LockerGnome: Developer TalesDaily tech news worth retelling: the drama, the hackery, the odd builds and the people behind them.https://lockergnome.com/Somebody built a programming language whose whole job is to break AI modelshttps://lockergnome.com/language-built-to-break-ai-models/https://lockergnome.com/language-built-to-break-ai-models/Dominik Picheta built a programming language that coding AIs aren't supposed to be able to use, and he named it KillSwitch.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 02:10:00 GMTDeveloper TalesaiprogrammingA maker finally finished an Xbox 360 project from nine years agohttps://lockergnome.com/xbox-360-project-nine-years/https://lockergnome.com/xbox-360-project-nine-years/The blogger behind Kennedn's Blog bought a Matrix CoolRunner in 2017, a modchip built to hit an Xbox 360 with a pulse of about 100 nanoseconds, and shelved the project when it didn't work out.Wed, 21 Oct 2026 03:40:00 GMTDeveloper TalesretrogamingxboxIntel documented a CPU instruction its own chip refuses to run, then dropped it from the manualhttps://lockergnome.com/intel-instruction-chip-refuses-to-run/https://lockergnome.com/intel-instruction-chip-refuses-to-run/Intel's own manual described a processor instruction called VFMADDRND231PD, and when a programmer ran it on an Intel chip that should support it, the chip refused.Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:00:00 GMTDeveloper Talesintelcpu