Founders edition pre-production operational. Waiting for some final components to arrive and placing the order for the electricals for the Ark I.

Mechanical parts done, just unboxed them, feels like xmas 😁

Will leave the measurements for tomorrow, otherwise I’m not gonna sleep if I find an issue 🫠

Cc @dark.bio

Ark I - Dark Bio Certain things should not depend on privacy policy.

Our teaser was getting stale... so we made a new one 🤭

We are putting together an initial batch of these (25 pcs) and they should be ready in about 6-8 weeks depending on suppliers; barring last minute fuckups.

We're looking for people who would be interested in playing with them; but who can also afford to support the project. 🧵

First picture of the USB-C version of the Dark Bio - Ark I, running on our fancy demo dock! 💚

Can't believe we have to state this, but the image is a picture we took on a 3 year old phone. It's not render, it's not AI, and it's not post-processed. What is the world coming to...

Preparing for conference season 😊

A week ago we've gifted our first production Ark and on Thursday we've show its recipient how to use it.

Today they've sent us this screenshot, a genetic diabetes analysis. Ran on an Ark, privately, with 0 data leakage. 🤯

Slow at first, then all of a sudden... 🤍❤️

GitHub - dark-bio/transparency: Cryptographic transparency reports Cryptographic transparency reports. Contribute to dark-bio/transparency development by creating an account on GitHub.

As a commitment to transparency, we've created a repository of our signing keys and operations.

The repository also includes YubiHSM and YubiKey provenance attestations, signer certificate chains and full audit logs.

More in an upcoming blog post.

This year is going to be special 🧬

First production devices, heading to Basel ❤️🇨🇭🤍

Come see what we've been up to 🧬

Quantum Threat, Today Quantum computing in the context of cryptography, impact and fallout

Good morning!

We've just published our next post in our blog series, this time about the threats of quantum computing on cryptography, the current state of affairs, and remaining challenges.

TL;DR: The tools are ready. It's your turn now. Time to build!

blog.dark.bio/2026/02/13/q...

Leaky LLMs: Accident or Nature? How LLMs are by-design incapable of retaining secrets

This is why we build privacy tech.

Saturday morning announce:

Just published the Dark Bio #flutter post-quantum cryptography package. It is an FFI wrapper around the #rust crate, with a nice #dart API and neat pub dev packaging.

TL;DR: post-quantum cryptography on #android and #ios!

Happy to announce that I've finally published / tagged the Dark Bio post-quantum cryptography packages for both #rust and #golang.

I'm certain there will be tiny tweaks here and there, but I'll try to commit to semantic versioning going forward (within v0 expectations!).

Njoy 🤓

How it started, Jan 2025: First hardware sketch
How it's going, Jan 2026: Live device at @ns.com

I've been told, for resilience and security, you need multiple competing implementations of something.

Challenge accepted. Presenting the Dark Bio post-quantum cryptography suite, implemented in both #rust and #golang 🥰

My fuzzer says they're the same 😅

Whole Genome Sequencing - 101 Intro into the world on genetics, focusing on whole genome sequencing

Starting out, a very light introduction into whole genome sequencing, by @karalabe.bsky.social. 🧬

Here's to many more such posts in the coming year 🥂

Happy new year! 🥳

Thrilled to announce a new blog series for the Dark Bio project, focusing on hardware, software and wetware!

Last teaser of the year: sneak peek view of the companion app for the Ark I.

Next year's going to be a busy one for Dark Bio! Until then, happy holidays everyone. ❄️

By popular demand, USB-C Ark I.

Doing a final end of the year push, starting to take steps towards having a globally recognised / authoritative identity for the Ark I.

We haven't got any certification work done yet, but one step is figuring out what and where needs to be highlighted on the Ark. First prototype etching done.

Our story began exactly one year ago, with a wild idea to do something nobody tried: self-sovereign genomics.

A year later, that idea became a reality. Whilst there is infinite work ahead, this one year mark is a moment for us to celebrate our progress.

Behold, the Ark I.

Best in class, never compromise...

Happy to announce that we've been granted a USB product ID under the Raspberry Foundation vendor umbrella!

Thank you @raspberrypi.com!

Our founder, @karalabe.bsky.social, will be attending @devcon.org in Buenos Aires in 2 weeks and will have a few "business cards" to give out.

Now, we're not saying that these are functional... but we're also not saying that these are non-functional ;)

Come (or rather go and) say hi!

New Ark I prototype just arrived, capable of storing not only the human genome (~3B basepairs, 1.6GB compressed), but the entire 30x sequencing data that's generated via an Illumina sequencer (~100B basepairs, 60.5GB compressed).

DNA tests: Who is getting rich with the data from our genes? | DW Documentary YouTube video by DW Documentary

Your genome is the essence of what makes you, you. Nobody can be trusted to safe-guard that. No laboratory, no company, no government... not us.

It's your responsibility to keep your genome private; and our mission, to help you do so!

Thrilled to announce, that Dark Bio AG is officially incorporated in Zug, Switzerland! 🇨🇭

Infinite work to be done, but it's a huge step towards private, sovereign and personal genomics. 🧬

Thank you everyone involved in this milestone! 🤍