Kudu — Free System Maintenance Suite
15+ powerful tools to clean, optimize, and protect your Windows, macOS, and Linux machines. Open source, no ads, no bloatware.
Google's New Remote Attestation Scheme is As Bad As Its Old One
Google owes its existence to the open web, but today, its technological “innovations” have much to do with locking users into a “walled garden.” The latest of these is “reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification,” an experimental in…
Does the MPL 2.0 have a giant loop hole?
Let's say I have a project foo that's licensed as MPL 2.0. // work.go package foo func work(a, b int) int { return a+b } Alice is a consumer of my library. She comes up with a different way to ...
US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system
Concern over US effort to prosecute Sam Tunick, accused by authorities of wiping his phone using GrapheneOS
Flock Safety acting like Bricks and Minifigs. Bens doing jornalism, Benn Jordan and Ben Schneider.
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Does anyone use the SimpleX app?
SimpleX Chat - a private and encrypted messenger without any user IDs (not even random ones)! Make a private connection via link / QR code to send messages and make calls.
US Air Force Engineer Charged With Sawing Down Flock Surveillance Cameras Receives Thousands of Dollars from Supporters Across the Country
Anti-flock activist Jeffrey Sovern has nearly doubled his legal defense goal, raising over $15,000 from 400 supporters across the country.
An Explosion of Surveillance Towers is Coming to U.S. Borders, Costing Over $1 Billion
A new report from the Government Accounting Office reveals that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to nearly triple the number of surveillance towers along U.S. borders, from the current 830 to 2,300 by 203…
Signal CTO answers public's questions
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Free Ink · An open ecosystem for e-readers
Free Ink is an open-source collective building the software, firmware and hardware for e-paper readers — every layer ships in the open for anyone to pick up, extend and make their own.
An open-source alternative to iCloud and Google Photos
An open-source alternative to iCloud and Google Photos - Lynavo/lynavo-drive
Grapheneoses community manager spring-onion answer questions on video
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Protect Your Privacy with California’s DROP Tool
Are you a California resident? Then we've got exciting news for you: there's a tool just for you that lets you take a single, relatively easy step to protect your privacy. It's called a DROP request. (That's Delete Requ…
Mullvad on the Donation Controversy
We would like to address the recent controversy about one of the owners of Mullvad making a donation to a Swedish political party.
The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets
A new toolkit for attorneys in Massachusetts targets the technologies police use—and conceal—to build criminal cases, from facial recognition to AI-written police reports.
Flock AI audit tool flags suspicious police searches as misuse cases mount in Georgia
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Burnham to scrap Starmer’s digital ID scheme in ‘reset of priorities’
Incoming PM will reallocate unspecified resources from unpopular plan to helping with cost of living
📺 How I Tricked Big Tech’s AI Pricing Algorithms to Save $8,793
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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
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…
No Shark is Safe: Millions of Shark Vacuums are Vulnerable to RCE
Millions of Shark vacuums are currently vulnerable to remote code execution. This critical vulnerability leaves hackable cameras with wheels inside the homes of Shark vacuum owners. The vulnerability is trivially exploi…
Guerrilla London Bus Ads Mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta Glasses Campaign
âBillionaires could fund cures for cancer â so why are they funding glasses for perverts instead?" asked the protest group Everyone Hates Elon.
Ente.io now publish how much money they make and how many users they have
Explore Ente's business metrics, updated every month.
47 requests, zero answers — How Proton VPN keeps saying no to data demands
Every order sought to unmask a user behind a server IP and a timestamp, and Proton VPN says it holds no such data to give
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International calls, virtual numbers, SIM cards
Was the UK government ever realistically going to be able to restrict VPNs?
The government has ditched its VPN ban plans. Here is why the policy collapsed under technical reality.
Surveillance State’s Newest Terror Weapon: “Autonomous Police Drones”!
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FreeBSD 16 Retires The Last Of Its GPL Code From Its Base System
As of this past week in the FreeBSD source tree for FreeBSD 16, the last of the GNU GPL licensed code from the base system has been retired.
Delete GrapheneOS? WTF?!
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Blender 5.2 LTS Released 🥳
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
Portabase now handles backup/restore of Docker volumes
Portabase - Database backup & restore tool for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MsSQL, MariaDB, Firebird SQL, SQLite, MongoDB, Redis and Docker Volume - Portabase/portabase
A $150 Buttonless, Open Hardware Answer to Kindle is being crowdfunded by Open Book Touch
It's $149, runs on an ESP32-S3, and skips DRM entirely and lets you skip the Kindle ecosystem.
We're Making an Open Source American Kei Truck
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Kraken limiting Monero. Prelude to total delisting IMO
Kraken will be limiting #Monero #XMR deposits and withdrawals:
German firm files for insolvency, blames cybercrims who shut down production for 6 weeks
ZEGO-TVZ says the financial fallout from a March cyberattack left shutting its doors as the only option
Ohio man says software update disabled car, leaving $1,600 bill and little options
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so easy migrating from GitHub to Forgejo
Using a distributed version control software system (like Git) allows you to keep control of the data inside the repository. If you want to download a local copy of your files, you can git clone your repo, or download t…
The Cop Investigating Flock Misuse Was Allegedly Doing It Too
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Palantir has a nemesis and I accidentally found him
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Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaint
GDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here's how it works and how to limit it.
Iowa accuses Temu of collecting private consumer data.
Iowa says Temu and its Chinese-owned parent company open consumers up to spying by the Chinese government.
Japan OKs legal change to allow use of sensitive private info for AI, stats
Japan's parliament on Friday enacted a revised personal data protection law to enable companies to use sensitive information without consent as the country pushes for domestic artificial intelligence.
I think hell just froze over "Cop EXPOSES TRUTH About Flock Cameras & Is Forced To Resign!"
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EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0
Today, the European Parliament allowed the suspicionless mass scanning of private communications ("Chat Control 1.0") to pass, a measure it had rejected twice in March. Although a majority of voting Members of the Europ…
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The House recently passed the KIDS Act, a disjointed internet bill that would pressure websites and apps to determine users’ ages before allowing them to read websites, send private messages, or participate in online co…
YouTuber Reckless Ben had his entire Google account subpoenaed in LEGO investigation
Follow me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/RecklessBen Get some merch: https://westealfromoldpeople.com Follow me on instagram: @recklessbenschneider Animated and directed by Lee Thompson (Ins...
All smart TVs—from LG, Samsung, TCL, and other brands—collect personal data. Here's how to use privacy settings to limit surveillance.
TVs collect a huge amount of data. Here's how to use privacy settings to limit the surveillance on TVs from LG, Samsung, TCL, and every other big brand.
Your Home Network Might Be Hacked Right Now...
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The Insectothopter: The CIA's dragonfly spy drone from the 1970s
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Eve Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why
"If we improve the code and we can all benefit from it, it's good for everyone," says Fenris's Ben Hunter, as he talks security, LLM coding, and help from Godot