I like watches I like photography I like light meters I like electronics I like Hmmmm, oh hello www.increment-labs.com

UNIX nerds rejoice, Uni of Utah managed to find version 4 of UNIX youtu.be/m-3RJaKcw_4?... Why is this cool? Well this is the 1st version written in C. Had a letter from Ken Thompson too, we thought version 5 was the oldest surviving copy Oh and it’s 2mb in size!

Great lightning talk at CCC on reverse engineering an iPod nano on a shoestring budget. Delayering PCBs using sandpaper and patience. Oh and decapping the SoC too, coz why not? youtu.be/FKHL1yyOKJc?...

If you are a hardware nerd like me who fancies a good Sunday rabbit hole with a 25-year old CNC machine and dodgy circuit boards… Well my friend, look no further youtu.be/BuQZeiAugp4?... And no, it is totally a lie that I’m currently looking on Facebook marketplace for CNC’s. Nope totes wrong

So so glad Digging the Greats is touching on the comeback of physical music and media: youtu.be/o9pclYwRQag?...

Anyone who’s tried to capture FaceID and the scanning that happens on your iPhone, will resonate with this video Great to see Associated Press do this piece on capturing surveillance tech youtu.be/D1tyEUq2u-E?...

All tech is political and we are involved if you like it or not The Dark Tangent

Crypto, queens and taking notes on a massive criminal conspiracy. Smashing Zhimin Qian’s 5 Billion empire Good insights into money laundering at this scale youtu.be/EymtOOJmRpo?...

@darkreading.bsky.social and Arielle Waldman on what we’ve spent the last few months on: www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilit...

When you get a once in a lifetime opportunity, drive the movie cars of your childhood

movie: we can't trace their payload, it's behind two layers of base64! computer knowers: *groan* reality:

Looking at how twitter has utterly screwed up the forced U2F migration, tells me they have no engineers left who know what the hell they are doing. Such a huge abortion of note

You know it’s gonna be a proper nerd Friday night when Ringway Manchester has a video on MoD NATO secure Myra blue (NATO secret voice & data) and Myra red (UK secret voice & data) With PTT too and that classic dymo taped “secret” label so you know it’s secure right? youtu.be/zRNxysDCRrM?...

Weekend projects: Chicken Squisher - lcamtuf.coredump.cx/blog/squisher/

Where does one begin…

Our annual review is out covering technical highlights such as - Engineering resilience against critical loss - Passkeys - The future of digital identity - Post quantum crypt transition - Our Initiate r&d program with industry - Radical transparency in technology .. and more

It’s not often I’m lost for words, but…

Yes, it has never been easier to make a web scraper and yes most websites still cannot handle this, but as the thirst for more data continues, this lawsuit is going to be one to watch I’ve seen so many posts saying “make a scraper, you can earn so much cash..” in recent times and whooah boy

Great news for Signal Protocol signal.org/blog/spqr/

Geopolitics aside, the technical mess that implementing geographical backdoors that dont weaken the overall system, gives me the shivers www.ft.com/content/d101... To be a fly on the wall when the advisors try and explain how this would work. So there’s Alice and bob and then Peter, in the corner

It has been about two decades since I last needed/used one, but is there any modern KVM switch that works with Mac’s properly? Lost faith in a wide screen Picture in Picture monitor so hope the KVM world is better

Our hacker movie podcast series is back! And we kicked things off with a banger: SNEAKERS. The great @dcuthbert.bsky.social joined @dennisf.bsky.social to break down this classic and its lasting effect on the hacker community. youtu.be/b9uIocMMFlw?...

1/ Hi, I'm TProphet. I write the Telecom Informer for @2600.com. A lot of people have been asking me about www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat... given that I'm somewhat knowledgeable in the area. Here's my take: I'm kind of astonished that this is public, and it isn't normal that it would ever be.

And on the seventh day…

Finally got my Kodak Vision3 motion picture film scans back of Thailand. Low light, playing with colour and I'm super happy with these. Really sums up the vibe that is Silom, BKK and I do miss my old home

Me to friend: hey I just wanna stop at this truck stop in the desert coz something caught my eye... 20 mins later, the Mamiya 43mm doesn't disappoint Valley of Fire, Nevada

Disassembling a new iPhone 7 pro Max and using a CNC mill to decap Friggin amazing. youtu.be/7M60g09HB1M?...

That’s it. The most perfect Boiler Room ever. youtu.be/rAOHJqJMYDA?... Must be getting old when tears came at the end. I can die now

There’s been over 1000 AI bills introduced across the US, with only 4 being passed (CA, UT, CO & TX). Interestedly none look at actual safety and security of AI systems, but the use. That’s a massive oversight I feel. We need more secure AI systems Interesting times tho

You know when you’re an absolute nerd when the coach of your kids football team asks you to collect stats for this season and you end up building an app with a backend and huge plans for data analysis

There aren’t many songs out there that truly show you the benefit of good speakers/cans. This is one of them youtube.com/playlist?lis... Hearing the channels and background sounds is just heavenly. A bit like The Doors

IYKYK youtu.be/ghAEFnxCqdY

@henkvaness.bsky.social is ibiza boss level 10! He's gone and created a truly great resource for journalists and others in media so they can look for AI generated content and not be fooled. This is the kind of research I love and respect gijn.org/resource/gui...

If you want to understand the struggle anyone doing input validation has, just look at ver 16.0 of the unicode standard: unicode.org/versions/Uni... Unicode 16.0 adds 5185 characters, for a total of 154,998 characters 244 pages. yeah, good luck with that. <script>alert('𐒀𐒁𐒂')</script>

NGL, getting them have excited me a lot.

Of all the web technologies we’ve had and lost, I miss RSS the most. I controlled how I consumed the content, not how an algorithm decides. That and google reader

Honestly, learning how the greats created and sampled their beats is nothing but pure pleasure. Havoc and Mobb Deep. Just so so good www.instagram.com/reel/DGyEzFg...

Sigh, they grow up so quickly. LD1 fitted his first atmospheric dump valve today. Proud dad moment

A new project: 144mb of Infamy A few weeks back, I started a bit of a passion project. I wanted to capture the faces of the '90s and early 2000s hacking scene using the tech of the time. We're talking a Sony Mavica camera and a vintage computer for editing.

Felt it was time to upgrade my camera processing setup and get with the times. You know, modernise and all that. Dual monitors. 1.25gb ram AND g4 PowerPC. Unhackable as all those who could write shellcode for this chip now have back pain.

Heaven truly is a perfectly balanced Lancia delta integrale, a summers evening and winding country roads. This car. Oh my days it is that amazing

Solid, SOLID, side-channel work by Sahan Sanjaya, Aruna Jayasena & Prabhat Mishra: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.22306

I mean we’ve had some truly epic badges over the years. Joe Grands truly beautiful quartz one from DC27 that used near field magnetic induction to interact with other badges. A true work of art if you ask me

Totes ok. Just @defcon.bsky.social tings

Next up a solid piece of hardware engineering from @largecardinal.bsky.social where he became a blood diamond trader to make a quantum badge info.defcon.org/content/?id=... Also on dctv.defcon.org

Preach!!!

Valley of fire is fire

Earning badges and smiles. Thanks

Annual pilgrimage to vegas begins and with that is the yearly “what camera and stock shall I take for the desert?” This year I will be tinkering with infrared, and I think shooting red rock Canyon/Valley of Fire with this emulsion should be pretty damn impressive.