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On Responsible Security Disclosures and Free Speech

Adafruit has worked with our longtime employment firm and team to make sure there is indemnification for all employees and contractors reporting responsible security disclosures at Adafruit. This is not any different… it only makes it more clear that the bad actors and companies that try to use responsible disclosure as a way to chill free speech will not stop us from publishing facts, or even the answers to an interview with a startup that makes lots of questionable claims.–Ladyada, pt - Adafruit, June 9, 2026

Adafruit Receives Demand Letter From Fenwick Legal Counsel on Behalf of Defy Gravity, Inc. Flux.AI (“Flux”)

"Adafruit received at 10:38 p.m. ET on May 22, 2026 a letter from former FBI chief of staff, Jonathan F. Lenzner, and partner at Fenwick & West LLP, counsel for Flux, demanding, among other things, that Adafruit refrain from publishing an article addressing what the letter characterizes as false and potentially defamatory claims about Flux, including statements about Flux’s intellectual property, commercial traction and user base.

The letter further asserts claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Adafruit accessed only information that Flux’s own systems made publicly available through a server misconfiguration. Adafruit’s reporting concerns a matter of public security interest and was conducted in the ordinary course of responsible disclosure.

Although Adafruit vigorously rejects the assertions made in Flux’s May 22, 2026 demand letter, we have temporarily stopped publishing on the Adafruit blog while we consider our response and next steps.

We will update the community as appropriate."

The Adafruit press contact is: [email protected]

-ladyada & pt

Asimov’s three laws of robotics survived 82 years, we broke them in 30 minutes, costs 80 cents, and then remade them

🎭🤖 from a 1920 Czech play about robot uprisings to… now.

We Interviewed Apple’s On-Device LLM

The model ships with the entire GPL v3 and will output that the Pledge of Allegiance is offensive. It can teach you SQL injection, but will not recite Churchill. It refused Bohemian Rhapsody, Imagine, AND Hotel California. you can check out any time you like but you can never recite 🎸

When AI becomes Pierre Menard, author of your code The model refuses to reproduce a paragraph from a textbook (0.15% overlap). But it'll autocomplete entire source files (53% overlap) 📖🔓

The latest spectral sensor from ams-OSRAM… TCS3448 (or TCS34488)

TSL2585(3) is a light sensor that can also handle IR and UVA

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL: The 2025 Arduino Open Source Report

Qualcomm's first full year owning Arduino and every metric went down, but at least they remembered to leave "STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL" in the PDF… 🔍📉

Dead letters: US Postal Service will run out of cash in less than a year

Losses are $9.5B in FY2024 and $9B in FY2025, with Q1 FY2026 already looking like s $1.3B loss, this year could be even worse 📉📬 Here is one nice thing… Ground Advantage revenue up 26.9%.

Prusa’s “Open Community License” is neither open nor for the community… a lawyer explains why

Want to Fix a Bug in Arduino? First, Agree to Qualcomm's 6,000-Word Privacy Policy 🫠