2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Winter 2025-2026

The 2025 volume, in which the Robot Operating System, attack tooling written with large language models, and the surveillance economy take most of the technical pages.

Spring runs "Brute Forcing a Website Passkey by Spoofing Web Authentication Using cURL," "Meditations on Societal Collapse (Via Payphone)" and "Hackers in Hospitals." It also prints "Setting Up a Simulated Environment for the Robot Operating System (ROS)," "Building a Password Cracker Using OpenAI and Rust" and "Zero-Day Markets: Inside the Shadow Economy of Exploits." Summer covers "AI's Zero Start Problem," "Tito: A Complete In-Memory Rootkit," "Saving With Cyberdecks" and "The Roaming Library: Preserving Knowledge in the Age of Digital Fragility." Autumn prints "Hack the Broligarchy: Big Tech's Political Coup and Our Digital Demise," "Malware in the Filesystem" and "Observing the Wolves: Why Honeypots Matter in the Fight for Privacy." Winter adds "SnapSafe: Security on Android From Forensic Searches," "Without Further Ado, ROS 2," "Decentralized Authentication Across the Web" and "wpUsers.sh: Countering Disinformation With a Simple Bash Script."

The Autumn editorial is "HOPE for the Future," and the Winter issue reports from HOPE_16, held that August. The Robot Operating System articles run through three issues and continue into the following volume.