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Category: Blog

Euki Period-Tracking App Actually Keeps Your Data Private

2026-07-212026-07-21 Danie
Alt text: Screenshots of a menstrual tracking app showing symptom logging, privacy settings for data deletion, and a confirmation prompt for permanent data removal.

“Period tracking is a simple job that plenty of apps can do. But most apps these days—including those that track health data—store information about you on their own servers and sometimes even share that data […]

Bloghealth, privacy, technology

OpenAI Exec Laments That China Is Giving Away Models So Good That For-Profit Companies Won’t Be Able to Compete

2026-07-202026-07-20 Danie
Close-up of Benjamin Franklin's face from a US $100 bill with a single tear drop.

“Last week, a Chinese-made large language model called Kimi K3, developed by Beijing-based firm Moonshot AI, burst onto the scene. The open-weight model impressed with early benchmark results, trading blows with some of the most […]

BlogAI, opensource, technology

Why Bevel Is a Way Better iOS App for the Fitbit Air Than Google Health

2026-07-182026-07-18 Danie
Fitness tracker band resting on a smartphone displaying health stats including strain, recovery, sleep, and stress levels on a multicolored carpet.

“The Fitbit Air is a really nice wearable—it’s thin, unobtrusive, cheap. But its app, Google Health, has problems. It gives you paragraphs of AI-generated text multiple times a day as long as you have premium […]

Bloghealth, technology

Vital Signals’ New Ring Brings Blood Pressure Monitoring to Your Finger

2026-07-172026-07-17 Danie
Close-up of a hand with dark skin wearing a silver, checkered-patterned ring on the middle finger against a plain white background.

“Vital Signals thinks its Signal Ring is accurate enough to replace traditional blood pressure cuffs for the almost half of U.S. adults who live with high blood pressure. The new wearable is thicker than the […]

Blogbloodpressure, health, technology

Making A Locked Down WHOOP Wearable Work Without A Subscription

2026-07-162026-07-16 Danie
OpenStrap app interface showing WHOOP 4.0 health stats: recovery, heart rate, sleep, strain, and stress with privacy and data control features.

“The goal of the so-called OpenStrap project is not to re-create the WHOOP app. Rather, the algorithms and processing methods are developed from scratch, based on public research. It’s all calculated locally on a 1 […]

Blogopensource, openstandards, technology

Microsoft is losing the battle to protect license lucre. It better get used to the feeling

2026-07-132026-07-13 Danie
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“In Disney movies, if you wish really, really hard for what you want, it happens. In British courts, not so much. Prince Redmondia really, really wanted to stop the evil barons from reselling on-prem Office […]

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AI Barometer: the best AI for every job right now because choosing is difficult

2026-07-132026-07-13 Danie
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“Barely a month goes by without an AI laboratory declaring its latest model the smartest ever built. For anyone simply trying to keep up, or trying to pick a tool that drafts a decent e-mail, […]

BlogAI, benchmark, technology

HeliBoard is a privacy-conscious and customisable open-source keyboard for Android

2026-07-112026-07-11 Danie
Screenshot of a Telegram channel message discussing AI uses, linking to an article on AI disruption and tagged with #ai #technology.

This is a very feature packed and functional keyboard. I’ve found its word suggestions as good as GBoard and other Big Tech keyboards. I managed to import an Afrikaans dictionary and HeliBoard handled multilingual typing […]

Blogandroid, opensource, privacy, technology

Tech Bros Puzzled by Why AI Hasn’t “Massively Disrupted” Books Yet

2026-07-112026-07-11 Danie
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“The reality, of course, is that attempts to integrate AI into education have been consistently disastrous. As it turns out, a technology that spits out a confident mixture of fact and fiction without challenging the […]

BlogAI, technology

Android is open source, but your phone isn’t—here’s why Google locked it down

2026-07-102026-07-10 Danie
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“Android has come to dominate the global smartphone marketplace, and a large part of why this has happened is thanks to its open-source nature. Any phone maker can put Android on its phones with no […]

Blogandroid, opensource, technology

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