AI Can Now Easily Unmask Your Secret Online Life (Even If You Use a Fake Name)
New study shows smart chatbots can figure out who you really are from just a few posts... and it only costs a couple of dollars.
The Document Foundation announced today the release of LibreOffice 26.2.1
Videos describing new features available on YouTube and PeerTube Berlin, 26 February 2026 – The Document Foundation today announced the release of LibreOffice 26.2.1, the first maintenance update to the LibreOffice 26.2…
Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI
We're adopting Rust as our C++ successor language, and using AI agents to accelerate the transition.
Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web
Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.
Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums
Sammy Azdoufal just wanted to steer his DJI Romo with a gaming controller.
Gnome System Monitor
simple system-monitor with new features
The Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) will be held in Nuremberg, Germany 🇩🇪, from April 22nd to 25th of 2026.
GIMP will be at Libre Graphics Meeting with 3 talks and as a gold sponsor
Volunteers needed to test Ireland's new 'digital wallet' app for accessing public services
EU will require all member states to have digital profiles of citizens with birth certs and IDs
Vibe Password Generation: Predictable by Design
LLM-generated passwords appear strong, but are fundamentally insecure. Testing across GPT, Claude, and Gemini revealed highly predictable patterns: repeated passwords across runs, skewed character distributions, and dra…
UK planning to team up with "big tech" in next pandemic for "whole-of-society" "live location data" and AI surveillance
UK's £1B pandemic strategy proposes UKHSA contact tracing system using big tech location data, targeting 2030 deployment.
GIMP 3.2.2 Released with Various Improvements and UI/UX Updates
Release news for version GIMPÂ 3.2.2
Slackware Says No to Age Verification, But Fedora Linux Says Yes
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
YouTuber f4mi reverse engineers her devices and open-sources applications to control them
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Krita 5.3.0 and 6.0.0 Released
Today is the simultaneous release of Krita 5.3.0 and Krita 6.0.0! Depending which version of Qt and KDE Frameworks you build, the same source will result in one of the other. Both versions are almost functionally identi…
„LinkSheet“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
LinkSheet restores the Url-App-Chooser that was removed in Android 12+ in favor of verified app links
Compie 39 anni “C’è chi dice no” di Vasco Rossi: il significato del brano che ha segnato un’epoca
Dal 1987 a oggi, una canzone che continua a parlare di libertà e identità.
Two-way file sync, no remote agent needed
Efficient two-way sync between local and remote roots.
PvZ-Portable: cross-platform foss reimplementation of Plants vs. Zombies
A cross-platform reimplementation of Plants vs. Zombies by the community. Aiming to bring 100% authentic experience of GOTY edition. - wszqkzqk/PvZ-Portable
Trump Administration Moves to Allow Intelligence Agencies Easier Access to Law Enforcement Files
“None of this has been thought through very carefully,” one official said of the plans, which upend long-standing restrictions meant to protect Americans’ privacy.
Alugha
alugha simplifies global communication with multilingual video hosting, translation in over 200 languages, AI-powered tools, and premium video integration. Empower your content to reach your global audience.
Audit Finds Google, Microsoft, and Meta Still Tracking Users After Opt-Out - Slashdot
alternative_right shares a report from 404 Media: An independent privacy audit of Microsoft, Meta, and Google web traffic in California found that the companies may be violating state regulations and racking up billions…
Money Isn't Going to Solve the Burnout Problem
The xz-utils backdoor situation brought the problem of FLOSS maintained burnout into the daylight. This in turn lead to numerous discussion on how to solve the problem, and the recurring theme was …
Kubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) Released
Kubuntu 26.04 LTS is here. Try Plasma 6.6, Qt 6.10, KDE Frameworks 6.24, and more.
Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people's phone locations, researchers say
The Citizen Lab found two separate surveillance vendors abusing the backbone of cellular networks to spy on several victims across the world.
Blombooru: A modern, self-hosted, single-user booru built with FastAPI & Tailwind. Docker-ready and simple to set up.
