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Daily Brief Aug 27, 2026

Thu, Aug 27, 2026

1 security patch: Portainer 2.39.7; 18 releases: 7 AI, 4 Bitcoin, 3 Privacy, 2 Nostr

Daily Brief Aug 25, 2026

Tue, Aug 25, 2026

11 releases: 4 AI, 3 Bitcoin, 3 Privacy, 1 Nostr

Daily Brief Aug 23, 2026

Weekly Recap - Aug 16 to Aug 23, 2026

The week carried two severity waves. Four high-priority releases shipped without disclosed CVEs: Ride The Lightning 0.15.11-beta opened a public vulnerability channel and closed a credential-crossing race, Bisq 1.10.6 and Bisq 2 2.1.12 both patched vulnerabilities identified in an external audit, and Aqua Wallet 0.5.2

Daily Brief Aug 20, 2026

Thu, Aug 20, 2026

1 security patch: Bisq 1.10.5; 21 releases: 7 Privacy, 7 AI, 3 Self-hosting, 3 Bitcoin

Daily Brief Aug 19, 2026

Wed, Aug 19, 2026

2 security patches: Ride The Lightning 0.15.11-beta, Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities; 14 releases: 6 Privacy, 6 AI, 1 Bitcoin, 1 Self-hosting

Daily Brief Aug 18, 2026

Tue, Aug 18, 2026

1 security patch: Funding internet freedom together: results from our first participatory funding round; 15 releases: 6 Privacy, 5 AI, 2 Bitcoin, 1 Nostr

Daily Brief Aug 16, 2026

Weekly Recap - Aug 9 to Aug 16, 2026

The week split into two clusters. Privacy-focused mobile clients shipped hardening and UX polish across multiple platforms, Blockstream Green Android 5.6 added manual coin selection and stuck swap recovery, Amber 6.5.1 fixed NIP-46 connection re-encryption during key rotation, and Thunderbird for Android 22.0 added an

Daily Brief Aug 14, 2026

Fri, Aug 14, 2026

21 releases: 10 AI, 4 Privacy, 3 Bitcoin, 2 Nostr

Daily Brief Aug 13, 2026

Thu, Aug 13, 2026

19 releases: 9 Bitcoin, 4 Nostr, 3 AI, 2 Privacy

Daily Brief Aug 12, 2026

Wed, Aug 12, 2026

2 security patches: Blockstream Green Android 5.6.0, Bitkey App 2026.11.2; 19 releases: 10 AI, 4 Bitcoin, 2 Self-hosting, 2 Privacy

Daily Brief Aug 11, 2026

Tue, Aug 11, 2026

1 security patch: Expanding Daybreak as the Cyber Defense Window Narrows; Releases: Thunderbird for Android 22.0, Hugging Face Transformers Release 5.15.0, Thunderbird for Android Thunderbird Beta 23.0b1, vLLM 0.27.0, llama.cpp b10356, Passport Prime 1.3.1; News: Putting frontier cyber models in more trusted hands

Daily Brief Aug 9, 2026

Weekly Recap - Aug 2 to Aug 9, 2026

Three actively exploited vulnerabilities dominated the first half of the week. Tails 7.10.1 patched CVE-2026-64560 in the Linux kernel and expat library, BTCPay Server 2.4.2 shipped a critical fix for an exploit already in the wild, and Bitcoin Knots 29.4 delivered safeguards across the board. Qwen Code 0.21.8 restored

Daily Brief Aug 8, 2026

Sat, Aug 8, 2026

2 security patches: BTCPay Server 2.4.2, Bitwarden Android Password Manager 2026.7.1; 12 releases: 5 AI, 4 Privacy, 2 Nostr, 1 Self-hosting

Daily Brief Aug 6, 2026

Thu, Aug 6, 2026

1 security patch: Tails 7.10.1; 19 releases: 9 Privacy, 8 AI, 1 Self-hosting, 1 Bitcoin

