Google's reCAPTCHA Fails De-Googled Android Users, Impacting Privacy
Google's reCAPTCHA service is reportedly broken for users on de-Googled Android devices, raising accessibility and privacy concerns.
FCC passed an anti-robocall proposal requiring telecoms, including VoIP providers, to verify user identities before activating service
The FCC just proposed fixing your robocall problem by building the kind of phone-user registry that privacy advocates have spent decades trying to prevent.
Countries rolling out age verification laws (2026)
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Fury Erupts After Google Chrome Sneakily Installs 4 GB AI Model On Users' PCs
Google's web browser has been "silently" installing an AI model on users' devices without asking for consent.
Remember when they were calling for regime change in China because of mass surveillance? This is the USA today
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Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users
The company that decides whether you're a bot now also requires you run its software to prove otherwise.
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.
New IVPN tiers include modDNS, MailX and Portmaster
Generate an IVPN Standard or Pro account - no email address required. We accept credit cards, Paypal, Bitcoin or cash payments. 30-day money-back guarantee.
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.
Nouveau vs. NVIDIA R595 Linux Driver For Workstation Graphics Performance
When having the HP Z6 G5 A workstation in the lab for benchmarking, one of the curiosity-driven tests was seeing how well the latest open-source and upstream Nouveau driver stack is competing against the latest official…
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
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.
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.
VideoLAN Publishes Dav2d For Open-Source AV2 Decoder
While the Alliance For Open Media had been aiming for the AV2 release by the end of 2025, as of right now the AV2 specification remains in a draft status
Omoggle - website where users give biometric date in "face-comparison" matches while system continously scans it for rating
Omoggle is a live face-rating and 1v1 arena game where players compete, climb ELO, unlock ranks, and battle for the leaderboard.
Zulip 12.0: Organized chat for distributed teams
We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 12.0, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes: end-to-end encryption for mobile push notifications, a major upgrade for Docker, configurable image previews…
LibreOffice 26.2.3 Open-Source Office Suite Released with More Than 40 Bug Fixes
Berlin, 30 April 2026 – The Document Foundation today announces the release of LibreOffice 26.2.3, the third maintenance update to the LibreOffice 26.2 branch, which was released in early February. This update delivers …
An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open.
Code paid for with public money should, by default, be open to the public.
Contributor Poker and Zig's AI Ban
You should always change doors when playing Monty Hall
Utah’s New Law Targeting VPNs Goes Into Effect Next Week
For the last couple of years, we’ve watched the same predictable cycle play out across the globe: a state (or country) passes a clunky age-verification mandate, and, without fail, Virtual Private Network (VPN) usage sur…
U.S. Supreme Court Case on Data Privacy in Police Investigations
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Self-hosted, booru-style gallery for a personal image collection written in Go
Self-hosted, booru-style gallery for a personal image collection - leqwin/monbooru
Transly - the CLI tool for incremental app translation (via LLM, GoogleTranslate, etc.)
Cache-driven incremental translation (via LLM, GoogleTranslate, etc.) - translate-tools/transly
Trump uses Correspondents’ Dinner shooting to justify expanding spying powers as deadline nears
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is set to expire Thursday, and the president is claiming Saturday’s shooting proved “the safety of our nation” depends on the program.
FxSound | Boost Your Sound Experience Now
Enhance your Windows audio experience with FxSound's free, open-source software for superior sound quality, volume, and bass customization. Perfect for music, gaming, and transcriptions.
What’s New in Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 44 - Fedora Magazine
Describe new features and changes in Fedora Linux KDE Plasma Desktop 44
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?
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.
Kdenlive 26.04.0 is out, featuring contributions from more developers than ever before
The Kdenlive team is happy to announce the first major release of 2026. This cycle focuses on stability, interface polish and usability improvements.
A warning from privacy/tech law/electronic surveillance attorney Anne Toomey McKenna, also an affiliated faculty member at Penn State's Ins…
To augment information about you that it collects directly, the US Government is buying less-regulated information harvested by cameras, cellphones and apps and sold on the commercial data market.
The Most Dangerous VPN of All Time (Onavo)
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Donut Browser - any opinions?
Open source anti-detect browser. Create unlimited local profiles with unique fingerprints, proxy support, and full browser automation.
Alter-Ego: near telepathic interface
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We wrote "esperto-wiimote", a Wiimote remapper with good IR tracking and complex key combos
Advanced Wiimote remapping software. Contribute to KayJay7/esperto-wiimote development by creating an account on GitHub.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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."