A modern, self-hosted, single-user booru built with FastAPI & Tailwind. Docker-ready and simple to set up. - mrblomblo/blombooru
How Push Notifications Can Betray Your Privacy (and What to Do About It)
A phone’s push notifications can contain a significant amount of information about you, your communications, and what you do throughout the day. And there are myriad ways that law enforcement can access the content or m…
Print with dozens of colors: Our new open-source ColorMix for EasyPrint and PrusaSlicer - Original Prusa 3D Printers
For the past few months, the 3D printing community has been poking at a very interesting question: what if a multi-material printer were not limited to the colors physically loaded on it? And we must say it right now: T…
service-lookup v0.3.0 - Run your Spring microservices locally with ease
Update host:port in YAML service URLs by service name and Kubernetes cluster - iByteABit256/service-lookup
Facial recognition data is a key to your identity – if stolen, you can’t just change the locks
You can change a stolen password or credit card, but you can’t reset your face when your biometric data is breached.
The Atlas of Surveillance
"The Atlas of Surveillance is a database of surveillance #technologies deployed by #law enforcement in communities across the United States. This includes drones, body-worn cameras, automated license plate readers, faci…
Citizens Lab enquiry: how can we fight against this surveilance
Our investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns and, for the first time, links real-world attack traffic to mobile operator signalling infrastructure. The findings expose how suspected commer…
We Found a Stable Firefox Identifier Linking All Your Private Tor Identities
We discovered a privacy vulnerability in Firefox Private Browsing and Tor Browser that allows websites to fingerprint and track users across origins using IndexedDB database ordering, even after closing all private wind…
Consumer Federation of America Sues Meta for Failing to Protect Users from Scam Advertisements
The Consumer Federation of America (CFA), on behalf of itself and a proposed class of D.C. Facebook users, has filed a class action complaint and jury trial demand against Meta Platforms, Inc (Meta) for failing to prote…
This AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating Copyright
Malus, which is a piece of satire but also fully functional, performs a "clean room" clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell software without crediting the original developers.
Exclusive: ICE Glasses
Homeland Security is making “smart glasses” to collect intelligence on Americans
The privacy audit platform for Android applications
The privacy audit platform for Android applications
Edmonton police body cameras now automatically detect faces and compare to a watchlist
The same technology sold to hold police accountable now scans 7,000 faces a day without asking anyone's permission.
Cal.com goes closed source “because of security”
Cal.com goes closed source after 5 years. Hereâs why rising AI-driven security risks and vulnerability discovery are forcing us to protect customer data.
Palantir posts a 22-point summary of Alex Karp's book, promoting hard power, AI weapons and deterrence, while denouncing pluralism and “reg…
Palantir's ideological bent has come under more scrutiny as it's worked with ICE and positioned itself as a defender of "the West."
Police in US state of Nevada can now track cellphones without a warrant
Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time — all without a warrant.
Google, Apple, & Meta shared data from 3.5+M user accounts with US authorities over past decade through routine requests alone, a 770% incr…
Proton research shows how government access to Big Tech data is reshaping parenting and putting children’s privacy at risk.
Forgejo v15.0 is available
Forgejo v15.0, the lightweight, community-developed, self-hosted platform for code collaboration, was released on 16 April 2026. It marks the 100th release of Forgejo. You will find a short selection of the changes it i…
World expands its Tinder partnership and partners with Zoom and others to verify human users, as it continues its pivot from crypto to iden…
Honestly, whatâs hotter than a real person?
syncspirit v0.4.5 release!
[core] monitor in realtime changes on filesystem (on watched folders) [core] allow partial directory rescan [core] do not accept files with non-valid utf8 filenames [win32] write simple dump on cra...
We should push other phone OEM's such as Fairphone and Samsung to work with PostmarketOS, GrapheneOS, and Ubuntu Touch
This must be the product of GrapheneOS's work with a major OEM that it teased in October.
I was rooting for Motorola but...
The American phonemaker's Indian arm has named X, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Google, and Meta in a lawsuit asking to take down existing and future “defamatory” content.
Proton Mail introduces post-quantum encryption | Proton
Proton Mail now supports post-quantum encryption, helping protect new encrypted emails against future quantum threats.
OpenReception released their first stable version of an appointment booking platform specialized towards healthcare facilities
End-to-end encrypted appointment booking platform
Anyone remember . . . Tetris?
A simple tetris clone for android. Contribute to tpcstld/Jetris development by creating an account on GitHub.
Hister: a private search engine [AIP]
Your own search engine. Contribute to asciimoo/hister development by creating an account on GitHub.