RetroOct 28Sun's First Workstation, SGI's First Workstation and Cisco's First Router All Started From One Stanford 68000 Board
AIOct 28Survival LLM Puts 930,000 Wikipedia Articles, a Medical Encyclopedia and Military Survival Manuals in a Free 9 GB Offline AI That Picks Its Model by Your RAM
SecurityOct 28Harmen Stoppels's Tar-Minefield Feeds 81 Crafted Archives to About 20 Tar Readers, and They Pull Different Files Out of the Same Bytes
RetroOct 28The Trojan Room Coffee Pot: The First Famous Webcam Existed So Cambridge Scientists Wouldn't Climb Stairs for an Empty Pot
AIOct 28Wenlan Turns Your Notes and AI Chats Into a Local Wiki, and Throws Out Any Page Whose Citations Don't Match the Source
RetroOct 28Jan de Jager's Browser Emulator Builds a Whole 486 PC, Motherboard, Jumpers and Plug-In Cards, Then Boots DOOM in One Tab
RetroOct 28Wi-Fi Grew Out of CSIRO Radio Astronomer John O'Sullivan's Search for Exploding Black Holes
AIOct 28Wikipedia's AI Cleanup Volunteers Hunt 'Stands as a Testament' Prose as Pangram Flags About 20% of New Articles as AI-Written
RetroOct 28A $15 Thrift-Store TRANZ 330 Credit Card Terminal Now Uses Its Z80 and a GPS to Work Out Where the Planets Are, Then Prints It Like a Receipt
SecurityOct 28The Shadow Kindle Jailbreak Gets Root Over USB With Decoy Folders, a Leaky File Date and One Extra Parameter
HardwareOct 27Rod Burlamaqui's arc-rebar Script Gives an Intel Arc B580 Resizable BAR on a 2015 Supermicro Board With No BIOS Option, Taking VRAM Bandwidth From 15 to 392 GB/s
SecurityOct 27Bruce Ediger Built a Million-Page Fake Website as a Trap and Caught One Coordinated Crawler Reading It Rank by Rank From 7,690 Contabo IP Addresses
SecurityOct 27Ransomware Hit Welsh Local-Government Data Unit Data Cymru Through a Test Account Named Test2 With the Password Password1, Left Active for 12.5 Years
HardwareOct 27Enkiplate turns an Inkplate 4TEMPERA e-paper touchscreen into a Japanese flashcard deck that climbs from kana to kanji at 12 new cards a day
SecurityOct 27ESP-Watchtower turns a $3 ESP8266 into a home-network tripwire with a fake Telnet shell, a fake router login and a fake security camera
SecurityOct 27Windows' Swift Pair pops a friendly 'connect?' bubble for any nearby Bluetooth keyboard, and a $10 chip is enough to be that keyboard
GamingOct 27D. Bohdan and Claude ported the 1991 Mac game Glider 4.0 to the browser from its Pascal source, checking every pixel against the original on an emulated Mac
SecurityOct 27GMO Internet Pulled the Plug on All 26,739 Servers of Its FX-Trading Cloud Desktop After Attackers Planted Malware, Traded on Customer Accounts and Demanded $50 Million
Hacks & BuildsOct 27Chris McCoy Played Gottschalk's Grande Tarantelle by Decoding a Blind Musician's Braille Score Into MIDI, and His Parser Caught Seven Bars Where the Braille Disagrees With the 1874 Print
Hacks & BuildsOct 27Hack the North's 1,750 Programmable ESP32 Badges Shipped Through Four Board Spins, a Capacitor in an Inductor's Slot and an NFC Chip That Couldn't Read
SecurityOct 27Kevin Coleman Clicked a Fake YouTube Support Ticket, and the Phishers Left Their Own Passkey on His Google Account: a Way Back In That Needs No Password and No 2FA
HardwareOct 27Keybytes Puts a RISC-V Microcontroller in Every Single Key, Then Snaps the Keys Together With Magnets and Pogo Pins
AIOct 27KitCut moved its AI film studio off a $250-a-month Azure VM onto a used gaming PC, and the same 8-minute film renders in 3m49s instead of 17m42s
AIOct 27Last Commit writes Día de los Muertos epitaphs for dead GitHub repos with a small Qwen model running in your browser
