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

See all blog entries

RF Hacking A Ceiling Fan Via The Remote

No comments
By Zoe Skyforest | June 28, 2026

[Sam Wilkinson] recently installed a Dreo CLF513S ceiling fan in his place — it’s cheap, well-sized, and blows air around as you’d expect it to. The only problem is that …read more
Teaching An AI To Play A Racing Game Via Screen Input

No comments
By Zoe Skyforest | June 28, 2026

If you’re a fleshy human, you probably learn to play video games by looking at the screen and pressing the buttons, and maybe copying the way you’ve seen others play …read more
Accurate Split-Flap Display Can Be 3D Printed

1 Comment
By Bryan Cockfield | June 28, 2026

Split-flap displays are a great, low-power way to display text to a wide audience. Compared to other display technologies like LCDs they only use energy when the characters change, but …read more
Hack Improves Cheap Speed Controllers

9 Comments
By Zoe Skyforest | June 28, 2026

[Tony Goacher] has worked with a lot of cheap brushless DC motor controllers built in China. They can be very cost-effective, but sometimes limited in performance or capability, particularly when …read more
Make Your Own Loudspeaker From Scratch

1 Comment
By Jenny List | June 28, 2026

A loudspeaker is a vital component of every device that plays sound, but while its operation is simple, it’s a surprisingly difficult device to build. [Rvanderouderaa] has made an Instructables …read more
World’s Biggest RC A380 Is A Big Deal

9 Comments
By Navarre Bartz | June 27, 2026

RC planes are a lot of fun, and the bigger the better! [Ramy RC] has built the world’s biggest RC A380. At 29 ft (8.83 m) long, with a 32 …read more
A Standalone YouTube Streaming Rig

1 Comment
By Jenny List | June 27, 2026

YouTube streaming typically involves a camera with an HDMI output, a USB3 HDMI digitiser, and a suitably beefy PC to run it all. It’s quite a process, and for [Coreymillia], …read more

← Older posts

Hackaday

This Week In Security: Stealing Email With AI, AMD Nerfs Chips, The World Cup Nearly Rickrolled, And GPSD Bugs

Flying Cell Towers Are A Thing

FLOSS Weekly Episode 872: I’m Not Satoshi

The Trains With Rubber Tires

Linux Fu: Upcycling An Old Router

Search

Never miss a hack

If you missed it

Flying Cell Towers Are A Thing

The Trains With Rubber Tires

Linux Fu: Upcycling An Old Router

MSYS2 And The No-Fuss Way To Get More GNU Into Your Windows

What Happens If Russia Shuts The Door On Their Leaky ISS Module?

Our Columns

Hacking Routers Like It’s 2008

Hackaday Podcast Episode 375: Rebuilding Tech On Our Terms And The Hero Nerd

This Week In Security: Stealing Email With AI, AMD Nerfs Chips, The World Cup Nearly Rickrolled, And GPSD Bugs

FLOSS Weekly Episode 872: I’m Not Satoshi

Hackaday Links: June 21, 2026

This Week In Security: Stealing Email With AI, AMD Nerfs Chips, The World Cup Nearly Rickrolled, And GPSD Bugs

Flying Cell Towers Are A Thing

FLOSS Weekly Episode 872: I’m Not Satoshi

The Trains With Rubber Tires

Linux Fu: Upcycling An Old Router

Search

Never miss a hack

Subscribe

If you missed it

Our Columns