Notes · 2026 · August · 02

Notes · August 2, 2026 — Page 3

Notes for August 2, 2026

• AUGUST 02

  Decrypting a Water Monitor’s Radio Signal

  Paul Kendall’s breakdown of intercepting Flume water-meter radio traffic—showing AES-128 was not broken, but a weak key-derivation scheme left only 44 unknown bits that a GPU recovered for about $10 in cloud cost.

  Inspired by waveformsecurity.com · Paul Kendall

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• AUGUST 02

  AI’s Most Valuable Startups Are Barely Participating in Science

  Science reports that more than half of the world’s billion-dollar AI startups have produced no qualifying scientific paper or preprint—arguing extraordinary technical claims need evidence outsiders can examine, not faith in product demos.

  Inspired by science.org · Science

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