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At ISC2 Strategic Congress 2026 in Denver, former CISO Lora Vaughn, now founder of The Vaughn Group consultancy, presented a simplified threat-modeling approach built around four whiteboard questions rather than lengthy formal reports. She said the method works across organizations of any size, from the NSA to small businesses, and can guide security investment decisions.
Jeeves is a new 9B-parameter Jev-like decision model built on Qwen3.5-9B with LoRA and a pointer head, trained using SFT and CISPO with a block-4 diffusion drafter. It supports yes/no, multiple-choice, and rating questions through a Jev-compatible API, and reports test accuracy of 0.889 versus 0.822 for Kev-9B and 0.857 for Jev, plus a 0.935 score on JevBench's public tiers versus 0.866 for Jev.
A programmer spent a summer at Recurse Center, a Brooklyn-based self-directed coding retreat, participating in peer-led study groups. Activities included an 'Agentic Adventures' group exploring LLM agents and sandboxed coding environments, a 'Practical Deep Learning' group working through Jeremy Howard's book, and a 'Math Monday' discussion group started with another attendee. Projects included building a remote sandbox for a coding agent, training a small text-prediction model on Romeo and Juliet, and experimenting with LoRA fine-tuning.
M5Stack has launched PaperMono, a compact development device combining a 3.97-inch grayscale E-Ink touchscreen with NFC, LoRa, microSD, RTC and a 1150mAh battery, all powered by an ESP32-S3R8 chip. The product ships in two versions: a full model with NFC and LoRa, and a Lite variant that drops those connectivity options for makers focused purely on E-Ink development. It's available now through the M5Stack Store.
Pants for Birds has released the ADSBee m1421, a new open-source aircraft tracking module that combines TI's CC1314 microcontroller with Semtech's newly launched LR2021 chip. The pairing lets the device receive both Mode S and UAT aircraft signals, including TIS-B and FIS-B uplink data, in a much smaller and lower-power package than the company's existing ADSBee 1090U receiver.