2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Spring 2026

The current volume, two issues in, Spring and Summer 2026, the forty-third year of continuous publication.

Spring runs "Trust But Verify: Cross-Checking LLMs," "Anti-Revisionist Malware," "Datacenter Adventures" and "Vibe Hacking." It also prints "Modern BBSing: Scene Update," "The Pirate's Code: From Blackbeard to BitTorrent" and "AI-Powered License Plate Readers Are Ushering a Surveillance State." "Gatekeeping Is Just Bad OpSec," "Salting the NAS" and "Parasitic Computing Like It's 2001" close the issue. Summer covers "HOPE Springs Eternal," "The v6 Network Speaks First" and "Using AI to Generate Code: Verification Coding Is Not Vibe Coding." It adds "Bulletin Board Systems Are Back !," "Playing With ISP Hotspots for Fun and Profit," "How I Escaped From Domain Name Purgatory," "Console Hacking Primer" and "Vibe Coding Kernel Exploits."

Bulletin board systems are a subject in both issues, forty-one years after the newsletter first printed a list of board numbers. "Dr. Hook vs. God's Eye" begins as a two-part serial, and "Neuron Intelligence in Cyber Security Software" concludes.