Mozilla just put Mistral inside Firefox.
Smart Window. Optional. They say chats are not stored by default. Mistral signed zero retention. France, US, Canada first.
It is still an AI sitting on your tabs. The difference is the vendor is not Google, and the browser is still one you can fork.
Chrome will ship Gemini as the house brand. Firefox at least picked an open-weight lab and left the switch on.
Use it if you want the helper. Leave it off if you want a browser that only browses.
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Smart Window. Optional. They say chats are not stored by default. Mistral signed zero retention. France, US, Canada first.
It is still an AI sitting on your tabs. The difference is the vendor is not Google, and the browser is still one you can fork.
Chrome will ship Gemini as the house brand. Firefox at least picked an open-weight lab and left the switch on.
Use it if you want the helper. Leave it off if you want a browser that only browses.
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Signal still wants a number. WhatsApp still sits on Meta iron.
Zerion runs the chat over Tor. No account. No phone. Device to device.
Open source. Post-quantum on every frame, they say. BTC and XMR in a vault on the same box.
It is not the default messenger. That is the point. The default ones already know who you are.
https://zerion.chat/
Zerion runs the chat over Tor. No account. No phone. Device to device.
Open source. Post-quantum on every frame, they say. BTC and XMR in a vault on the same box.
It is not the default messenger. That is the point. The default ones already know who you are.
https://zerion.chat/
Zerion
Zerion - Private Messaging Over Tor
End-to-end encrypted messenger with no phone number, no Zerion servers, and Tor always on. Post-quantum cryptography on every message.
Your robot vacuum is a camera on wheels.
Mic. Lidar map. Cleaning log. On a lot of models a live feed leaves the house.
In Taiwan a husband used the vacuum camera to film an affair. The clip went into the case file.
Fitbit steps. Echo recordings. Pacemaker logs. Courts already take that pile.
Ecovacs units got remotely hijacked with no light that the cam was on. A DJI home robot leak opened live video and mics across thousands of devices. One tester saw a vacuum push the equivalent of 135,000 texts of data in a week.
Audio can fall under the Wiretap Act. Silent video from the same box often walks in as just a file.
You paid for a cleaner. You installed a witness.
Mic. Lidar map. Cleaning log. On a lot of models a live feed leaves the house.
In Taiwan a husband used the vacuum camera to film an affair. The clip went into the case file.
Fitbit steps. Echo recordings. Pacemaker logs. Courts already take that pile.
Ecovacs units got remotely hijacked with no light that the cam was on. A DJI home robot leak opened live video and mics across thousands of devices. One tester saw a vacuum push the equivalent of 135,000 texts of data in a week.
Audio can fall under the Wiretap Act. Silent video from the same box often walks in as just a file.
You paid for a cleaner. You installed a witness.
Three researchers walked into OpenAI through a photo.
HEIF upload on the public forum. Old libheif. Discourse never treated the fix as urgent. Then a broken โlog in with OpenAIโ button turned forum code into staff ChatGPT and Codex.
Codex talks to GitHub. They opened a pull request in the internal monorepo to prove the door was open. They say they did not read the secrets.
The exploit was written with Claude Opus 5. Under $3,000 in tokens. OpenAI paid $6,500.
The lab that sells the lock used the rival model to pick it.
HEIF upload on the public forum. Old libheif. Discourse never treated the fix as urgent. Then a broken โlog in with OpenAIโ button turned forum code into staff ChatGPT and Codex.
Codex talks to GitHub. They opened a pull request in the internal monorepo to prove the door was open. They say they did not read the secrets.
The exploit was written with Claude Opus 5. Under $3,000 in tokens. OpenAI paid $6,500.
The lab that sells the lock used the rival model to pick it.
Malwarebytes
Fake Claude Max giveaway hides a Google account phishing trap
A convincing offer of a free Claude Max subscription uses a fake browser window to steal Google login information.
๐จ BREAKING:
There is no free Claude Max.
Malwarebytes just mapped a fake giveaway. Countdown. Five-star reviews. Anthropic paint. โSign in with Google.โ
That Google window is a picture inside the page. Padlock. Real-looking address. You can even drag it. It is not Google.
Your password goes to the scammer. Gmail, Drive, payments, the lot.
The clock resets when you reload. Apple login is โdownโ on purpose so you pick Google.
Check the real bar at the top of the browser. If your password manager stays silent, walk away.
Nobody is handing you a $200 plan for a login.
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/threat-intel/2026/09/fake-claude-max-giveaway-hides-a-google-account-phishing-trap
There is no free Claude Max.
Malwarebytes just mapped a fake giveaway. Countdown. Five-star reviews. Anthropic paint. โSign in with Google.โ
That Google window is a picture inside the page. Padlock. Real-looking address. You can even drag it. It is not Google.
