This Week In Security: Apple Warns Users, Stripe Merchants Leak Keys, Copilot Helps Hack Itself, And Comcast Senses Movement

Apple has started sending some users push notifications warning that they have been targeted with specific malware. No specific information about the threat Apple detected is available. While multiple iOS …read more

3D Printering: Why Is My PLA So Brittle?

Over the years poly(lactic acid) (PLA) – also known as polylactide – has become a popular thermoplastic for a variety of reasons. One of these reasons is that it’s easily …read more

An Early History Of Space Stations: The Brick Moon Made Real

People have lived in space stations for decades now, but something is wrong with them. Where are the big rotating wheels? You know the ones. They show up in old …read more

Hackaday Europe 2026: The 1-Bit CPU That Ran Factories

Powered machinery started the industrial revolution, and it was automation that kicked it up another notch in the 20th century. The ability for machines to make things by themselves spurred …read more

Announcing The 2026 Hackaday Retrocomputing Challenge

What is it about retrocomputing? For some people, it’s nostalgia. For others, it’s the appeal of simplicity. For still others, it’s the chance to save old machines from the graveyard. …read more

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Claude Plays DOOM

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By Zoe Skyforest | August 26, 2026

Large language models (LLMs) are generally thought of as machines that accept textual prompts and spit out textual content. However, if you’re creative in the way you interface with them, …read more
New Controller Makes Heavy Machinery Intuitive

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By Bryan Cockfield | August 26, 2026

As children, many of us looked wistfully into the cockpits of heavy machinery, wondering just how the series of knobs and levers would do something like operate a bulldozer, crane, …read more
Blow Those Pyros With A Telephone!

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By Jenny List | August 25, 2026

A pyrotechnic charge is set off by passing a high voltage through a filament within it, melting the filament and igniting the charge. We could think of a variety of …read more
Cheap AI Token Resellers: The Secret Ingredient Is Fraud

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By Donald Papp | August 25, 2026

[Matt Lenhard] has an interesting writeup explaining exactly how fraudsters offer access to cutting-edge AI models at a tenth of the price. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the secret is to get tokens …read more
Reject Fluid Simulations, Return To Rheoscopic Fluid

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By Tyler August | August 25, 2026

Fluid simulations are one of the “killer apps” of high-performance computing, but if you can’t afford the performance, they can take a depressingly long time to run. Depending on your …read more
Native SMB3 Client Brings Modern NAS Access To 20-Year-Old PowerPC Macs

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By Maya Posch | August 25, 2026

As software updates cease for operating systems, they eventually begin to lose access to parts of the LAN and internet due to out of date encryption features, as well as …read more
AI Book Scanning: Just What Is A Rare Book?

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By Jenny List | August 25, 2026

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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