This Week In Security: Stealing Email With AI, AMD Nerfs Chips, The World Cup Nearly Rickrolled, And GPSD Bugs

Firefox recently added integrated AI support — a generally poorly received move among many Firefox users — that includes an AI chatbot integration for interacting with web pages. Florian Port …read more

Flying Cell Towers Are A Thing

Typically, when you’re sitting on a plane on the tarmac, you switch your phone to flight mode while you’re sitting through yet another “quirky” (boring) safety video. You’ll watch some …read more

FLOSS Weekly Episode 872: I’m Not Satoshi

This week Jonathan chats with Tristan Sherliker about the Craig Wright case, Open Source and the law, and Tristan’s own Open Source project, BunTool. How did Open Source help win …read more

The Trains With Rubber Tires

The train was one of the game-changing inventions that defined the Industrial Age. No more would humanity rely on tempestuous animals to haul goods and passengers great distances across the …read more

Linux Fu: Upcycling An Old Router

You’re wandering through a thrift store and spot an old router for ten bucks. Worthless, right? But in this case, it was a Google OnHub, which, at the time, was …read more

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HamsterOS Crams Complete Graphical Desktop Onto 1.44 MB Floppy

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By Donald Papp | June 29, 2026

It’s not every day that there’s a new OS in the works for 386 and 486-era hardware, but [John Swiderski] let us know he working hard to bring HamsterOS to retrocomputing …read more
It’s Linux, On A Sega Megadrive

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By Jenny List | June 29, 2026

If you were in the market for a games console in 1990, the chances are that the object of your desire was either a Super Nintendo with its 16-bit 6502 …read more
Custom Hybrid Drivetrain Powers Boat

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By Bryan Cockfield | June 28, 2026

Offloading acceleration and braking to an electric motor in a hybrid configuration allows the less efficient combustion engine run in a more narrow set of RPM and torque ranges. In …read more
Phone Stand Aims To Fight Addiction

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By Zoe Skyforest | June 28, 2026

Sometimes, it’s hard to stop picking up your phone every few minutes to check on notifications and scroll endlessly through the slop of the day. [PushpendraC2] has been working on …read more
Reachy Mini Desktop Robot Gets All-local, Conversational AI

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By Donald Papp | June 28, 2026

Reachy Mini is a limbless desktop robot from Hugging Face made for human interaction experiments, and to give you an idea of what it’s like is a guide on how …read more
RF Hacking A Ceiling Fan Via The Remote

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By Zoe Skyforest | June 28, 2026

[Sam Wilkinson] recently installed a Dreo CLF513S ceiling fan in his place — it’s cheap, well-sized, and blows air around as you’d expect it to. The only problem is that …read more
Teaching An AI To Play A Racing Game Via Screen Input

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By Zoe Skyforest | June 28, 2026

If you’re a fleshy human, you probably learn to play video games by looking at the screen and pressing the buttons, and maybe copying the way you’ve seen others play …read more

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