Daily Brief Aug 5, 2026

Wed, Aug 5, 2026

19 releases: 8 AI, 7 Privacy, 3 Bitcoin, 1 Self-hosting

Daily Brief Aug 4, 2026

Tue, Aug 4, 2026

1 security patch: The ‘Air-Gap Conundrum’: When Password Managers Meet the Data Center Floor; 14 releases: 5 AI, 4 Bitcoin, 3 Self-hosting, 2 Privacy

Daily Brief Aug 2, 2026

Weekly Recap - Jul 26 to Aug 2, 2026

The week opened with a multi-project security push. Bitcoin Optech Newsletter 416 flagged a severe COLDCARD wallet-generation vulnerability, Bisq shipped 1.10.4 to resolve audit-identified issues, and n8n 2.33.3 addressed security-audit risk-reporter imports. Vaultwarden 1.37.1 patched invitation breakage introduced

Daily Brief Aug 1, 2026

Sat, Aug 1, 2026

1 security patch: Bitcoin Optech Newsletter; 10 releases: 5 AI, 3 Bitcoin, 1 Self-hosting, 1 Privacy

Daily Brief Jul 31, 2026

Fri, Jul 31, 2026

1 security patch: AdGuard Home 0.108.0-b.90; 12 releases: 7 AI, 4 Bitcoin, 1 Nostr

Daily Brief Jul 30, 2026

Thu, Jul 30, 2026

11 releases: 3 Nostr, 3 Self-hosting, 3 AI, 1 Privacy

Daily Brief Jul 26, 2026

Weekly Recap - Jul 19 to Jul 26, 2026

July's fourth week delivered a coordinated patch wave across password management, messaging, and self-hosting stacks. Bitwarden shipped version 2026.7.0 across all clients, iOS, Android, browser, server, and authenticator, requiring companion server updates and forcing Vaultwarden operators to upgrade to 1.37.0 or risk

Daily Brief Jul 25, 2026

Sat, Jul 25, 2026

3 security patches: Bitwarden iOS Password Manager 2026.7.0, Vaultwarden 1.37.0, Bitwarden Android Password Manager 2026.7.0; Plus 12 other releases across the desk

Daily Brief Jul 24, 2026

Fri, Jul 24, 2026

2 security patches: Invidious 2..0, Bisq 1.10.4; 15 releases: 6 Bitcoin, 5 AI, 3 Privacy, 1 Self-hosting

Daily Brief Jul 23, 2026

Thu, Jul 23, 2026

16 releases: 5 AI, 5 Privacy, 4 Bitcoin, 2 Self-hosting

Daily Brief Jul 22, 2026

Wed, Jul 22, 2026

2 security patches: Element Android 1.6.62, Bitwarden Server Version 2026.7.0; 22 releases: 9 AI, 5 Privacy, 3 Nostr, 3 Bitcoin

Daily Brief Jul 21, 2026

Tue, Jul 21, 2026

1 security patch: Cake Wallet 6.3.0; 14 releases: 6 Privacy, 3 Bitcoin, 3 AI, 2 Nostr

Daily Brief Jul 19, 2026

Weekly Recap - Jul 12 to Jul 19, 2026

Gitea 1.27.0 forced the week's pace. The self-hosted forge shipped breaking changes to reusable Actions workflows, enforced Content-Security-Policy script nonces, and bundled multiple security hardening patches flagged for immediate operator attention. BorgBackup 1.4.5 followed hours later with a low-severity security

Daily Brief Jul 17, 2026

Fri, Jul 17, 2026

13 releases: 7 AI, 3 Privacy, 2 Bitcoin, 1 Self-hosting

Daily Brief Jul 14, 2026

Tue, Jul 14, 2026

2 security patches: Gitea 1.27.0, Bitkey App 2026.11.0; 26 releases: 11 Privacy, 6 AI, 4 Self-hosting, 3 Nostr

