Welcome to Cyber Fix, your dopamine-infused tech news update.
My name is Gabriel, here to help get other information junkies up to speed with important tech news. Stay tuned for a light-hearted exploration of hostile cyberspace and what we can do about it.
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Tech Disasters
- Hackers leak 2.7 billion data records with Social Security numbers
- Inside the “3 Billion People” National Public Data Breach
- Microsoft confirms August updates break Linux boot in dual-boot systems
- Zero-click Windows TCP/IP RCE impacts all systems with IPv6 enabled, patch now
- Google fixes ninth Chrome zero-day tagged as exploited this year
- Google Pixel 9’s AI photo features
Solutions Roundup:
- Total Linux Desktop PCs Now Over 56 Million
- Logseq
- Surveillance Watch
- Hypersyn: A Peer-to-Peer System for Mutual Credit
- RFK Jr. and CHD Get Green Light to Sue Biden Administration for Censorship
Control Grid Updates:
- Shocker: French make surprise arrest of Telegram founder at Paris airport
- Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?
- How does Telegram process data requests?
- The Crypto- Keepers
- The UN General Assembly and the Fight Against the Cybercrime Treaty
- EFF and Partners to EU Commissioner: Prioritize User Rights, Avoid Politicized Enforcement of DSA Rules
- Disney says man can’t sue over wife’s death because he agreed to Disney+ terms of service
Finer Details:
Honorable Mentions:
- Phishing in PWA applications (iOS & Android)
- Communities on Nostr with Ditto
- The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free?
- OpenSSH Backdoors
- Blog Posts vs. Social Posts
- Modes of reading the independent web
- BREAKING: Telegram Founder Pavel Durov ARRESTED
- Privacy Labor