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This Week In Security: Android Malware, VOIP Hijack, Signal Contact Discovery, And TeamPCP Arrests

On GitHub, [AyaanB] details buying a cheap Android TV streaming device, looking for, and finding, baked-in malware. Multiple warnings have been issued by the FBI and CISA regarding malware on …read more

Australia’s Nationwide Phone Outage Was An Embarrassing Failure

The phones! They were one of the basic utilities of the 20th century, and were just about as reliable as death and taxes. Even when then power grid went down, …read more

FLOSS Weekly Episode 879: Easy Like Butter

This week Jonathan chats with Nathan Freitas of the Guardian Project! What is going on at the forefront of Open Source and privacy advocacy? Where are we on a true …read more

Hackaday Europe 2026: PCBs With A Plot

Printed circuit boards were developed first for function over form. They were a way to mount components and connect them in a stable, robust fashion, while taking into regard things …read more

AI Book Scanning: Just What Is A Rare Book?

One of the stories of the last few weeks has been that AI companies have been scanning books in very large numbers in order to train their models with content …read more

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    By Bryan Cockfield | August 29, 2026

    Having access to a planer opens up a lot of options for woodworking. It enables a craftsman to work with much rougher lumber and the finished results generally have tighter …read more

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    By Elliot Williams | August 29, 2026

    Whether you like it or not, the use of LLMs to write code is kind of a big deal at the moment. We’ve been asking ourselves what, if anything, this …read more

  • Wear Your Way Out Of AI Surveilance

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    By Jenny List | August 29, 2026

    For decades now many of us have lived in surveillance societies where it’s difficult not to be within the view of a camera. When being noticed depended on the attention …read more

  • 3D Printed Piano Action Faithful To The Original

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    By Bryan Cockfield | August 29, 2026

    A piano’s internal mechanism for translating a key press into sound is surprisingly complicated. It has to do a lot of things simultaneously and quickly: provide precise control over velocity, …read more

  • Playing Snake With A Pneumatic Display

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    By Aaron Beckendorf | August 28, 2026

    [soiboi soft]’s vacuum-driven dot matrix display is part suction gripper, part touchscreen, and altogether impressive. Its display capabilities are entirely shadow-based, with each pixel being made of a cavity behind …read more

  • This Library Needs To Be At Least… Three Times Bigger

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    By Bryan Cockfield | August 28, 2026

    Many of us have noted a tremendous price increase in many computer components for some mysterious reason. Whatever this cause is will be debated among the various modern philosophers and …read more

  • Reviving An SD Card With Shorted Capacitors

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    By Maya Posch | August 28, 2026

    A nice thing about SD cards is that even in their non-micro format they are conveniently small. This is however a bit of a problem when an SD card stops …read more

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