News

The PS5 Controller Hack That Exposed Seven Thousand Living Rooms

A simple project to use a PS5 controller on a robot vacuum accidentally exposed 7,000 homes.

Nullmail: Privacy-First Disposable Email That Actually Works

Nullmail is a privacy-first disposable email service that creates instant temporary inboxes without tracking or signups.

ArtemisFlow: A Local-First Job Tracker I Built

ArtemisFlow is a local-first job tracker designed specifically for tech candidates. There is no login, no external database, and n...

Dash Brings Zcash Orchard Privacy to Evolution Chain for Shielded Transactions

Dash, the decentralized payment network that has supported protocol-level privacy since launching in 2014, announced it will integ...

I Replaced $1,200/Year in Cloud Subscriptions With a Single Home Server. Here's...

I ditched Google Drive, iCloud, 1Password, and three streaming services by setting up a home server running StartOS. Total savings...

Why OpenAI’s Move Into Health Data Should Alarm Anyone Paying Attention

OpenAI has acquired healthcare startup Torch. Torch aims to consolidate fragmented medical records into a single AI-accessible sys...

Why Ephemerality Is a Stronger Privacy Primitive Than Encryption Alone

Why ephemerality beats encryption alone for privacy: a technical deep dive into data lifecycles, threat models, and modern privacy...

The HackerNoon Newsletter: How You Can Test Your Kids Smart Toys For Privacy (1...

How You Can Test Your Kids' Smart Toys For Privacy

The Markup is looking into what other toys collect private data on your children. A Wi-Fi-enabled toy will likely communicate with...

The Tech Community's Efforts to Dethrone OpenAI

OpenAI has made tech waves in the recent years with the remanent of LLMs as search engine reindexing algorithms. The biggest issue...

The Zero-Day Deduction

While testing a tax software API for a bug bounty, I discovered a critical Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR). By changing a...

Zypherpunk Hackathon 2025 Review: Top 5 Privacy Projects That Will Disrupt DeFi

Zypherpunk Hackathon 2025 roundup: discover the top 5 programmable privacy projects — Yona, ZIntents, Secure Polymarket, Zassport,...