This Week In Security: What’s In A Name, The AI Bugpocalypse Hits Everyone, OpenWRT Flaws, And Duress Passwords

The great thing about standards is there’s so many to pick from, right?. (Insert obligatory XKCD #927 here.) Several companies have developed naming schemes to refer to groups of attacks, …read more

FLOSS Weekly Episode 877: RCE As A Service

This week Jonathan chats with Francois Proulx about SmokedMeat! That’s the third in a trio of Open Source security tools from Boost Security, and this one is the red team …read more

Thingino Teaches Cheap IP Cameras New Tricks

I recently found myself in the market for a few IP cameras to keep an eye on my Prusa 3D printers, and quickly found that the options on the market …read more

Hackaday Europe 2026: High Performance SDR On The Cheap

Radios were once big complicated appliances, full of warm valves and paper-wrapped capacitors, all humming and glowing to capture signals from the aether and spit them out of a speaker. …read more

Hackaday Links: July 26, 2026

At a time when so-called “artificial intelligence” seems inescapable, we were encouraged to see news that Amazon will be cracking down on third-party sellers that use AI-generated images for their …read more

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FLOSS Weekly Episode 878: A Tool With Opinions
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By Jonathan Bennett | August 5, 2026
This week Jonathan chats with Jonathan Pallant about embedded Rust! Learn about the growing Rust driver library, the different ways to build a Rust stack on an embedded device, and …read more
Know Your Food: Our Daily Bread
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By Jenny List | August 5, 2026
It’s time to return to our no-punches-pulled look at food manufacture, and this time we’re looking at the humble loaf of bread. As before, we’re approaching the subject with a …read more
Reading A Thermocouple With Mercury And A Potentiometer
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By Aaron Beckendorf | August 5, 2026
If you’ve ever thought about the nomenclature of electrical components, potentiometer stands out as a strange name, etymologically suggesting something like a voltmeter. In fact, the component took its name …read more
Cell Broadcast: The Modern Emergency Alert System
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By Zoe Skyforest | August 5, 2026
Once upon a time, telephones were primarily point-to-point communications systems. There were options for three-way and conference calls out there, but by and large the plain old telephone system was …read more
Could Camera Hardware Be The Physical Equivalent To USB-C?
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By Tyler August | August 5, 2026
[Mansour] presents an interesting idea in his essay A Common Thread — just as USB-C has become the “One Connector To Rule Them All” in the world of electronics, so …read more
Train Simulator Controller: July 2026 Progress Roundup
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By Maya Posch | August 5, 2026
For the past three years [Christopher Mitchell] has been working on his replica of a British Rail Class 800 control cab for a physical train simulator, with the July blog …read more
A Full Motion Video Codec For The Atari ST
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By Tyler August | August 4, 2026
Who says an old dog can’t do new tricks? The Atari ST has got to qualify as an “old dog” 41 years after launch, and if playing Full Motion Video …read more

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