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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Self-hosted email is in steep decline, Microsoft and Google are taking over 26/08
Frankly, not surprised. A huge chunk of email hosting is based on reputation, not the computing stack. Google, Microsoft and others make their own decisions about whether to accept your mail.
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Nvidia faces growth test as Rubin debut meets AI financing scrutiny 25/08
Selling the shovels isn't enough? Nvidia started financing the gold rush.
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Final round of inaugural "AI x Cybersecurity Challenge" held today (with photos) 24/08
Cybersecurity is becoming an automation arms race. Humans are going to be too slow to manually respond to AI-driven attacks.