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Helium Browser (Beta)

A chromium-based browser, yet It offers the best privacy and unbiased ad-blocking by default for you. Contains handy features like native !bangs and split view. No adware, no bloat, no noise. People-first and fully open source.

🧑‍💻 Organization: Imputnet

🔗 Links

🌐 Official Website
⬇️ Download: GitHub (Windows | Linux | MacOS)
🖼 Preview
📦 Source code

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🔍 Tags: #Windows #Linux #MacOS #FOSS #Utilities

Apple to use Gemini for their product: Apple Intelligence

Yes, you saw it right. Google and Apple are finalizing a deal that would have Apple pay about $1 billion a year for access to Google's 1.2 trillion-parameter custom ai model to help power a revamp of its Siri voice assistant, though it will continue to use in-house models to power some Siri features.

🔗 Ref.: Bloomberg
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🔎 Tags: #News #Tech #AI #Google #Apple

cobalt-tools

cobalt helps you save anything from your favorite websites: video, audio, photos or gifs. just paste the link and you’re ready to rock!
no ads, trackers, paywalls, or other nonsense. just a convenient web app that works anywhere, whenever you need it.

🧑‍💻 Organization: Imputnet

🔗Links

🌐 Website
❓ Supported Platforms
🖼 Preview
📦 Source code

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🔍 Tags: #FOSS #Utilities

New day, new bug!

Microsoft has confirmed that installing the October 2025 cumulative updates for Windows 10 and Windows 11 may cause some devices to boot into BitLocker recovery mode. The issue is known to primarily affect devices with Intel processors that support Connected Standby technology (now known as Modern Standby).

This issue might affect Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2, as well as Windows 10 version 22H2. (Though they ended up support for Windows 10 Already?)

🔗 Ref.: Bleeping Computer
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🔎 Tags: #Microsoft #Tech #News

For the 9999999999999999th time, Rockstar Games decides to delay the release of GTA VI Again. 🥀

🔗 Ref.: Announcement post in 𝕏
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🔎 Tags: #News #Games

RvKernel Manager
Unlock the true potential of your Android device with RvKernel Manager, a powerful and user-friendly open-source tool for managing your kernel settings. This app provides a clean interface to tweak and monitor a wide range of kernel parameters.
(Supports only Android 12+ devices that come with a Snapdragon SoC)

✨ Features:

📊 Device information dashboard
🔋 Battery monitoring & control
⚙️ Thermal management
⚡️ Fast charging control
💚 Battery health tracking
🧠 SoC management
🎛 Governor selection
📈 Frequency scaling
🛠 Kernel parameter tuning
🌐 Network tuning

🧑‍💻 Developer: Rve27

🔗 Links:
📥 Download: GitHub
🖼 Screenshots
📦 Source Code

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🔍 Tags: #Android #Tool #Root

Nova
Nova is an opeN sOurce Video plAyer designed for tablets, phones and AndroidTV devices

🧑‍💻 Organization: nova

🔗 Links:

📥 Download: GitHub | F-Droid
✨ Features list
🖼 Screenshots
📦 Source Code

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🔍 Tags: #Android #Utilities #FOSS

PolyUploader
Upload your files remotely to different hosting sites

✨Features

- Upload from local storage or via URL to 133 hosts at once
- Link your own API keys for compatible hosts
- View a detailed history of your uploads with expiration status and delete buttons
- Create and manage upload profiles to automate frequent tasks
- Generate a single sharing link to bundle multiple host links (e.g. https://p-u.vercel.app/QZZGsMNho9)
- No account required, fully open-source, fast, and free
- Built with a focus on speed and security using Rust backend

🧑‍💻Developer: spel987

🔗 Links:

📥 Download: GitHub
ℹ️ Supported websites
📚Compilation from source
🖼 Screenshots
📦 Source Code

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🔍 Tags: #Windows #Utilities #FOSS

It's all clear now: Sideloading Apps Will NOT be killed.

Google is building a so-called "advanced flow" that allows these users to accept the risks of installing unverified apps.
Previously, the only permitted method for experienced users to install apps from unverified developers was to use ADB.

🔗 Ref.: Android Developers Blog - Android Authority (Summarized)
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🔎 Tags: #News #Android #Sideloading

Yet another major service being down 🥀

After a while from the AWS incident, A new incident just happened, to leave its fingerprint in the history of internet. Cloudflare is currently down globally, causing a big impact over all Cloudflare's Sites and Services availability.

🔗 Ref.: Cloudflare incident report
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🔎 Tags: #News #Cloudflare #Internet

WAIT NOT THE REPORT TOO 💀

X is also down btw

Perfect, things should be back to normal in less than 1-2 hours 🙏

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Beware of this app! A literal spyware is installed into your Samsung A/M/F series device as a system app

Few months ago until now, many users in several social platforms reported finding an app called AppCloud installed in their OS as a system app. Reports say that this app shares your sensitive info, such as your IP Address, Device info (Model, Serial no. and IMEI), and much more. The app is developed by IronSource, An Israeli software company which is now owned by Unity in which Samsung decided to make a partnership deal with them, Yet no responses from Samsung towards those user reports. Not to mention that IronSource company has another old history with developing another malware called InstallCore for Windows PCs.
Users' concerns have recently been raised more since almost a week now as more users find out about AppCloud and finding out the app being installed in their devices without any context.

🔗 Ref.: SMEX - Sammobile
📖 How to Completely Uninstall
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🔎 Tags: #News #Tech #Malware

Top tier reference

Google Announces: Aluminium OS, a ChromeOS successor

One of its core features is that it will be deeply integrated with Google's AI model, Gemini. It won’t be also limited to laptops; the roadmap of AluminiumOS development explicitly includes detachables, tablets, and ‘boxes’ (likely mini-PCs akin to the Chromebox or Mac Mini).

Also, current devices running ChromeOS won't be upgraded to AluminiumOS, Google will have to maintain ChromeOS alongside AluminiumOS until the new OS becomes ready to replace it completely. AluminiumOS is planned to be released in 2026, there's no exact details on when it will be exactly released in this year but let's see if it gets released before GTA 6 or not 💀🙏

🔗 ref.: Android Authority - TheVerge
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🔎 Tags: #Tech #News #Android #Desktop