/e/ makes it far easier to remotely take over devices, violate user privacy from apps and bypass encryption to extract all the data from a device. These are exactly the kinds of devices authoritarians opposed to privacy and security want people to be using. These devices are much less private and drastically less secure than iPhones but are duping people into paying them for it with false marketing. They're regressing privacy and security instead of advancing it.

Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of #Murena. #Duval and his organizations have consistently taken a stance against protecting users from exploits. In this video, he once again claims protecting against exploits is for only useful pedophiles and spies.

https://nitter.net/GrapheneOS/status/2040887784253141142

Translation to English:

> There's the attack surface, on that front we're not security specialists here, so I couldn't answer you precisely, but from the discussions I've had, it seems that everything we do reduces attack surface. However, we don't have a "hardened security" approach, we aren't developing a phone for pedo(censored) so they can evade justice. So there aren't difficult things to check if the memory is corrupted, really hardened security stuff that could clearly be useful for executives, in the secret service, or whatever. That's not our goal, our goal is to start from an observation: today our personal data is constantly being plundered and that wouldn't be legal in real life with the mail or the telephone, we want to change that. So we are making you a product that changes that by default for anyone.

Transcription in French:

> Il y a la surface d'attaque, là pour le coup on est pas des spécialistes de la sécurité, donc je ne pourrais pas te répondre avec précision, mais des discussions que j'ai eu, il semblerait que tout ce qu'on fait, ça réduit la surface d'attaque. Donc oui, probablement ça aide. Par contre, on a pas une approche "sécurité durcie", on développe pas un téléphone pour les pédo(bip) pour qu'ils puissent échapper à la justice. Donc il y a pas des trucs pas possibles pour voir si la mémoire est pas corrompue, des trucs de sécu vraiment durcis qui pourraient être utiles clairement pour des dirigeants, dans les services secrets ou que sais-je. C'est pas notre but, notre but c'est de partir d'un constat, aujourd'hui nos données personnelles sont pillées en permanence et ça serait pas légal dans la vraie vie avec le courrier ou le téléphone, on veut changer ça. Donc on vous fait un produit qui change ça par défaut pour n'importe quelle personne.


/e/ and Murena repeatedly claim privacy/security hardened devices are mainly for criminals and pedophiles. They've also been falsely claiming GrapheneOS is mainly used by criminals for years alongside misleading people about what it provides. That's why we began providing our perspective in response. Fairphone gave a weasel worded media statement supporting Murena in this and other involvement.
https://nitter.net/GrapheneOS/status/2040887784253141142
https://www.clubic.com/actualite-604786-murena-e-os-interview.html
https://nitter.net/GrapheneOS/status/2

#lel

#PINE64 is Halting its Linux Hardware Line, and The AI Bubble is to Blame

They are blaming DRAM and eMMC shortages, with nothing coming back before mid-2027.

https://itsfoss.com/news/pine64-kills-off-linux-hardware/

NEW from Whitney Webb and Mark Goodwin

Javier Milei’s administration has been showcasing Patagonia to Silicon Valley executives, culminating in OpenAI’s recent ‘Stargate Argentina’ announcement. The focus of this piece, Emiliano Kargieman, is the man actually developing OpenAI’s Argentine project and boasts significant ties to United States’ military and intelligence, NASA, Palantir and the Silicon Valley stalwarts who helped privatize space.

Here, we detail how Kargieman has said the quiet apart loud about how data center construction isn't about "making jobs", it's about making money, and how he has suggested that OpenAI is a front for the accelerated build-out of AI infrastructure (financed by an intentional debt bubble). He has also suggested that Stargate Argentina will eventually be used, not by OpenAI (which Kargieman anticipates will collapse when the AI bubble pops), but by the Argentine State.

In looking at Javier Milei's policies with respect to AI domestically in Argentina, the "digital transformation" of the Argentine State - which Stargate Argentina hopes to further advance - is largely for "predictive" behavioral control of its population. We also touch on some of the likely motivators of Peter Thiel's move to Argentina and where he fits into all of this.

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2026/08/investigative-reports/how-argentinas-elon-musk-is-bringing-technocracy-to-patagonia/

In case you need to see it to believe it, here is OpenAI's partner in Stargate Argentina saying that AI data centers are not a source of jobs, but a source of dollars. This is despite Argentine politicians, including Milei and others, claiming the opposite.

https://fixupx.com/_whitneywebb/status/2090449946952585289

OpenVibe

open-source desktop environment for agentic coding, built with Tauri and Rust. In my testing, it uses up to 4.5× less peak RAM than comparable Electron-based tools.

The agent works directly with a real repository: it gathers context, creates a plan, edits files, runs commands, and shows its progress and tool calls directly in the chat.

The application combines Monaco Editor, reviewable diffs, change rollback, Git, a terminal, LSP, MCP integrations, and a dedicated Chromium instance that the agent can control through CDP.

OpenVibe runs locally and is not tied to a single AI provider. Users can connect a cloud API, a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint, or a local model through Ollama, LM Studio, or vLLM.

Builds are available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. The project is licensed under GPL-3.0.

GitHub:
https://github.com/nihmadev/OpenVibe

#ai

The holiday's built-in culture of masks and anonymity makes it a sharp symbolic backdrop for an anti-surveillance movement.— Article

Moderna stock surges after announcing the first ever positive Phase 3 results for a personalized cancer vaccine.

New AirPods will have built-in cameras that allow Siri to see and remember your surroundings, according to leaks

Please read and share my latest report for TLAV:

Peter Thiel-Funded Company Anduril to Triple the Number of Autonomous Surveillance Towers Along the US-Mexico Border

The expansion of autonomous surveillance towers will come at a cost of $1 billion to the American taxpayer, funds that were originally allocated under Trump’s Big Brother Bill.

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/surveillance-towers/