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  1. A small black board with a short antenna on an oak table in a sunlit hallway, with a white router on a cabinet farther down the hall
    Remade with RustDigital Freedom

    rusty_esp_wifi_extender Extends House Wi-Fi From the Board

    rusty_esp_wifi_extender turns a board already in the house into Wi-Fi for the dead corner. DLDeploy flashes it. The Home Computer holds the network.

  2. A short strip of 35mm film with four landscape frames on a sunlit oak desk beside a matte-black compact camera
    Remade with Rust

    AV2 and AVIF Decode Fixes Keep remade_ffmpeg_rs Green

    AV2 and AVIF decode in remade_ffmpeg_rs had three defects behind one red debug test: an empty packet abort, a GDF underflow, and ARM assembly.

  3. Small white indoor camera on a dark wood shelf beside a leafy houseplant, with a sunlit sofa behind it
    Digital FreedomDisco Party

    Eufy No Cloud Cameras Still Opened A Stream Off The Device

    Eufy no cloud cameras were sold as local and encrypted. The company later told The Verge the web portal had served unencrypted live streams.

  4. Matte-black doorbell camera mounted on pale horizontal siding beside a dark front door
    Digital FreedomDisco Party

    The FTC Says Ring Home Cameras Let Employees Watch

    The FTC says Ring home cameras let employees and contractors watch customer video, including bedrooms, and let hackers speak through the cameras.

  5. White camera on an oak shelf beside a folded white blanket, with an empty crib soft in the background
    Digital FreedomDisco Party

    The TRENDnet Baby Monitor Left Live Feeds On The Internet

    The FTC says the TRENDnet baby monitor, sold as secure, left live feeds public. Hackers posted links to nearly 700 cameras, including cribs.

  6. Green microcontroller board with a USB cable next to a matte-black camera on a sunlit oak desk
    Digital FreedomDisco Party

    DLDeploy Puts Local ESP32 Devices On MATA Home

    DLDeploy puts local ESP32 devices on MATA Home. A porch camera or a presence board talks to the Home Computer and never opens a vendor cloud.

  7. Silver laptop with a dark terminal on a sunlit oak desk, next to a linen notebook and a wooden pencil
    Open SourceDigital Freedom

    SpaceDB 0.7 Does The Same Work In Far Fewer Instructions

    SpaceDB 0.7 is a performance release of the local-first database. Eight drivers fell from 5,702 million instructions to 2,378 million, results unchanged.

  8. A wooden desk at night with a PC tower, a monitor showing a starfield and a small spacecraft, a keyboard, a notebook, and a lit desk lamp
    Remade with Rust

    Game Memory Allocator: Fewer Frame Spikes, Measured

    A game memory allocator changes start-up cost and frame spikes. Endless Sky traces put rusty_alloc next to glibc, mimalloc, and jemalloc, with the memory bill attached.

  9. An open palm holding a small brass key above a pale oak table, with a closed laptop and a gray mug behind it
    IdentityFoundation of Trust

    What Is Sign In With MATA

    What is Sign in with MATA? It is the login that uses the wallet on your device. Create an account, approve the prompt, and the site never gets your password.

  10. A dark smartphone with the screen off lying on a blue subway seat, tunnel light blurred past the window
    Distributed CloudOpen Source

    The Challenges Of Firebase When The Network Drops

    The challenges of Firebase show up in a tunnel: the app freezes, Google holds the data, and the bill grows with every user who stays connected.

  11. A brass house key lying on the dark glass of a smartphone on a walnut desk
    Foundation of TrustIdentity

    A Digital ID That Lives On Your Device

    A digital ID on your device authenticates with the secure chip — Touch ID, Face ID, Windows Hello — so the private key never sits in a password database.

  12. Three small external drives on a wooden living-room table beside a potted plant and a closed book
    Distributed CloudOpen Source

    A Local Distributed Firebase Alternative

    A local distributed Firebase alternative commits on the device first, then syncs across replicas the user owns — no Google round-trip, no per-user meter.

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