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A new chat platform called Strafe has launched, offering end-to-end encrypted messaging, voice and video calls, file sharing, and community spaces organized into rooms and roles. The project is open source and self-hostable, letting users run their own isolated instance instead of relying on a central server.
A new MIT-licensed project called aweb provides AI agents with stable identities, durable mail and chat, and wake-up events that persist across sessions, runtimes and machines. The system is federated and self-hostable, meaning independently run servers can interconnect, and it ships as a CLI and API installable via npm with built-in integrations for Claude Code and Pi.
Conversations, the federated Android messaging app launched in 2014 by its solo developer, is ending its paid Google Play Store distribution model. The developer says Play Store sales had served as a steady, dependable income stream for over a decade, supplementing project-based development contracts, consulting work and grants.
As Andy Burnham begins his first parliamentary session as UK prime minister, Westminster sources say he faces mounting pressure to terminate Palantir's £330m contract managing data on the NHS Federated Data Platform. Palantir holds roughly £670m in UK public sector contracts spanning health, defence and policing, and campaigners are urging Burnham to invoke a break clause that would end the NHS deal in 2027.