Global Report on the Authoritarian use of Technology
We have been observing and monitoring an increase in states’ adoption of authoritarian practices and policies. These practices are facilitated by new and emerging technologies or embodied in their very deployment to sti…
Let's Encrypt to Cut SSL Certificate Lifetimes to 64 Days in February 2027
Let's Encrypt will reduce TLS certificate validity from 90 to 64 days starting February 10, 2027, with a further reduction to 45 days planned for 2028.
Passkeys are **not** a trap. Use them!
If you actually read the “Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them.” post going around, you’ll find a transparent attempt to clumsily string together a conspiracy. The post is predicated on the idea that a feature of WebAut…
Open source canva alternative
Open source canva alternative. Contribute to shaongitbd/doory development by creating an account on GitHub.
Creator of free Adobe clones unveils open-source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications — Autodesk tools and other subsc…
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Forcing Pro VFX Artists to Use Only Free Software
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Amazon Drivers Are Now Photographing Your Home
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Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them
Intended audience: non-technical citizens of the web
The Document Foundation gets its own logo after 16 years - OMG! Ubuntu
The Document Foundation, the non-profit steering the development of LibreOffice, has unveiled a new logo. The change means that, for the first time since
I made an AI-free version of my directory with open-source alternatives
Discover, compare, and evaluate the best open source alternatives to the software you already use. Find projects by category, features, and more.
Amber Folio: an AGPL-3.0 emulator built for SSI's Gold Box RPGs
A low-level emulator for the SSI Gold Box games. Contribute to amberfolio/amberfolio development by creating an account on GitHub.
OpenTubeX – Privacy-first YouTube client
OpenTubeX is a privacy-first YouTube client. Encrypted sync, SponsorBlock, no tracking.
The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.
Microsoft Releases LiteBox 0.1, a Rust-Based Sandboxing Library OS
Microsoft releases LiteBox 0.1, an open-source Library OS written in Rust, designed to isolate applications and reduce security risks.
Has America Become the Scariest Country in the World to Visit?
America wants five years of your social media before you visit. I followed it to Five Eyes, a 1946 alliance kept secret for 64 years.
Dallas Goes Dystopia, Outfits Garbage Trucks With ‘AI Cameras’ To Generate ‘Blight’ Citations
I’m sure whoever thought this might be a good idea — that would be the Dallas city council members who approved this contract — thought no one would ever find out about it. But no…
Flock CEO says drones are its fastest-growing business as it expands beyond license plate cameras
Flock, the license plate-reading company, is developing its drone business. CEO Garrett Langley says drones could help police and citizens stay safe.
LLM Policies in FLOSS Projects: Progress At All Costs
GNOME and KDE have started to consider LLM policies, and we should talk about what this is really about. KDE caught everyone's attention first by...
ublock lite is now on IOS, Should people switch to that instead of using Adguard or should they stick with Adguard?
This is a question that for some is easy to answer and for others may not be as
easy to answer. So all input could help other people find and make a more
knowledgeable choice and one that helps them towards their privac…
Cloudflare Acquires Deno JavaScript Runtime, Core Development to End in 2027
Cloudflare acquires Deno, shifting its developers to Workers while the open-source JavaScript runtime faces an uncertain future.
Youtuber says "The Safety of Linux is Beginning to Falter..."
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Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun,' authorities say
Two young people riding in an autonomous vehicle were arrested in San Francisco after authorities allegedly found them in possession of an illegal 'ghost gun.'
Creative social engineering for supply-chain
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
Ursula Leyen - State of the European Union speech - EU Kids Act
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Patchy: Open-source image editor focused on PSD compatibility and workflows familiar to Adobe Photoshop users.
Open-source image editor focused on PSD compatibility and workflows familiar to Adobe Photoshop users. - SethRobinson/Patchy
OpenSubs: I built a subtitle generator that runs Whisper in the browser, so the video never gets uploaded
Transcribe, translate, style and burn subtitles into video — entirely in your browser. The video never leaves your machine. Free, no account, open source.
What happened to the Snowden archive
The last document from the Snowden archive was published on 29 May 2019. The Guardian stopped publishing documents in February 2014, Der Spiegel in January 2015, and The New York Times and ProPublica in August 2015. Aft…
Stemkit splits any YouTube song into stems to isolate drums or vocals from songs for learning and playing
Split any YouTube song into stems. Contribute to danielravina/stemkit development by creating an account on GitHub.
Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentials
This morning, DDoSecrets published an exciting new dataset: Filesystem images of the partitions from an in-use Flock ALPR camera. 404 Media and Wired published a joint investigation into it. I downloaded the dataset and…
Your Computer Might Demand Your Age Soon, No Matter Where You Live
New state laws are pushing age verification into macOS and Windows. By 2027, logging in might require a facial scan or government ID.
The Smart Home Wi-Fi Trap: Are We All Being Conned by Convenience?
Discover why smart home Wi-Fi is a privacy and performance trap for your ISP router, and why local mesh alternatives are better.
The gpg.fail aftermath: On responsible disclosure, GPG, and the state of security in 2026
In 2025, I found and disclosed a bunch of vulnerabilities in GPG, the most used PGP implementation, and held a talk at 39c3 about it. **S...
Calibre v9.15 adds an AI-powered interactive fiction game
The latest update to Calibre, the popular open-source ebook manager, features an AI-powered writing game. Calibre v9.15's "Create Your Own Adventure"
Private AI?
Your conversations with AI chatbots are both highly personal and deeply vulnerable to surveillance. Here’s how you can protect yourself.
Scott Jenson: Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX forever?
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Probes into Toronto’s shooter-for-hire network thwarted by impenetrable phone, police source says
Key cellphone seized in connection with the case runs on privacy-focused operating system, investigators so far unable to unlock it
We got a cybersecurity expert to hack this BYD. It was too easy
To test the risks of surveillance and sabotage, Four Corners asked a hacker to show what China's top EV brand could see and do remotely.
GrapheneOS Isn't Happy With Google Over Pixel's Widening Head Start
GrapheneOS is calling out Google over its negligence in providing certain patches.
BBC reporting on DPRK (North Korea) overlaid on queen funeral procession
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Android 17 QPR1 is the first release since Android Honeycomb (3.x) adding new APIs for app developers without a release to the Android Open…
Android 17 QPR1 is the first release since Android Honeycomb (3.x) adding new APIs for app developers without a release to the Android Open Source Project. The new APIs are currently exclusive to the Pixel OS and aren't…
Open Source Printer coming before 2027
Open printer is a reparable, durable and open source printer.
A simple rule for disposable email: only use it for work that can end
Which tasks deserve a temporary inbox, how to run up to five active workflows on SmailPro Free, and when to rotate, upgrade, or use your own email.
Bugpocalypse, or reporting bugs in an AI age - QEMU
“…perfect software doesn’t exist. No one in the brief history of computing has ever written a piece of perfect software.”
Microsoft’s Terrifying New Patent | LG-Style ACR for Games & Software
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Trump kidnapping the president of Venezuela
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WebBrain: a GPL-3.0 browser extension that turns any LLM (including local ones) into a browser agent
Open-source AI browser agent for Chrome and Firefox (monorepo) 🧠 - webbrain-one/webbrain
TikTok to pay Alabama $100m and limit teenage use in first state settlement
Trial had been set for Monday over claims by Alabama that TikTok misled parents about tools meant to shield children from harmful content
GhostBSD is Replacing MATE With a New Desktop Named After a Typo
Eric Turgeon has shown off a new desktop environment that would ship with custom components in GhostBSD.
Meta will use your activity on other websites to personalize your feeds
You’ll still be able to opt out.