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Daily Brief Thu, Aug 20, 2026 3 min read

Bisq 1.10.5 security fix leads quiet Thursday

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Privacy

  • Tails 7.11. Changes and updates Update Tor Browser to 15.0.20; Fixed problems Fix activation of Persistent Storage on some computers.
  • IronFox 154.0. Fix - CI: ensure we get secrets for S3 releases for the prepare-rele; ...ase job Signed-off-by: celenity.
  • Trilium 0.105.0. Geo Map on MapLibre - WebGL rendering, 3D terrain, marker clustering, full-screen mode and a floating info panel for each marker, with full GPX track support; Mind Map node panel - colours, fonts, icons, images and a...
  • Signal Android 8.24.0. Media editor redesigned for tablets and foldable screens.
  • Nym Binaries 2026.16-como. The v2026.16-como release of the Nym Binaries; The full list of changes is in the CHANGELOG.
  • Logseq Desktop app Nightly Release 20260819. This is a nightly release of the Logseq desktop app; It's unstable compared to the official releases, use it with caution !.
  • Signal Desktop 8.25.0-beta.1. Adds two new zoom levels in appearance settings.

Self-hosting

  • N8n 2.36.2. API: Return a request schema for decorator routes in /discover (2c09a81); Core: Resolve end-user credentials when loading node parameters (19eb966).
  • Nextcloud Desktop 34.0.2. Deletion of server-side item for items excluded from sync; Activate tray window also on right click (macOS).
  • Syncthing 2.1.4-rc.1. Devices and folders can now be grouped in the GUI the new group attribute; HTTP and HTTPS proxies with support for CONNECT can now be used, in addition to the existing support for SOCKS proxies (the environment variab...

AI

  • langchain-anthropic== 1.6.0. Changes since langchain-anthropic==1.5.6 release(anthropic): 1.6.0 add standard model exception types exclude sibling directories from grep search scope chore(infra): support langsmith gateway in CI
  • LlamaIndex 0.14.24. Fixes file-handle leaks in HotpotQA evaluator and preserves oversized leaf nodes in CodeSplitter.
  • Cli 1.0.0-alpha.2. Install elevenlabs-cli 1.0.0-alpha.2 Install prebuilt binaries via shell script curl --proto ' =https ' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf | sh Install prebuilt binaries via powershell script powershel...
  • langchain-openai== 1.6.0. Changes since langchain-openai==1.5.2 release(openai): 1.6.0 add standard model exception types raise clear error on unexpected response type in create chat result.
  • Hugging Face Transformers Patch release 5.15.1. Fixes DFlash and MTP candidate generator issues, resolves image processing on accelerators with Lanczos filter.
  • llama.cpp b10505. Adds dedup-cache-models preset option to server.
  • Packages React 1.13.0. Adds onContextUsage callback for context usage server events.
  • Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models. OpenAI reaffirms Zero Data Retention for eligible API customers and previews Private Safety Processing for advanced AI safety without compromising data privacy.

Other

  • EFF 38.15. Your location isn't just a pin on a map-it can expose some of the most intimate details about your life; The value of this information to advertisers and others has turned the location data business into a multi-billi...

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