A weekly round-up of privacy, anonymity and censorship news that did not get a story of its own, one paragraph each.
Seven stories from 3 to 11 October: a now-patched file-reading flaw in Telegram Desktop, Bitwarden's app store builds moving to a commercial licence, LineageOS 24 based on Android 17, Nitter seeking funding and legal help, a DNS ad blocker built on an ESP32-C3, a mobile internet shutdown and a platform advisory in New Delhi, and Psiphon weighing a move out of Canada over Bill C-22.
Based on 18 sources, including beaksec, GitHub, Bitwarden Community Forums
Seven stories from 13 September to 6 October, including a suspected customer data leak at MOS Burger in Taiwan and a member email exposure at Singapore's Bee Cheng Hiang, a breach of about 8.8 million people's records in Denmark's population register, Sequoia PGP in Ubuntu 26.10, a commentary questioning how large language models reason, a US court ruling on a licence plate reader search, US border surveillance towers, and China's deleted-content archive and a sensitive-terms list.
Based on 22 sources, including 公開資訊觀測站, Personal Data Protection Commission Singapore, iThome
Six stories from 15 to 29 September, including Wayback Machine access limits that block real people, a live facial recognition trial at London stations, the Dutch government's NixOS-based work environment, New Mexico's Cambridge Analytica verdict, Australia's proposed algorithm opt-out and the federated chat system Parley.
Based on 7 sources, including The Guardian, DAWO, It's FOSS
