Australian software engineer Sarah Spencer hacked a 1980's knitting machine to create "Stargazing: a knitted tapestry" to show the universe in a unique way.

Sarah explains, “By using a floppy drive emulator written in Python and a web interface, I can send an image to the Raspberry Pi over the network, preview it in a knitting grid, and tell it to send the knitting pattern to the knitting machine via the floppy drive port ...

https://magazine.raspberrypi.com/articles/knitting-network-printer

#WomensArt #Tech #Knitting #raspberrypi

I expected the future to be scary, but in newer, less stupid ways

Binary Ninja 5.2 feature stream starts now! Join us to get a sneak peak of what's coming in the new stable: https://www.youtube.com/@vector35/live

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/germany-chat-control.pdf

Dearest folks from @BSidesPDX are hosting @blackhoodie again this year! Come spend a day with me and CPU bugs :) 🐞

https://blackhoodie.re/BSidesPDX2025/

10 More Hacker Movies You Have Missed

Everyone loved the first one of these, so a follow up was inevitable. This time around it is a very 1990s heavy affair, with 1995 being the real opening of the floodgates for movies about hackers or techno-thrillers where hacking plays an important part in the movie plot.

http://realhackhistory.org/2025/10/03/10-more-hacker-movies-you-have-missed/

🔐 SSH on Windows is levelling up. At #PSConfEU 2025, Microsoft’s Tess Gauthier & @stevenbucher13.bsky.social showed how: 🖥️ #SSH is default on Windows Server 2025 🛡️ SSH Posture Control secures configs via #Azure 🌐 SSH Arc = remote access without public IPs #PowerShell #WindowsServer

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🌧️ + 🏓 =

Everyone thought the “hedged” mode of ML-DSA (Dilithium) fixed fault attacks. New research presented at CHES shows that’s not the case. A "fault then correct" trick still works.

We break it down in our latest Expert Review. ➡️ https://eshard.com/posts/expert-review-6-dilithium-dis-faulting

#pqc #postquantumcryptography #cryptography #nist

BANDCAMP FRIDAY ALERT https://isitbandcampfriday.com

Full price of music to musicians today on bandcamp, no platform cut

Heads up to anyone doing #Mobile #ReverseEngineering and #PenetrationTesting: I've just ported my @NowSecure #Frida instrumentation scripts (#iOS and #Android) to Frida 17, which introduced some breaking changes in the API.

The original, battle-tested scripts from 2017 are preserved as release 0.1 for retro compatibility and historical reference.

https://github.com/0xdea/frida-scripts

Happy hacking! 🏴‍☠️🪐

Fantastic opportunity to work with amazing people! @pietroborrello https://infosec.exchange/@pietroborrello/115305619387518476

This October, the @internetarchive celebrates an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved & available for access via the #WaybackMachine. We're celebrating in style.

Join us in person or online!
📆 Weds, Oct 22
📍 IN-PERSON: 5–10 PM PT (San Francisco)
💻 VIRTUAL: 7–8 PM PT | 10–11 PM ET

🎟️ Register ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/event/the-web-weve-built-celebrating-1-trillion-web-pages-archived/

#Wayback1T #event

Our CFP is open! If you’re working on something exciting, we want to hear from you! Submit your talk for RE//verse 2026: https://sessionize.com/reverse-2026

📢 2nd part of our Black Hat Arsenal talk is out!

Python scripting! 🐍🐍🐍

Since there are some pretty cool people around here, let me reshare this job offer here: We just published the first job posting for the team, I'm allowed to build at Security Research Labs.
I can honestly say, it's been a month full of awesome people, interesting, impactful work and lots of fun and new learnings. If you wanna explore that together and develop something great, feel free to hit me up. Also, if you have any questions, let me know! If you know someone, that would be a great fit for the team, the company and the topic, feel free to send them over :)

https://srlabs.de/careers#open-positions