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Your Sonicare Brush Head Has an NFC Chip That Logs Brushing Time, and It Can Unlock a Mac A toothbrush head is a plastic stick with bristles, so why does Philips put a microchip in it? YouTuber Circuit Helper wanted to know, so he built a small NFC reader, read what a Sonicare brush head stores about the person using it, rewrote that data, and finally used an old brush head as a key to unlock his Mac. The chip sits under a small brown dot near the base of the head and needs no… |
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EEVblog Had Claude Code Rebuild His 121GW Multimeter Firmware in C Overnight, and It Works Dave Jones of EEVblog has spent years telling engineers to be sceptical of hype, so it says a lot that his latest video ends with the line "software engineering is so over". He pointed Claude Code at the compiled firmware of his own 121GW multimeter and asked it to turn the binary back into C source code. By the next morning it had rebuilt both the bootloader and the full meter application,… |
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A Flipper Zero Can Now Act as an Industrial Crane Remote, Because Its Radio Has No Checksum Industrial crane remotes are the chunky orange handsets that move tonnes of steel in factories and yards, and you would hope their radio link is hard to fake. IoT security researcher Matt Brown (Brown Fine Security) reverse-engineered a Telecrane-style remote and its receiver, then wrote an open-source Flipper Zero app that listens to a real remote, learns its ID over the air and sends its own… |
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A 2011 Nokia E6 Now Boots Linux 6.12 and Runs Wayland, and It No Longer Reboots Every Four Minutes The Nokia E6, the 2011 Symbian business phone with a QWERTY keypad and a 640x480 touchscreen, is getting a second life as a Linux machine. Developer fluffleswaffles has brought up Linux 6.12 on it. The project's milestone log starts with a first boot to a BusyBox shell on 13 October, and the kernel now drives the phone's own display, runs the Wayland compositor weston with the foot terminal,… |
