Collaborate Disseminate
There’s something about Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) and the calculators that use it. It calls to mind a time when a calculator was a serious tool, and not just a …read more Continue reading Arduino Nano Powers Reverse Polish Notation Calculator
The PDP-11, the Altair 8800, and the IMSAI 8080 were some of the heroes of the computer revolution, and they have something in common — front panel switches, and a …read more Continue reading Bootstrapping the Old Fashioned Way
The PDP-11, the Altair 8800, and the IMSAI 8080 were some of the heroes of the computer revolution, and they have something in common — front panel switches, and a …read more Continue reading Bootstrapping the Old Fashioned Way
A couple weeks ago we talked about inn-app browsers, and the potential privacy issues when opening content in them. This week Microsoft reveals the other side of that security coin …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: One-click, UPnP, Mainframes, and Exploring the Fog
[James Stanley] enjoys chess, isn’t terribly good at it, and has some dubious scruples. At least, that’s the setup for building Sockfish, a shoe-to-Pi interface to let you cheat at …read more Continue reading How To Be a Stinkin’ Chess Cheat — Sockfish
Ahh, floppy disks. Few things carry nostalgia quite like a floppy — either 3 1⁄2 or 5 1⁄4, depending on which generation of hacker you happen to be. (And yes, …read more Continue reading Magnetic Maniac Manages Mangled Memory
[Will Stelter], a promising young blacksmith working out of Montana, had a terrific idea for a unique composite material for finishing off a knife build. This build is a collaboration …read more Continue reading Fail of the Week: Bronze-Brazed Wrought Iron
There’s a bit of a panic regarding Chromium, Google Chrome, the system clipboard, and of all things, Google Doodles on the New Tab Page. It’s all about Chromium issue 1334203, …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Malicious Clipboards, Snakes on a Domain, and Binary Golf
An MMORPG with cute anime-style characters and maybe a bit too much inspiration taken from another classic Nintento franchise, Genshin Impact is a relatively popular game across the PlayStation, iOS, …read more Continue reading Genshin Security Impact
There’s yet another brouhaha forming over Twitter, but this time around it’s a security researcher making noise instead of an eccentric billionaire. [Peiter Zatko] worked as Twitter’s security chief for …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: In Mudge We Trust, Don’t Trust That App Browser, and Firefox at Pwn2Own