This Week In Security: AI Is A Mess, Hacking Car Chargers, An OpenSSL DoS, And Factories Under Attack

[Ayush Paul] posts about extracting data from Claude agents while it accesses web data to fulfill user requests. But it wasn’t that easy. [Ayush] discovered that Anthropic anticipated many of …read more

Hackaday Europe 2026: Half Quad, Half Blimp: Test. Fly. Survive.

A great many drones out there, whether homebuilt or store-bought, follow the same basic format. Four motors, some kind of controller, and a lithium-polymer battery supplying the juice to keep …read more

Encryption In The 1790s

For as long as humans have had writing, there’s been a need to send secret messages. It is easy to think that Enigma machines and their immediate predecessors are old …read more

FLOSS Weekly Episode 876: There Is No Money Fairy

This week Jonathan chats with Michael Meeks about Collabora! What’s the origin story in this consulting company, why do they have an outstanding office suite, and where is the world …read more

The Need For Speed: Internet Speed Measurement (or DIY?)

Car enthusiasts want to know how quickly they can make a quarter mile. Weightlifters are forever trying to add one more plate to the bar. Internet denizens have their own …read more

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FreeBSD Just Removed The Last Of Its GPL-Licensed Code

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By Maya Posch | July 28, 2026

With a recent change that removed dialog in favor of bsddialog, FreeBSD has now retired the last piece of GPL-licensed code in its base system. Although the impact of this …read more
The Orphaned Sources At The Hacker Camp: What Happened Next

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By Jenny List | July 28, 2026

At the 2024 Electromagnetic Field event in the UK, some awkward items turned up at the swap meet: radioactive sources. Fortunately there was [Tryst] at hand, who works in the …read more
De-Aging Human Tissue Using Special Enzyme To Remove AGEs

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By Maya Posch | July 27, 2026

With human bodies being bags of mostly salty water and countless messy biochemical processes, it’s little wonder that over time some residues tend to collect in these systems. Although evolution …read more
A Labour Of Love Brings A Kids Book To The Spectrum

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By Jenny List | July 27, 2026

Back in the early 1980s when 8-bit home computers became affordable educational toys for children, the traditional paper publishing industry did its best to keep up. For a few brief …read more
Re-Testing An Apollo Guidance Computer Module That Failed Certification Testing

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By Maya Posch | July 27, 2026

After getting his hands on a rope driver module from the Apollo project era that had a big ‘Scrapped Module’ stamped on it, [Mike Stewart] was naturally left curious as …read more
Reviving A Retro Mouse With BlueTooth Low Energy Support

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By Julian Scheffers | July 27, 2026

One of the disadvantages to collecting retro peripherals is that they’re not necessarily easy to use anymore. [eSPee77] changes that by retrofitting a Genius GM-6000 mouse with modern hardware, all …read more
Regain Some Trust In Unknown USB Drives

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By Bryan Cockfield | July 27, 2026

For how useful USB thumb drives are for quickly toting around and copying files from one computer to another, they can be a bit of a security headache. Programs can …read more

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