Shortwave App Now Available

Shortwave is an internet radio player that provides access to a station database with over 50,000 stations.

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Freedom by Design: Why Purism Rejects Big IT Status Quo

Three recent IT‑privacy headlines tell the same unsettling story: that consumer trust is being squandered

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When “Efficiency” Becomes Exposure: How DOGE Put America’s Identity at Risk

Every American should be alarmed.  It was recently reported that a whistleblower from inside the Social Security Administration, Chief Data Officer Charles Borges, has revealed that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) copied a live, full-fidelity version of the nation’s Social Security database onto an Amazon-hosted cloud environment that allegedly lacked independent security oversight. This affects any American who’s ever filled out a Social Security form,

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Spotify “Panama” Leak Is a Wake-Up Call for Digital Privacy

The New York Times recently reported that a hacker using the pseudonym “Tim” scraped publicly available data from Spotify and published it on his own website. Using automated bots, “Tim” harvested user playlists — many of them tied to identifiable names, locations, and even personal notes in titles or descriptions.

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When Technology Policy Defends Human Dignity

In late August, Italy took a decisive step to protect women from one of the most insidious forms of online abuse: the non‑consensual sharing of intimate or misappropriated images. After years of complaints, activism, and public outrage, a notorious website — home to thousands of stolen photos of women, from ordinary citizens to public figures — was forced offline following a wave of legal and political pressure.

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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.

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.

Звуковые эффекты на ZX Spectrum: AYFXEdit и BeepFX

Расскажу, как устроены и реализуются звуковые эффекты в рамках примитивных возможностей 8-битных машин на примере нашего народно любимого ZX Spectrum, для которого я сделал несколько соответствующих редакторов и наборов процедур, для бипера и для звукового чипа AY-3-8910.