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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Russia-Aligned UAC-0099 Plants Nuclear Weapon Prompt in Malware to Disrupt AI Analysis 02/09
Attackers are now putting malicious prompts inside malware to trigger AI safety guardrails and interfere with analysis. Wow.
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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.