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!
Google just launched a new AI, and has already admitted at least one demo wasn’t real ( www.theverge.com )
The most popular licenses for each language in 2023 ( blog.opensource.org )
Chrome’s Web Store review—the next big weapon in the war on ad blockers ( arstechnica.com )
When ad blocking is a cat-and-mouse game, make the mouse slowe
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What is your “basic” list of fonts every linux desktop user should install ?
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 )
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.
Disallow GPTBot to access your site ( platform.openai.com )
Video content creation with Kdenlive ( fedoramagazine.org )
Not Using Zoom ( the.webm.ink )
It is not mine but very good 👍
Working together for free communication ( www.fsf.org )
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 )
IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view ( www.lpi.org )
LibrePlanet ( libreplanet.org )
The buttons on Zenith’s original ‘clicker’ remote were a mechanical marvel ( www.theverge.com )
ChatGPT is David Copperfield ( lemmy.ml )
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 )
Elon Musk Wants to Relive His Start-Up Days. He’s Repeating the Same Mistakes.
disconnect.blog/…/elon-musk-wants-to-relive-his-s…
#105 Legendary Saturday Edition ( thisweek.gnome.org )
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from July 15 to July 22.
GitHub - aerdem4/lofo-importance: Leave One Feature Out Importance ( github.com )
Bing, Bard, and ChatGPT: How AI is rewriting the internet ( www.theverge.com )
Britain’s MI6 chief says his spies are using AI to disrupt flow of weapons to Russia ( apnews.com )