The quick and simple portal gun hack was published a little ver a week ago and has cleared almost 1.5 million views. This is just a taste of things to come as we plunge into creating more fun original content for hackaday. If you haven’t yet, you should go subscribe to our youtube channel. …
Portal gun hack approaches 1.5 million views. More fun hacks to come!
Hackaday Links: Leap Day, 2012
The Earth orbits the Sun every 365.256 days. Because this number isn’t a whole number, an extra day is tacked onto February every four years, unless the year is evenly divisible by 100, except in cases where the year is divisible by 400, or something like that. To commemorate this calendar hack, here’s some stuff that has rolled …
Al Gore slams SOPA in now-deleted YouTube video
In a video since removed from YouTube, Gore said that “anything that would serve to threaten the vibrancy and freedom of the Internet in the future, I’m against.”
A Floppy Drive Orchestra
With 8 drives working in concert, this “floppy drive array orchestra” takes drive music to a whole new level! As if that wasn’t enough, [SileNT] decided to use the16x64 LED array that he’s been working on in concert with the drives. For those that remember, we’ve actually featured [SileNT], AKA [Pawel]‘s, work before, where we …
Mystery surrounds Universal’s takedown of Megaupload YouTube video
Universal claims it was authorized to order the takedown of a Megaupload video because of a certain agreement with YouTube and that it wasn’t claiming copyright ownership.
Sen. Joe Lieberman: Google’s Blogger needs ‘terrorist’ button
Saying that alleged pipe-bomber Jose Pimentel used a Blogger-based blog to spread hate-filled screeds and links to bomb-making instructions, Lieberman sends letter to Google CEO Larry Page expressing opinion that Blogger should feature a content-flaggi…
Inside a Congressional Hearing on Digital Threats
Today I was fortunate to attend a hearing of the US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI). That’s me on the far left of the photo, seated behind our MANDIANT CEO Kevin Mandia. I’d like to share a few thoughts on the experience.Firs…
Glass PCB’s
Our friend [Jeri] tipped us off about this cool video on youtube where the author makes his own “transparent” PCB’s using some nontraditional materials. One ounce copper foil is found online along with some clear glass microscope slides, from there it is just a matter of cementing the foil onto the glass slides with some …
Xbox 360 claimed to be permanently hacked
Great news for folks who are keen on using the Microsoft Xbox 360 for homebrew purposes. Last week, some hackers announced that they’ve been able to bypass the Xbox 360 security system to inject and execute their own code. The hackers even released a…
