The Internet is fighting over whether robots.txt applies to AI agents. It all started when Cloudflare published a blog post, detailing what the company was seeing from Perplexity crawlers. Of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/this-week-in-security-perplexity-v-cloudflare-greedybear-and-hashicorp/)

Talking Robot Uses Typewriter Tech For Mouth
https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/talking-robot-uses-typewriter-tech-for-mouth/

Many decades ago, IBM engineers developed the typeball. This semi-spherical hunk of metal would become the heart of the Selectric typewriter line. [James Brown] has now leveraged that very concept …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/talking-robot-uses-typewriter-tech-for-mouth/)

Hackaday Podcast Episode 332: 5 Axes are Better than 3, Hacking Your Behavior, and the Man Who Made Models
https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/hackaday-podcast-episode-332-5-axes-are-better-than-3-hacking-your-behavior-and-the-man-who-made-models/

Elliot and Dan got together this week for a review of the week’s hacking literature, and there was plenty to discuss. We addressed several burning questions, such as why digital …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/hackaday-podcast-episode-332-5-axes-are-better-than-3-hacking-your-behavior-and-the-man-who-made-models/)

2025 One Hertz Challenge: The Real-Time Clock The VIC-20 Never Had
https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/2025-one-hertz-challenge-the-real-time-clock-the-vic-20-never-had/

Like many early microcomputers, the Commodore VIC-20 did not come with an interna real-time clock built into the system. [David Hunter] has seen fit to rectify that with an add-on …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/2025-one-hertz-challenge-the-real-time-clock-the-vic-20-never-had/)

Clock of Clocks Expands, Goes Digital
https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/clock-of-clocks-expands-goes-digital/

Some people just want to have their cake and eat it too, but very few of us ever get to pull it off. [Erich Styger] has, though with V5 of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/clock-of-clocks-expands-goes-digital/)

Tearing Down A Mysteriously Cheap $5 Fiber Optic To Cable TV Adapter
https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/tearing-down-a-mysteriously-cheap-5-fiber-optic-to-cable-tv-adapter/

In his regular browsing on AliExpress, [Ben Jeffrey] came across something he didn’t understand—a $5 fiber optic to RF cable TV adapter. It was excessively cheap, and even more mysteriously, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/tearing-down-a-mysteriously-cheap-5-fiber-optic-to-cable-tv-adapter/)

Whispers From The Void, Transcribed With AI
https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/whispers-from-the-void-transcribed-with-ai/

‘Hearing voices’ doesn’t have to be worrisome, for instance when software-defined radio (SDR) happens to be your hobby. It can take quite some of your time and attention to pull …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/whispers-from-the-void-transcribed-with-ai/)