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Releases

• Nym NymVPN free beta testing now live
• Firo Firo Mandatory Release v0.14.14.0
• Aleo Aleo Mainnet is live
• Gnosis Gnosis Guild launched Enclave
• Semaphore Semaphore v4 is out
• Aztec Aztec launched a new website

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Ecosystem

• A look into Labyrinth's latest progress
• A new era for PSE
• Proof of Ink by Gavin Wood
• IoTeX collaborates with Polygon Labs
• Nillion integrates with NEAR Protocol
• Namada Pre-Genesis Phase 2
• 0xbow has been integrating with Privacy Pools
• Aztec gave grant to provable email

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Podcasts

• Jameson Lopp: Technology to empower individuals Logos Podcast with Jarred Hope
• How Gnosis 3.0 Paves the Way for Mass Adoption Friederike Ernst
• Onchain Minimalism Keynote by Justin Drake at PlasmaCon 2024
• TEEs with Andrew Miller Zero Knowledge fm
• LunarDAO <> FIRN forest-side chat
• Cross-chain intents & the modular ecosystem Anoma
• Kruw on Bitcoin Privacy & Blockchain Analysis
• Bitcoin privacy, and the crypto privacy landscape with @thevladcostea Nym Community Call
• How to improve your privacy with Dappnode Dappnode Crash Course
• Technical Workshop with Diego Lizarazo and Mauricio Magaldi Midnight x TOKEN2049
• Progress In the Decentralized AI Stack Panel at Web3 Summit 2024 Berlin
• Confidential Computing for Solana HackSecret 4
• Best Mina application or library built using Protokit ETHGlobal Singapore 2024
• Remigration Checks, Chainanalysis, Presidential Debate & more! Monero Talk
• Use Open-Source Technologies Franzi x Department of Decentralization @ ETHBerlin
• Privado ID & Basic Attention Token team on Privacy in the Web3 @ X spaces

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Governments

• EFF: Venezuela's Repression: surveillance and censorship following July's presidential election
• DW: Chinese cyberattacks hit nearly half of German firms
• Reuters: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested in France
• Radar: Telegram will share users’ IP addresses and phone numbers” to governments when legally required

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Research

• Message Latency in Waku Relay with Rate Limiting Nullifiers
• Haze and Daze: Compliant Privacy Mixers

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Other

• Forbes Alliances show the web3 revolution is unstoppable with Robinhood, Secret Network and Tezos
• Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default for desktop
• Zashi Coinbase integration
• Sweeping FTC study finds that social media sites engage in ‘vast surveillance’ of its users
• Cryptographic papers giveaway by BigSky
• Beyond cypherpunks article

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Upcoming events

(new/changes in bold)

• Sept 26-27, ETHMilan conference
• Oct 3, Web3Privacy Now ETHRome meetup
• Oct 4-6, Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis (HCPP) (Prague) conference
• Oct 4-6, ETHRome hackathon
• Oct 8, zkSummit Lisbon
• Nov 11, Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress Bangkok
• Nov 12-15, devcon Bangkok