Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You’re Being Watched, Too
No one likes being recorded by Meta’s Ray-Bans smart glasses, which have gotten increasingly popular in the last year or so. Now the wearers know how everyone else feels. According to a joint investigation published by …
Donation list - privacy
CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite
You sure, Discord?
Discord's CTO addresses community concerns about age assurance: no mass ID collection, new vendor transparency commitments, and a delayed global launch until second half of 2026.
Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web
Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.
Our World of Text
Infinitely large website. Write anywhere.
Redox OS Introducing New CPU Scheduler For ~1.5x Performance In Heavy Tasks
The Rust-based Redox OS operating system is preparing to land a new CPU scheduler thanks to work being carried out by open-source developer Akshit Gaur on modernizing the platform's process scheduling subsystem.
UK iPhone users face over-18 age check to use services after update
Ofcom says decision is ‘real win for children and families’ but some users raise concerns over privacy
Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code?
Over the past few months it’s become clear that coding agents are extraordinarily good at building a weird version of a “clean room” implementation of code. The most famous version …
Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens
: Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk
‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is a threat to UK’s security
Experts say that claims UK data remains under government ownership miss the point that the company has the capability to build its own detailed picture of the British population, and even infer state secrets. Report by …
Serenum: a weather service that really respects your privacy
Serenum is a weather service that takes your privacy very seriously (read more).
UK eyes sweeping powers to regulate tech
The U.K. government has laid two amendments that would let it sidestep parliamentary debate so it can update online safety laws.
Do you protect your USB port?
USBShield protects your Windows from unauthorized USB devices - USBShield/USBShield
LibreOffice learns to speak Markdown in version 26.2
: Plain-text fans rejoice as Writer gains native CommonMark import and export
GitHub - yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses: attempting to detect smart glasses nearby and warn you
attempting to detect smart glasses nearby and warn you - yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses
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…
Open Source, Incentives, and Why 'Monetize Later' Often Backfires
For a long time, I strongly believed in open source and paying it forward to the developer...
Open Slopware
Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives. Fork of the repo by @gen-ai-transparency after its deletion.
How EU anti-money laundering rules threaten financial privacy
Privacy First is drawing attention to the risks to financial privacy and fundament rights arising from the European Union’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) framework.
digiKam 9.0.0 is released
Dear digiKam fans and users, we are proud to announce the stable release of digiKam 9.0.0.
Give Up GitHub - Software Freedom Conservancy
The Software Freedom Conservancy provides a non-profit home and services to Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects.
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...
How to Maximize Your Privacy on iPhone - Privacy Guides
We've covered the basics, like adjusting settings on your device, intermediate changes such as switching to private alternatives, and now it's time to cover advanced tips to protect your Privacy &a...
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...
Open source Intercom & CCTV platform with Mobile apps, Face and LP Recognition, Media Server (GPLv3)
Open-source intercom & video surveillance software platform RBT Teledom
The best cracked Minecraft launcher I know of, hope you are already aware. Have fun in any case!
UltimMC Launcher is a Minecraft launcher that helps to run and organise different versions of the game. You can create separate profiles for normal Minecraft,
ClusterCut gives LocalSend some side
Because clipboard sharing shouldn't be a clusterf***. - keithvassallomt/ClusterCut
What You Don't Know About SAINSBURY'S and the AI BIOMETRIC PANOPTICON
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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...
About open source and “whale fall”, or when community restarts projects from forks.
What happens when a large open source project dies.
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.
Can we share change.org links?
Remove FLOCK cameras from Illinois
Umbra is a Firefox ESR fork with no telemetry
More private by default Firefox ESR. Fork of ghostery. - openconstruct/Umbra
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 Software Resources for Space Downstream Applications
This page provides a list of open source software resources for developing space downstream applications, in the following categories: Positioning & Navigation Earth Observation software and data Satellite Communication…
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.
Is Flock just a poor US-centric copy of, globally active Genetec?
Genetec provides unified security solutions that combine IP-based video surveillance, access control, automatic license plate recognition (ALPR), communications, and analytics to help protect the everyday.
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.
AI Can Now Easily Unmask Your Secret Online Life (Even If You Use a Fake Name)
New study shows smart chatbots can figure out who you really are from just a few posts... and it only costs a couple of dollars.
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.
The Document Foundation announced today the release of LibreOffice 26.2.1
Videos describing new features available on YouTube and PeerTube Berlin, 26 February 2026 – The Document Foundation today announced the release of LibreOffice 26.2.1, the first maintenance update to the LibreOffice 26.2…
Trump Administration Moves to Allow Intelligence Agencies Easier Access to Law Enforcement Files
“None of this has been thought through very carefully,” one official said of the plans, which upend long-standing restrictions meant to protect Americans’ privacy.
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…
Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI
We're adopting Rust as our C++ successor language, and using AI agents to accelerate the transition.
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