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Freak Pulse
Category: Hacker Community
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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.
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Pluralistic: Spying on kids to save kids from spying is very, very stupid (23 Jun 2026)
Hacker Community this week: Cory Doctorow argues that proposed ‘age verification’ laws for the internet are a Trojan horse for mass; and The Stop Killing Games movement, after failing to secure new EU legislation mandating video game…
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The VCs Who Screamed That Biden Would Kill Powerful AI Models Seem Quite Chill About Trump
Hacker Community this week: The Trump administration forced Anthropic to shut down its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models via export controls, citing; and iFixit, in partnership with U.S.
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Pluralistic: Google’s new remote attestation scheme is every bit as terrible as its old remote
Hacker Community this week: Google has introduced a new remote attestation scheme called reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification, which uses an app; and The Chaos Computer Club is issuing an open call for designers to shape the visual identity of…
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A High-Vacuum Controller for an Eventual Electron Microscope
Hacker Community this week: Chris Doble has open-sourced a high-vacuum controller as the first step toward building his own scanning electron; and A guide from Hackaday details how to repurpose an old FDM 3D printer, specifically an…
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In NetChoice V. Murrill, The Copia Institute Asks The Fifth Circuit Not To Keep Ignoring The First Amendment
Hacker Community this week: The Copia Institute, Techdirt’s think tank, has filed an amicus brief in NetChoice v; and iFixit’s guide to assembling a soldering kit frames the choice between a premium, feature-rich cordless station and.
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Pluralistic: Trump’s fruitless search for a goreable ox (09 May 2026)
Hacker Community this week: Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic newsletter analyzes the political-economic bind facing the Trump administration: while; and A detailed teardown of a camera recovered from a downed Iranian Shahed-136 drone in…
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Flipper Zero Transmits APRS With No Extra Parts
Hacker Community this week: A developer has modified the Flipper Zero’s firmware to transmit the APRS amateur radio data protocol using its; and A Hackaday columnist installs the minimalist SliTaz distribution on a 2005-era 32-bit Dell…
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“TotalRecall Reloaded” tool finds a side entrance to Windows 11’s Recall database
Hacker Community this week: This matters for Hacker Community because it gives a concrete current signal to track: Two years ago, Microsoft; and This matters for Hacker Community because it gives a concrete current signal to track: Your…
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Flipper Zero Transmits APRS With No Extra Parts – Hackaday
Hacker Community this week: A developer has modified the Flipper Zero, a popular RF hacking tool, to transmit APRS (Automatic Packet Reporting; and The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) has shifted its public-facing strategy…