The Automatic Identification System (AIS) is a maritime radio communications tool used to allow different vessels to identify each other and communicate their movements and other telemetry. You can readily …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/25/commodore-128-becomes-marine-vessel-tracker/)

What Should Pine64 Build With Microcontrollers?
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/25/what-should-pine64-build-with-microcontrollers/

Pine64 is an open-source-community-centered project of mostly-open hardware, known for such hits as the PinePhone, the Pinecil soldering iron, and the PineTime. Now, the Pine64 project wants to know what …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/25/what-should-pine64-build-with-microcontrollers/)

This Week in Security: FBI Gets Hacked, Muse Vulnerable to ClickFix, Popular Rust Developers at Risk, Attacking the RP2350, and New Attacks Against RSA
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/25/this-week-in-security-fbi-gets-hacked-muse-vulnerable-to-clickfix-popular-rust-developers-at-risk-attacking-the-rp2350-and-new-attacks-against-rsa/

The prolific ShinyHunters group has announced it used a zero-day vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft to exploit the FBI jobs website and gain access to the AWS GovCloud instances and dump …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/25/this-week-in-security-fbi-gets-hacked-muse-vulnerable-to-clickfix-popular-rust-developers-at-risk-attacking-the-rp2350-and-new-attacks-against-rsa/)

Did The BBC and Sir Clive Get it Right Twenty Years Ago?
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/25/did-the-bbc-and-sir-clive-get-it-right-twenty-years-ago/

Predictions of the future are often laughable when reviewed in the years for which they are made. For example, here in 2026 we neither live on the Moon, nor have …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/25/did-the-bbc-and-sir-clive-get-it-right-twenty-years-ago/)

Hackaday Podcast Episode 388: RAM-Swapping on Raspberry Pi, Raindrops on Radar, and a Fine Mesh
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/25/hackaday-podcast-episode-388-ram-swapping-on-raspberry-pi-raindrops-on-radar-and-a-fine-mesh/

This week, Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams had a lot to talk about. From advice for a young hacker to using a laser to break into a microcontroller, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/25/hackaday-podcast-episode-388-ram-swapping-on-raspberry-pi-raindrops-on-radar-and-a-fine-mesh/)

Investigating a Rare Burnout 3 Beta Disc
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/25/investigating-a-rare-burnout-3-beta-disc/

These days, it’s pretty easy to buy old retail console games just by hunting online auction sites. It’s much rarer to come across a disc holding a beta version that …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/25/investigating-a-rare-burnout-3-beta-disc/)

Pi Pico Recreates The Heathkit Pocket Packet
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/25/pi-pico-recreates-the-heathkit-pocket-packet/

Packet radio is a particularly fun part of the ham radio hobby. Once upon a time, you might have squirted data about the airwaves using something like the Heathkit HK-21 …read more (https://hackaday.com/2026/09/25/pi-pico-recreates-the-heathkit-pocket-packet/)