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Connecting Agents with Cryptography
Liam Horne explores how MPC, FHE, and TEEs could let personal agents cooperate—matching calendars, comparing salaries, or finding bug-fix peers—without sharing private context, and who might pay for that shared computation.
5 min · 1,096 words
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.
3 min · 606 words
Kev Quirk finally leaves Firefox after Mozilla’s AI push, tries Vivaldi, and lands on Brave—covering extensions, sync, and why privacy-default browsing finally stuck.
2 min · 528 words
GrapheneOS – When an app is slow
A GrapheneOS user digs into why OsmAnd maps feel slower on a Pixel 8 than on stock Android, and how that search led to CoMaps and broader performance trade-offs on hardened phones.
1 min · 245 words
SB 923 is Law: CCPA deletion rights now reach third-party data
California’s SB 923 expands CCPA deletion to data bought or appended from third parties and requires an online deletion form—what businesses need to change by January 1.
3 min · 620 words
One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days
An investigative account of how a single Flock ALPR hit led Palm Beach County deputies to jail Lindsey Isaacs for 13 days despite a mismatched car color and no damage.
6 min · 1,408 words
Snap Wants to be a State Actor??–Kansas v. Snap
Eric Goldman analyzes Kansas v. Snap, where Snap argues it should be treated as a state actor—an unusual posture for a private internet service normally fighting that characterization.
5 min · 1,143 words
I’m Tired of Being on the Network
Mat Duggan on smartphone fatigue: how always-on networks reshaped attention, relationships, and work, and why stepping back from the phone has become a practical form of self-preservation.
11 min · 2,442 words
How I Could've Accessed 17 Trillion Microsoft Records
A security write-up estimating ~17.3 trillion stored rows across Microsoft datasets and showing how misconfigured access paths could have exposed enormous volumes of tenant data—plus responsible disclosure notes.
9 min · 2,086 words
DraftKings Is Using AI to Supercharge the Harms of Online Behavioral Advertising
EFF argues DraftKings' use of betting data and ML to re-engage losing gamblers shows why all online behavioral advertising—not just third-party data sharing—should be banned.
3 min · 609 words
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.
13 min · 2,980 words
Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
Daniel Gultsch recounts twelve years of Conversations on Google Play, why the XMPP client is leaving the Play Store, and what going fully free means for Android messaging and F-Droid distribution.
4 min · 901 words
Dark Sourcery: How Hackers Manipulate AI to Scam You
Ariel Simon documents how attackers poison the public web so ChatGPT and Gemini steer users toward scam centers, and what that means for anyone who treats AI answers as a trusted guide.
8 min · 1,776 words
Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol
Radicle discloses two critical peer-to-peer network-protocol flaws: unencrypted node traffic and related issues affecting all prior releases, with remediation guidance for operators.
5 min · 1,133 words
Confused Deputy: The Old Bug That AI Agents Keep Reintroducing
Auth0 revisits Norm Hardy’s 1988 confused-deputy problem and shows how AI agents with ambient credentials recreate it—then argues for short-lived, task-scoped tokens instead of standing access.
9 min · 2,062 words
David Bushell timestamps the moment he refused Apple Intelligence features—and Apple’s later defaults said yes anyway—on consent, OS nudges, and keeping a blog as a personal audit trail.
2 min · 513 words
AI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companies
noyb reports on a leaked Irish Presidency document proposing that AI companies’ commercial interests should override fundamental rights protections for Europeans’ data.
6 min · 1,433 words
What Happened to the Snowden Archive
The last document from the Snowden archive was published on 29 May 2019. The Guardian stopped publishing documents in February 2014, Der Spiegel in January 2015, and The New York Times and ProPublica in August 2015. After that, only The Intercept was still publishing documents, with only a few exceptions, until it closed its archive in March 2019. Eleven weeks later, on 29 May 2019, it released what would become the final batch of documents from the archive. Since then, no news outlet, journalist, or institution anywhere has published a single document from the Snowden archive.…
55 min · 12,744 words
So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes
Working with a pile of ancient Android 6 phones without Play Store access becomes an accidental lesson in how much quieter—and more joyful—a Google-light phone can feel.
2 min · 465 words
Alice and Bill own identical UK iPhones, but only Alice still has Apple Advanced Data Protection. MacAnorak explains how Apple's UK ADP withdrawal created a two-tier encryption outcome for otherwise identical devices.
13 min · 2,953 words