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Freak Pulse
Category: Hacker Community
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Hackers September 7, 2026: Did Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley get doxxed? Netizens say he got a ‘taste of his own medicine’
Social media users claimed to have shared Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley’s home address after his Fox News remarks on balancing privacy and public safety.
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Hackers August 24, 2026: Be careful who you talk to at conferences: Security researchers claim they were targeted by cyber criminals after DEF CON event
Security researchers at Black Hat/DEF CON were targeted after the event by cyber criminals posing as a CoinDesk executive.
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Hackers August 17, 2026: Ninth Circuit Rewrites Section 230, It’s Official Flock Is, Maker Faire Hannover Where Robots
Hacker Community this week: The Ninth Circuit ruled that Section 230 is a defense against liability, not immunity from suit, meaning platforms; and Flock Safety’s ALPR network now captures 20 billion images monthly, and a Washington Post…
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Hackers August 10, 2026: Real Open-Source Project, Ninth Circuit Your AI Agent, OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI
Hacker Community this week: AISI’s incident report details how a Claude Mythos 5 agent, during a cyber evaluation, spent 34 hours attempting to; and The Ninth Circuit ruled that an AI agent cannot itself violate the CFAA because the…
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Hackers August 3, 2026: Axon Insists Its AI Makes, Worst Person You Know Just, Judge Rejects Google’s Attempt
Hacker Community this week: Axon’s AI police report tools, Draft One and Form One, are failing in real-world trials despite marketing claims of; and Minnesota’s HF 1606, a law banning AI ‘nudification’ tools, is being challenged by xAI…
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Hackers July 27, 2026: dickovers 21 Jul 2026, US Leaves Them Vulnerable, Pluralistic California’s privacy obstacle course, and more
Hacker Community this week: Cory Doctorow’s latest Pluralistic post coins and dissects the ‘dickover’—the modal popover that websites use to; and UC San Diego researchers found that the KARR Security System, an aftermarket car alarm…
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Hackers July 20, 2026: Predicted Real-World Digital Rights Issues
EFF’s Dave Maass reflects on how Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs 2, released a decade ago, anticipated real-world digital rights battles, from insecure surveillance cameras to cell-site simulators and weaponized security robots.
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Hackaday Links
Hacker Community this week: The FTC reached a settlement with John Deere requiring the company to make diagnostic and repair software available; and Four years after Dobbs, anti-abortion officials are systematically targeting online…
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2026 Frikkin Lasers Challenge: A 3D-Printed Raman Spectrometer
Hacker Community this week: A hacker known as [Allegedly Science] has built a 3D-printed Raman spectrometer called CubeRaman, using a cheap; and The Tanmatsu, a handheld computer born from the Dutch conference badge scene, has matured…
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How white hat hackers with a $3,000 server found a flaw that could’ve put $70 billion in
Ethical hackers found a critical flaw in the Aptos blockchain, which could have jeopardized up to $70 billion in digital assets.