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DI.DAY is a Movement to Encourage People to Ditch Big Tech A new day for privacy advocates to look forward to.

DI.DAY is a Movement to Encourage People to Ditch Big Tech

Adios! Says Ubuntu to The Software and Updates Tool Removed because it was deemed too complex and dangerous for normies.

Adios! Says Ubuntu to The Software and Updates Tool

Once-hobbled Lumma Stealer is back with lures that are hard to resist ClickFix bait, combined with advanced Castleloader malware, is installing Lumma "at scale."

“The operation has rapidly rebuilt its infrastructure and continues to spread worldwide.”

Attackers prompted Gemini over 100,000 times while trying to clone it, Google says Distillation technique lets copycats mimic Gemini at a fraction of the development cost.

"Google calls the illicit activity “model extraction” and considers it intellectual property theft, which is a somewhat loaded position, given that Google’s LLM was built from materials scraped from the Internet without permission."

Should AI chatbots have ads? Anthropic says no. ChatGPT competitor comes out swinging with Super Bowl ad mocking AI product pitches.

How long are we giving them until they change their tune on ads? 2 years? 5 years?

Microsoft releases urgent Office patch. Russian-state hackers pounce. The window to patch vulnerabilities is shrinking rapidly.

“The use of CVE-2026-21509 demonstrates how quickly state-aligned actors can weaponize new vulnerabilities, shrinking the window for defenders to patch critical systems”

Increase of AI bots on the Internet sparks arms race Publishers are rolling out more aggressive defenses.

"In the fourth quarter of 2025, TollBit estimates that an average of one out of every 31 visits to its customers’ websites was from an AI scraping bot. In the first quarter, that figure was only one out of every 200."

France Just Created Its Own Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Teams and Zoom Not only for them, but any other non-European videoconferencing software.

"France has decided that it is done using US-based videoconferencing software across its governmental organizations. Come 2027, every French government department will use Visio instead of Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Webex, or any other non-European platform."

AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast Moltbook lets 32,000 AI bots trade jokes, tips, and complaints about humans.

"While most of the content on Moltbook is amusing, a core problem with these kinds of communicating AI agents is that deep information leaks are entirely plausible if they have access to private information."

Systemd Creator Quits Microsoft to Form His Own Linux-focused Start Up Based in Germany, the company is made up of open source veteran developers.

Systemd Creator Quits Microsoft to Form His Own Linux-focused Start Up

Microsoft will finally kill obsolete cipher that has wreaked decades of havoc The weak RC4 for administrative authentication has been a hacker Holy Grail for decades.

"Better late than never!" says Microsoft (not really, but kinda really).

Browser extensions with 8 million users collect extended AI conversations The extensions, available for Chromium browsers, harvest full AI conversations over months.

“Anyone who used [AI] while Urban VPN was installed [+ Ubran ad blocker + a few others] after July 9, 2025 should assume those conversations are now on Urban's servers. Medical questions, financial details, proprietary code, personal dilemmas—all of it, sold for ‘marketing analytics purposes.'”

Operation Bluebird wants to relaunch “Twitter,” says Musk abandoned the name and logo “Abandonment” offers rare chance to reclaim one of tech’s most recognized brands.

“Once it’s no longer prominent on the website and the owner, the CEO, says it’s now called [x] and not [twitter], I don’t know how you beat an abandonment argument.”

Not Every Browser is Built on Chrome: Explore These Firefox-based Options Think all popular browsers out there are Chromium based? Take a look at this Firefox-based options.

Some great options here, if you're curious about other browsers!

Maximum-severity vulnerability threatens 6% of all websites Open source React executes malicious code with malformed HTML—no authentication needed.

Running a React Server? Update NOW. "React versions 19.0.1, 19.1.2, or 19.2.1 contain the vulnerable code."

Reddit Strangers Built an Open Source Linux Handheld, And They Want Your Help A fully modular development tool that you can build, modify, and extend yourself.

"The device also supports external add-on modules, where you can attach a LoRa radio for Meshtastic, a multimeter, or a logic analyzer depending on your needs."

Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand Google's AI infrastructure chief tells staff it needs thousandfold capacity increase in 5 years.

It’s unclear how much of this “demand” Google mentioned represents organic user interest versus the company integrating AI features into existing services like Search, Gmail, and Workspace.

How to know if your Asus router is one of thousands hacked by China-state hackers So far, the hackers are laying low, likely for later use.

Got one of these? Asus Wireless Router 4G-AC55U
Asus Wireless Router 4G-AC860U
Asus Wireless Router DSL-AC68U
Asus Wireless Router GT-AC5300
Asus Wireless Router GT-AX11000
Asus Wireless Router RT-AC1200HP
Asus Wireless Router RT-AC1300GPLUS
Asus Wireless Router RT-AC1300UHP

Google Just Made Its Sleek New Font Open Source Everything you need to know about Google Sans Flex.

"Google designed it for screens of various sizes and modern operating systems. Plus, it should look sharp on high-resolution displays with fractional scaling. Basically, one Sans Flex file replaces dozens of individual font files."

Researchers surprised that with AI, toxicity is harder to fake than intelligence New "computational Turing test" reportedly catches AI pretending to be human with 80% accuracy.

Keep in mind, this doesn't mean toxic social media messages that we often blame on bots aren't actually bots. Comment bots aren't often powered by generative AI - they're frequently using simple targetted responses pulled from a predefined/set list.

A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions A DNS manager in a single region of Amazon's sprawling network touched off a 16-hour debacle.

But but but... massive cloud hosts don't have single points of failure... 🤣

Cache poisoning vulnerabilities found in 2 DNS resolving apps At least one CVE could weaken defenses put in place following 2008 disclosure.

Cache poisoning vulnerabilities found in 2 DNS resolving apps

Google's Safe Browsing Flags Open Source Photo App as Dangerous Automated security system mistook legit Immich instances for phishing.

Just a coincidence that Google offers a competing product... right??

Google's gotta be the top company globally right now at spiking competition through sketchy mechanisms.

Bank of England warns AI stock bubble rivals 2000 dotcom peak Central bank says market concentration hasn't been this extreme in 50 years.

Bank of England warns AI stock bubble rivals 2000 dotcom peak

AI models can acquire backdoors from surprisingly few malicious documents Anthropic study suggests "poison" training attacks don't scale with model size.

AI models can acquire backdoors from surprisingly few malicious documents

Thousands of customers imperiled after nation-state ransacks F5’s network Risks to BIG-IP users include supply-chain attacks, credential loss, and vulnerability exploits.

Thousands of customers imperiled after nation-state ransacks F5’s network

Salesforce says it won’t pay extortion demand in 1 billion records breach Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters gave Salesforce until Friday to pay or else.

Salesforce says it won’t pay extortion demand in 1 billion records breach

Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users As more sites require IDs for user age verification, expect more such breaches to come.

Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users

Good News! Germany's Schleswig-Holstein Completes Massive Migration to Open Source Email Systems German state achieves digital sovereignty by ditching Microsoft for open source solutions.

Good News! Germany's Schleswig-Holstein Completes Massive Migration to Open Source Email Systems

Are We Looking at The Corporate Takeover of Ruby's Ecosystem? Corporate interests might be reshaping Ruby.

Are We Looking at The Corporate Takeover of Ruby's Ecosystem?