knoppix

#WhatsApp is launching #AI features with a new "Private Processing" system designed to maintain #privacy while enabling #cloud access for message summarization and #composition #tools.

Users can opt in and control AI usage in #chats, including blocking others from using AI features.

The integration of AI raises potential privacy risks, and I suggest staying away from AI on WhatsApp and #Meta AI in general.

wired.com/story/whatsapp-priva

#Technology #Tech #TechNews
#ArtificialIntelligence

Privacy Guides

Many people have heard of Tor in the media, but despite its long history of protecting the free internet, most consider it a niche tool and have never ventured to try it themselves.

In reality, Tor is easy to use for anyone. It helps not only journalists and activists, but anybody who seeks greater privacy online or access to information regardless of location.

What is Tor exactly? How can Tor help you? And why is it such an important tool? Staff writer @Em0nM4stodon explains in the latest Privacy Guides article: privacyguides.org/articles/202

#Tor #TorProject #Privacy #TorBrowser #PrivacyGuides #Article #Security #Anonymity #Network #Browser

In Praise of Tor: Why You Should Support and Use Tor

You might have heard of Tor in the news a few times,…

www.privacyguides.org
Ian Campbell

Among other things, Meta is now making it mandatory to store voice recordings from their Rayban "smart" glasses in the Meta cloud, and making Meta AI's ability to train and see through your lenses "always on" unless you disable it each time manually.

Gonna be honest, any time someone with Raybans talks to me, I'm going to ask them to remove the glasses.

theverge.com/news/658602/meta-

#privacy #cybersecurity

Meta tightens privacy policy around Ray-Ban glasses to boost AI training

Meta is making two significant changes to its Ray-Ban…

The Verge
Apr 30, 2025, 17:58 · · · 4 · 0
Ethan Sholly

selfh.st/icons - a curated collection of 4,400+ icons - now supports custom colors (bring your own)! I've developed a (self-hostable) lightweight proxy server that can intercept icon requests and apply custom colors based on a hex color code in the URL parameters.

Check out the post below for more details and be gentle as this is my first public #development project...ever.

selfh.st/post/selfh-st-icons-c

#selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting #opensource #foss #homelab #dashboard #privacy #homeserver