🚨 UAT-5918 has been quietly breaching Taiwan’s critical infrastructure since 2023—targeting IT, telecom, healthcare, and more.

Linked to China-based groups like Volt Typhoon, it uses open-source tools, web shells & reverse proxies to stay hidden for the long haul. 👀

Credential theft, deep persistence, manual exfiltration—this isn’t smash-and-grab. It’s slow burn espionage.

🔎 Full analysis | Don’t sleep on this: https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/uat-5918-targets-taiwans-critical.html

🛜 The Galaxy S25 is Samsung's first phone to support Android's Instant Hotspot feature

With Instant Hotspot, you can share your Samsung phone’s Internet connection with any Android tablet, not just Samsung-made ones.

More details 👇

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-s25-instant-hotspot-3537161/

⏩ The Pixel 10 will have faster startup performance thanks to this Android change

A change in Android’s boot process has resulted in a 30% reduction in module loading time on the Pixel 10 and other Android devices.

More details 👇

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-10-startup-performance-3537302/

CHUWI CoreBook X i5-12450H: A Solid 14-Inch Laptop That Won’t Break the Bank
https://www.gizchina.com/2025/03/21/chuwi-corebook-x-i5-12450h-a-solid-14-inch-laptop-that-wont-break-the-bank/

Google Pixel Phones Silently Get a Big GPU Boost Via Android Update
https://www.gizchina.com/2025/03/21/google-pixel-phones-silently-get-a-big-gpu-boost-via-android-update/

PlayStation Creator Secretly Owns Rare Nintendo Prototype
https://www.gizchina.com/2025/03/21/playstation-creator-secretly-owns-rare-nintendo-prototype/

Vivo IQOO Z10 5G Launching in April with Big Battery & Fast Processor
https://www.gizchina.com/2025/03/21/vivo-iqoo-z10-5g-launching-in-april-with-big-battery-fast-processor/

OnePlus 13T: Key Features of the Compact Flagship Revealed!
https://www.gizchina.com/2025/03/21/oneplus-13t-key-features-of-the-compact-flagship-revealed/

Ulefone Armor 28 Ultra Performance Test Shows A New Standard for Rugged Smartphones
https://www.gizchina.com/2025/03/21/ulefone-armor-28-ultra-review/

5 years of R&D. Live, low-latency (sub-100ms) TDD audio over a cryptographic mesh network. Built on a Rust port of Reticulum, our Kaonic system balances sensitivity, range, and data rate for real-world performance.
This isn’t just another radio module. It’s a fully decentralised, infrastructure-free, and encrypted communications platform. End-to-end cryptography, efficient packet routing, and optimized PHY-layer performance—all packed into a modular form factor.
Designed for tactical operations, emergency response, and autonomous systems. No towers. No satellites. No centralised control. Just pure, resilient, off-grid connectivity.
The future of cryptographic mesh networking is here.

Forgive my dumb question, but all of this patented, right? I don't want to see any bigtech snatch it!

Great question. Thankfully, under international patent law, once an invention or technique is publicly disclosed, it cannot be patented by anyone, including big tech or even the original publisher. That’s actually one of the reasons we’ve chosen to publish it: by putting it in the public domain, we ensure it stays free and accessible. We’re offering the technology as open source for the benefit of humanity.

"Your Signal, Their Data: An Empirical Privacy Analysis of Wireless-scanning SDKs in Android", 2025.

Mobile apps frequently use Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and WiFi scanning permissions to discover nearby devices like peripherals and connect to WiFi Access Points (APs). However, wireless inter-faces also serve as a covert proxy for geolocation data, enabling continuous user tracking and profiling. This includes technologies like BLE beacons, which are BLE devices broadcasting unique iden-tifiers to determine devices’

Our findings show that 86% of apps integrating these SDKs collect
at least one sensitive data type, including device and user identi-fiers such as AAID, email, along with GPS coordinates. We uncover widespread SDK-to-SDK data sharing and evidence of ID bridging, where persistent and resettable identifiers are shared and synchronized within SDKs embedded
in applications to potentially construct detailed mobility profiles, compromising user anonymity and enabling long-term tracking.

#Android

PeerTube 7.1 brings Podcast 2.0 support, enhanced identification and Mastodon verification | AlternativeTo

PeerTubePeerTube has launched version 7.1 of its open-source, decentralized video-sharing platform, introducing a range of new features and improvements. A key update is enhanced platform identification, which now highlights the hosting platform's address for each video. Users can click on this address to learn more about the video's origin and explore all videos hosted on the remote instance.

Version 7.1 also advances its support for #Podcast 2.0, enabling users to subscribe to channels and play video audio streams through traditional podcast applications like #AntennaPod and #Podverse. Additionally, the podcast feed is now compatible with Apple Podcast, broadening accessibility

PeerTube v7.1 is out! | JoinPeerTube
https://joinpeertube.org/news/release-7.1

#PeerTube

https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/

https://discuss.techlore.tech/t/fdroid-security-issues/1303

from 2022 but with more searches it goes way back than that