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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Porting The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess To The 3DS

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By Maya Posch | July 2, 2026

After the Nintendo 3DS saw various Nintendo 64-era titles like Super Mario 64, Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask ported to it, there was a lot of speculation that the GameCube/Wii title of Twilight …read more
Chain-of-Thought Spoofing Targets Reasoning AI Models

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By Donald Papp | July 2, 2026

Researchers [Charles Ye], [Jasmine Cui], and [Dylan Hadfield-Menell] have shown that AI Large Language Models (LLMs) can fail to correctly distinguish between different instruction sources because they prioritize writing style …read more
Bubbles, Belts, And Bulbs: How The Scantron Works

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By Matt Varian | July 2, 2026

Many of us remember back in our school days taking tests and filling out answers on a Scantron sheet, those long rows of A, B, C, D, and E that …read more
DIY SI5351 Radio Tunes In SW, MW, And More

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By Zoe Skyforest | July 2, 2026

There are plenty of radios you can buy that pick up MW and SW bands if that’s what you’re into. Or, you can follow [mircemk]’s example, and whip one up …read more
An EInk, ESP32-based Game Boy

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By Tyler August | July 2, 2026

This is one of those projects that was both inspired and made possible by the absolute embarrassment of dev boards available to the modern hacker. In this case, the dev …read more
Jenny’s Daily Drivers: KolibriOS 0.7.7

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By Jenny List | July 2, 2026

It’s a fact of life when starting a computer, that booting into whatever operating system you use will take a while. Mine takes somewhere around 30 seconds, and yours probably …read more
A Light-Up Map Of Monaco

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By Zoe Skyforest | July 2, 2026

If you want to get around Monaco, a map — digital or otherwise — is probably the best way to navigate. But if you just want to appreciate the city’s …read more

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