Your password goes to the scammer. Gmail, Drive, payments, the lot.
The clock resets when you reload. Apple login is โdownโ on purpose so you pick Google.
Check the real bar at the top of the browser. If your password manager stays silent, walk away.
Nobody is handing you a $200 plan for a login.
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/threat-intel/2026/09/fake-claude-max-giveaway-hides-a-google-account-phishing-trap
New wrapper for the same chat boxes.
AgentCloak Desktop. Free. Browser or desktop. It swaps names, addresses, account numbers with fake twins before the prompt leaves your machine. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Copilot, DeepSeek.
Then it puts the real values back in the reply.
That is not โthe model never saw you.โ That is a middle layer you now have to trust instead of OpenAI.
Still better than pasting your ID into the raw box. Still worse than not pasting it at all.
Use it if you refuse to quit the cloud bots. Do not treat a cloak as a vault.
agentcloak.ai
AgentCloak Desktop. Free. Browser or desktop. It swaps names, addresses, account numbers with fake twins before the prompt leaves your machine. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Copilot, DeepSeek.
Then it puts the real values back in the reply.
That is not โthe model never saw you.โ That is a middle layer you now have to trust instead of OpenAI.
Still better than pasting your ID into the raw box. Still worse than not pasting it at all.
Use it if you refuse to quit the cloud bots. Do not treat a cloak as a vault.
agentcloak.ai
The US is summoning British officials due to a UK law proposal that would require every person, to hand over their ID to every social media.
This is particularly dangerous due to data breaches, identity theft and the possibility for the UK government to know who post what. Potentially becoming a way to control the media.
This is particularly dangerous due to data breaches, identity theft and the possibility for the UK government to know who post what. Potentially becoming a way to control the media.
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Media is too big
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Claude made a video on western civiization
Major Privacy Concerns and Fines Against Facebook:
โข $1.4 billion to Texas (2024) for collecting millions of users' biometric data through facial recognition without permission
โข โฌ1.2 billion to Ireland DPC (2023) for continuing to transfer EU user data to US servers after the Schrems II ruling
โข $5 billion to FTC (2019) for deceiving users about their ability to control personal information in the Cambridge Analytica scandal
โข โฌ210 million to Facebook and โฌ180 million to Instagram (January 2023) for using contractual necessity instead of obtaining user consent for behavioral advertising
โข $277 million (2022) for data scraping that exposed personal information of 533 million users
โข โฌ91 million (October 2024) for storing Facebook user passwords in plain text
โข โฌ265 million (2022) for data-scraping violations
โข โฌ405 million (2022) for Instagram children's privacy violations
โข โฌ60 million (2022) for cookie consent violations
โข โฌ225 million (October 2021) for WhatsApp privacy policy violations
โข $100 million SEC penalty (2019) for misleading disclosures about risks of misuse of user data
โข $650 million (2020) to Illinois for facial recognition violations of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act
โข $1.4 billion to Texas (2024) for collecting millions of users' biometric data through facial recognition without permission
โข โฌ1.2 billion to Ireland DPC (2023) for continuing to transfer EU user data to US servers after the Schrems II ruling
โข $5 billion to FTC (2019) for deceiving users about their ability to control personal information in the Cambridge Analytica scandal
โข โฌ210 million to Facebook and โฌ180 million to Instagram (January 2023) for using contractual necessity instead of obtaining user consent for behavioral advertising
โข $277 million (2022) for data scraping that exposed personal information of 533 million users
โข โฌ91 million (October 2024) for storing Facebook user passwords in plain text
โข โฌ265 million (2022) for data-scraping violations
โข โฌ405 million (2022) for Instagram children's privacy violations
โข โฌ60 million (2022) for cookie consent violations
โข โฌ225 million (October 2021) for WhatsApp privacy policy violations
โข $100 million SEC penalty (2019) for misleading disclosures about risks of misuse of user data
โข $650 million (2020) to Illinois for facial recognition violations of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act
The Bangalore District Court has included a ChatGPT prompt in its judgment. Reference: http://indiankanoon.org/doc/195524845/
Opus 5.5 is out.
Anthropic said pace the frontier. Then they shipped a new top model two months after Opus 5.
They say it matches Fable 5.1 on most work. 40% cheaper to run than Opus 5. $4 in, $20 out per million tokens. Cache reads down 60%. Faster too.
Long jobs. Code migrations. Agents that sit on a repo overnight.
Same company still gates the biology and cyber mode behind a verification program. The sharp knife comes with a lock.
Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 next.
The speech was slow down. The product is speed up, cheaper.
Anthropic said pace the frontier. Then they shipped a new top model two months after Opus 5.