Daily Brief Jul 12, 2026

Weekly Recap - Jul 5 to Jul 12, 2026

The week delivered a coordinated hardware security push and a scattered maintenance wave. BitBox02 forced a bootloader update to v1.2.2 via firmware 9.26.2, Pi-hole 6.4.3 closed a local privilege-escalation path from the pihole user to root, Bisq 1.10.3 shipped a trade-protocol validation fix flagged during an ongoing

Daily Brief Jul 12, 2026

Sun, Jul 12, 2026

Releases: Divine 1.0.16, Ashigaru Desktop 1.1.0, vLLM 0.25.0, Am I Exposed 0.35.8, Hugging Face Transformers Patch 5.13.1, llama.cpp b9968; News

Daily Brief Jul 10, 2026

Fri, Jul 10, 2026

1 security patch: OpenAI mandates hardware-backed passkeys for Trusted Access Cyber members to log into ChatGPT accounts; 18 releases: 7 AI, 6 Privacy, 5 Nostr

Daily Brief Jul 9, 2026

Thu, Jul 9, 2026

2 security patches: BitBox02 Firmware 9.26.2, SecureDrop 2.16.1; 16 releases: 6 Privacy, 6 Bitcoin, 4 AI

Daily Brief Jul 8, 2026

Wed, Jul 8, 2026

13 releases: 7 Privacy, 4 AI, 1 Bitcoin

Daily Brief Jul 7, 2026

Tue, Jul 7, 2026

2 security patches: Bisq 1.10.3, Case Study Government of Alberta uses Claude to find and fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities across government systems; 15 releases: 8 Privacy, 5 AI, 1 Bitcoin, 1 Nostr

Daily Brief Jul 5, 2026

Weekly Recap - Jun 28 to Jul 5, 2026

The week split cleanly in two. A single Tor Browser vulnerability forced a coordinated patch wave across the freedom-tech stack: Tails 7.9.1 shipped CVE-2026-43503 and CVE-2026-46331 on July 2, and the Tor Project published alpha 16.0a8 the following day. That was the week's only Patch-now signal. Elsewhere, privacy

Daily Brief Jul 3, 2026

Fri, Jul 3, 2026

11 releases: 3 Bitcoin, 5 Privacy, 1 Nostr

Daily Brief Jul 2, 2026

Thu, Jul 2, 2026

1 security patch: Tails 7.9.1; 12 releases: 5 AI, 3 Nostr, 2 Privacy, 2 Bitcoin

Daily Brief Jul 1, 2026

Wed, Jul 1, 2026

22 releases: 10 Privacy, 6 AI, 5 Bitcoin

Daily Brief Jun 30, 2026

Tue, Jun 30, 2026

15 releases: 7 AI, 4 Privacy, 4 Bitcoin

Daily Brief Jun 28, 2026

Weekly Recap - Jun 21 to Jun 28, 2026

The week carved a clean two-part shape: defensive infrastructure responded to one serious vulnerability, and the AI segment drowned the signal with volume, 51 AI items, most of them incremental. SecureDrop 2.16.0 shipped on June 24 carrying CVE-2026-50000, the only Patch-now advisory in the set. Privacy infrastructure i

Daily Brief Jun 27, 2026

Sat, Jun 27, 2026

11 releases: 5 AI, 3 Nostr, 2 Privacy, 1 Bitcoin

Daily Brief Jun 25, 2026

Thu, Jun 25, 2026

1 security patch: SecureDrop 2.16.0; 16 releases: 9 Privacy, 5 AI, 1 Bitcoin

Daily Brief Jun 24, 2026

Wed, Jun 24, 2026

Releases: JoinMarket-NG 0.33.0, ComfyUI 0.26.0, Mostro CLI 0.16.0, llama.cpp b9777, Jan 0.8.3, LocalAI 4.5.0; News: Anthropic Sdk Java 2.43.0, Rslearn 0.1.10, Cloud storage email scams: How to spot them and what to do, Client Ts typescript 2.3.0

