XLibre Turns One Year Old
Most of the tech Linux media hasn’t really covered XLibre properly other than Lunduke, and he’s done a nice piece on their one year anniversary. In the time of the push to digital ID and all the tech megacorps in…
Girl Kept from Church, Bible, and Christian Friends by Portland Judge Awaits Appeals Court Ruling
I’m not that knowledgeable about Calvary Chapel, but I do remember watching a sermon from one online that was back in Sacramento. And I wasn’t impressed with the pastor or the operation, and they’re charismatic, errantly believing tongues and prophecy…
UK Wants Message Scanning on Phones, Jail CEOs Who Refuse
On device scanning to protect the children now, but it’s heading to on device agentic AI spying on everything and reporting violations to the government. And the UK is already prosecuting people for posting factual information that goes against the…
Florida vs. OpenAI: The Fight to ID Every ChatGPT User
I don’t think people understand just how AI is going to be used, which this paragraph sums up nicely. Beyond this, they’re most likely building a very detailed profile on you as an individual based on what you research, beliefs,…
Google Wants to Be the ID Checkpoint for Europe’s Internet
It’s interesting that they need a video of your face along with ID, which is a move for facial recognition and biometric collection. And they added the ability to verify a fact in their wallet without revealing personal data last…
Traffic Cones and Barrels Are Spying on You — What Are They Hiding?
This is a little background that shows beyond normal installed Flock ALPR cameras, they can put up these temporary cameras camouflaged as traffic cones. This leads to tips from feds to local law enforcement for vehicles that fit a trafficker…
The Great Frozen Patty Deception: What Boca Burgers’ Label Really Tells You About America’s Food System
(Headline article below) And a lot of fast food is using similarly adulterated beef, so if you can’t offer 100% beef you’re to be avoided (Sonic ingredient graphic below). For home, we bought a meat grinder and make our own…
Microsoft Adopts Rust CoreUtils Clone… for Windows (Not a Joke)
I’d posit that it’s the licensing and adding exploits as Rust is not the exploit savior with many of its defects as well as being such a changing standard relying on the previous compiler… And it’s safe to say the…
ZEC Drops 30% as Shielded Labs Reveals More About Infinite Counterfeit Bug
The advanced cryptography methods used for privacy seem to have some bugs as implemented. ZEC was originally an interesting project for privacy, but it seems to have fallen under the control of questionable people as it has been pumped and…
The US Government Built a Tracking Bazaar and Adversaries Went Shopping
(Headline article below) A good write up on the farce the government uses to avoid the 4th amendment, as well as the government not passing privacy legislation to protect smartphone users. And you can deny apps access to location, and…
Rsync 3.4.3 Regressions Trigger Debate Over AI-Assisted Code
It’s not clear how AI was used, but it does raise a concern as this is a very experienced developer. Rsync 3.4.3 is under scrutiny after backup regressions surfaced alongside wider debate over recent AI-assisted development work. By Bobby…
Google Phone App Rolling Out Android Fake Call Detection That Uses RCS
A couple things about this, and it’s that Google has all these hooks built into their apps for tracking you in order to implement a feature like this, so you can drop the Google apps and get opensource ones from…
Trezor Says Safe 7 Chip Flaw Found by Ledger Does Not Put Funds at Risk
Doing a first ever opensource secure element chip is difficult. But kudos to Trezor for supplying the chip and having it researched by Ledger Donjon which has found similar flaws with another secure element chip used in the Coldcard hardware…
“Dystopian” Police.AI Launches in UK Amid False Arrests
The laziness that AI is bringing in is going to be detrimental to all entities that utilize it, and these lazy humans just aren’t going to properly vet results. And the humans coming out of university today are a problem,…
Vim Classic is a Vim Fork for People Who Want Their Editor AI-Free
I have severe concerns with AI created code not being sufficiently vetted as it can be a source of exploits and backdoors. And the cultish rush to the Rust programming language is equally concerning for the same things. And I…
Inside Microsoft’s Project Solara: A New Platform for Devices That Run AI Agents Instead of Apps
They’re ramping up their surveillance tech at an alarming rate. Personally, any business with wearable agentic AI cameras will be a no go for me. And who would want this garbage and pay for it? Was this why the push…