Excellent progress was made this week towards the goal of full sound theme support in Plasma 6, among other topics–including some important performance work for KWin!
115 civil society organisations are calling on EU lawmakers to to regulate the use of AI technology for harmful and discriminatory surveillance by law enforcement, migration authorities and national security forces in the AI Act.
In the realm of UNIX and Linux-based systems, the wget command stands as a powerful utility for downloading files from the internet. Its versatility allows it to handle a variety of tasks, from downloading single files to mirroring entire websites. This guide aims to provide an in-depth exploration of wget’s full potential.
Actors say Hollywood studios want their AI replicas — for free, forever (www.theverge.com)
The reveal came as SAG-AFTRA actors confirmed they were going on strike.
For the first time in 51 years, NASA is training astronauts to fly to the Moon (arstechnica.com)
Tell Congress: Don't Allow The Return Of The Worst Patents (act.eff.org)
Voyager 2 phones home and says everything is cool (arstechnica.com)
Get Real, Congress: Censoring Search Results or Recommendations Is Still Censorship (www.eff.org)
The buttons on Zenith’s original ‘clicker’ remote were a mechanical marvel (www.theverge.com)
Introducing Badger Swarm: New Project Helps Privacy Badger Block Ever More Trackers (www.eff.org)
How much data are your GPU drivers collecting about you? Quite a lot in Intel's case (www.techradar.com)
The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide (www.eff.org)
Basic fonts
What is your “basic” list of fonts every linux desktop user should install ?
How ActivityPub is setting the stage to weave all your social media feeds together (www.popsci.com)
Elon Musk’s X can’t send Blue subscribers their ad revenue-sharing payouts on time (www.theverge.com)
Red Hat: why I'm going all in on community-driven Linux distros. (youtu.be)
This week in KDE: Sounds like Plasma 6 (pointieststick.com)
Excellent progress was made this week towards the goal of full sound theme support in Plasma 6, among other topics–including some important performance work for KWin!
Chrome’s Web Store review—the next big weapon in the war on ad blockers (arstechnica.com)
When ad blocking is a cat-and-mouse game, make the mouse slowe
Elon Musk Wants to Relive His Start-Up Days. He’s Repeating the Same Mistakes.
disconnect.blog/…/elon-musk-wants-to-relive-his-s…
Chinese hackers breach State, Commerce email through Microsoft cloud (archive.is)
EU lawmakers must regulate the harmful use of tech by law enforcement in the AI Act (edri.org)
115 civil society organisations are calling on EU lawmakers to to regulate the use of AI technology for harmful and discriminatory surveillance by law enforcement, migration authorities and national security forces in the AI Act.
A week in, Threads has lost half of its active users (boingboing.net)
Telegram is still leaking user IP addresses to contacts (techcrunch.com)
Wget Command: 30 Practical Examples (www.linuxcapable.com)
In the realm of UNIX and Linux-based systems, the wget command stands as a powerful utility for downloading files from the internet. Its versatility allows it to handle a variety of tasks, from downloading single files to mirroring entire websites. This guide aims to provide an in-depth exploration of wget’s full potential.
Apple’s midrange ‘Pro’ M3 chip isn’t looking like a huge upgrade (www.theverge.com)
Humans plunder the periodic table while turning blind eye to the risks of doing so, say researchers (phys.org)
What the !#@% is a Passkey? (www.eff.org)
NASA’s Lucy mission closely flew by the asteroid Dinkinesh (edition.cnn.com)