Revisiting Making Your Own Internet Router In 2026

After my recent misadventures setting up an OpenWrt installation on a scruffy e-waste-level x86 PC, quite a few people chimed in with feedback, criticism and friendly hostility regarding things like …read more

This Week In Security: AI Generated Reports, More AI Generated Reports, GitHub Chaos, And More Linux Vulnerabilities

Google’s Project Zero demonstrates a new zero-click exploit for the Pixel 10 phones, showing a full escalation from remote to kernel without user interaction. During the investigation Project Zero found …read more

Tech In Plain Sight: The Mechanics Of String Trimmers

My old friend Jeff was always vocally upset that he didn’t come up with the idea of a string trimmer, commonly known as a Weed Eater or Weed Whacker. On …read more

Magnets Are Bad For Hardware Again

If you were around tech in the bad old days, magnets could be really bad news. They were fine on the fridge, no problem at all. Put one near a …read more

Spy Tech: A Quiet Radio For Spies

Normally, when you think of a radio transmitter, you want the strongest signal and range. But if your radio operator is secretly operating as a spy, broadcasting their position isn’t …read more

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Connecting Your Car To Home Assistant

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By Maya Posch | June 4, 2026

With how much time many of us spend in our cars, it makes perfect sense to consider them a second home. Yet even if that’s not the case, there are …read more
Microsoft Claims 20 Second Qubits

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By Al Williams | June 4, 2026

While it might seem that your computer malfunctions every few minutes, the reality is that modern computers are usually quite robust. Not so much for quantum computers, where qubit life …read more
If You Want To Hack Me, Come In Through The Speaker

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By Al Williams | June 4, 2026

Some security hacks require someone to have physical access to your computer. In many cases, that’s easy to mitigate. Other attack vectors can put you at risk from anywhere via …read more
Ways To Embed Magnets In 3D Prints And Not Ruin Printers

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By Maya Posch | June 4, 2026

Adding magnets to a 3D print can be very useful in a design, but there are some things that can trip you up if you’re not aware of them. In …read more
An RGB Keyboard For Your Hackaday Communicator Badge

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By Jenny List | June 4, 2026

The most recent Hackaday event badge has been the Communicator, a handheld wireless terminal with a rather nice QWERTY keyboard. It’s good enough as delivered, but [makeTVee] has gone one …read more
The World’s First GPIB Speech Synthesizer, And It’s For A GRiD Compass

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By Jenny List | June 4, 2026

The GRiD Compass is a legendary portable computer — a taste of an early-80s future with bubble memory, tough enough for NASA to take them into space, and one of …read more
Ask Hackaday: How Do You Feel About Electronic Shelf Labels?

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By Tom Nardi | June 4, 2026

Unless you’ve spent the last few years locked indoors and had all of your goods delivered to you — a not entirely implausible situation, given our audience — you’ve likely …read more

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