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A Philips Sonicare Brush Head Is a Password-Protected NFC Chip That Locks Itself Forever After Three Wrong Guesses

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Someone Rebuilt Borland C++ 2.0's 1991 DOS Compiler From Its Own Binaries, Byte for Byte
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