You Can't VPN Out of On-Device Scanning
A practical look at moving to GrapheneOS: what it prevents, and what it can't.
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REALITY and XTLS-Vision
Building a Proxy Server That Pretends to Be Someone Else
How I Bought a Locked Google Demo Unit (and Unlocked It)
What is Google's Denali Companion App?
Backing Up TrueNAS SCALE to a Secondary TrueNAS Using ZFS Replication
ZFS replication as a native backup strategy
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OpenAI, Anthropic issue dire cyber threat warning 31/08
100 companies, including the companies building AI models, are warning that AI-powered cyberattacks could become widespread within months. We need to prepare our infrastructure, systems and users, and automate defence at the same pace.
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Android 17 adds ECH support to make web browsing harder to track 28/08
Nice. ECH + DoH is a significant privacy upgrade and makes it harder for your ISP to snoop on your browsing.
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The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead 27/08
So we're putting increasingly autonomous agents into environments where we monitor the systems, but not the agents themselves? If an agent can find its own paths to an objective that we didn't anticipate, having a human in the loop means pretty much nothing.