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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Filling High Pressure CO2 Tanks From Sugar Fermentation Gas

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By Maya Posch | July 26, 2026

After previously using the fermenting of sugar to obtain ethanol fuel, [Hyperspace Pirate] figured that it’d be a waste to just blast the other half of the yeast production in …read more
Ever Seen Claude Use Fusion 360?

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By Julian Scheffers | July 26, 2026

We’ve all done it before: a simple project that escalated to the point of extreme overengineering. But what’s less common is [Lee Hutchinson]’s digital clock, whose case is (somewhat-successfully) designed …read more
Repairing A “for Parts” Canon 7D Mark II DSLR

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By Maya Posch | July 26, 2026

The exciting part of buying a ‘broken, for parts’ off a site like EBay is that you rarely know exactly just how ‘broken’ it truly is. Even if the seller …read more
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

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