Weeknotes 2026.38

Posted on So 20 September 2026 in Blog

At the moment, I am trying to figure out which phone will be my next phone. One of my current phones is a Google Pixel 6, and this phone will be end-of-life soon. I think I will choose the Google Pixel 10a. The new Fairphone 6+ is another option.

With the Google Pixel GrapheneOS is an option. On the other side, GrapheneOS claims that Google is doing bad things and that shouldn't be supported.

Or maybe my Pixel 7 with GrapheneOS will be my only device for the next time.

AI scrapers

New documents unveiled interesting details:

The unsealed material also details how the companies allegedly obtained and used that content by bypassing paywalls undetected, building training datasets via mass scraping, and deliberately stripping copyright notices from training data.

And those scrapers are not only stealing content, they cause trouble at community services like OpenStreetMap:

The OpenStreetMap.org website and API are struggling. We are fighting a large set of AI crawlers / scrapers. Working to restore service as soon as possible.

Mistral and Mozilla

Mozilla and Mistral announced a partnership to bring AI to Firefox.

Mistral and Mozilla are bringing open, private and multilingual AI to your web browser

Signal without number

Signal allows Android user to register an account without a phone number. To prevent spam, Signal charges $2.99.

Signal goes phone-number free, but users slam its $2.99 privacy fee

CSS Zen Garden

A very long time ago CSS Zen Garden was showcase what could be archived with CSS. For Jo Sprague modern techniques allow creating the new Firefox-Website with CSS.

The CSS Zen Garden dream, finally shipped

Data breach ticker

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