Hacks & BuildsOct 23Wes Bos scanned his office with an iPhone, had Codex rebuild it in Three.js, then made every filament spool throwable
SecurityOct 23x402, the HTTP 402 Payment Protocol for AI Agents, Shipped With No Spending Limit: V12 Found a Server Could Ask for the Whole Wallet
RetroOct 23Tiny Computers folds the iPhone Duo into a pocket 1984 Macintosh, Commodore 64 or Windows 95 laptop, keyboard and all
HardwareOct 23USB went from 5Gbps on AMD's 2011 chipset to 80Gbps, and the USB-IF now says "USB4" and "USB 3.2" don't belong on the box
Hacks & BuildsOct 23Aaron Christophel's Aspire PIXO Vape Now Runs DOOM on Its Own Chip, on an Engine Built for a 32 KB Clamp Meter
SoftwareOct 23Concat, a free open-source CapCut replacement, ships an MCP server so Claude can cut your video on your own machine
SecurityOct 23Find My Turns Strangers' iPhones Into Your Stolen Mac's Informants, and Activation Lock Survives the Wipe
RetroOct 23Kevin Rose Took Digg's Helm in 2010. Bots Put Him Back There in 2026, After He Rebought It With Reddit's Cofounder
SecurityOct 23LastPass's Vaults Walked Out Through a Keylogger on One Engineer's Personal Device, and Passkeys Retired the Strong-Password Advice
RetroOct 23When Apple Passed Microsoft in 2010, Nvidia Was a $9 Billion Graphics-Card Company. Its Gaming Chips Now Make It Worth $5.1 Trillion
HardwareOct 23The pi record went from 5 trillion digits on a desktop to 314 trillion on one StorageReview server, and it still takes about three months
SecurityOct 23The first Switch 2 jailbreak came in through an old BASIC programming game, with a Bluetooth light switch on the power button
Hacks & BuildsOct 23Flat Pack turns IKEA's 16-page BILLY manual into a 3D build you can spin, pull apart and step through
Hacks & BuildsOct 23HackiOS boots real iOS 16.5 on a POCO X5 Pro from RAM, and a reboot puts Android back
SoftwareOct 23OnKey learns a song's melody from one play in Spotify or YouTube, then scores your singing on a Mac
GamingOct 23Permit Pending is a free city builder where every apartment block has to survive a hearing, an appeal and a lawsuit
SecurityOct 23Tell Qwen3-Coder the app is for a US defense contractor and it got easier to hack, in one security firm's test
SecurityOct 23A scammer opened a Cash App account with her Social Security number, and she's the one charged with computer fraud
SecurityOct 23Trend Micro's ZDI posted unpatched Linux kernel bug reports to the public mailing list, two of them rated CVSS 9.0
SecurityOct 23The PHP2Shell fixes for Debian and Ubuntu, back to PHP 5.6, came out of a DNS engineer's side repo
