Bitcoin
- Liana Business v1.0rc1. Release candidate for Liana Business 1.0 and installer; test before production.
Nostr
- Sprout Buzz Desktop 0.5.2. CLI mirrors Desktop mention delivery; deduplicates relay outage notifications; reconciles thread arrivals at bottom.
- Sidecar 1.7.0. Adds webpage comment capability, Lightning wallet quick-start, and improved wallet backup.
- Jumble 26.7.2. Anonymous replies, zap-receipt detail pages, OP badges for thread authors, retry on feed-load failures.
Privacy
- Session iOS 2.15.4. Updates static snode fallback list; fixes community image downloads on iOS.
- The Defense Industrial Base Has a New #1 Cybersecurity Priority: Phishing-Resistant MFA. The Department of War's (DoW) Chief Information Officer recently published a new resource for the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Sector, and it's refreshingly clear and simple; "Brilliant at the Basics" isn't a mandate...
Self-hosting
- N8n 2.31.7. Fixes credentials audit execution-data load and S3 path-signing encoding; upgrade recommended.
- Home Assistant 2026.8. Beta release; notes in progress at rc.home-assistant.io.
- Immich 3.1.0. Upload wakelock (web); Undo archive (web).
- Portainer 2.44.0. Known issues: invalid update-schedule dates on Async Edge; no Podman socket or auto-onboard support.
AI
- llama.cpp b10182. Moves suppress-token handling to common sampling; addresses unspecified security issues.
- Accelerating scientific discovery with ChatGPT for Academic Researchers. 100,000 academic researchers receive free access to ChatGPT advanced models.
Other
- EFF 38.14. Watches, bands, and rings-if you want to digitally monitor your fitness, more companies than ever are selling devices to do it; And more Americans than ever now own at least one wearable health device.
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