GamingOct 28Co-op Anything Has AI Coding Agents Turn Single-Player Games Into Online Co-Op, Starting With the Whole Deus Ex Campaign
AIOct 28A $7 ESP32 Board Lets an AI Tap Through Any iPhone App by Posing as an AirPlay Screen and a USB Mouse
RetroOct 28B3ta Cofounder Rob Manuel Drew 81 Jokes Using Only the ZX81's 64 Characters, and Put Them in a 240-Page Hardback
SecurityOct 28AgenticBench Planted Fake Secrets in Files, Symlinks and Error Messages to See Which of 25 Coding Agents Would Leak Them
SoftwareOct 28Aqueous, a New Archiver, Undoes JPEG, PNG and ZIP Compression, Squeezes Harder, Then Rebuilds Every Original Bit for Bit With WebAssembly
SecurityOct 28Attackers Got In Through a Company's Camera-Management Software, Then Hid Behind a Copy of Windows' Parental Controls Monitor
SecurityOct 28Discord Will Put Public Messages From Its 63,000 Discoverable Servers on the Web; One Data and Privacy Toggle Keeps Yours Off
RetroOct 28eBay's First Sale Was Pierre Omidyar's Broken $30 Laser Pointer, and a Buyer Paid $14.83 for It
RetroOct 28Jeff Shrager, Kent Pitman and Claude Code Got Herbert Simon's 1961 Heuristic Compiler Running Again, and It Prints the Code From His 1963 Paper
GamingOct 28Andrew Healey Pointed an AI Agent and Ghidra at Fast Food Tycoon 2's 4,046 Functions and Found How It Kept Customers Visible Through Walls
RetroOct 28The Web's First Famous Photo Was Les Horribles Cernettes, a CERN Office Band That Sang About Physicists
SecurityOct 28Gheist Uses Stolen GitHub Tokens to Plant a Workflow That Prints Every Repo Secret in Base32, Slipping Past GitHub's Log Masking
SoftwareOct 28Homelable Scans Your Home Lab With nmap, Then Lets You Draw the Rack and Its Patch Cables Port to Port
SoftwareOct 28Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Was Taught by Nobody: The Software Toolworks Invented Her and Paid a Model $500 for the Face
Hacks & BuildsOct 28Michael Pick Cut Apart a High-Mileage BMW i3's Carbon-Fiber Body to Build the Small Electric Pickup Nobody Sells, on a Budget of Under $10,000
SecurityOct 28Moldova's E-Government Chief Resigns After Attackers Pulled Personal Data on About 750,000 People Through Services That Needed No Login
SecurityOct 28UNM Hospital, New Mexico's Only Level 1 Trauma Center, Diverted Ambulances After a Red Skull Took Over Staff Screens
SecurityOct 28PhantomTac: A Half-Millimetre Magnet Sticker Fools a Robot's Touch Sensors Into Crushing a Box or Dropping It Mid-Move
AIOct 28Parley Puts Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode Sessions in One Local IRC Channel, With a Breaker That Stops Them Talking in Circles
SoftwareOct 28Ploom Runs Every Thread Order of a Python Test Until One Fails, Then Saves That Order So the Bug Replays on Demand
SoftwareOct 28ProxMate Sends Friends an Invite Link to Spin Up VMs on Your Proxmox Cluster, Without Ever Showing Them the Admin Panel
SecurityOct 28A self-taught Seoul hacker used an AI pentest agent to breach 60 companies in 40 days, took 8.2 million records, and collected about $210
GamingOct 28Smashcat's Arduino Uno Now Plays Pac-Man Championship Edition on a TV, Drawing Each Line Just Before the Screen Does
RetroOct 28Space Invaders Speeds Up as You Win Because Its 1978 Code Moved One Alien at a Time, and Tomohiro Nishikado Kept It