Israeli Spyware Firm Exposes Paragon Spyware Control Panel on LinkedIn
An Israeli spyware firm, Paragon Solutions, accidentally exposed its secretive Graphite control panel in a LinkedIn post, drawing sharp criticism from cybersecurity experts.
The Gilded Age of Open Source is over - Joe Brockmeier
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The rise of ID/face scanning to access bars & clubs
Privacy advocates and cybersecurity experts say the growing use of ID scanning at venues raises the risk of personal data breaches. They argue a more ambitious overhaul of privacy laws is needed.
Battle Over Facial Recognition in New Orleans Will Shape Future of Surveillance
Edith Romero, an organizer in New Orleans, discusses the dangers of the growing surveillance state.
Open-Source EMR Pen Tablet Hardware Implementation and Documentation
Open-Source EMR Pen Tablet Hardware Implementation and Documentation
The Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) will be held in Nuremberg, Germany 🇩🇪, from April 22nd to 25th of 2026.
GIMP will be at Libre Graphics Meeting with 3 talks and as a gold sponsor
Offdem Browser Extension
Open-source browser extension that helps you stay focused by temporarily blocking distracting websites. Available for Chrome, Edge, and Firefox. 100% free and privacy-focused.
UK government exempting itself from flagship cyber law inspires little confidence
ANALYSIS: Ministers promise equivalent standards just without the legal obligation
Plasma 6.7
Plasma 6.7 brings powerful new features to KDE’s classic desktop, and refines its user experience to new levels.
LibreOffice learns to speak Markdown in version 26.2
: Plain-text fans rejoice as Writer gains native CommonMark import and export
GrapheneOS Foundation Calls Out Brazil's Flawed Age Verification Law
People are going to have their personal info leaked by third party age verification services due to these laws. Children are going to be harmed by apps and websites changing their behavior to exploit them. It isn't goin…
A manifesto for open source, from Mercedes-Benz
by Dr. Wolfgang Gehring, August 02, 2021
GenAI has started to kill open source projects
Adam Wathan the creator of Tailwind CSS posted that he had to let go of 75% of his engineering team because of AI. He said traffic to the Tailwind help documentation is down 40% and that is where most people learn about…
HDMI Forum is unwilling to disclose the 2.1 specification for open-source (Linux): according to AMD, they had submitted a functional, HDMI …
Technically, the Steam Machine supports HDMI 2.1. However, Valve and AMD are not allowed to offer an open-source driver for it.
Texas Police Invested Millions in a Shadowy Phone-Tracking Software. They Won’t Say How They’ve Used It.
One sheriff who leads an anti-smuggling task force says the software helps “develop leads to eventually obtain probable cause.” Civil liberties experts say its use violates constitutional rights.
Proton getting big encourages centralization
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Do you protect your USB port?
USBShield protects your Windows from unauthorized USB devices - USBShield/USBShield
Koofr?
Koofr is a safe and reliable European cloud storage that respects your privacy. Save and access files from any device. Automatically backup files from your phone and connect your existing cloud accounts. Try Koofr today.
Boomers here?
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Page views for "Zulip" Wikipedia article skyrocket after Discord announces its age verification nonsense
Your settings will be remembered on the same browser and computer.
Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU’s roll-back of digital rights
In a new analysis we trace Big Tech's fingerprints on the Digital Omnibus proposals - a major deregulation of EU digital laws including the GDPR and the AI Act. They are helped in this attempt by the Trump administratio…
FOSS Discord alternative Fluxer releases v2
Fluxer v2 is out, mobile clients are open source, self-hosting is improving, and public development is moving back to GitHub.
Let′s dig into some vibe code
Let′s scrutinize some vibe code that promises to change the world or whatever. We′ll review and analyze this code using static analysis.
