Threads is testing in-message games with a prototype basketball feature
TL;DR Meta is internally prototyping an in-chat basketball game for Threads that was spotted by a reverse engineer. The feature…
Reverse engineering an abandoned app: restoring TileCreatorPro access
TL;DR A user relied on TileCreatorPro, a Windows-era design tool bought in 2017 from ThoughtFishMedia, and found the vendor site…
Reverse-Engineering Washing Machines: Insights from 39c3 Talk (Video)
TL;DR A 39c3 presentation by Severin von Wnuck-Lipinski and Hajo Noerenberg examines the inner workings of modern household appliances, focusing…
Hacking Washing Machines: Reverse-Engineering BSH and Miele Appliances
TL;DR At 39C3, Severin von Wnuck-Lipinski and Hajo Noerenberg presented a technical deep dive into the internals of modern household…
Porting Windows 2 to the Apricot PC/Xi: bringing Word and Excel aboard
TL;DR A hobbyist reverse-engineered and ported Microsoft Windows 2 to the non‑IBM Apricot PC/Xi, overcoming driver and video-format hurdles. The…
How AMD Broke Into CPUs 50 Years Ago With an Intel 8080 Clone
TL;DR Fifty years ago AMD entered the microprocessor market by producing the Am9080, a reverse-engineered clone of Intel's 8080. The…