Fresh developments in software, AI and security — full articles from open-license publishers, alongside source news excerpts.
Full article · CC BY 4.0Today, EFF joined the ACLU of Wisconsin in filing a petition to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, asking it to rule that the state’s constitution requires a warrant for retrospective searches of ALPR databases used by…
Full article · CC BY 4.0EFF legal intern Gabrielle Ladun was the principal author of this post. The Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) has published a summary of findings from its audit of the Transportation…
Full article · CC BY 4.0No one should have to think twice before criticizing the government online. But a mass surveillance program known as "Catch and Revoke" was created to make millions do just that. EFF and other defenders of…
Meta has extended Private Processing to AI glasses, using confidential VMs, trusted execution environments, remote attestation, anonymous credentials, OHTTP routing, and TEE-based storage to process AI workloads and persistent user context in the cloud. By…
Google has introduced support for local models in the Antigravity SDK, enabling developers to build and execute agentic workflows directly on their own machines, while retaining the flexibility to mix in cloud-based models for higher-level…
VoidZero has launched Vite+ 1.0, the first stable version of its JavaScript toolchain. It features a command line tool for managing Node.js, package management, and frontend development from a single configuration file. Enhancements include CI…
Backstage 1.55 adds opt-in recovery for Software Template tasks, resuming crashed or timed-out runs from the last completed step. The release also carries breaking changes to the catalog, search and TechDocs, so teams should review…
Full article · CC BY 4.0In an extremely disappointing ruling, a California trial court dismissed SIREN v. San Jose, our case challenging the city of San Jose’s warrantless searches of its vast stores of automated license plate reader (ALPR) data.…
AWS has introduced an enhanced Custom Event Bus for Amazon EventBridge, targeting a problem that often emerges when event-driven architectures move beyond a single team or AWS account: the event infrastructure itself becomes fragmented. By…
A critical remote command execution vulnerability in the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, identified as CVE-2026-73570, poses risks by allowing unauthorized access to mailbox data and credentials. This flaw, stemming from improper input sanitization, has been actively…
Full article · CC BY 4.0When we communicate online today – from your personal emails and DMs to secure international commerce – we usually do so with encryption. Encryption converts readable data into unreadable gibberish to protect our privacy and…
Once AI is in production, code arrives faster than it can be reviewed, token costs rise, evals have to be good enough to act on, and agents need permissions and guardrails. QCon AI New York…