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No Weekly News Roundup tonight (It is Friday 30th this week), but here is an Ubuntu Core video to tide you over:
youtu.be/ud15POukwOU
8:00p EST
Firefox is trying to win people back. I hope they do, but they need to do better.
youtu.be/xVIzKaReioo
Essora OS, a distro based on Devuan, Sonic DE, and XLibre.
youtu.be/eHpBUBwbDLU
A new report and PoC proves that passkeys are not the silver bullet we have been told they are. We look at this issue and other stories related to privacy, security, and business.
youtu.be/905Cb6YE8Pw
Police now have access to a service that can identify your house from inside pictures and Google is linking all your accounts to your phone number on Android. Also, Meta wants to scrape all your data if you use their products.
youtu.be/Yf_6ICcPNxY
Technology is increasingly phoning home and passing up data. An AI robot collects our data and stores it in China on servers that are not secure. We also struggle with televisions collecting information for advertising.
youtu.be/q_F_aFaLDz8
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Quad9 quitte la France plutôt que de bloquer des sites sur ordre de justice
À partir du 24 novembre 2026, le résolveur DNS gratuit et sans tracking Quad9 ne sera plus disponible pour les utilisateurs situés en France.
La décision fait suite à un jugement français qui oblige Quad9 à bloquer la résolution de certains noms de domaine liés à la diffusion non autorisée de compétitions sportives, à la demande de beIN. L’astreinte a été ramenée à 1 000 € par jour, mais Quad9 refuse de se conformer durablement.
La fondation suisse explique qu’elle ne peut pas identifier de façon fiable les utilisateurs français (elle ne collecte pas de données), et qu’elle refuse d’appliquer une décision française à l’ensemble de ses utilisateurs dans le monde. Elle rappelle aussi que bloquer au niveau DNS ne supprime pas le contenu et est facilement contournable.
Pour Quad9, c’est une question de principe : rester un résolveur neutre, privé et intègre.
Qu’allez-vous utiliser à la place de Quad9 (9.9.9.9) ?
quad9.net/fr/news/blog/au-re…
#Quad9 #DNS #Privacy #Censorship #France #DigitalSovereignty
Technology is increasingly phoning home, and our data is being used for increasingly problematic uses. We look at these and other stories relating to privacy, security, and technology.
And Rumble should be back tonight!
8:00p EST
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Microsoft silently removes another way to setup a computer with a local account...but why?
youtu.be/hghh6yzdSg4
Thanks to the @rumblevideo team for assisting with streaming issues. We should be back to streaming on Rumble this Thursday at 8:00p EST.
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Did you know? #LibreOffice has a tabbed user interface option. Here's how to enable it:
Just out here kicking the tires on Ubuntu Kylin for some reason...
youtu.be/YksP8jZNL38
A software collaboration seeks to break the Microsoft and Google duopoly.
youtu.be/3lY7ZahJWC4
Hackers breached internet connected freezers to spoil food and the company blames freezers without security updates. We look at this and other privacy, security, and business tech stories.
#IoT #plannedobsolescence #flock
youtu.be/rv4Hk4Vy62I
One AI CEO suggests we will all soon have our own AI assistant at home, but AI is constantly used for scamming, and agents are highly susceptible.
#aiagents #aiscams #selfreplicatingai
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data collection is getting out of hand with McDonalds collecting over 500 pages of data on customers and Amazon profiling making some creepy assertions. Also, Meta Muse wants access to everything and some people are OK with this.
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Data collection is getting out of control as McDonalds collects 515 pages of data on customers while Amazon data AI is crazy. We also look at problems with handing everything over to AI and look at freezers hacked and spoiled food.
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