F-Droid 2.0 Is a Game Changer
Our top stories this week:
- F-Droid 2.0: A New Chapter for Android Freedom
- Muse, Meta’s extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day
- An OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia’s Health Service. Their Government Found Out Months Later
- DraftKings Is Using AI to Supercharge the Harms of Online Behavioral Advertising
- Researchers found a way to eavesdrop on headphones from 30 meters away, and encryption can't stop it
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Updates from the Team
The iPhone the FBI Couldn’t Hack
In 2016, a locked iPhone 5C sparked a massive showdown between Apple and the FBI. When the US government demanded Apple push a modified compromised update to bypass iOS Security, it created a national debate; where does individual privacy end and public safety begin?
Privacy Guides
Upcoming Site Changes
This week we pushed some small changes that will appear on the next site release. We fixed typos and improved wordings and warned that Molly is no longer updating every two weeks as promised.
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News Briefs
Our news briefs remain a fantastic source of keeping up-to-date with breaking stories. In addition to the weekly Data Breach Roundup, this week featured stories about Discord's new age verification rollout, the FBI's headline-making data breach impacting virtually all agents and applicants, and a major vulnerability in Meta's new AI agent app. Be sure to sign up or subscribe via RSS.
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F-Droid 2.0: A New Chapter for Android Freedom
This week, F-Droid released a major update to their app store. The majority of changes focus on modernizing the UI and adding additional categories to make it more user friendly, but also include improving the search function, adding more filtering options, and improving the installation process. For privacy and security improvements, the app no longer ships with the F-Droid Privileged Extension, integrates Tor functionality better, and better clarifies what the panic button is capable of.
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