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On top of the great work that @AsahiLinux and the Fedora Asahi SIG do, they’ve also worked to line up releases with the rest of Fedora, so thank you for that!...

Good summary by another user in the crosspost over in !programming:...

Swiss e-mobility firm Soflow now charges €19.99 for account deletions, raising concerns over GDPR compliance and consumer rights. Explore the implications for user privacy and legal standards.

I wonder what my fellow lemmygoers think about the new Notesnook updates, privacy and security-wise.

Moral Crumple Zones discusses how humans are used to absorb liability from automated systems....

HMD is betting that consumers are moving to more environmentally-conscious products and are placing an emphasis on repairability. HMD says the Pulse range is built to “Gen 1 repairability” and that users can pick up self-repair kits from iFixit. Repairs include changing the battery, but also swapping the screen.

Baltimore County Police arrested****Pikesville High School’s former athletic director Thursday morning and charged him with allegedly using artificial intelligence to impersonate Principal Eric Eiswert, leading the public to believe Eiswert made racist and antisemitic comments behind closed doors....

The blog post...

What’s worrying about this report is that it’s coming from Google itself....

from fabrice bellard.

The XZ Utils backdoor, discovered last week, and the Heartbleed security vulnerability ten years ago, share the same ultimate root cause. Both of them, and in fact all critical infrastructure open source projects, should be fixed with the same solution: ensure baseline funding for proper open source maintenance.