Daily Brief Jun 23, 2026

Tue, Jun 23, 2026

12 releases: 8 Privacy, 2 Bitcoin, 2 AI

Daily Brief Jun 22, 2026

Mon, Jun 22, 2026

Releases: nostream 3.0.0, Tuta 352.260618.0, Cashu TS 4.6.0, Ledger Live Mobile 4.9.0, llama.cpp b9752, Delta Chat Desktop 2.53.0; News: Samsung Electronics brings ChatGPT and Codex to employees

Daily Brief Jun 21, 2026

Weekly Recap - Jun 14 to Jun 21, 2026

The LND zero-timestamp gossip DoS disclosure dominated the defensive signal this week. No other CVEs followed. Privacy infrastructure iterated quietly: Vanadium tracked Chromium to 149.0.7827, Cashu CDK 0.17.1 fixed proof handling for inactive keysets, and Immich released RC2 for v3.0. AI volume reached 49 items, mostl

Daily Brief Jun 21, 2026

Sun, Jun 21, 2026

Releases: haveno 1.8.0, Joplin 3.6.15, Mostrix 0.2.1, Nextcloud iOS Version 33.0.10, DAVx5 4.5.15-ose, llama.cpp b9739; News: Claude Agent Sdk Python 0.2.106

Daily Brief Jun 20, 2026

Sat, Jun 20, 2026

Releases: ESP-Miner 2.14.1, Nostr VPN Release nostr-vpn 4.0.80, KeePassDX 🥷 Flexible Ninja (Beta01), Logseq Desktop app Nightly Release, llama.cpp b9732, llama.cpp b9733; News: Hermes Agent 0.17.0

Daily Brief Jun 19, 2026

Fri, Jun 19, 2026

1 security patch: LND: Zero-Timestamp Gossip DoS disclosure; 10 releases: 5 Privacy, 2 AI, 1 Nostr

Daily Brief Jun 18, 2026

Thu, Jun 18, 2026

12 releases: 3 AI, 6 Privacy, 1 Nostr

Daily Brief Jun 17, 2026

Wed, Jun 17, 2026

17 releases: 6 AI, 5 Nostr, 5 Privacy

Daily Brief Jun 16, 2026

Tue, Jun 16, 2026

15 releases: 6 Privacy, 5 AI, 2 Nostr, 1 Bitcoin

Daily Brief Jun 15, 2026

Mon, Jun 15, 2026

Releases: Blockstream Green iOS 5.5.0, Tuta 351.260612.0, Keystone 3 2.4.6, Notesnook Android 3.4.0-beta.1, llama.cpp b9642; News: Qwen Code desktop 0.0.4, Elevenlabs Python 2.53.0

Daily Brief Jun 14, 2026

Weekly Recap - Jun 7 to Jun 14, 2026

Privacy volume held steady at 58 items while AI delivered 52 and Lightning produced just 7. No CVEs arrived this week. The clustering tells the story: incremental iteration across privacy tooling, Vanadium tracking Chromium, Cashu CDK migrating databases, Bitwarden removing feature flags, while AI infrastructure continue

Daily Brief Jun 13, 2026

Sat, Jun 13, 2026

12 releases: 7 Privacy, 5 AI

Daily Brief Jun 12, 2026

Fri, Jun 12, 2026

13 releases: 5 Nostr, 4 Privacy, 2 AI, 1 Bitcoin

Daily Brief Jun 11, 2026

Thu, Jun 11, 2026

15 releases: 5 AI, 4 Privacy, 3 Nostr, 2 Bitcoin

Daily Brief Jun 10, 2026

Wed, Jun 10, 2026

28 releases: 13 Privacy, 7 AI, 3 Bitcoin, 2 Nostr

Daily Brief Jun 9, 2026

Tue, Jun 9, 2026

10 releases: 6 Privacy, 2 AI, 1 Bitcoin

Daily Brief Jun 8, 2026

Mon, Jun 8, 2026

Releases: Signet 1.10.0, Payjoin Dev Kit Release payjoin 1.0.0-rc.3, Blockstream Green Android 5.5.0, ownCloud Android 4.8.1, NYM Chat 3.69.459, Ditto 2.21.0; News: Anthropic Sdk Python 0.106.0,, Anthropic Sdk Java 2.36.0, Why business data security is a growth issue, not just a tech problem

