This EU law banning unlocking story was untrue. The publication posting it retracted it in a subsequent story without updating the original. 1)

XiaomiTime

Don’t panic: EU isn’t ending bootloader unlocks anytime soon - XiaomiTime

There’s been a significant amount of noise circulating online lately about the European Union’s Radio Equipment Directive (RED) and its suppose...

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XiaomiTime

Don’t panic: EU isn’t ending bootloader unlocks anytime soon - XiaomiTime

There’s been a significant amount of noise circulating online lately about the European Union’s Radio Equipment Directive (RED) and its suppose...

The claims they cited were AI generated which they admit in the follow up story.

Vanadium version 139.0.7258.62.1 released:

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Release 139.0.7258.62.1 · GrapheneOS/Vanadium

Changes in version 139.0.7258.62.1: fix regressions caused by upstream removal of tab group sync feature flags we relied on to disable features de...

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog. Forum discussion thread:

GrapheneOS Discussion Forum

Vanadium version 139.0.7258.62.1 released - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum

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#GrapheneOS #privacy #security #browser

Vanadium version 138.0.7204.168.1 released:

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Release 138.0.7204.168.1 · GrapheneOS/Vanadium

Changes in version 138.0.7204.168.1: prevent rare crash with certain sites caused by Web Reporting API bug disable search engine configuration men...

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog. Forum discussion thread:

GrapheneOS Discussion Forum

Vanadium version 138.0.7204.168.1 released - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum

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#GrapheneOS #privacy #security #browser

Apple and Google both provide support for offline speech-to-text using local models. Users can configure it to be fully offline. The Murena Voice to Text service in /e/OS sends the user's audio to OpenAI which is hidden away in their terms of services:

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Voice to Text feature using Open AI

As I was reading the Murena’s terms of use I discovered that the voice to text feature introduced with e/OS/ 3.0 is using the Open AI API. That m...

Swissquote Bank is in the process of adding official support for GrapheneOS to their main app. They've published a Beta version of the app with GrapheneOS support for us to share with our users. Can use https://appdistribution.firebase.google.com/testerapps/1:922102381011:android:b7cac4eab8e5776d/releases/4rp8ha7plvg00 to obtain it via the sandboxed Play Store.

A Dutch bank (Triodos Bankieren NL) has added explicit support for GrapheneOS and will be testing it going forward:

GitHub

Triodos Bankieren NL · Issue #133 · PrivSec-dev/banking-apps-compat-report

Is there an existing issue for this? I have searched the existing issues App name Triodos Bankieren NL Link to app https://play.google.com/store/ap...

They join a growing number of banking apps actively permitting users to use a much more secure device instead of trying to ban it instead.