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by @fred · last added 2026-08-16 · 31 items

tags: [foss] [hardware] [policy] [security] [systems]

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* New Defcon Badges Pack a Unique Open-Source Chip That Doubles as a Security Key [hardware]

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* Izzy: 'Google abuses "SafeSearch" to flag our fdroid-mirror as "malicious"'

* Fedora Approves a Smaller Grub

* San Francisco: Don't Fall for Industry Defense of Surveillance Pricing

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* Deplatform Yourself

* West Virginia's Anti-Apple CSAM Lawsuit Would Help Child Predators Walk Free

* Every privacy concession in history has been permanent

* Linux explores new way of authenticating developers and their code

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* Five security lessons from the FBI's Washington Post raid

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* Discord Voluntarily Pushes Mandatory Age Verification Despite Recent Data Breach [security]

* Git's Magic Files [foss]

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* MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes [security]

* Paged Out Issue #8 [systems]

* US funding for global internet freedom 'effectively gutted' [policy]

* California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report on themselves [policy]

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* Why isn't online age verification just like showing your ID in person?

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* The FCC Must Reject Efforts to Lock Up Public Airwaves

* Writing a RISC-V Emulator in Rust

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* A Look at Nix and Guix

* California's Corporate Cover-Up Act Is a Privacy Nightmare

* Google steers Americans looking for health care into "junk insurance"

* Preparation Kept Bomb Threats from Disrupting the 2024 Elections

* Trap Bots on Your Server

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* When Half the Supreme Court Has Book Deals with the Same Publisher

* Escher's art and computer science

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* European Commission issues call for evidence on open source

* Automakers Sue to Kill Maine's Popular 'Right to Repair' Law

* NASA official warns staff about publicly displaying their badges

* Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander

* Wirth's Revenge

* Some things to expect in 2025