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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Duplicating Parts Using Silicone Molds

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By Zoe Skyforest | July 26, 2026

[Do As I Do] had a simple task to complete. A couple of small parts needed to be duplicated in some quantity, with good dimensional accuracy and surface finish. There …read more
Delta Pen Plotter Draws In Multiple Colors

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By Zoe Skyforest | July 26, 2026

If you’re building your first plotter, or you just like thinking in right angles, you’d probably consider a Cartesian design for your build. [András Vujovits] went another route with his …read more
How Film Industry Data Website The-Numbers.com Got Mauled By Bots

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By Maya Posch | July 25, 2026

A lot has been made about the increase of automated traffic on the Internet, with the past years LLM-related crawlers having quite literally swarmed the picture here. Not only does …read more
Building A Fencing Scoring Box

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By Zoe Skyforest | July 25, 2026

The sport of fencing requires keeping score, just like so many other similar pastimes. When their club’s existing scoring rig broke, [jc0025] stepped up to build a scoring box of …read more
Taking Tri-Camera True-Color Infrared Videos

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By Aaron Beckendorf | July 25, 2026

Silicon-based CMOS camera sensors are cheap and plentiful, but they’re rarely used to their full potential: they can detect a greater range of wavelengths in the infrared spectrum than they …read more
Team Repair Breaks Things To Teach People How To Fix Them

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By Navarre Bartz | July 25, 2026

Would you buy a broken device, fix it, then return the repaired item? [Team Repair] hopes you will. Many people would rather repair what they have than have to get …read more
3D On The Playdate Handheld

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By Zoe Skyforest | July 25, 2026

The Playdate is a small handheld console with a dedicated fanbase. Among them is [Cristina Ramos], who recently decided to try and push the limits of the hardware by implementing …read more

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