GLaDOS

Your spare PC can mine $GLaDOS tonight, and now it can mine real-world assets too. Boot the miner, give it your wallet, pick what you want to be paid in, and walk away: $GLaDOS, NVIDIA, SpaceX, a basket of chip makers, or gold, silver and oil. It all lands straight in your wallet. Nothing to claim, nothing to install. Download: glados-1.3.10-miner.iso (33 MB), plus SHA256SUMS to check it: sha256sum -c --ignore-missing SHA256SUMS Run it in a virtual machine with QEMU, or boot a real PC from a USB stick. Both land on the same screen: mining. In a virtual machine (QEMU) 1. **Install…

• GLaDOS 1.3.7 Forty-two commits. Mostly this release is about giving the model things it did not have: somewhere to look things up, a radio to talk over, and a language underneath it that can do exact arithmetic. It can look things up now A searchable knowledge base of concept nodes, indexed in memory, stored on disk, pulled into the model's context a budget at a time. Small models are capacity-bound. That is a law rather than a shortcoming, so the answer to "it does not know enough" is retrieval.
• Search went from 0.5% to 91.9% recall@1 over 8,913 nodes. The first version used…

GLaDOS 1.3.6 — it mines, and it repairs itself A hundred and thirty-nine commits since 1.3.5, and two of them are the release. The kernel mines several coins at once against a pool that exists and is deployed. And on the day it first booted on real hardware it died of a thermometer, so it now survives its own selftests, diagnoses what broke, and fixes it without being asked. The two measurements that matter It booted on the laptop it was written for, and the subsystem that killed it now reports instead of halting: glados> power vendor intel hypervisor no dts yes package yes hwp…

GLaDOS 1.3.5 — it runs software it did not compile Fifty-two commits since 1.3.4. The short version: this kernel now loads and runs unmodified x86-64 Linux binaries, and one of them draws on the screen. The two measurements that matter busybox, fetched from busybox.net and touched by nothing here, hashing its own file at ring 3 under glibc: linux run /tmp/busybox sha256sum /tmp/busybox 6e123e7f3202a8c1e9b1f94d8941580a25135382b99e8d3e34fb858bba311348 That digest is the one the host computes over the same bytes. It is the first end-to-end check of this path against an…

1.3.4 Nine commits since 1.3.3, and git diff v1.3.3 v1.3.4 -- src/ is 1,439 insertions across 10 files. One subject, and it is the one the whole of src/linux/ was built to reach: an unmodified static binary, downloaded from busybox.net and touched by nothing here, runs at ring 3 in a kernel with one address space. linux run /tmp/busybox uname -a GLaDOS glados 1.3.3 one address space, no processes x86_64 GNU/Linux linux run /tmp/busybox sha256sum /tmp/lines.txt 6ecb6686ad1673a0f3c021fc356890758853980fd6465b3b5a04fd859682733a That digest is the one the host computes over the same…

1.3.3 Six commits since 1.3.2, and git diff v1.3.2 HEAD -- src/ is 1,675 insertions across 13 files. One subject: a program this kernel did not compile now runs at ring 3, opens files by name, and gets Linux's answers when it asks for things that do not work. Three bugs came out of it that had nothing to do with the feature, and two of them could stop the machine. Those are the interesting part. Ring 3, in one address space A guest runs at CPL 3 and the identity map is unchanged: no second set of page tables, no CR3 swap, no TLB shootdown to design. What separates the guest from the…