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Making Content from Discoverable Servers Easier to Discover
Discord announces that every Discoverable Server (public servers with 1,000+ members) will get a public Server Web Page from November 16, 2026, and that messages from public channels may appear on those pages and in web search from mid-December; admins can opt channels out and members can turn off their messages now, while private servers and DMs are unaffected.
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I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27
Bogomil Shopov invites developers, researchers and activists to the Digital Dissident Devroom at FOSDEM 2027, a track on free software for censorship circumvention, secure communication and whistleblowing, and lays out its scope, the kinds of talks wanted and the call-for-participation dates.
4 min · 1,009 words
Getting ready to operate Taler in Germany
The GNU Taler project announces Taler Operations AG, a new company in Bochum that will apply to BaFin for an e-money licence to operate the privacy-preserving Taler payment system in euros, first in Germany, and explains why a regulated operator is needed.
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Quad9 explains why, after a French court ruling in beIN's favour forcing it to block DNS resolution for certain domains, it will stop offering its free DNS cyberprotection service to users in France from November 24, 2026, and what users can do next.
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New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez announces a court order requiring Facebook to pay $25 billion in civil penalties after a jury found 43,899,725 violations of the state's Unfair Practices Act in its Cambridge Analytica case.
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Blocking Identity Resolution Infrastructure
WebKit's John Wilander, Charlie Wolfe and Matthew Finkel explain identity resolution, the post-cookie tracking method where invisible third parties collect your email at login or signup and turn it into a persistent cross-site tracking ID and identity graph, and how Safari and WebKit in the 27 releases block network access to that infrastructure at the domain level.
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Introducing Firefox Enterprise
Mozilla announces Firefox Enterprise, which pairs the Gecko-based Firefox browser with a customer-operated management console for organizations with strict security, governance and compliance needs, pitching it as a way to reduce dependence on a few technology providers and as a first step in a wider sovereignty push.
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A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad
The Tor Project explains why it is continuing its technical collaboration with Mullvad after concerns over a political donation by a Mullvad co-founder, while pausing proactive co-branding and revising how Mullvad Browser is described on Tor's channels to avoid implied endorsement.
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Announcing Cloudflare OHTTP Gateway
Cloudflare announces OHTTP Gateway, expanding access to its privacy-preserving Oblivious HTTP infrastructure so apps and services can route requests without exposing client IPs to origin servers.
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Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS
Apple says it will add stronger, more explicit controls around macOS Full Disk Access as capable AI agents make broad access to files, mail, messages, and browsing history riskier for users and contacts.
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First Steps of the PLC Organization – Independent Public Ledger of Credentials
A year after Bluesky pledged an independent PLC directory operator, the Public Ledger of Credentials Organization formally exists and takes its first administrative steps.
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F-Droid 2.0: A New Chapter for Android Freedom
F-Droid announces version 2.0—the largest official app update in a decade—with a redesigned UI, better discovery and search, and a simpler experience for installing free and open-source Android apps.
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Pirate Face: The permanence layer for sovereign AI
Pirate Face mirrors open AI models from Hugging Face as checksum-verified torrents—magnet links meant to keep LLMs, image/audio models, and datasets alive peer-to-peer without a single owner or takedown point.
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Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep
Hister indexes the full contents of pages you visit and files you keep so you can search them again from a web UI, the terminal, or an AI assistant over MCP.
2 min · 529 words
CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3
The Chaos Computer Club announces 40C3 for 27–30 December 2026 and invites model citizens—humans and AI systems alike—to Europe’s biggest hacker congress on technology, society, and civil liberties.
2 min · 443 words
Tor VPN Beta: What we've learned building our own VPN for Android from scratch
The Tor Project shares lessons from building Tor VPN Beta for Android from scratch: giving each app its own Tor circuit, rethinking VPN features like exit selection for censorship circumvention, prioritising stability and reliability, and what comes next, including F-Droid distribution.
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Autistici/Inventati (A/I), a longstanding Italian collective providing free privacy-respecting internet services, announces it is shutting down all services after being designated a global terrorist organisation. The collective warns users to back up their data and urges the community to stay human in the face of repression.
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Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyoneCloud in a Bottle is your open-source personal cloud: containerized apps, unified auth, good UX. Self-hosting should feel like using a smartphone that serves webapps, not a sysadmin side job.
Zack Polizzi launches Cloud in a Bottle, an open-source personal cloud platform built on Ubuntu that runs containerised, rootless apps with unified authentication and a polished web dashboard. The goal is to make self-hosting feel as simple as using a smartphone, without requiring sysadmin expertise.
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The National Design Studio open sources Rampart, a 14.7 MB on-device PII filter for AI chat that runs in the browser. It pairs validated regular expressions for structured data like SSNs and card numbers with a small MiniLM model for names and addresses, and reports 98.4% private-term recall across seven languages.
4 min · 841 words