What Is Citrea?
This is a good write up on Citrea and how it factors into other Bitcoin layer 2 protocols. I like the privacy angle with zero knowledge proofs, but we have Palantir’s Peter Thiel investing in the company, so you have…
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Linux After Linus? The Kernel Community Finally Drafts a Plan for Replacing Torvalds
Linux is a pretty far left liberal by some of his crash outs and opinions, so even if he doesn’t go away it’s conceivable that we could have to run an alternative kernel. Currently, I mainly run the Liquorix (gaming…
Russian Army Received First Batch Of ‘Zubr’ Automated Anti-Drone Gun System (Video)
As warfare transitions to cheap drones, the way to combat them are being perfected. But being able to handle the volume of drones meant to saturate defenses is also a problem. The first batch of the Zubr anti-drone gun…
XFCE Spends Donations to Write New Wayland Compositor… in Rust
It looks like they’re going the way of KDE in separating out Wayland from X.Org, possibly with the direction to drop X.Org down the road. I like XFCE, but if they dropped X.Org support, they’d be dead to me (fork?).…
Britain To Roll Out Facial Recognition in Police Overhaul
If we take the Flock ALPR cameras that record when you travel past them, this type of facial recognition will fill in your personal travel data even if your phone or car aren’t tracking you. Many of us don’t have…
Why Bitcoin’s Failing Its Role As A ‘Safe Haven’ Versus Gold
I’d add that because Bitcoin is such a good currency, it’s easy to liquidate to cover yourself if you’re gambling in other markets with leverage. Though, eventually as the fiat dollar crashes out, a lot of regular people will take…
Linux Snap Users Warned as Attackers Push Malware Through Old Trusted Apps
Ubuntu and their Snap packages are trash, and this just backs it up. I’m not a huge fan of these virtualization method packages that include the libraries with central app stores, trying to mimic what Apple and Google have with…
TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes
The new section for logging AI prompts is interesting, as I don’t think people realize what a spying vector that is. You can reveal a lot about yourself through your prompts and interactions with AI, with many of them recording…
The Delusions of Nvidia – “StOp BeInG nEgAtIvE!!”
This is well done analysis and it made me laugh out loud a few times. And the Nvidia CEO needs to drop the leather jacket thing.
Microsoft Gave FBI a Set of BitLocker Encryption Keys To Unlock Suspects’ Laptops
Beyond the fact that Microsoft gave the keys to law enforcement, you have to wonder if there doesn’t exist an exploit for disk encryption to be broken anyway with this just a method to conceal it in court. Google and…
Nova Launcher Gets a New Owner and… Ads
I was using this as a Prime user, but given the direction they’re going I switched back to the Motorola Launcher and removed it from my smartphone. I had been using Nova Launcher from the days of the Nexus 4…
Xorg Plans Political Moves: Removing 2 Years of Commits from XLibre Dev
If you’re running X.Org (x11), you’ll probably want to switch from that to XLibre before they rebase it on a really old version. I run XLibre on both of my computers, and I guess I’ll have to switch the wife’s…