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The French government makes a start on moving to the Linux Desktop, the EU has a terrible but open source age verification app, some clarity on one of the exciting office suite dramas, the media swallows Anthropic’s nonsense about their new magically powerful model, a quick KDE Korner, and more.

News

France’s digital agency dumping Windows desktops for Linux

Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers say it takes 2 minutes to break it

Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process

You cannot use the GNU (A)GPL to take software freedom away

AGPLv3§7¶4 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware

Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

On Anthropic’s Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing

UK gov’s Mythos AI tests help separate cybersecurity threat from hype

Mythos and Cybersecurity

A few notes about the massive hype surrounding Claude Mythos

Breathless parroting of Anthropic’s bullshit from the graun

NSA using Anthropic’s Mythos despite blacklist

KDE Korner

KDE at 30

Tighter KDE Connect Integration

KDE Gear ⚙️ 26.04

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Raspberry Pi prices have gone up yet again, more drama in the exciting world of open source office suites, Red Hat looks to be going all in on “AI”, Cloudflare vibe codes a WordPress rip off, and GIMP shares some interesting download numbers.

News/discussion

A new 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 for $83.75, and more memory-driven price increases

Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash

TDF ejects its core developers

Let’s put an end to the speculation

Memo: Red Hat Global Engineering plans to lean in to AI

If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem – you have bigger problems

Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

Interesting GIMP numbers

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Steam stats suggest that gaming on Linux is more popular than ever, Wine improvements might entice even more gamers, Ubuntu might break things when it tightens up GRUB security and makes 6GB of RAM the minimum requirement for the desktop edition, and Ubuntu MATE is looking for new maintainers.

News

LAS 2026 Call for proposals extended till the 10th April

Linux smashes past 5% on the Steam Survey for the first time

Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive

Ubuntu 26.10 could drop btrfs, ZFS and LUKS support from GRUB

Ubuntu quietly raises its minimum system requirements

Windows 11 has lower requirements

Ubuntu MATE – seeking maintainers

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Making silly URLs, visualising complex weather data, a TUI network discovery tool, and an open source version of a classic synthesizer in discoveries, plus the sad reality that it’s more or less impossible to avoid code that’s been generated by “AI” these days.

Discoveries

creepy link

Supercell Wx

whosthere

Ultramaster KR-106

AI in FOSS

systemd 260-rc3 Released With AI Agents Documentation Added

New Xfce Wayland compositor is being developed with genAI

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Age declaration and verification in Linux gathers pace, Google blesses us with some hoops to jump through to install the software we want on stock Android, the FSFE lost their payment provider, great new KDE Plasma and GNOME features, and more.

News

Just over a month until OggCamp!

Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late

Age verification isn’t sage verification when it’s inside operating systems

The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux

A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date

When you tell me to just not implement age declaration, do you understand you’re asking me to risk thousands of dollars in fines?

I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who’s behind the age verification bills.

meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety

450 FSFE supporters affected: Payment provider Nexi cancelled us

This Week in Plasma: Press-and-Hold for Alternative Characters

Introducing GNOME 50, “Tokyo”

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Drama in the exciting world of office suites, new ThinkPads are properly repairable, hands on with the Android desktop convergence future, and more.

News/discussion

LibreOffice Online: a fresh start

LibreOffice Online dragged out of the attic

LibreOffice 26.2 is here: a faster, more polished office suite that you control

Lenovo’s New T-Series ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability

Your Pixel phone can now become a full Android PC via USB-C

You will be able to install “unverified” Android apps with ADB

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Discord delays their age-gating rollout but legislators are pushing for operating systems including Linux to verify ages, LLM licence laundering might mean the end of copyleft, and how and why you might want to detect Meta’s spy camera glasses.

News

Getting Global Age Assurance Right: What We Got Wrong and What’s Changing

US state laws push age checks into the operating system

California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup

I have actually read the text of California law CA AB1043 and, honestly, I don’t hate it

Do you really think that circumventing these things will always be a simple firmware mod or hardware hack?

Relicensing with AI-assisted rewrite – Tuan-Anh Tran

Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens

No right to relicense this project

Hide from Meta’s spyglasses with this new Android app

Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You’re Being Watched, Too

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The freedom to install what you want on stock Android ROMs is still in jeopardy, an interesting update on SETI@home, Intel looks to contribute to graphics on Linux, and Mozilla works towards Web standards. Plus making a Wii U gamepad, UPS software, free NASA ebooks, and making cool posters with mapping data in Discoveries.

News/Discussion

The FDroid website has a new banner on top to remind visitors that #Google did not change course and Android will be locked-down in under 200 days

Keep Android Open

Open letter to Google

FLX1s

Enthusiasts used their home computers to search for ET—scientists are homing in on 100 signals they found

Intel Hiring More Linux Developers – Including For GPU Drivers / Linux Gaming Stack

Launching Interop 2026

Discoveries

Creating a Wii U gamepad

Network UPS Tools

NASA eBooks

MapToPoster

maptoposter-docker

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Discord’s new age gating policy might be a real opportunity for open source but it’s not clear that we have anything that can compete, the complex and bizarre tale of an AI agent writing a blog post attacking a FOSS maintainer, why we lost some trust in a major tech publication, the Firefox AI kill switch arrives, and a quick KDE Korner.

News

Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late

Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally

Discord Voluntarily Pushes Mandatory Age Verification Despite Recent Data Breach

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web

I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here’s What I Actually Handed Over.

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward

The obnoxious GitHub OpenClaw AI bot is … a crypto bro

Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations

Sorry all this is my fault

Firefox 148 Now Available With The New AI Controls / AI Kill Switches

KDE Korner 4

A quick anti-FUD FAQ to debunk “the KDE is forcing systemd!” hoax

KDE endorses the UN’s Open Source Principles

Plasma 6.6

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The professional-grade audio workstation Ardour has a great new version, LinkedIn does a shocking but not surprising amount of browser fingerprinting, Firefox is getting a button to turn off the AI nonsense, a new way to prevent slop “contributions” to your project, another tale of someone failing to switch to Linux, and why we should talk more about why open source software can be better than proprietary alternatives. With guest host Kevin from Linux Dev Time.

News/discussion

Ardour 9.0 — What’s new

Linkedin-extension-fingerprinting

AI controls are coming to Firefox

Introducing Vouch: explicit trust management for open source

I went back to Linux and it was a mistake

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