Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft
Last week, Dan Blanchard, the maintainer of chardet—a Python library for detecting text encodings used by roughly 130 million projects a month— released a new…
Linux in California is in deep trouble - The Bryant Review
This new "privacy" law will require that all operating system providers must start collecting your birth date every app you install will need to ask your OS provider for that information. It's whac...
RED ALERT: The US house of reps is making a lot of progress toward their goal of mass surveillance with complete KYC
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
Inkscape needs help. The Inkscape team is hiring one issue administrator and two C++ developers for part time positions
Inkscape is hiring two C++ developers and one issue administrator to accelerate the release of the 1.5 mega release...
PCjs Machines
PCjs offers a variety of online machine emulators written in JavaScript. Run DOS, Windows, OS/2 and other vintage PC applications in a web browser on your desktop computer, iPhone, or iPad. An assortment of microcompute…
"No right to relicense this project" - on changing the license of Mark Pilgrim's chardet from LGPL to MIT after a vibe-coded rewrite
Hi, I'm Mark Pilgrim. You may remember me from such classics as "Dive Into Python" and "Universal Character Encoding Detector." I am the original author of chardet. First off, I would like to thank...
Meta Workers Say They're Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users' Smart Glasses
Meta contractors in Kenya told two Swedish newspapers that they're being told to review highly sensitive footage recorded by smart glasses.
Privacy Shamir Secret New tool (PWA or .apk needed)
Simple and secure secret sharing in the browser . Contribute to numago/diceslice development by creating an account on GitHub.
ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.3 Brings Multipage View, PDF Signatures
ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.3 adds multipage document view, enhanced PDF signatures, and a new Solver tool for spreadsheets, alongside performance fixes and improvements.
LibreOffice 26.2.1 Released With Over 70 Bug Fixes Across Writer, Calc, and Impress
The Document Foundation releases LibreOffice 26.2.1, delivering extensive bug fixes and stability improvements for the 26.2 productivity suite.
Open Source and Incentives
How misaligned incentives undermine open source projects — and why 'monetize later' often leads to the very restrictions open source was meant to avoid.
Leak confirms GrapheneOS & Motorola partnership for non-Pixel hardware - PiunikaWeb
An internal Motorola presentation leak appears to confirm a GrapheneOS partnership for non-Pixel hardware, with an official announcement likely at MWC 2026.
Susan Sarandon Says She Was Banned From Hollywood After Calling for Gaza Ceasefire: I Feel ‘Repression and Censorship’ in United States
Susan Sarandon says she was blocked from Hollywood film and TV roles after speaking out about a ceasefire in Gaza.
This is what counts as "romance" to cis people.
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An open source email productivity app that integrates into your Gmail-NeatMail!
Stop managing email. Let your inbox manage itself. Contribute to Lakshay1509/NeatMail development by creating an account on GitHub.
Serial Experiments Soprano Comparison w/ Original
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“Disaster: The Chernobyl Meltdown” CNN Original Series Coming Soon
Marking the 40th anniversary of the unprecedented tragedy, Disaster: The Chernobyl Meltdown premieres on Sunday, March 1 at 9pm ET/PT.
There’s No Laws Against The Pokemon, Batman | Wittle Moew comic dub
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Twitch is requiring new affiliates to give their government ID and a separate photo to Persona
Twitch is requiring new Affiliates, before their first payment, to give government photo ID and a separate photo to Persona, the same Persona that has connections to government mass surveillance programs. When I asked T…
The official Introduction to Github page included an AI-generated graphic with the phrase "continvoucly morged" on it, among other mistakes.
The official Introduction to Github page included an AI-generated graphic with the phrase "continvoucly morged" on it, among other mistakes.
Open-source, client-side code playground created by a heart surgeon
A Code Playground That Just Works! Contribute to live-codes/livecodes development by creating an account on GitHub.
Heron— A native third party Bluesky client for Android
A tiny, graceful bluesky client
About GitHub and how they want to improve PR management with all that GenAI noise
As contribution friction drops, maintainers are adapting with new trust signals, triage approaches, and community-led solutions.