Daily Brief Jun 7, 2026

Weekly Recap - May 31 to Jun 7, 2026

Four CVE-flagged releases arrived early in the week, three shipping urgent patches before the rest of the cadence arrived. AdGuard Home 0.108.0-b.88 disclosed CVE-2026-41448, Tails 7.8.1 carried a kernel and Tor client fix under CVE-2026-43503, HiveTalk SFU removed ngrok for CVE-2025-57282, and Ledger Live Desktop 4.6

Daily Brief Jun 7, 2026

Sun, Jun 7, 2026

Releases: ZEUS 13.1.0-beta1, Bitcoin Safe 2.0, Logseq Desktop app Nightly Release, Shockwallet 0.0.28-beta, Notesnook Android 3.3.25, Ditto 2.20.0; News: Anthropic Sdk Go 1.47.0

Daily Brief Jun 6, 2026

Sat, Jun 6, 2026

1 security patch: New Executive Order on AI: Identity as a critical foundation for trusted AI; 10 releases: 3 Privacy, 3 AI, 2 Bitcoin, 2 Nostr

Daily Brief Jun 5, 2026

Fri, Jun 5, 2026

3 security patches: Tails 7.8.1, Ledger Live Desktop 4.6.1, EFF Testifies to Congress on Protecting Americans’ Rights from Government AI; Plus 12 other releases across the desk

Daily Brief Jun 4, 2026

Thu, Jun 4, 2026

1 security patch: Cline 3.87.0; 17 releases: 6 Privacy, 6 AI, 3 Nostr, 1 Bitcoin

Daily Brief Jun 3, 2026

Wed, Jun 3, 2026

1 security patch: AdGuard Home 0.108.0-b.88; 12 releases: 4 AI, 3 Bitcoin, 4 Privacy

Daily Brief Jun 2, 2026

Tue, Jun 2, 2026

2 security patches: HiveTalk SFU 0.0.5, Bitkey App 2026.10.0; 17 releases: 8 Privacy, 4 AI, 3 Bitcoin, 2 Nostr

Daily Brief May 31, 2026

Weekly Recap - May 24 to May 31, 2026

The week was dominated currents: a high-urgency OAuth-binding vulnerability in Miniflux and a step-function model release from Anthropic. Miniflux 2.3.1 arrived flagged Patch now for an account-hijack vector in its OAuth implementation, placing it alongside Bitcoin Optech's disclosure of a remote Core Lightning

Daily Brief May 30, 2026

Sat, May 30, 2026

1 security patch: Bitcoin Optech Newsletter; 12 releases: 6 AI, 4 Privacy, 2 Bitcoin

Daily Brief May 29, 2026

Fri, May 29, 2026

Releases: LibreTube 31.4, Bitwarden Clients Web 2026.5.0, Bitwarden Server Version 2026.5.0, Ledger Live Mobile 4.6.0, langchain-anthropic== 1.4.4, Radicale 3.7.4; News: Hermes Agent 0.15.1, Qwen Code 0.17.0, Introducing Claude Opus 4.8, Discord planned to introduce age verification worldwide – and it's about to go live

