⚡️Privacy Recommendations: Avoid Calls & Texts
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In this clip from Above’s ‘The Future of Cell Service’ webinar I get into how nothing you say on the cell network is private. This is because call detail records from phone calls and SMS is recorded and logged. Calls and texts cannot be encrypted, secret surveillance programs like Hemisphere unconstitutionally collect national phone calls, and calls can be wiretapped.

This is why we recommend using encrypted messaging apps like XMPP, which can encrypt messages and calls before they leave the device. A VPN (like Above VPN) can also encrypt traffic passing through the mobile network and we recommend Jitsi for end to end encrypted video conferencing.

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SmartScan - Image organisation & search app

SmartScan is an innovative app powered by a CLIP model that automatically organizes your images by content similarity and enables text-based search, making gallery management effortless.

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Developer: dev-diaries41

Special thanks to @R_2be for recommending!

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🏷 Tags: #Android #Media #Tools

Shortwave

Shortwave is an internet radio player that provides access to a station database with over 50,000 stations.

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Developer: Sveinn í Felli

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🏷 Tags: #Linux #Media #Entertaiment

⚠️ Hold your phone near your card... and they drain your bank account.

A new Android malware-as-a-service, SuperCard X, is targeting Italians with NFC relay attacks—letting cybercriminals remotely steal card data and pull off ATM & PoS fraud.

👉 Learn how it works: https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/supercard-x-android-malware-enables.html

Google’s now working on a new Android update to block risky app installs. But until then—stay sharp. Think before tapping.

🚨 Your MDM isn’t enough. Most breaches start with a device you can’t see.

Unmanaged laptops, outdated personal phones, misconfigured tools—attackers love them.
MDM/EDR miss the mark.

Device Trust closes the gap.

👀 See how: https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/5-reasons-device-management-isnt-device.html

Vivo X200s: the overclocked ”beast” you’ve been waiting for?
https://www.gizchina.com/2025/04/21/vivo-x200s-the-overclocked-beast-youve-been-waiting-for/

🕵️‍♂️ Kimsuky is back—and digging deep.

A new Larva-24005 campaign is exploiting old RDP bugs (BlueKeep, CVE-2019-0708) to breach systems in South Korea, Japan & beyond—with targets across energy, finance & tech.

Learn more: https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/kimsuky-exploits-bluekeep-rdp.html

Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue
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A New Form of Verification on Bluesky
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AI assisted search-based research works now
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How I use Kate editor
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AstraCrypt - Encrypt Your Data

AstraCrypt - is a free, powerful and open-source encryption app that has everything you need to keep your data safe and secure.

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Developer: Alex (gromif)

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🏷 Tags: #Android #Utilities

The Selfish Ledger - a 2016 Google internal video that was leaked soon after creation. Through the lens of evolution, it explores the future use of AI as a kind of panopticon to predict, guide and eventually control human behavior. Nearly ten years later, this video deserves to be rewatched in the emerging context of LLM-based assistant services.

Best Free & Open-Source Alternatives to Microsoft Excel
https://www.gizchina.com/2025/04/21/best-free-open-source-alternatives-to-microsoft-excel/

Local LLM inference – impressive but too hard to work with
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A M.2 HDMI capture card
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Vivo X200 Ultra: All Hail To The King of Camera Flagships
https://www.gizchina.com/2025/04/21/vivo-x200-ultra-launches-with-snapdragon-8-elite/

Kanshi.

Anime, Manga, & Novel Recommender (Website and Android Application). Also includes Manhwa, Light Novel (LN), Manhua, & One Shot.

🔗 Links:
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Developer: Reaven Dupitas

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🏷 Tags: #Android #Website #Tools