REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) shipped on October 7, 2026 as an open-source CLI and MCP server that gives AI agents 41 native binary inspection tools and 14 guided investigation workflows for decompi…
Digital sovereignty, defined as the capacity to control one's digital destiny, is increasingly invoked by European officials and global majority governments to reduce dependency on foreign cloud infra…
A daily AI news digest for September 2 lists 28 stories, including Nori Robotics' $1,688 humanoid robot for researchers, Runway's Solaris generating UI frames, and Google's Astra project progressing f…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging courts to reject AI companies' claims that training large language models on copyrighted material constitutes fair use, warning that accepting this a…
Google's Manifest V3 update to Chromium has disabled the full uBlock Origin extension in Chrome and Edge, replacing the blocking webRequest API with the rule-limited declarativeNetRequest API, a chang…
Glassbox, a new browser-based tool by solo developer David Dale, reveals how easily browsers can be fingerprinted, estimating identifiability from 99% in a standard Chrome session to 56% in Tor Browse…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced that all images used on its blog posts, donation pages, and shop items are created by human designers, not AI image generators, with rare exceptions.…
Public backlash against Flock Safety, a $7.5 billion startup making AI-powered license plate-scanning cameras, has intensified, with the LAPD allowing its three-year contract to expire and other citie…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) celebrated its 36th anniversary, with new executive director calling for public support in the fight for digital rights. The organization highlighted ongoing b…
A documentary short titled 'Code for the People,' directed by Bao Nguyen, explores the past, present, and contested future of the open web, highlighting the threat of closed AI and walled gardens. The…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging supporters to become members for as little as $10 per month to help cut through AI hype and advocate for privacy, free expression, and protections ag…
LineageOS, the de-Googled Android ROM, published an article explaining that Google's upcoming developer verification changes do not affect their project since they do not ship Google Mobile Services. …
JP Hutchins explains how Bridgy Fed enables cross-posting between Mastodon and Bluesky, allowing posts from a Mastodon account to appear on Bluesky and replies to federate back. Hutchins tested the se…
Meta's Fury AI Glasses, the company's cheapest and best smart glasses yet, face severe privacy concerns including unauthorized data collection for AI training and potential facial recognition features…
TikTok creator Plonk is teaching viewers how to blind AI-powered surveillance cameras from Flock Safety, a network used by roughly one-third of U.S. law enforcement agencies. His satirical videos prom…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is calling on Grindr to prioritize LGBTQ+ user safety by making privacy the default, ending data sharing with advertisers and AI training without opt-in consen…
AI-enhanced automated license plate reader cameras deployed by roughly 40% of US law enforcement agencies capture every passing vehicle without a warrant, with vendors like Flock Safety storing search…
Cory Doctorow argued on The Atlantic's podcast that AI companies have lured investors with overhyped claims and accounting gimmicks, predicting the resulting bubble will burst with economic fallout ri…
Senators Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden introduced the JAWBONE Act, a bipartisan bill creating a federal cause of action against government officials who coerce online platforms into censoring lawful speech. …
The Trump administration's AI regulation has been haphazard and retaliatory, particularly against Anthropic, violating the First Amendment by punishing the company for refusing to allow its models to …