Inbox, Meet AI: How I Built My Personal Email Agent with LangGraph

Imagine having an assistant who never sleeps, never forgets, and always keeps an open line of communication with you. No fancy apps, no constant prompting—just a simple inbox. That’s the beauty of an email-based AI agent. By giving my AI its own email address and letting it regularly check for messages, I suddenly had a flexible, asynchronous way to collaborate with it.

Whenever I need something—summarize a long document, draft a reply, add a task to my list—I don’t have to open a special dashboard or remember a new command syntax. I just send an email. Hours later, I can check...

GNUnet 0.25.0

GNUnet 0.25.0 released

We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.25.0.
GNUnet is an alternative network stack for building secure, decentralized and privacy-preserving distributed applications. Our goal is to replace the old insecure Internet protocol stack. Starting from an application for secure publication of files, it has grown to include all kinds of basic protocol components and applications towards the creation of a GNU internet.

This is a new major release. Major...

libgnunetchat 0.6.0

libgnunetchat 0.6.0 released

We are pleased to announce the release of libgnunetchat 0.6.0.
This is a minor new release bringing compatibility with the major changes in latest GNUnet release 0.25.0. A few API updates and fixes are included. Additionally the messaging client applications using libgnunetchat got updated to stay compatible. This release will also require the GNUnet services from version 0.25.0 or later because of that.

PureOS Crimson: August 2025 – Alpha Released

We have released alpha images for PureOS Crimson for all Librem devices and have closed the first milestone!

Thank you to all of our supporters and PureOS subscribers who have made this possible.

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Blanket App Now Available

Blanket lets you improve focus and increase your productivity by listening to different ambient sounds.

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Google Mishandling School Children’s Data

When Google agreed to pay $30 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over its unauthorized collection of children’s data on YouTube, it wasn’t a revelation—it was a confirmation. A confirmation that Google’s public posture of compliance often masks a deeper, more calculated strategy: delayed monetization through long-tail data mining.

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Invisible Dependencies, Visible Damage: The Case for Supply Chain Hygiene

On September 8th, Check Point Research confirmed what many of us in the privacy and security trenches have been warning about for years: the weakest link in your security posture may not be your systems at all — it may be the invisible web of third-party integrations you’ve tacitly approved, often without full visibility into their downstream dependencies.

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From Typhoon to Action: A Purism Playbook for Hardening Your Defenses

When the FBI, CISA, and NSA release joint advisories, it’s not theory — it’s reality. The latest warnings about Salt Typhoon and Volt Typhoon should be read as a weather alert: the storm isn’t “out there,” it’s already in progress. These campaigns target infrastructure, communications, and supply chains with patience and persistence.

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Amazon S3 Vectors: A Cost-Effective Revolution for AI Applications and Agents

Amazon S3 Vectors is a new feature of Amazon S3 that provides native support for storing and querying vectors at scale. This innovative addition transforms S3 into an AI-ready storage solution, offering a cost-optimized approach for building AI applications, AI agents, and semantic search capabilities. By significantly reducing the costs associated with vector storage and querying, S3 Vectors democratizes access to large-scale vector datasets, empowering developers to create more intelligent and context-aware AI solutions. This blog post will delve into the capabilities of Amazon S3 Vectors, exploring its benefits, use cases, and potential impact on the broader vector database landscape.

Apple’s Latest iPhone: Sleeker Walls, Same Garden

Yesterday, Apple unveiled the latest iPhone lineup adding an iPhone Air — described by them as their thinnest, lightest yet. The headlines were predictable fanfare while missing the larger points.

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