Category: Tools
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Radar Chat Brings Bitcoin Payments to Signal Messaging
It runs on Signal, holds your keys, and slips a Bitcoin button next to the message box, no cash tag…
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Brave 1.92 Adds Built-In Containers for Desktop
Two accounts, one window, and none of the awkward mingling your logins usually do behind your back.
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Volkswagen Punishes the Phones That Trust Google Least
The same company that leaked the parking spots of 800,000 cars last year now says privacy-focused GrapheneOS phones aren’t trustworthy…
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What to Like and What to Question About Europe’s New Open Source Office Push
The same governments selling you a sovereign office suite are the ones legislating their way past the encryption it would…
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Stop Renting Access to Your Own Movie Collection
Running it yourself means a price you set, a door only you hold the key to, and infrastructure that answers…
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Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users
The company that decides whether you’re a bot now also requires you run its software to prove otherwise.
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Brave Now Has a Stripped Down Option — Here’s Who Should Care
It’s a surprisingly coherent product, but whether you actually need it depends entirely on which kind of privacy user you…
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The Opt-Out Button Is Decorative: A Guide to Hardening Your Browser
The opt-out button you’ve been clicking is decorative, so here is the browser build that stops asking nicely.
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Tuta Announces Quantum-Resistant Encrypted Cloud Storage, Tuta Drive
Ten million users already trust Tuta with their email, and now the same quantum-resistant math covers everything they store.
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You Don’t Own Your Kindle Books. Here’s What You Can Do About It.
The open source ebook ecosystem now has a genuine answer for every piece of Amazon’s walled garden, if you care…
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How Your Weather App Became a Surveillance Machine — and How to Escape It
The forecast is free, but you’ve been paying for it with every place you’ve ever visited.
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Apple Removes Bitchat from China App Store at Cyberspace Administration Order
The app that needs no internet, no servers, and no user accounts turned out to be exactly the kind of…