2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Autumn 2023

The fortieth volume, published in the year of ChatGPT, which the magazine argues with in every issue and names in the Summer editorial "Artificial Nonsense."

Spring covers "Sleuthing Google Apps Part 2," "Hacker Movies," "A Post-Soviet Payphone Trick" and "Organizing Music Files With SongRec and Shazam." It also runs "Hacking The Lenovo 11e Chromebook," "Known Plaintext Attacks Are Caesar-ous Business," "What is Futel?" and "AI For Content Generation." Summer prints "Programming of the Past," "Science Fair and Congressional Farce," "A Chain Addition Generator in AWK" and "The Metaverse Is a Solution Looking for a Problem." Autumn runs "Designing an OpenAI Powered IRC Chat Bot for Fun and Profit," "The Arrival of 2600 Digital Delivery," "But I Don't Want a Copilot" and "Diskless Malware." Winter adds "The Dark Side of DNA Data," "The BoneBox," "Adventures in Lockpicking," "A Quick Intro to Biohacking" and reviews of Pegasus and Fancy Bear Goes Phishing.

Two series carry the volume: "American Shanzhai" runs in all four issues, and "Quantum Computer Algorithms" in three, ending with an article on DES decryption.