This week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos convened once again to give the lowdown on this week’s best hacks. First up in the news — it’s giga-sunset time for Gigaset IoT devices, which simultaneously became paperweights on March 29th. And all that Flipper Zero panic? It has spread to Australia, but still remains exactly that: panic.
Then it’s on to What’s That Sound. Kristina failed again, although she was in the right neighborhood. Can you get it? Can you figure it out? Can you guess what’s making that sound? If you can, and your number comes up, you get a special Hackaday Podcast t-shirt.
Then it’s on to the hacks, beginning with the terrifying news of an xz backdoor. From there, we marvel at a 1980s ‘butler in a box’ — a voice-activated home automation system — and at the idea of LoRa transmissions without a radio. Finally, we discuss why you don’t want to piss off Trekkies, and whether AI has any place in tech support.
Check out the links below if you want to follow along, and as always, tell us what you think about this episode in the comments!
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A Giga-Sunset For Gigaset IoT Devices
Flipper Zero Panic Spreads To Oz: Cars Unaffected
Fill out this form with your best guess, and you might win!
Security Alert: Potential SSH Backdoor Via Liblzma
Exploit The Stressed-out Package Maintainer, Exploit The Software Package
xkcd: Dependency
oss-security – backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise
Retrogadgets: Butler In A Box
LoRA, With No Radio
Give Your Pi Pico Captouch Inputs For All Your Music Needs
Electrospinning Artificial Heart Valves
Experiencing Visual Deficits And Their Impact On Daily Life, With VR
Elliot’s Picks:
Cold Boot Attack You Can Do With A Pi
ESP-Drone: Building An ESP32-Based Quadcopter For Not Much Cash
SMD Soldering, Without The Blobs
Why Is My 470uF Electrolytic Cap More Like 20uF?
Kristina’s Picks:
Art Exhibit Lets You Hide From Self-Driving Cars
Video Killed The Radio Alarm Clock
Lamp Becomes Rotating, Illuminated Sign For Festival Table
How Star Trek Breached The Defences Of A Major Broadcaster
Tech Support… Can AI Be Worse?
