Digital Omnibus: EU Commission wants to wreck core GDPR principles
The EU Commission has published its proposal for the "Digital Omnibus". The planned changes to the GDPR would lower protections for Europeans
I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House
There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.
GTK on Android
Attached: 1 video Continuing the GTK on Android saga, here's Jorts (Granite / elementary) Now onto pushing my patches for it to Pixiewood #GTK #elementary #elementaryOS #Granite #GNOME
Serbians targeted with spyware in country’s ‘largest documented wave of surveillance’
Student protesters among those hacked, says digital rights group, though Aleksandar VuÄiÄâs government denies spying
A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine, powered by XeTeX and TeXLive.
A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine, powered by XeTeX and TeXLive. - tectonic-typesetting/tectonic
Omoggle - website where users give biometric date in "face-comparison" matches while system continously scans it for rating
Omoggle is a live face-rating and 1v1 arena game where players compete, climb ELO, unlock ranks, and battle for the leaderboard.
The AT Protocol Harkens An Old Web Ethos
Out with the new and in with the old.
OpenTS is a new open-source reconstruction of Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun is a true classic - one I remember excitedly reading magazine previews about and it continues to live on.
Major VPN provider says it could leave Canada over lawful access bill
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…
Top Open Source licenses in 2025
The top 20 OSI-Approved licenses most frequently sought out by our community in 2025 based on number of pageviews.
Edmonton police body cameras now automatically detect faces and compare to a watchlist
The same technology sold to hold police accountable now scans 7,000 faces a day without asking anyone's permission.
The privacy audit platform for Android applications
The privacy audit platform for Android applications
The Ugly Ugly Ugly.
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Browser tool that offers surfers way to implement privacy choices is creating challenges for website operators facing pressure from regulat…
A web-browser tool that offers surfers a one-click way to implement their privacy choices is creating challenges for website operators facing pressure from state regulators and aggrieved consumers over the selling and s…
Recognition of open-source work as voluntary work
Recognition of open-source work as voluntary work in Germany
'Intellexa Leaks' Reveal Wider Reach of Predator Spyware
âThis investigation provides one of the clearest and most damning views yet into Intellexaâs internal operations and technology," said Amnesty International Security Lab technologist Jurre van Bergen.
GNU Octave
GNU Octave is a programming language for scientific computing.
Mastodon for Apple II (][+, //c, IIe, and IIgs)
A Mastodon client for the Apple 2
Florida bans Flock cameras and other license plate readers from state highways
The state said it was ordering cameras removed from the right-of-way of state highways “to preserve Floridians’ sovereignty and quality of life.”
Police in US state of Nevada can now track cellphones without a warrant
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.
Great roundup from our PC Jesus Steve.
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Support GrapheneOS in Proton's 2025 Fundraiser
Nominate a project or organization you believe in and help us the 10 beneficiaries of this year's Proton Lifetime Account Charity Fundraiser.
Google, Apple, & Meta shared data from 3.5+M user accounts with US authorities over past decade through routine requests alone, a 770% incr…
Proton research shows how government access to Big Tech data is reshaping parenting and putting children’s privacy at risk.
Uguu: simple lightweight temporary file host with support for drop, paste, click and API uploading.
Uguu is a simple lightweight temporary file host with support for drop, paste, click and API uploading. - nokonoko/Uguu
Anyone can track WhatsApp and Signal users' activity, knowing only their phone number: "Careless Whisper: Exploiting Silent Delivery Receip…
With over 3 billion users globally, mobile instant messaging apps have become indispensable for both personal and professional communication. Besides plain messaging, many services implement additional features such as …
Good Luck Opting Out: Tesla, Meta, Amazon, Google, X, Uber, OpenAI, Tinder and 30 other companies make it almost impossible for users to co…
EPIC’s report Good Luck Opting Out: Manipulative Design Patterns in Opt-Out Processes by Justin Sherman, EPIC Scholar in Residence, and Caroline Kraczon, EPIC Counsel, investigates whether the consumer opt-out processes…
I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.
Testing 100 companies found privacy requests often led to confusion and dead ends.
Real Estate Giant Redfin Exposed Users’ Personal Info on Listing Contact Forms
Contact forms on Redfin's real estate listings displayed past users’ names, email addresses, and phone numbers.
Zork I, Zork II and Zork III are now officially open source
Microsoft announced today that they're preserving a bit of history here - with Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III now officially and clearly open source.
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.
Many EU states want to allow the US access to biometric police data
The EU countries have no fundamental problem with US law enforcement agencies accessing their national databases to search for threats.
"This is a political deception" − New Chat Control convinces lawmakers, but not privacy experts yet
The EU Council seems to agree to the new compromise "without further changes"
"The US is building a machine to watch the world" [YouTube]
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World expands its Tinder partnership and partners with Zoom and others to verify human users, as it continues its pivot from crypto to iden…
Honestly, whatâs hotter than a real person?
Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer
Warning: What happens on your Android, doesn’t stay on your Android — not if it's a work phone.
installing LineageOS is easy, actually
Blorp â A Threadiverse client for Lemmy and PieFed. Web, iOS & macOS, and more!
This Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix For Stalkers
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The Solution For The Network Effect Is Having People Have Feet On Both Sides Until They Fully Switch Isn't It?
Major social media platforms often prioritize data collection over user privacy. This raises concerns about the vast amounts of personal information shared online. Fortunately, a...
Chat Control: EU Council vote is a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously
Contrary to headlines suggesting the EU has "backed away" from Chat Control, the negotiating mandate endorsed today by EU ambassadors in a close split vote paves the way for a permanent infrastructure of mass surveillan…
Releases · Medard22/Dolphin-MMJR2-VBI
A fork of Dolphin MMJR2 - with added VBI Skip hack and further fixes ported over from Dolphin Official. - Medard22/Dolphin-MMJR2-VBI
Build Your Own Glasshole Detector
Connected devices are ubiquitous in our era of wireless chips heavily relying on streaming data to someone else’s servers. This sentence might already start to sound dodgy, and it doesn’…
Chat Control approved: Certain EU countries will see your private messages. Is yours on the list?
EU governments have finally agreed on a controversial new law that gives a backdoor to reading text messages and viewing photo messages
Against Decay, We Build: DeDe (Decentralized Delivery) Protocol
Contribute to pablo-chacon/dede-protocol development by creating an account on GitHub.
Watchman Privacy Vs The Hated One - Corrupt sponsorships, war on privacy and anarchy
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U.S. Supreme Court Case on Data Privacy in Police Investigations
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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…
What’s New in Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 44 - Fedora Magazine
Describe new features and changes in Fedora Linux KDE Plasma Desktop 44
Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI
We're adopting Rust as our C++ successor language, and using AI agents to accelerate the transition.
Pinokio: The 1-Click Localhost Cloud
Run your own personal Internet on Mac, Windows, and Linux with one click.
PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 developers battling "AI slop code pull requests"
The team behind the popular PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 have seen a rise in what they say are AI slop code pull requests.