Daily Brief May 28, 2026

Thu, May 28, 2026

11 releases: 4 AI, 6 Privacy, 1 Bitcoin

Daily Brief May 27, 2026

Wed, May 27, 2026

12 releases: 7 Privacy, 4 AI, 1 Bitcoin

Daily Brief May 26, 2026

Tue, May 26, 2026

10 releases: 3 AI, 2 Bitcoin, 2 Privacy, 2 Nostr

Daily Brief May 24, 2026

Weekly Recap - May 17 to May 24, 2026

Three network-adjacent security patches anchored the week. AdGuard Home shipped stable release 0.107.75 and beta 0.108.0-b.86, both flagged for immediate deployment. FreshRSS 1.29.1 arrived as a bug-fix patch with the same urgency. Cashu TS crossed a cryptographic threshold with the first v5.0.0 release candidate intro

Daily Brief May 23, 2026

Sat, May 23, 2026

Releases: nostr-rs-relay release 0.10.0, Phoenix 2.8.0, Mostro 0.17.4, NetNewsWire 7.0.6, llama.cpp b9289, llama.cpp b9294; News: Anthropic Sdk Python 0.104.1

Daily Brief May 22, 2026

Fri, May 22, 2026

15 releases: 5 Privacy, 7 Bitcoin, 3 AI

Daily Brief May 21, 2026

Thu, May 21, 2026

21 releases: 8 Privacy, 6 AI, 5 Bitcoin

Daily Brief May 20, 2026

Wed, May 20, 2026

3 security patches: AdGuard Home 0.108.0-b.86, A new way to fund internet freedom, AdGuard Home 0.107.75; Plus 12 other releases across the desk

Daily Brief May 19, 2026

Tue, May 19, 2026

12 releases: 6 Privacy, 3 AI, 1 Bitcoin

Daily Brief May 18, 2026

Mon, May 18, 2026

18 releases: 7 Privacy, 7 AI, 3 Bitcoin, 1 Nostr

Daily Brief May 18, 2026

Weekly Recap - May 11 to May 18, 2026

The week opened with a coordinated kernel and infrastructure security wave. Tails and umbrelOS patched the DirtyFrag vulnerabilities within 48 hours, while Qubes shipped QSB-114 addressing separate Intel CPU data exposure. Matrix Synapse followed with fixes for worker lock contention DoS under two CVEs. A Core Lightnin

Daily Brief May 17, 2026

Weekly Recap - May 10 to May 17, 2026

The week opened with a coordinated kernel vulnerability wave. Tails and umbrelOS patched DirtyFrag within 48 hours. Qubes followed with QSB-114 addressing separate Intel CPU data exposure. Matrix Synapse shipped fixes for worker lock contention DoS under two CVEs. Beyond the security cluster, Lightning and privacy tool

Daily Brief May 15, 2026

Fri, May 15, 2026

Releases: Sparrow Frigate 1.5.0, Ledger Live Desktop 4.4.0, LlamaIndex 0.14.22, Signal Desktop 8.11.0-beta.1, llama.cpp b9156; News: Work with Codex from anywhere

Daily Brief May 14, 2026

Thu, May 14, 2026

1 security patch: QSB-114: Intel CPU data exposure vulnerability; Releases: Primal Android Primal 3.5.9, Ollama 0.23.4, llama.cpp b9148, Hugging Face Transformers Patch 5.8.1, llama.cpp b9143; News: Introducing Claude for Small Business, Building a safe, effective sandbox to enable Codex on Windows

Daily Brief May 13, 2026

Wed, May 13, 2026

1 security patch: Matrix Synapse 1.152.1; Releases: Jumble 26.5.6, BitBoxApp 4.51.0, Ditto 2.14.3, Element X iOS 26.05.2, YakiHonne Web 5.9.1, llama.cpp b9122

Daily Brief May 12, 2026

Tue, May 12, 2026

4 security patches: Tails 7.7.3, umbrelOS 1.7.3, umbrelOS 1.7.2, CVE-2024-52911 - Script Interpreter Remote Crash; Releases: Boltz Client 2.12.0, Bitcoin Knots 29.3, Arti 2.3.0, Ark Network 0.9.5, Cashu TS 4.3.0, Tor Browser 15.0.12