- A new side-channel attack named “Alpha-Rays” can extract private keys from threshold ECDSA implementations; full technical details are in IACR ePrint 2021/1621 and a behind-the-scenes write-up is on HackMD.  
- Google Project Zero released an in-depth analysis of a zero-click iMessage exploit used by NSO Group that achieves remote code execution on iPhones without any user interaction.  
- VOSK, an offline speech-recognition API built on Kaldi, was highlighted for running on lightweight devices such as Raspberry Pi, Android, and iOS, with bindings for Python, Java, Node.js, C#, and C++.  
- mp4grep, a command-line tool that transcribes audio/video files (mp3, mp4, ogg, webm, mov, wav) and then searches the resulting text with regex, was shared as a practical way to “grep” spoken content.  
- The LATTE ’22 workshop call for papers explicitly asks authors to skip motivational boilerplate and jump straight into technical details, reflecting a community preference for dense, code-focused presentations.  
- A RISC-V cryptographic extension instruction set (xcrypto) was linked, offering open, hardware-level primitives for accelerating cryptographic workloads on RISC-V cores.  
- A pre-print on bioRxiv describes non-invasive stimulation of peripheral nerves using temporally-interfering electrical fields, potentially enabling new neuro-modulation therapies without implants.