Kenton Varda and Jade Wang designed and built a custom Austin house optimized for LAN parties and family life, finished in late 2023, with integrated game stations, DDR pads, cat-friendly features, and guest/office spaces. The build includes 12 built-in wall PCs plus additional netbooted machines in an “engine room,” extensive Cat6/UniFi PoE networking, and PC hardware (e.g., i5-13600, RTX 4070) powering the setup.

The Switched To Linux podcast criticizes GrapheneOS's new partnership with Motorola to produce phones, expressing skepticism and raising questions about the privacy, security, and strategic implications of the collaboration. The episode is presented by Teh AnKorage and links to related Switched To Linux channels and support pages.

The post inspects how mobile agent platforms run per-tenant VMs on phones: Claude Code boots a Firecracker microVM with a sealed in-guest control process and read-only harness while inference is served remotely over SSE, and Instinct rents disposable E2B KVM sandboxes running Ubuntu where the agent persists memory as a git-backed Markdown vault pushed to S3 using short-lived STS creds.

Law enforcement agencies across the US have warned that Meta’s Ray‑Ban smart glasses could be used to covertly record officers and detention facilities or to aid reconnaissance for attacks, prompting memos, workplace bans and inspections. Meta says the glasses have a visible blinking LED when recording, but privacy advocates warn the devices enable surveillance of police and raise broader AI-driven privacy and security concerns.