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Intel partner offers refund for faulty Core i9-14900K CPU due to lack of stock — affected user sells off Intel hardware and switches to AMD (www.tomshardware.com)
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Blacklight – The Markup (themarkup.org)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector

Who is peeking over your shoulder while you work, watch videos, learn, explore, and shop on the internet? Enter the address of any website, and Blacklight will scan it and reveal the specific user-tracking technologies on the site—and who’s getting your data. You may be surprised at what you learn.

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GitHub - awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted: A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers (github.com)
DuckDuckGo starting to give more "personal" search results in c/[email protected]
#163 Public Transit · This Week in GNOME in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Tuba is now added to Gnome Circle. That's a good news.

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Google Search is an illegal monopoly — what happens now? (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A federal judge has ruled that Google has an illegal monopoly in the US. “The market reality is that Google is the only real choice” as the default search engine, Judge Amit Mehta said in his decision, and he determined it had gotten that way unfairly. It’s a ruling that could portend big changes for the company, but we yet don’t know how big, and we might not for years.

Mehta declared on Monday that Google was liable for violating antitrust laws, vindicating the Department of Justice and a coalition of states that sued the tech giant in 2020. The next step — deciding on remedies for its illegal conduct — begins next month. Both parties must submit a proposed schedule for remedy proceedings by September 4th and then appear at a status conference on September 6th.

Google Chrome is no longer 'deprecating third-party cookies' in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Firefox’s stance on privacy, like Apple’s, is to some extent branding

Some of the recently introduced Privacy related features -

  • Enhanced Tracking Protection
  • Total Cookies protection
  • Browser Fingerprint protection
  • DNS Over HTTPS support
  • Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) support
  • Continued Manifest v2 support
  • Copy URL without tracking parameter
  • Protection against redirect tracking
  • In-Built on-device translation

(Further options to harden Firefox via user.js or via about:config)

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Google Chrome is no longer 'deprecating third-party cookies' (9to5google.com)
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Apple and Google won’t be able to stop third-party app stores in Japan (www.theverge.com)
Mozilla Firefox Blocks Add-Ons to Circumvent Russia Censorship in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Either Connect to VPN > Download the Add-on.

Or, on the GitHub or Gitlab page, provide a copy of extension and the instruction to install it locally.

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Canonical Announces Availability of Real-Time Kernel for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)
 

To get started with the real-time kernel for Ubuntu 24.04, check out the official documentation. One thing to keep in mind if you’re an NVIDIA GPU user is that the real-time Ubuntu kernel does not support the proprietary NVIDIA graphics drivers.

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Apple limits third-party browser engine work to EU devices (www.theregister.com)
 

The Register has learned from those involved in the browser trade that Apple has limited the development and testing of third-party browser engines to devices physically located in the EU. That requirement adds an additional barrier to anyone planning to develop and support a browser with an alternative engine in the EU.

It effectively geofences the development team. Browser-makers whose dev teams are located in the US will only be able to work on simulators. While some testing can be done in a simulator, there's no substitute for testing on device – which means developers will have to work within Apple's prescribed geographical boundary.

... as Mozilla put it – to make it "as painful as possible for others to provide competitive alternatives to Safari."

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Full scan of 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue took 1.4 petabytes of data, equivalent to 14,000 4K movies — Google's AI experts assist researchers (www.tomshardware.com)
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FCC votes to restore net neutrality (www.theverge.com)
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Ubuntu 24.10 and Debian Trixie Are Getting a Refined APT Command-Line Interface - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)
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Defences Down! ClamTk is No Longer Maintained - OMG! Ubuntu (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
 

note: ClamAV is a separate, distinct project whose development is overseen by the Talos Group, at Cisco Systems and is not affected by this decision

Thunderbird goes from DEB to snap in Ubuntu 24.04 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Initially I followed this route to avoid Snap version provided by Ubuntu.

Later I just downloaded Tar package from Mozilla, and update it manually.

In short, I just abandoned deb/snap/flatpak altogether.

Mozilla released a Firefox Nightly test build with vertical tabs - gHacks Tech News in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (1 children)

UX is a very subjective matter.

Mozilla released a Firefox Nightly test build with vertical tabs - gHacks Tech News in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Bad news is that it is not clear at this point whether Mozilla is going to go forward with the implementation. A post on Reddit by one of the project members suggests that the build is a "rough proof-of-concept". Some features tested in the build "did not survive". It is unclear which did not, as they are not mentioned. Mozilla is, however, implementing those that survived the cut into Firefox. Again, the poster does not mention which those are. It is also not verified that the poster is actually a member of the project team, so take this with a grain of salt as well.

XZ Hack - "If this timeline is correct, it’s not the modus operandi of a hobbyist. [...] It wouldn’t be surprising if it was paid for by a state actor." in c/[email protected]
Oh Snap! Canonical now doing manual reviews for new packages due to scam apps in c/[email protected]
XZ Hack - "If this timeline is correct, it’s not the modus operandi of a hobbyist. [...] It wouldn’t be surprising if it was paid for by a state actor." in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 84 points 5 months ago (2 children)
  • Careful choice of program to infect the whole Linux ecosystem
  • Time it took to gain trust
  • Level of sophistication in introducing backdoor in open source product

All of these are signs of persistent threat actors aka State sponsor hacker. Though the real motive we would never know as it's now a failed project.

XZ Hack - "If this timeline is correct, it’s not the modus operandi of a hobbyist. [...] It wouldn’t be surprising if it was paid for by a state actor." in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Definitely state sponsored attack. It could be any nation - US to North Korea, and any other nation in between.

XZ Hack - "If this timeline is correct, it’s not the modus operandi of a hobbyist. [...] It wouldn’t be surprising if it was paid for by a state actor." in c/[email protected]
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