More License Plate Reader Mission Creep: School Residency Verification, Background Checks, and Noise Complaints
An EFF analysis of millions of searches of Flock Safety automated license plate reader (ALPR) data by police has uncovered a troubling pattern: in the absence of a warrant requirement to search ALPR databases, law enforā¦
TIL: the Welsh battle of Orewin Bridge may be almost entirely fictional
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UK iPhone users face over-18 age check to use services after update
Ofcom says decision is āreal win for children and familiesā but some users raise concerns over privacy
ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.3 Brings Multipage View, PDF Signatures
ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.3 adds multipage document view, enhanced PDF signatures, and a new Solver tool for spreadsheets, alongside performance fixes and improvements.
Walter Koenig's Private Little War
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GrapheneOS - break free from Google and Apple
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LG TVsā unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVsā AI problems
LG says itāll let people delete the Copilot icon. But TV chatbots arenāt going away.
installing LineageOS is easy, actually
Blorp Ć¢ĀĀ A Threadiverse client for Lemmy and PieFed. Web, iOS & macOS, and more!
Should We Accept an AI-Governed Life? Superman and Batman Answer.
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Xthings Is Making a Narc Pole
The X Tower is an āurban guardianā that uses AI to detect public threats.
Sign this petition to get Ursula von BigTech to stop drinking US big tech kool-aid
Europe faces a critical choice: enforce EU law and break up Googleās monopoly, or yield to Trump and Big Tech. Add your name to the petition!
The Household Items That Spy On You
Here are common household items that are being used to spy on you.
Do you protect your USB port?
USBShield protects your Windows from unauthorized USB devices - USBShield/USBShield
Dexter - but Doakes LITERALLY follows him everywhere
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The Voluntary Trap: How Denmark Repackaged Chat Control After Defeat
After Germany blocked the October vote, Europeās surveillance proposal didnāt dieāit evolved. Denmarkās November compromise claims to abandon mandatory scanning while preserving identical outcomes through legal sleight ā¦
These subpoenas...
The Department of Homeland Security has expanded efforts to identify Americans who criticize or track Immigration and Customs Enforcement, sending hundreds of legal requests to major tech companies seeking information bā¦
PixiEditor is a Universal Editor for all your 2D needs
PixiEditor is a free and open-source universal 2D graphics editor, powered by innovative Node Graph workflow. Create vectors, edit photos, design graphics, make pixel art and animate - all in one app!
Serenum: a weather service that really respects your privacy
Serenum is a weather service that takes your privacy very seriously (read more).
Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results āat an astonishing scaleā
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Mullvad VPN - AND THEN? A film about Chat Control and mass surveillance
Chat Control is back on the menu. To highlight the corruption behind the proposal, Mullvad VPN now presents "And Then?"
Introducing beta access for Proton Pass CLI | Proton
To help you work in the terminal, Proton Pass now offers a command-line interface (CLI) for enhanced productivity and increased security.
DUNE author Frank Herbert: "My Arab friends wonder why it's called science fiction."
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24H CAKE TIMER for Deep Work
A minimalist 24-hour focus tracker to log sessions, tag slices, track streaks, and review progress ā all stored locally in your browser.
A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code
Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone serviceāwithout knowing almost anything about you.
Watchman Privacy Vs The Hated One - Corrupt sponsorships, war on privacy and anarchy
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Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens
: Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk
Can coding agents relicense open source through a āclean roomā implementation of code?
Over the past few months itās become clear that coding agents are extraordinarily good at building a weird version of a āclean roomā implementation of code. The most famous version ā¦
Stop Uploading Your Personal Files to Random āFreeā Compression Sites
A sleek, privacy-first PDF & image compression tool that runs entirely in the browser ā no uploads, no tracking, no servers. Perfect for creators, students, and developers who need fast, local file optimization. Purchasā¦
A Familiar Hunt | Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal | adult swim
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[MAGIC Monero Fund: Project Fundraiser] Monero Fuzzing Round 2: Wallet, P2P, and FCMP++. This second fuzzing project will help protect the ā¦
This second fuzzing project will help protect the Monero network
s&box game engine from Rust developer Facepunch is now open source
s&box is now an open source game engine, terrain looks 20% cooler with anti tiling and seam fixes, and a ton of bug fixes this week
Any open source alternative for math tricks Android app?
This program is dedicated to showing you a variety of interesting math tricks.
Germany are no longer against chat control - (German article)
Die EU-Staaten haben sich auf eine gemeinsame Position zur Chatkontrolle geeinigt. DatenschĆĀ¼tzer warnen vor massiver ĆĀberwachung. Was blĆĀ¼ht uns?
Build Your Own Glasshole Detector
Connected devices are ubiquitous in our era of wireless chips heavily relying on streaming data to someone elseās servers. This sentence might already start to sound dodgy, and it doesn’ā¦
What's up with FUTO?
Some time ago, I noticed some new organization called FUTO popping up here and there. Iām always interested in seeing new organizations that fund open source popping up, and seeing as they claim several notable projectsā¦
This Twilight Zone Episode Mocked John Wayne
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Beware of OpenAI's 'Grantwashing' on AI Harms
J. Nathan Matias and Avriel Epps say OpenAI's announced research funding is the perfect corporate action to make sure we don't find answers for years.
The Secret Scam Behind 4K Streaming
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Manyverse ā a peer-to-peer social network
A social network off the grid ā mobile and available on Android
Engineer who can't function without AI
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Sunday Kino Lagniappe: Cube (1997) 6:30 pm EST/11:30 pm UTC/12:30 pm CET/6:30 am BJT
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Why Did The Fallout Show's Visuals Look SO GOOD?
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Haraltd v0.0.2 - A cross-platform Bluetooth daemon with JSON-RPC
A cross-platform daemon that provides a JSON-based RPC to interact with the native OS Bluetooth stack. - bluetuith-org/haraltd
All my new code will be closed-source from now on - Marc J. Schmidt
All my new code will be closed-source from now on. I've contributed millions of lines of carefully written OSS code over the past decade, spent thousands of hours helping other people. If you want to use my libraries (1ā¦
OASIS approves Open Document Format (ODF) v1.4 Standard, marking 20 years of interoperable document innovation
BOSTON, MA, 3 December 2025 ā Members of OASIS Open, the global open source and standards organization, have approved the Open Document Format (ODF) for Office Applications V1.4 as an OASIS Standard, the organizationās ā¦
Presidential candidate Jonah Ryan takes aim at Muslim Math
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Mecha Comet - Modular Linux Handheld Computer (Currently on Kickstarter)
A handheld Linux computer powered by open-source software. Modular, programmable, and truly yours to own, build and mod.
Compulsory spyware app to be installed on every Indian citizen's new phone
Messaging like WhatsApp/Signal is outside of the scope of Android (etc) permissions, so access cannot be granted to spy on such content; messages at rest MAY be protected from surveillance by use oā¦
'Intellexa Leaks' Reveal Wider Reach of Predator Spyware
Ć¢ĀĀThis investigation provides one of the clearest and most damning views yet into IntellexaĆ¢ĀĀs internal operations and technology," said Amnesty International Security Lab technologist Jurre van Bergen.