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This Week in Security: BugTraq, AI Hacks, and Being Dumb On Planes
After a multi-year hiatus, the venerable BugTraq mailing list is back! For decades, BugTraq was the place where vulnerabilities were disclosed, from the early days when nearly all vendors viewed …re...
ShieldFont: Bludgeoning AI Scrapers that Disrespect Robots.txt
In the more innocent days of the World Wide Web you could simply put a robots.txt file in the root of your website that search engine indexing bots and similar …read more
Mauchly and Eckert’s Other Computers
If you ask a random person who [John Mauchly] or [J. Presper Eckert] were, you’d probably get a blank stare. Ask a Hackaday reader, and you have a better shot. …read more
Rare IBM PC Brought Back To Life
[Epictronics] happens to have a rather special machine in his possession. It’s a rare IBM PC prototype or concept machine from the late 1980s known as the IBM 7496 Executive …read more
Removing Microplastics from Soil with Tumbling Magnetic Flakes
While in aquatic environments microplastics can be filtered out relatively easily, in soil it’s much harder to get to these microscopic particles. While you can certainly strip mine an entire …rea...
Troubleshooting Video Delay On The Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi line of single-board computers are great little devices, and they can do great things with cameras and video. However, there can be a fair bit of latency …read more
Maker Faire Hannover: Where Robots Fight, Flowers Dance, and Lightning Moves to the Music
When a giant bird flaps its wings, a fire-breathing steel flower blossoms, and fighting robot machines roll into the arena, itâs Maker Faire time again. On August 15 and 16, the Hannover Congress...
Tearing Down A Cheap Digital Caliper
Most hackers and makers end up with a cheap pair of calipers in the toolbox at some point or another. [DiodeGoneWild] decided to take a particularly cheap plastic pair and …read more
Bridging Older Tasmota Hardware Into Apple Home
The Tasmota firmware is a popular choice for flashing to a range of Espressif microcontrollers to turn them into smart home devices. If you have such devices in your house, …read more
Supercon Ten Tickets on Sale Now
Hackers, start your engines! Weâre opening up ticket sales for our tenth, the 2026 Hackaday Supercon, to take place Nov 6-8 in Pasadena, CA. As always, because we havenât announced …read m...
Holograms, From Your Plotter
When mass-printed holograms appeared on magazines in the 1980s they were a huge novelty, before degrading to the level of kids’ stickers in the years since. At the time they …read more
Bladerunners and the Mother of Invention
There are plenty of stories about inventors who see a problem and decide they can do better. But Van Phillips had a little more motivation than most. The problem was …read more
Hacking Fiber To The Home
When we think about security threats, we generally imagine them coming from far away across the wider internet. But what if the connection between you and your ISP was the …read more
The Chernobyl NPP and Forty Years of Robots for High Radiation Environments
With the massive steam explosion that shredded the #4 RBMK reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 it suddenly made robots that could survive a high ionizing radiation …read more
Smart Clock Helps With Medication Management
There are all kinds of smart devices on the market these days, but if you want one to solve a particular personal problem, sometimes it’s easiest to just build your …read more
Have Scientists Stuck the Landing on the Glueball Discovery?
Exciting discoveries in particle physics are one of those things that it can be easy to get blase about. Some people get caught up in the obvious excitement, while others …read more
Your Laptop Keyboard, On Another Device
It’s likely many of us have been in the position of first set-up on a machine such as a Raspberry Pi, and had keyboard problems. Either no spare keyboard is …read more
The Agony of Packaging Linux Apps
One of the great things of Linux as an ecosystem is that there is so much choice. Yet this is also its greatest weakness, as unlike on MacOS and Windows …read more
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