GrapheneOS Foundation Discusses History Of Phoney Privacy Companies Targeting The Project
Many people think these must be state sponsored attacks. However, our experience is these attacks are primarily orchestrated by companies selling dubious products marketed as private and secure. We did get targeted by s…
The Tulip Creative Computer - a portable Python synthesizer for music and graphics
The Tulip Creative Computer - a portable Python synthesizer for music and graphics - shorepine/tulipcc
Digital Omnibus: How Big Tech Lobbying Is Gutting the GDPR
The EU’s Digital Omnibus quietly rewrites the GDPR in Big Tech’s favour – weakening data protection, user rights and enforcement. EFRI explains what is at stake.
Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist’s Bank and Credit Card Numbers
Amandla Thomas-Johnson didn't know how much information ICE requested in a subpoena now. Google never gave him a chance to fight it.
The Document Foundation is proud to release LibreOffice 25.8
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…
Godot Engine 4.6 has been officially released, bringing major upgrades 🥳
With the stability gained over the past five Godot 4 releases, it's time for polish and quality-of-life improvements for everyday development.
San Francisco has become a laboratory for police surveillance after early resistance; SFPD recorded 700 drone flights last month, up from 9…
San Francisco has 98 police drones, 400 AI license plate readers, and a billionaire-funded real-time crime center. Crime is down 44%. Nobody seems to mind — yet. But experts say the city is running an experiment with no…
SMS2Email: app that forwards SMS messages to SMTP Email server—has anyone tried this?
Android app that forwards SMS messages to SMTP (Email) server - SMS2Email/SMS2Email
SnekStudio - Free, Open-source VTuber Softare in Godot!
SnekStudio is a free, open-source VTuber application written using the Godot engine!
ESTA: USA wants to check social media accounts of European travelers as well
For a vacation in the USA, people from Europe have so far not had to reveal too much. This could soon change if it's up to US border control.
Software Heritage (basically internet archive, but for software code)
unlike words carved in stone it can be deleted or get corrupted
Gaël Duval: The Path to a New Smartphone Ecosystem
Interview with the longtime free software developer best known for Mandrake Linux, now CEO of /e/OS and an advocate for âdegoogledâ smartphones.
"It was too much to expect that he would also understand."
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I built a minimalist SPA tool using eBPF/XDP to keep ports invisible. First project in Go!
High-performance, minimalist Single Packet Authorization (SPA) based on eBPF/XDP. Keeps your ports invisible to scanners and resilient to DDoS attacks by filtering traffic at the driver level. - ki...
Bunnings Australia wins legal fight to use AI facial recognition in stores
Bunnings was reasonably entitled to use AI facial recognition technology to combat crime and staff abuse in its stores, the Administrative Review Tribunal finds.
UK police to use AI facial recognition tech linked to Israel’s war on Gaza
Concerns rise as UK partners with controversial facial recognition company used by Israel in Gaza.
These subpoenas...
The Department of Homeland Security has expanded efforts to identify Americans who criticize or track Immigration and Customs Enforcement, sending hundreds of legal requests to major tech companies seeking information b…
[ADVICE] How to contribute from home
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service-lookup v0.3.0 - Run your Spring microservices locally with ease
Update host:port in YAML service URLs by service name and Kubernetes cluster - iByteABit256/service-lookup
Atok cooks fried rice for Israel [Warning: actually good post]
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Federal prosecutors charge 15 people with impeding agents during Minnesota immigration crackdown
Federal prosecutors have charged 15 people with impeding federal agents during a massive immigration surge in Minnesota earlier this year.
Volunteers needed to test Ireland's new 'digital wallet' app for accessing public services
EU will require all member states to have digital profiles of citizens with birth certs and IDs
Is LineageOS for microG legit?
LineageOS for microG website.
NovaCustom launches privacy SHIFTphone (degoogled with iodéOS and hardware kill switches)
With the SHIFTphone 8.1 running iodéOS, you get a privacy-friendly phone without Google that is modular and sustainable.
Instagram's AI Chatbot Gave Away a Bunch of Accounts to Hackers
Meta has since fixed the exploit, but it's yet another example of AI doing it worse than humans.
Kubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) Released
Kubuntu 26.04 LTS is here. Try Plasma 6.6, Qt 6.10, KDE Frameworks 6.24, and more.
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 …