The best open source office suite continues to evolve, while maintaining its focus on privacy and digital sovereignty Berlin, 20 August 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.8. This late…
After developing a facial-recognition app for Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses and doxing random people, two former Harvard students are now launching a startup that makes smart glasses with an always-on microphone.
A new proposal would introduce a fee for Freedom of Information requests and tighten the rules around the release of documents related to government deliberations.
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If you're C++ developer with graphics or C++ experience and you'd like to make a difference in a great #opensource project, #Inkscape could really use your help in pushing the work forward for 1.5. We've got some amazin…
Are you a California resident? Then we've got exciting news for you: there's a tool just for you that lets you take a single, relatively easy step to protect your privacy. It's called a DROP request. (That's Delete Requ…
A high-performance, real-time ASCII video rendering engine. Streams binary-encoded frames via WebSockets for ultra-low latency, 30 FPS playback using HTML5 Canvas and requestAnimationFrame. - Yusuf...
"If we improve the code and we can all benefit from it, it's good for everyone," says Fenris's Ben Hunter, as he talks security, LLM coding, and help from Godot
We discovered a privacy vulnerability in Firefox Private Browsing and Tor Browser that allows websites to fingerprint and track users across origins using IndexedDB database ordering, even after closing all private wind…
Our investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns and, for the first time, links real-world attack traffic to mobile operator signalling infrastructure. The findings expose how suspected commer…
"The Atlas of Surveillance is a database of surveillance #technologies deployed by #law enforcement in communities across the United States. This includes drones, body-worn cameras, automated license plate readers, faci…
Malus, which is a piece of satire but also fully functional, performs a "clean room" clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell software without crediting the original developers.
Cal.com goes closed source after 5 years. Hereâs why rising AI-driven security risks and vulnerability discovery are forcing us to protect customer data.
Forgejo v15.0, the lightweight, community-developed, self-hosted platform for code collaboration, was released on 16 April 2026. It marks the 100th release of Forgejo. You will find a short selection of the changes it i…
The Consumer Federation of America (CFA), on behalf of itself and a proposed class of D.C. Facebook users, has filed a class action complaint and jury trial demand against Meta Platforms, Inc (Meta) for failing to prote…
Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time — all without a warrant.
Signal is drawing a hard line on the federal government's proposed surveillance legislation: comply with Bill C-22 or leave the country. The secure messaging app says it would rather ditch the Canadian market than be fo…
The UK's new Digital Access to Services Bill promises a free, voluntary digital ID. But right-to-work checks are a 'priority use case,' and 19 million Britons face digital exclusion.
Today marks a major transition for the Zulip open-source project and for Kandra Labs, the company behind it: I’m stepping back from full-time Zulip leadership to join Anthropic, alongside three senior team members, and …
OTTAWA — Virtual private network service NordVPN warned on Friday it could pull out of Canada over the federal government’s proposed lawful access bill. NordVPN said in a social media post it is reviewing the bill and w…
Firejail is a security sandbox tool designed to enhance the security of applications by isolating them in a sandbox environment. It is a free and open-source software available for Linux-based operating systems. Firejai…
Like a cult classic movie, Godot 4 has only gotten better with age. This brings us to Godot 4.7. With 3 years under its belt, the 4.7 Director’s Cut offers colors of never-before-reached intensity.
The OpenMW team is proud to announce the release of version 0.51.0 of our open-source engine! Grab it from our Downloads Page for all supported operating systems. This release allows modders to cre…
In Mastodon 4.6, we are introducing a way to create and share curated collections of profiles. We've also reworked profiles and the profile editing experience, added some institutional features, and fixed many accessibi…
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