Palform - form building that's encrypted, open-source, and hosted on EU servers. thoughts??
Build end-to-end encrypted forms with advanced enterprise-grade features in just a few simple clicks; no coding required.
Privacy researcher debunks Microsoft Edge’s free VPN marketing, says it's "NOT a VPN"
Microsoft Edge Secure Network VPN promises built-in privacy, but a security researcher says it behaves like a browser proxy than a full VPN.
One billion identity records exposed in unsecured ID verification database | Biometric Update
The exposed fields reportedly included full names, dates of birth, physical addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and national identification numbers.
Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich
As governments race to restrict minors’ social media use, the tech billionaires who built the platforms are imposing strict screen limits at home.
TIL there are motorized skiis.
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the watchers: how openai, the US government, and persona built an identity surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds
53MB of source code leaked from a government endpoint. 269 verification checks. biometric face databases. SAR filings to FinCEN. and the same company that verifies your ChatGPT account.
AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects, Targets Maintainers via Cold Outreach
An AI agent is merging PRs into major OSS projects and cold-emailing maintainers to drum up more work.
I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too
Fairphone sales jump 83% as the memory crunch makes longevity look better than ever.
Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network
Ring’s AI-powered network is likely to be used in its partnerships with law enforcement and agencies like ICE.
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
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pi-vox: AI Speech Intelligence for Multilingual Audio Analysis
AI speech solutions for voice authentication and synthetic voice detection. Protect against audio deepfakes in an AI-first world.
British soldiers to get new AI radios, headsets and tablets
British soldiers will be able to make faster, better decisions on the battlefield through thousands of new radios, headsets and tablets.
It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
Danish Students Face Legal Action and Fines Over Textbook Piracy
After "awareness" campaigns failed, Denmark’s leading anti-piracy group is shifting to a more aggressive litigation strategy.
Xikipedia - the doomscrollable wikipedia
Wikipedia you can doomscroll
Nintendo’s “Second Wave”: 16 Heavyweights Defining the Switch 2 Destiny in 2026
Nintendo Switch 2 enters 2026 with 16 AAA titles using AI-native rendering, ending the “impossible port” era and redefining third-party support.
The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K
With virtually no content and limited benefits, 8K TVs were doomed.
Want to try Lasuite numérique (Visio, Docs, Drive), the french open source self-hosteable office suite? I've been working on a way to insta…
One-click deploy La Suite to a Kubernetes cluster. Contribute to baptisterajaut/lasuite-platform development by creating an account on GitHub.
The Netherlands consumer protection regulator launches an investigation into Roblox under the Digital Services Act (DSA) for not sufficient…
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) launches an investigation into online game platform Roblox in connection with possible risks that minors in the EU face on the platform.
New York Stock Exchange builds tokenized securities platform to bring stocks and ETFs to 24x7 on-chain trading
The New York Stock Exchange is building a tokenized securities platform that could enable 24x7 trading, instant settlement, and fractional share access for stocks and ETFs.
The Latest Monster Hunter Wilds PC Perf Drama Explained | Digital Foundry
Thousands upon thousands of DLC checks hammer the CPU.
Wikipedia’s Baltic Battle: Estonian Journalists Warn of Coordinated Pro-Soviet Edits, Lithuania Reports Similar Targeting
Estonian and Lithuanian media have recently reported coordinated mass Wikipedia edits aimed at normalizing the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states as legitimate statehood.
Hyundai Introduces Its Next-Gen Atlas Robot at CES 2026
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RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components
Windows 11 apps like Discord, WhatsApp, and Teams now use 1 to 4GB of RAM because they are web apps and the rising RAM prices make it worse.
Who here works for The Onion?
LOS GATOS, CA—In an attempt to fend off growing competition from Paramount and Netflix, Plex CEO Keith Valory announced Monday that the streaming platform had submitted a $35 bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. “We believe …