115 civil society organisations are calling on EU lawmakers to to regulate the use of AI technology for harmful and discriminatory surveillance by law enforcement, migration authorities and national security forces in the AI Act.
Excellent progress was made this week towards the goal of full sound theme support in Plasma 6, among other topics–including some important performance work for KWin!
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Apple’s midrange ‘Pro’ M3 chip isn’t looking like a huge upgrade (www.theverge.com)
Introducing Badger Swarm: New Project Helps Privacy Badger Block Ever More Trackers (www.eff.org)
Samsung details ‘Galaxy AI’ and a feature that can translate phone calls in real time (www.theverge.com)
What the !#@% is a Passkey? (www.eff.org)
Young People May Be The Biggest Target for Online Censorship and Surveillance—and the Strongest Weapon Against Them (www.eff.org)
Google researchers use off-the-shelf headphones to measure heart rate (www.theverge.com)
Nerdearla reflects on openness and inclusivity (blog.opensource.org)
2024 State of Open Source Survey (www.research.net)
The only cheat sheet you need (cheat.sh)
Telegram is still leaking user IP addresses to contacts (techcrunch.com)
Instagram ‘Sincerely Apologizes’ For Inserting ‘Terrorist’ Into Palestinian Bio Translations (www.404media.co)
Tech Leaders Say AI Will Change What It Means to Have a Job (www.wsj.com)
In Nairobi’s Silicon Savanna, African workers are taking on Big Tech (www.codastory.com)
Transfer files with QR codes using qrcp (opensource.net)
EFF in 2022 - Annual Report (annualreport.eff.org)
Four ways to bring 'open' to business (opensource.net)
Is Your State’s Child Safety Law Unconstitutional? Try Comprehensive Data Privacy Instead (www.eff.org)
New Ray-Ban, Meta Smart Glasses Evoke Privacy Concerns (vpnoverview.com)
Deep Dive AI At All Things Open (2023.allthingsopen.org)
Get Real, Congress: Censoring Search Results or Recommendations Is Still Censorship (www.eff.org)
Introducing GNOME 45 – The GNOME Foundation (foundation.gnome.org)
Guides to collect your data from Apps (privacyinternational.org)
Linux Foundation to Fork HashiCorp Terraform into 'OpenTofu' (thenewstack.io)
Tell Congress: Don't Allow The Return Of The Worst Patents (act.eff.org)
Apple and Google Are Introducing New Ways to Defeat Cell Site Simulators, But Is it Enough? (www.eff.org)
EU lawmakers must regulate the harmful use of tech by law enforcement in the AI Act (edri.org)
115 civil society organisations are calling on EU lawmakers to to regulate the use of AI technology for harmful and discriminatory surveillance by law enforcement, migration authorities and national security forces in the AI Act.
Video content creation with Kdenlive (fedoramagazine.org)
How much data are your GPU drivers collecting about you? Quite a lot in Intel's case (www.techradar.com)
Elon Musk’s X can’t send Blue subscribers their ad revenue-sharing payouts on time (www.theverge.com)
Facebook Apparently Will Ask for Consent Before Showing Behavioral Ads to Some Users (www.eff.org)
Introducing lestat.org - Lemmy instance status monitor for all popular instances (lemdit.com)
cross-posted from: lemdit.com/post/408034...
IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view (www.lpi.org)
The buttons on Zenith’s original ‘clicker’ remote were a mechanical marvel (www.theverge.com)
This week in KDE: Sounds like Plasma 6 (pointieststick.com)
Excellent progress was made this week towards the goal of full sound theme support in Plasma 6, among other topics–including some important performance work for KWin!
The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide (www.eff.org)
#105 Legendary Saturday Edition (thisweek.gnome.org)
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from July 15 to July 22.
AlmaLinux makes its choice: The friendly fork (dissociatedpress.net)
This Week in GNOME #104 Full Text Search (thisweek.gnome.org)
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from July 07 to July 14.
Actors say Hollywood studios want their AI replicas — for free, forever (www.theverge.com)
The reveal came as SAG-AFTRA actors confirmed they were going on strike.
KDE e.V. COMMUNITY REPORT (ev.kde.org)
Red Hat: why I'm going all in on community-driven Linux distros. (youtu.be)
GrapheneOS: first impressions, stumbling blocks, and opinions (tilvids.com)
The Linux Tier List (controversial) (youtu.be)