Shai-Hulud round 2 on GitHub, massive leaks of data and propagation of stealer
Malware driving attack includes "dead man's switch" that can harm user 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."
Exclusive: ICE Glasses
Homeland Security is making “smart glasses” to collect intelligence on Americans
What’s New in Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 44 - Fedora Magazine
Describe new features and changes in Fedora Linux KDE Plasma Desktop 44
Border Patrol used hidden cameras to flag drivers hundreds of miles from the border: AP
The CBS12 News I-Team is digging into a new Associated Press investigation that reveals U.S. Border Patrol has been tracking and flagging drivers.
Michigan approves Border Patrol surveillance cameras on state highways
The state of Michigan has approved Border Patrol placing surveillance cameras with license plate readers on some highways.
Rust driver for the subGHz radio of STM32WLE5JC MCU!
Contribute to Lukrecjaaa/stm32wl-subghz development by creating an account on GitHub.
Inside Denmark’s struggle to break up with Silicon Valley
From a media blockade to “nationalizing” government software, Denmark has become a laboratory for resisting U.S. Big Tech. But is the price of sovereignty too high?
Ente.io now publish how much money they make and how many users they have
Explore Ente's business metrics, updated every month.
"It was too much to expect that he would also understand."
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Master Browser Fingerprint Spoofing with Expert Techniques
Learn how to protect privacy and enhance automation by spoofing browser fingerprints. Discover tools, code snippets, & ethical considerations.
Emmabuntüs DE 6: A Linux to help those in need
: A distro aimed at helping people, reducing e-waste – and helping a charity, too
Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You’re Being Watched, Too
No one likes being recorded by Meta’s Ray-Bans smart glasses, which have gotten increasingly popular in the last year or so. Now the wearers know how everyone else feels. According to a joint investigation published by …
Typst: "as powerful as LaTeX while being much easier to learn and use"
A markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn. - typst/typst
Briar is in maintenance mode - Briar
This is a quick update about the status of Briar. Short version: the project is still active but we’re only making essential security updates and bugfixes for now. Long version: For several years we’ve been trying to fi…
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 b…
Page views for "Zulip" Wikipedia article skyrocket after Discord announces its age verification nonsense
Your settings will be remembered on the same browser and computer.
Flo period tracker sells user data to Meta and Google
What does this vagueness by-design mean for how we choose to self monitor our biological markers?
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.
Offdem Browser Extension
Open-source browser extension that helps you stay focused by temporarily blocking distracting websites. Available for Chrome, Edge, and Firefox. 100% free and privacy-focused.
Website to help get an apks certificate hash
Drop an APK to extract its signing certificate SHA-256 hash.
Christiano Ronaldo and Messi Dancing Challenge 😭 why they look too good
Nobody did it better than them so far 😅
Transform your favorite cities into beautiful, minimalist designs. MapToPoster lets you create and export visually striking map posters wit…
Transform your favorite cities into beautiful, minimalist designs. MapToPoster lets you create and export visually striking map posters with code. - originalankur/maptoposter
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
Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist’s Bank and Credit Card Numbers
Amandla Thomas-Johnson didn't know how much information ICE requested in a subpoena now. Google never gave him a chance to fight it.
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…
Is Flock just a poor US-centric copy of, globally active Genetec?
Genetec provides unified security solutions that combine IP-based video surveillance, access control, automatic license plate recognition (ALPR), communications, and analytics to help protect the everyday.
Palantir Is Helping Trump’s IRS Conduct “Massive-Scale” Data Mining
Military contractor Palantir has been paid more than $130 million by the IRS to analyze sensitive federal databases.
Challenge over Met Police's use of live facial recognition lost
The claim was brought over concerns the technology can be used in an arbitrary or discriminatory way.
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.
Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft
Last week, Dan Blanchard, the maintainer of chardet—a Python library for detecting text encodings used by roughly 130 million projects a month— released a new…
You Are All On The Hobbyists Maintainers’ Turf Now
For quite some time, I have felt some unease at the public discourse around OpenSource. In the past few years, we have seen a growing discourse around the sustainability and security of the large body of OpenSource soft…
Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them
A few days ago, I came across a blog post titled On FLOSS and training LLMs that articulates a growing frustration within the free and open source software…
The privacy audit platform for Android applications
The privacy audit platform for Android applications
Signal to Ottawa: We'll Leave Canada Before We Help You Spy on Users
Signal is drawing a hard line on the federal government's proposed surveillance legislation: comply with Bill C-22 or leave the country. The secure messaging app says it would rather ditch the Canadian market than be fo…
Bunnings Australia wins legal fight to use AI facial recognition in stores
Bunnings was reasonably entitled to use AI facial recognition technology to combat crime and staff abuse in its stores, the Administrative Review Tribunal finds.
Open Source Software Resources for Space Downstream Applications
This page provides a list of open source software resources for developing space downstream applications, in the following categories: Positioning & Navigation Earth Observation software and data Satellite Communication…
Moroccan whistleblower reveals how Rabat used Israel's Pegasus spyware for surveillance
Testimony from intelligence insider and leaked records show extensive use of spyware against dissidents and foreign officials
Paul Romer: Jupyter, Mathematica, and the Future of the Research Paper
Economist. Policy Entrepreneur. Geek. Co-recipient of the 2018 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. University Professor at NYU. Focused on urbanization; cooperation at scale of millio…
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.
Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel
Discord is "experimenting" with an age authentication vendor whose major investors include Thiel's Founders Fund.
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.
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 …
Linux in California is in deep trouble - The Bryant Review
This new "privacy" law will require that all operating system providers must start collecting your birth date every app you install will need to ask your OS provider for that information. It's whac...
GeorgeClensy/Escape-Launcher: A minimalist android launcher to help you quit your phone addiction
A minimalist android launcher to help you quit your phone addiction - GeorgeClensy/Escape-Launcher
Canada is about to end private digital conversation — Bill C-22
Bill C-22 would force every messaging app in Canada to build a backdoor — and track all your activity for one year. Apple says no. Signal says they'll leave.
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.
volla, /e/, etc is a fucking shithole (or why simply renaming Google to volla will change nothing)
Here's a post where the @vollaficationist@mastodon.social clearly refers to themselves as being part of Volla and shares internal information which would only be known to someone working at Volla This account doesn't be…
Watch YouTube privately - Materialious
Materialious is a modern material design frontend for YouTube & Invidious, focused on a clean, privacy-friendly YouTube experience. It supports local video fallback when Invidious fails and is ...