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mintCast, Hackaday Podcast, and PSW #901
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mintCast Podcast ☛ mintCast 472 – New Distros, Old Issues
First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – October 2025 Then, new distro news and updates, and more streaming stuff In security and privacy: don’t trust every PPA!
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Hackaday ☛ Hackaday Podcast Episode 346: Melting Metal In The Microwave, Unlocking Car Brakes And Washing Machines, And A Series Of Tubes
Wait, what? Is it time for the podcast again? Seems like only yesterday that Dan joined Elliot for the weekly rundown of the choicest hacks for the last 1/52 of a year. but here we are. We had quite a bit of news to talk about, including the winners of the Component Abuse Challenge — warning, some components were actually abused for this challenge. They’re also a trillion pages deep over at the Internet Archive, a milestone that seems worth celebrating.
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Give Me Liberty or Linux, Badge Hacking Interview – Bryce Owen – PSW #901
In the security news: Cloudflare was down, it was not good Logitech breached The largest data breach in history? Fortinet Fortiweb – the saga continues Hacking Linux through your malware scanner, oh the irony I never stopped hating systemd The ASUS exploit that never existed If iRobot fails, can we deploy our own hacker bot army? Threat actors deply Claude Code Remembering the Viasat hack and why we can’t have nice things Hacking re-entry sensors Sending signals in the wrong direction A File Format Uncracked for 20 Years And 2026 is the year of the Linux desktop! Then, high school junior Bryce Owen joins us to discuss how he created the “Space Badge”!