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LILYGO has announced four new ESP32-S3-based development boards targeting a diverse range of embedded and IoT applications. These boards combine wireless connectivity with specialized hardware such as e-paper displays, CAN interfaces, motion sensors, and GPS modules, and are designed for rapid prototyping and deployment using familiar platforms like Arduino IDE, PlatformIO, and ESP-IDF.

Zephyr RTOS 4.2 Released with Renesas RX Support, USB Video Class, MQTT 5.0, and Nearly 100 New Boards

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A UK Government Order Threatens the Privacy and Security of All Internet Users

Earlier this year, the United Kingdom government ordered Apple to provide access to encrypted data in the company’s cloud storage service, iCloud. In response, Apple removed its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) system for users in the country, removing the option to store data using end-to-end encryption, and setting a dangerous precedent of privacy violation. 

Encryption Makes Us Powerful: Internet Society Hosts Encryption Advocacy Workshop for European Civil Society

In early February of this year, the Internet Society hosted an Encryption Advocacy Workshop in Brussels for European civil society organizations. We created this workshop alongside steering members of the Global Encryption Coalition to equip potential encryption advocates with:

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 04, 2025

Nice flowers

Updated This Past Day

  1. All Efforts to Censor Techrights Have Always Failed
    In 2026 We can make it to 20 years of source protection
  2. Microsoft Bing Lies
    When they say "China" or "DeepSeek" censors things don't lose sight of Microsoft
  3. The Latest Microsoft Layoffs Are a Wake-up Call: The Company is Running Low on Money
    in most areas it is not even profitable
  4. Copyleft is the Way to Go (Unless You're an Unpaid Volunteer of GAFAM)
    The GPL 'family' of licences is very old and those licences were last revised in 2007
  5. statCounter's Numbers Make Sense Given Microsoft's Falling Windows/Client Revenue
    There are already articles (some last week) saying that XBox should just be ended

    New

  6. Links 03/02/2025: Recent Security Holes and Environmentalism
    Links for the day
  7. Gemini Links 03/02/2025: X-less English Alphabet and antiX
    Links for the day
  8. Disappointing 'Results' and Mass Layoffs (Without Severance Pay) Sank Microsoft, But It's a Lot Worse Than Shareholders Care to Realise
    People are losing their patience
  9. statCounter: In Web Browsers, Microsoft Collapses to Worst Levels in 2 Years!
    Microsoft nowadays insists that it is a "market leader" in a market that does not exist
  10. statCounter: Apple's iOS About to Exceed Windows in Terms of "Market Share" (Despite Windows Being 'Sold' for Less)
    Vista 11 is only about 5% of the "market share"
  11. statCounter: GNU/Linux Reaches New All-Time Highs in Brazil and Argentina, Android Has Reached 60% in South America
    Microsoft cultivating buzzwords and cult-like thinking, not real products
  12. The Media Does Not Properly Report Microsoft Profits and Losses (It's Partly Intentional)
    So how many Vista 11 (preloaded) copies were sold with new PCs?
  13. Links 03/02/2025: Microsoft's Termination Controversy and EU Hey Hi (AI) Act Compliance Day
    Links for the day
  14. It Seems Like BetaNews is Finally Deleting Fake 'Articles' About "Linux" by LLM Slop (aka Brian Fagioli)
    Is BetaNews finally taking these problems more seriously?
  15. Gemini Links 03/02/2025: Art is Process, Smartphones, Internet, and More
    Links for the day
  16. Links 03/02/2025: USAID Under Attack, Vista 11 Breaking Itself Again
    Links for the day
  17. About 1 in 10 Laptops/Desktops in Venezuela and Cuba Uses GNU/Linux
    statCounter says GNU/Linux now exceeds 10% in Cuba
  18. At Microsoft, Promoting Back Doors, Proprietary Lock-in and Mass Surveillance Under the Guise of Diversity ("Microsoft Philanthropy Team")
    Microsoft staff enters NGOs to lobby for Microsoft and sell for Microsoft
  19. statCounter: Android Share in Operating Systems, Per Country
    Towards the bottom there are poorer countries
  20. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  21. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, February 02, 2025
    IRC logs for Sunday, February 02, 2025
  22. statCounter: New Record Highs for GNU/Linux in Its Birthplace
    So Microsoft is in a tough place
  23. statCounter: In Canada, New Lows for Windows and Bing is Perishing
    Windows has fallen to about 60% in desktops/laptops

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Monday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2025-01-28 to 2025-02-03
    1220 /n/2025/01/27/GAFAM_Hates_Except_in_a_Worryingly_Parasitic_Way_GNU_Linux_and_.shtml
    1184 /n/2025/01/30/The_Free_Software_Foundation_FSF_Raised_422_000_Another_22k_in_.shtml
    752 /n/2025/01/29/We_Were_Right_About_stallmansupport_org_Making_an_Error_by_Join.shtml
    717 /n/2025/01/28/Links_28_01_2025_Against_Social_Control_Media_Smart_Buses_Ticke.shtml
    680 /n/2025/02/01/Arrested_Albanian_Outreachy_whistleblowers_Sonny_Piers_GNOME_De.shtml
    670 /browse/latest.shtml
    621 /n/2025/01/29/Links_29_01_2025_Data_Privacy_Day_and_Growing_Tensions_in_Europ.shtml
    526 /n/2025/01/29/Announcements_and_Administrivia.shtml
    517 /n/2025/01/27/IBM_Layoffs_in_2025_Rumours_Say_Even_Managers_Will_Get_the_Axe_.shtml
    513 /browse/index.shtml

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