Because being a geek is a good thing

A developer discovered that AliExpress’s webpage creates two hidden AudioContext objects that fingerprint the browser using WebAudio. The finding surfaced because that processing was interfering with his multipoint Bluetooth headphones.

GrapheneOS reported that Google stopped pushing Git tags to certain AOSP source repositories. The change complicates how Android forks verify that their code matches Google’s official builds.

In 2018, a group of ham radio operators registered sondehub.org as a joke. Eight years later, the project ended up mapping military installations, tracking the balloon the United States shot down in 2023, and detecting traffic its operator links to the war in Ukraine.

An OSINT researcher solved the gralhix 004 challenge without using Google Lens: he built a geometric fingerprint from three islands and compared it against 80,690,777 candidate triangles with a CUDA kernel. The pipeline filters the planet by latitude, density, and clustering before launching the GPU search.

A study cited by Seth Godin shows that search ads on marketplaces like Amazon don’t increase total sales, they only decide which seller gets each purchase. Here we explain the mechanism with code and examples.

In 1996, id Software tried to sell its entire catalog inside the Quake shareware CD-ROM through a phone unlock system. The GNOMON group cracked it in 39 days, and the company ended up with 150,000 unsold discs.

Bluesky’s iOS app swaps the Follow button for its butterfly logo the instant the system detects a screenshot. The mechanism, found in the app’s open source code, repurposes an iOS feature meant to hide passwords.