The ATOM Project looks to take on Chinese AI dominance.

https://news.itsfoss.com/the-atom-project/

Interesting article on "snoopery android apps":



https://peabee.substack.com/p/everyone-knows-what-apps-you-use

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⚡️TBOT 11: AI Companions Worse Than Porn, Why Your Word Doc Never Looks Right, Deep Sea Desalination, Find the Perfect XMPP Provider

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Here’s the stories for the week:

AI Companions Worse Than Porn: People are turning to to AI for companionship, seeking emotional connection. AI companies are more than happy to supply this drug, realizing personalized AI brings the most user enagement.

Why Your Word Doc Never Looks Right: Shots fired as LibreOffice, popular open-source office suite calls out Microsoft for their proprietary document format.

Deep Sea Desalination: Water shortages are leading companies to start pumping water from the deep sea. But is this safe? What’s the environmental impact?

Solutions: Find your perfect XMPP server: I love XMPP, although finding a server isn’t the easiest. That’s changing with providers.xmpp.net a project by XMPP community members to let you sort and find high quality servers.

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On the Man in America podcast, I talked about why your phone might be the most powerful surveillance tool ever created. From real-time tracking and secret geolocation databases to AI-curated feeds that shape your thoughts and behavior — phones aren’t just monitoring devices, they’re psychological weapons.

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Microsoft Tests New Feature to Resume Android Apps on Windows 11 https://www.gizchina.com/windows/microsoft-tests-new-feature-to-resume-android-apps-on-windows-11

Vivo Y500 Coming on September 1 With A Huge 8,200 mAh Battery https://www.gizchina.com/vivo-phones/vivo-y500-coming-on-september-1-with-a-huge-8200-mah-battery

Vivo X300 Pro Wil Come With Improved Cameras from Sony and Samsung https://www.gizchina.com/vivo-phones/vivo-x300-pro-wil-come-with-improved-cameras-from-sony-and-samsung

Oppo Find X9 Pro Key Specifications Leak Confirming Dimensity 9500, 7550mAh Battery and More https://www.gizchina.com/oppo-phones-2/oppo-find-x9-pro-key-specifications-leak-confirming-dimensity-9500-7550mah-battery-and-more

Fake Website Pages Used to Spread SpyNote Android Malware
https://dti.domaintools.com/spynote-malware-part-2/

Revealing Hidden iOS Apps: Exploring System Applications on Jailbroken Devices

https://reversethat.app/posts/revealing-hidden-system-ios-apps/

CADroid: A Cross-combination Attention based Framework for Android Malware Detection
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0957417425030623

iOS 18.6.1 0-click RCE POC (CVE-2025-43300)
https://github.com/b1n4r1b01/n-days/blob/main/CVE-2025-43300.md

Mobile & Phone Related OSINT Sites
https://uk-osint.net/mobilephone.html

CISA just flagged 3 new actively exploited flaws—two in Citrix Session Recording, one in Git.

The Git bug (CVE-2025-48384) can let attackers run arbitrary code just by cloning a repo. Proof-of-concept exploit is already out.

Here’s what you need to know ↓ https://thehackernews.com/2025/08/cisa-adds-three-exploited.html

🛑 Important: Google is locking down Android.

Starting Sept 2026, every app — even outside the Play Store — must come from a verified developer.

No more anonymous sideloads. No quick comebacks for malware gangs.

First up: Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand.

Full story ↓ https://thehackernews.com/2025/08/google-to-verify-all-android-developers.html

📢 Google & Workday both confirmed breaches this summer — attackers slipped in through social engineering, not software flaws.

The group behind it, ShinyHunters, used phone scams + fake apps to access Salesforce data.

Here’s what actually happened ↓ https://thehackernews.com/expert-insights/2025/08/shinyhunters-data-breach-vs-saas-why.html

🚨 A new Android banking trojan just leveled up: HOOK now locks victims’ screens with ransomware-style extortion demands.

Worse? It can also steal your banking logins, crypto wallets, PIN codes—and even stream your screen.

Here’s how it works ↓ https://thehackernews.com/2025/08/hook-android-trojan-adds-ransomware.html

🚨 Over 100 hacked WordPress sites are being used in a new campaign called ShadowCaptcha — luring visitors with fake CAPTCHA checks that drop info-stealers, ransomware, and crypto miners.

The trick? Copy-pasted commands from your clipboard turn into attacks.

Here’s what you need to know ↓ https://thehackernews.com/2025/08/shadowcaptcha-exploits-wordpress-sites.html

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