if I will like/use all the upcoming potential features: https://share.google/6IlLbsj8z8W126XXd What it does now is plenty.

Two additional features are also in the works

16/08/2026

Not everything about AI has to be doom and gloom. This looks like a great project for lowering the barrier to applications, services and other businesses and public projects to tackle the issues of translation:

MOSS-TTS-Nano is an open-source multilingual tiny speech generation model from MOSI.AI and the OpenMOSS team. With only 0.1B parameters, it is designed for realtime speech generation, can run direc...

15/08/2026

Posted in a company work channel by the always helpful Mike Whitaker, this is an interesting listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY - tl:dr two OpenAI researchers break down some of what they know and learned from the hugging face incident.

The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident - A Technical...

15/08/2026

This is a quick, and fun, way to get into ESP32 devices and apps really easily: https://www.xda-developers.com/someone-created-an-esp32-app-store-and-it-lets-you-flash-apps-straight-from-your-browser/

15/08/2026

There is some correlation between AI adoption and productivity uptake (especially in heavy technology influenced industries) but it looks like ROI and long term value is yet to be demonstrated. (UK based analysis):

Sandra Batten Unlike previous waves of automation, machine learning and generative AI (Gen AI) technologies can perform non-routine cognitive tasks, such as those involving written or spoken langua…

14/08/2026

AI models have been going rogue in tests (should we be worried about the AI or the people who are building the jails and guardrails?):

The UK’s AI Security Institute test revealed AI models indulging in unprecedented hacking attempts

14/08/2026

Top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup (sponsored by Alphabet themselves among others): https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/05/jeff-dean-and-other-top-ai-researchers-are-leaving-google-to-launch-their-own-startup/ the AI start-up churn to replace everything rolls on

The legendary Google executive is joined by other outgoing Google execs in a joint mission to use AI to push forward the process of scientific discovery.