Late Night Linux – Episode 290

The EU are close to adopting a law to scan messages, Switzerland blazes the public money public code trail, Chromium-based browsers have a “special feature” to interact with Google sites, Mozilla shows that it needs advertising, and openSUSE might be getting a new (terrible) name.

News

EU chat control law proposes scanning your messages — even encrypted ones

Take action to stop chat control now!

Switzerland mandates software source code disclosure for public sector

Why Chromium tells Google sites about your CPU, GPU usage

Privacy-Preserving Attribution

Firefox 128 includes new adtech features that are turned on by default

Mozilla desperately needs transparency

Rebranding openSUSE?

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