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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:

Tor Project blog

New Release: Tails 6.18

WebTunnel is a bridge technology that is particularly good at circumventing censorship and might work from places where obfs4 bridges are blocked. WebTunnel disguises your connection as ordinary web traffic.

LinuxGizmos.com

Radxa Launches M.2 AI Accelerator with Axera AX8850 and 24 TOPS NPU

The Radxa AICore AX-M1 is an M.2 M Key AI acceleration module designed for edge computing systems that require high-throughput neural processing. Built around the Axera AX8850 system-on-chip, the module combines an octa-core Cortex-A55 processor with a 24 TOPS INT8-capable NPU and an 8K-capable video processing unit, delivering AI processing capabilities in a compact footprint.

MS-C926: Ultra-Slim Fanless Embedded System with Dual 2.5 GbE and M.2 Expansion

LILYGO Launches Four New ESP32-S3 Boards for LoRa, Display, Motion, and CAN Applications

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

Zephyr RTOS 4.2 introduces major updates in hardware support, networking, tooling, and power monitoring. With contributions from 810 developers, this non-LTS release brings key enhancements aimed at improving performance, flexibility, and overall developer experience.

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 06, 2024

Front windshield glass broken

Updated This Past Day

  1. The Internet is Failing to Protect Democratic Processes and Human Knowledge
    Amplifying lies, rewarding plagiarists
  2. Links 05/11/2024: Criminal Referrals Regarding Patent Trolls and Disinformation About the Election Process (Already)
    Links for the day
  3. Disinformation About Election Outcomes Even Before Any Election Outcomes (or Election/Voting!)
    seeding doubt about election outcomes
  4. Against Outsourcing of Sites and E-mail
    Software Freedom is great, but it is not enough if you let someone else do it 'for you'
  5. Drew DeVault: People Talking About My Attack Site (Against the Founder of GNU/Linux) is "Spam"
    "Spam on sr.ht mailing lists"

    New

  6. Birthday Tomorrow
    Many cakes and drinks are ready; we're one day away now
  7. Gemini Links 05/11/2024: 'App' Needed for Parking, NNCP, Gomphotherium
    Links for the day
  8. How Voting Does Not Work
    You cannot vote from an "app"
  9. Links 05/11/2024: Bluesky and Enshittification, Pugad Baboy, and Lots of Disinformation Flooding the Web
    Links for the day
  10. [Meme] Sweaty Under the Belly
    "OK, my critics are 'spam'"
  11. Microsoft Bribing Canonical (to Stop Competing) and Bribing Users to Shun the Competition
    Canonical is worth shunning
  12. [Meme] The 2024 'Info Bros'
    And prehistoric googling
  13. Computers Getting Worse (for the User) Over Time
    This is like Windows-ism coming to "Linux" through the hardware
  14. [Meme] How NOT to Vote
    Another form of (mostly-unspoken-of) election interference
  15. An LLM Inside a 'Search' Engine Means That Companies Tell You What They Want, Not What Web Pages to Visit
    The future of 'googling' things might be as unreliable as using Social Control Media as a source of information
  16. Google's Debt Has Increased and 'Cash on Hand' Fell by 22.27% This Past Year
    These are the numbers that the corporate media intentionally leaves out
  17. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  18. IRC Proceedings: Monday, November 04, 2024
    IRC logs for Monday, November 04, 2024
  19. There's a Reason Why Techrights is Turning 18 and Tux Machines Will Turn 20.5 Next Month
    I started advocating GNU/Linux when I was a teenager
  20. "Oppose the Fascist"
    what the founder of GNU/Linux said
  21. Techrights Has a Long History of Fighting to Expose 'Team Mono' or Microsofters Inside GNOME
    Never downplay the malice of Microsoft and its operatives
  22. Halloween, All Saints Day & Swiss citizenship
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  23. Gemini Links 05/11/2024: Halloween Over, Intention and Implementation, Bookmark Syncing
    Links for the day

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

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

    Span from 2024-10-30 to 2024-11-05
    1532 /n/2024/11/04/GNU_Linux_Users_Are_Not_Cheaters.shtml
    1172 /n/2024/11/04/Shout_out_to_Christine_From_FOSSForce.shtml
    976 /n/2024/10/31/SCO_Darl_McBride_Dead_at_Age_64.shtml
    798 /n/2024/11/02/GNU_Linux_Usage_Surveys_Up_to_6_8_With_ChromeOS_Based_on_StatCo.shtml
    788 /n/2024/10/30/Links_30_10_2024_TSMC_Concerns_and_North_Koreans_in_Ukraine_War.shtml
    663 /n/2024/11/02/Python_Software_Foundation_is_Cancel_Culture_Rehomed.shtml
    627 /n/2024/11/04/Apple_s_MacOS_Shows_Us_the_Vision_of_Computing_That_GAFAM_Has_f.shtml
    574 /n/2024/11/01/Technology_rights_or_responsibilities_Part_V.shtml
    574 /n/2024/10/29/Linux_Fork_or_Community_Fork_of_Linux_in_Russia.shtml
    556 /n/2024/10/30/The_Role_of_Publishers_on_the_World_Wide_Web_and_Gemini_Protoco.shtml
    542 /n/2024/10/30/All_Systems_Operational.shtml
    539 /n/2024/10/30/More_Than_a_Week_Has_Passed_DeVault_Has_Declined_to_Deny_Seriou.shtml
    528 /n/2024/11/01/Links_01_11_2024_Few_Things_Are_Cheaper_Than_This_Antenna_and_N.shtml
    526 /n/2024/10/30/Volkswagen_Cheated_Us_and_Created_Cars_We_Didn_t_Ask_For.shtml
    521 /n/2024/11/02/The_Luddite_Complex.shtml
    511 /n/2024/10/30/Links_30_10_2024_Extreme_Surveillance_in_Schools_More_Openwashi.shtml
    509 /n/2024/10/31/Facebook_is_for_Zombies.shtml

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