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  Phase 3 of Mick’s restoration adventure, our 1956 Land Rover series 1 107, has begun. The truck spent 70 years of its life in the Australian outback, and as such whilst there is no serious structural rust, there is a metric shit ton of outback dirt and surface rust, of which we need to remove.. i’m toying with the idea of getting this bead blasted and then powder coated, which should prolong its life far beyond when I have shuffled off this mortal coil and it’s up to my boys to then enjoy it....

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  @xenogon Oh im not expecting it to be done and dusted, but it is a step forward and a very positive one at that. I'm sure apple and others have tried their hardest to make this not happen but I see positives in this attempt from the EU commissions

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  RIP HELCH. Huge part of Londons graffiti scene. Whilst there were many favs, the American carwash for me was the best. https://drorhadadi.com/en/helch-graffiti-2/

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  Finally had a chance to shoot my CineStillFilm 800 and I’ve an ugly feeling it will be fogged TF thanks to minimum wage security idiots at the airport refusing a hand search The security theatre at airports continues. Shoes off. Oh wait that watch looks dangerous. Oh no this film could be bad!!

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  Anyhoo. Los canarias…

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  Now then, it's kinda known that the best watch in the world is a Casio F-91w (god-tier), fact, but surely this is screaming out to be a close hackable contender https://www.casio.com/uk/watches/casio/product.F-B100W-1A/ Step tracker, Bluetooth sync and no charging cable? Oh hell yes CR2016 and say no more. Oh and hackable you bet. At that price point, this seems like a good winter exploration project with the kids here.

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  then today is very much a hardware hacking day, bear with me. Some cool research by fellow Blackhat review board'r, Ben Nassi and Co https://www.nassiben.com/video-based-crypta Exploiting a Video Camera's Rolling Shutter to Recover Secret Keys from Devices Using Video Footage of Their Power LED Then @AndrewMohawk spent time on @bunnie's badge https://andrewmohawk.com/2026/08/16/dc34-badge-hackin/

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  As AI creeps more and more into the creative arts, I love hearing what real artists are coming up with as a result https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEfWTJzlMoY Andre just builds this so well. You can almost imagine the smoke and the sweat and throbbing bodies dancing to this at 0300 and then it just goes on and on. Here's to more like this

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  I'm blown away by what we have today. Take https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B which is just brilliant at taking output from RAPTOR and the datasets we create from our /understand (attack path, src, sink, dataflow, threat model etc) and then doing careful extraction, not crystal-ball nonsense. It’s capable enough to understand technical security language and follow a structured schema, but small enough to run properly on an 8GB M1 Mac mini. I run it with temperature 0, an...

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  Don’t need a 16mm camera Don’t need a 16mm Don’t need a Don’t need Don’t Hmmm. I mean….. I do love the fact that we are seeing film stock being developed at the moment. euphoria season 3 is shot on this and I can’t wait to watch it

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  I know it’s easy and cool to dunk on EU red tape but this is actually sexy af: https://commission.europa.eu/news-and-media/news/right-repair-new-consumer-rights-easy-and-attractive-repairs-2026-07-31_en For the last decade (or maybe more actually) hardware engineering has leaned heavily on proprietary screws, anti-repair software pairing, and literal buckets of industrial adhesive. This piece treats the EU Directive as a tactical defeat for aggressive silicon anti-features. Actually I think t...

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  I’ve entered that phase of my life where a lathe is looking like a solid decision for the workshop. Shit.

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  One has to pay respect for the effort that was clearly monumental for this edition of tmpout https://tmpout.sh/5/ that ASCII art is off da faken scale

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  Shut up and explore this amazing planet of ours. A mantra I’ve had since I was a teen and it’s so good to see a Norwegian do what I want to do before I shuffle off this mortal coil: ride around Afghanistan on a bike just with my Leica and film https://youtu.be/OMC7pj-0wQY?is=rWzQMWjQmVhrl701 You go Tom. This is living. Afghanistan looks amazing.

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  Last burst of those summer rays... The Light Lens Lab 50mm F2 Speed Panchro II, designed by Mr. Zhou in China, is possibly one of the characteristic lenses I own. The original Cooke Speed Panchro II is a beautiful piece of optical history, but rare, expensive and increasingly difficult to find. Unless I turn to cybercrime, this lens is an easier way of shooting that famous “Cooke look”. What I love most about it is the imperfections. Modern photography is too perfect. The glow, the softnes...

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  I never thought i'd side with Gen Z in how they think, but when it comes to analogue devices, we are very much in sync. Vinyl's back. Mechanical watches are back. Gen Z reads more physical books than the algorithm and tech bro's wearing patagonia would like. I'm here for it. I remember being with @thedarktangent@defcon.social in London talking about cars and tracking a while ago and it has always been in the back of my mind. I'm not anti-tech, I'm just anti-tech fo...

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  So @chompie1337@haunted.computer and I are on a mission to find creative artists who want to help design the cover for Phrack #73. retro sci-fi & chrome futures ▸ cyberpunk / terminal aesthetics ▸ dystopian systems ▸ hacker manuals from an alternate timeline ▸ weird cool stuff and machines Keen? Fancy helping? 📮 arts@phrack.org ⏰ Deadline: August 15

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  “We are going to crave more authentic in-person experiences as our online interactions are seemingly less authentic” @thedarktangent utterly nailing it

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  Day two of Black Hat and I got a chance to see my friend Ariel Herbert-Voss do the keynote. It opened a floodgate of thoughts. Oh and yay, GPT-5.5 is here and it feels like we’re entering another mad period of growth for frontier models and security research. The big thing I’m seeing is that we need less scaffolding around these models. Give them code, context, a goal and some tools, and they are getting much better at cracking on. That matters for bug hunting. A lot But let’s not pretend...

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  Ever since @thedarktangent mentioned the concept of agency to me, I’ve not stopped thinking about how much modern technology asks us to relinquish control of our data. I’ve never used music streaming services. I always disliked the idea of not owning my music. For me, the original iPod was the epitome of agency: mine to do with what I wanted, when I wanted. With the relentless march of frontier models consuming as much of our data as possible, we need more agency today, not less. Control over...