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A user reports that the unaltered open-weights Qwen3.8 27B model successfully guided them through flashing OpenWRT firmware on their router, a task both Claude and Opus 4.8 reportedly refused due to safety guardrails, raising questions about future cyber safety in Qwen releases.
A Hacker News discussion exploring whether a small company selling routers with DD-WRT pre-installed is viable, weighing existing options like OpenWrt One and GL.iNet against the reality that hackers typically flash their own firmware.
The author describes running Pixelflut, a collaborative pixel art project, on a 2010 TP-Link Archer C7 router using OpenWRT and cross-compiling Rust code, detailing the technical challenges and setup process.
A guide to set up automated IPv6 status monitoring on OpenWrt routers using hotplug scripts, MQTT, and Home Assistant for immediate outage notifications.
This article introduces the first project to integrate Wi-Fi Calling and Apple WLOC into an OpenWrt router, allowing proxy nodes to handle Wi-Fi Calling and location requests without extra phone-side configuration—ideal for tech enthusiasts to try.
A heap buffer overflow vulnerability in Dnsmasq (CVE-2026-2291) allows remote code execution via a malicious upstream DNS server. The issue was introduced in version 2.73 and fixed in 2.92rel2 and 2.93.
OpenWrt One is an open hardware router that runs the OpenWrt firmware, offering an open-source alternative for networking hardware.