PRIVACY

Freebuff gives you a free coding agent with GLM, DeepSeek and MiMo models, paid for by text ads. What the free tier includes, how Freebucks work, and what the privacy policy says about your prompts.

A final Digital Markets Act decision requires Alphabet to give third-party AI assistants the same Android access Gemini has: DSP wake words, ambient sensors, screen automation, on-device models, and fair background execution. Home Assistant's three-year fight over the 'Okay Nabu' wake word shows exactly what the ruling unlocks.

A federal case in Atlanta is testing whether using a privacy-focused mobile OS can be treated as destruction of evidence. The GrapheneOS duress PIN feature erased a traveler's phone during a CBP interrogation - and prosecutors are charging him for it.

Security researcher discovers TP-Link Kasa cameras exposed precise home coordinates via unauthenticated UDP - a vulnerability publicly documented since 2020 but only patched in 2026.

Days after getting caught uploading entire codebases to xAI servers, Grok Build is now open source on GitHub. The HN community isn't convinced it's enough.

A security researcher intercepted Grok Build's network traffic and found it uploads entire repositories - including .env files with secrets - to xAI servers. Here's what the data shows.

A developer reverse-engineered Claude Code and found hidden markers that classify users by timezone, domain, and API keywords - using unicode apostrophe swaps and date format changes.

Choosing a local coding LLM in 2026 means balancing benchmark performance, hardware cost, and the compliance pressure to keep code off third-party servers. Here is what to run and on what hardware.

A Show HN PDF form demo points at a bigger architecture shift: keep sensitive documents local, expose narrow browser tools to the model, and make AI assistance inspectable.

OpenAI shipped an open-weight PII redactor. Here is how to wire it into a real ingestion pipeline locally, fast, with zero leaks, and how it benchmarks against Presidio and a regex baseline.

Set up Codex Chronicle on macOS, manage permissions, and understand privacy, security, and troubleshooting.

The easiest way to run LLMs locally. One command to pull and run any model. OpenAI-compatible API. 52M+ monthly downloads. Supports GGUF, Safetensors, and custom Modelfiles.

Open-source ChatGPT alternative that runs 100% offline. Desktop app with local models, cloud API connections, custom assistants, and MCP integration. AGPLv3 licensed.

Private local AI chatbot by Nomic. 250K+ monthly users, 65K GitHub stars. LocalDocs feature lets you chat with your own files. Runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux.