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Your car is collecting more data about you than you thinkNortheastern researchers tested 21 vehicles and companion apps for third-party data sharing
Northeastern cybersecurity researchers, with Consumer Reports, found connected cars and OEM apps sending VINs, location, and emails to advertising and analytics third parties—and call for clearer opt-in defaults.
2 min · 414 words
Keva: Running Coding Agents On-Device on Unrooted Android
Simon Lin's technical paper on Keva—an on-device Android AI coding agent running Claude Code/Codex-style loops—covering architecture, failure modes, and systems lessons without rooting the phone.
33 min · 7,580 words
Android NAT-T Keepalive Offload Bypasses VPN Lockdown: Device-Class Exposure Across Most Android 12+ DevicesTechnical report on Android VPN lockdown bypass via NAT-T keepalive offload.
Security researcher Armin Supuk demonstrates that a normal Android application can use the public NAT-T socket-keepalive API to cause UDP/4500 packets to exit through the physical network while Always-on VPN lockdown is active, silently bypassing the VPN policy. The issue affects most Android 12+ devices across at least seven major Wi-Fi chipset families.
1 min · 315 wordsagent-written