They say it matches Fable 5.1 on most work. 40% cheaper to run than Opus 5. $4 in, $20 out per million tokens. Cache reads down 60%. Faster too.
Long jobs. Code migrations. Agents that sit on a repo overnight.
Same company still gates the biology and cyber mode behind a verification program. The sharp knife comes with a lock.
Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 next.
The speech was slow down. The product is speed up, cheaper.
The job interview was the payload.
North Koreaโs WaterPlum crew, also called Contagious Interview. Fake recruiter. AI face on camera. A few minutes of video. Then the cam dies. โBad connection.โ
Next step is a coding test you download. That is the malware.
Japan, the US, Australia, Germany put it in writing. Dec 2025 to July 2026. At least 30,000 boxes in over 100 countries. Credentials or funds from more than 7,000 wallets. About $10.7 million moved to the regime.
They impersonate AI and crypto firms. They want seeds, browsers, IDs. Then a path into whoever hires you.
If the interviewer goes dark and asks you to run a file, that is not a glitch. That is the job.
North Koreaโs WaterPlum crew, also called Contagious Interview. Fake recruiter. AI face on camera. A few minutes of video. Then the cam dies. โBad connection.โ
Next step is a coding test you download. That is the malware.
Japan, the US, Australia, Germany put it in writing. Dec 2025 to July 2026. At least 30,000 boxes in over 100 countries. Credentials or funds from more than 7,000 wallets. About $10.7 million moved to the regime.
They impersonate AI and crypto firms. They want seeds, browsers, IDs. Then a path into whoever hires you.
If the interviewer goes dark and asks you to run a file, that is not a glitch. That is the job.
Discord brought age checks back.
They say 90% of users will scan a face. They will guess your age from how long the account lived, what devices you use, what servers you sit in.
Wrong bucket? Pay with a card. Or let Apple and Google speak for you. Face and ID are still on the menu.
That is not โteen safety.โ That is a profile of how you talk, plus a door for the state that asked for it.
Valour.gg is the other chair.
Open source. AGPL. No ads. No data sale. No ID. No phone. Email and you are in. They already said they will not kneel to UK-style face laws. US shop. Code on GitHub. You can host it yourself.
Discord importer is there if you want to leave with the friends list.
Age laws want a file on every user. One app builds the file. The other one refuses the form.
They say 90% of users will scan a face. They will guess your age from how long the account lived, what devices you use, what servers you sit in.
Wrong bucket? Pay with a card. Or let Apple and Google speak for you. Face and ID are still on the menu.
That is not โteen safety.โ That is a profile of how you talk, plus a door for the state that asked for it.
Valour.gg is the other chair.
Open source. AGPL. No ads. No data sale. No ID. No phone. Email and you are in. They already said they will not kneel to UK-style face laws. US shop. Code on GitHub. You can host it yourself.
Discord importer is there if you want to leave with the friends list.
Age laws want a file on every user. One app builds the file. The other one refuses the form.
Motorola just showed the Signature 27.
Snapdragon 8 Elite. End of year launch. High-end slab, not a fold.
GrapheneOS already said the first Moto they will support is the successor to the 2026 Signature. This is that phone.
Motorola has not put GrapheneOS on the slide. The OS team has. Hardware this year. GrapheneOS next year, when the chip and the locks meet their bar.
Until now GrapheneOS lived on Pixels. This is the first door out.
Same deal as always. You buy the phone. You choose the OS. No Google stack required.
Not cheap. Flagship first. Then they said they expand.
Snapdragon 8 Elite. End of year launch. High-end slab, not a fold.
GrapheneOS already said the first Moto they will support is the successor to the 2026 Signature. This is that phone.
Motorola has not put GrapheneOS on the slide. The OS team has. Hardware this year. GrapheneOS next year, when the chip and the locks meet their bar.
Until now GrapheneOS lived on Pixels. This is the first door out.
Same deal as always. You buy the phone. You choose the OS. No Google stack required.
Not cheap. Flagship first. Then they said they expand.
Qualcomm finally said Linux on Snapdragon.
X2 laptops. Official. Debian by the end of this year. Ubuntu with Canonical in the first half of 2027. ASUS and HP already waving.
They spent a generation shipping Windows-only ARM boxes and calling the kernel work โsoon.โ X1 never got the real welcome.
This is not SteamOS. This is not every distro on day one. It is the door they kept shut.
Windows is no longer the only ticket on that chip.
X2 laptops. Official. Debian by the end of this year. Ubuntu with Canonical in the first half of 2027. ASUS and HP already waving.
They spent a generation shipping Windows-only ARM boxes and calling the kernel work โsoon.โ X1 never got the real welcome.
This is not SteamOS. This is not every distro on day one. It is the door they kept shut.
Windows is no longer the only ticket on that chip.
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