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This week we spoke to Purism's CEO on what lies ahead for the pro-privacy, Linux-powered Librem 5 USA phone https://reg.cx/44F1?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=auto&utm_content=article

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Google location tracking to forget you were ever at that medical clinic https://reg.cx/44EZ?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=auto&utm_content=article

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TikTok: Yes, some staff in China can access US data https://reg.cx/44EX?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=auto&utm_content=article

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W3C overrules objections by Google, Mozilla to decentralized identifier spec https://reg.cx/44EU?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=auto&utm_content=article

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Just landing on the Friday before a Fourth of July weekend:

https://hackerone.com/reports/1622449

"A (now former) HackerOne employee improperly accessed vulnerability data of customers to resubmit duplicate vulnerabilities to those same customers for personal gain."

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Don't miss the week's hottest IT news: We're talking, of course, about Vim 9!

2.5 years after the release of version 8.2, and with a much faster scripting language. More here:

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https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/30/vim_9_is_here_with/

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Cyberattack shuts down unemployment, labor websites across the US https://reg.cx/44ER?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=auto&utm_content=article

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One of the first RISC-V laptops may ship in September, has an NFT hook https://reg.cx/44EP?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=auto&utm_content=article

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Replying to @gabor_samu

It's the right day for it, indeed!

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A non-profit focused on free and open source software has stopped using Microsoft's GitHub for project hosting – and is urging developers to do the same.

Copilot's use of FOSS was the final straw, it seems

https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/30/software_freedom_conservancy_quits_github/

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Speaking of GitHub, academics studied 'toxic' comments on open-source projects on GH, and found they were mostly arrogant, passive aggressive, and entitled

This may or may not be a shock; it's potentially useful for those tackling bad discourse https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/29/toxic_interaction_github_open_source/

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Blargh, as some have pointed out, we meant .ca.gov, not .ca. California. The state on the US West Coast with the Golden Gate Bridge and Hollywood.

You know the one.

https://twitter.com/TheRegister/status/1542943379368988672

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Replying to @videohead

Ah blerg, yeah. .ca.gov. It's Friday.

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Interesting nugget spotted in the Meta/Facebook memo that leaked this week via Reuters

Chief Product Officer Chris Cox said the corporation needs to increase fivefold the number of GPUs in its data centers by the end of the year

https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/30/meta_we_need_5x_more/

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FYI, this week a California state website exposed the personal details of those who applied for concealed-carry weapon permits between 2011 and 2021.

Other .ca online dashboards were affected. More: https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/30/california_websites_expose_personal_data/?td=rt-3a

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Crypto sleuths pin $100 million Harmony theft on Lazarus Group https://reg.cx/44EM?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=auto&utm_content=article

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2050 carbon emission goals need nuclear to succeed, says International Energy Agency https://reg.cx/44EK?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=auto&utm_content=article

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Ubuntu Unity desktop back from the dead after several years' hiatus https://reg.cx/44EH?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=auto&utm_content=article

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Cloudera adopts Apache Iceberg, battles Databricks to be most open in data tables https://reg.cx/44EF?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=auto&utm_content=article

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NASA delays SLS rollback due to concerns over rocky path to launchpad https://reg.cx/44ED?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=auto&utm_content=article

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