inspired by a recent discussion

Over the past few weeks, several US banks have pulled off from lending to Oracle for expanding its AI data centres, as per a report. So Oracle is now firing 30000 engineers as banks pull out from financing AI data centres and OpenAI deals to meet fools dream. Wise investors are pulling out of data centres now as they found out it's impossible to reach AGI & exponential AI growth through increasing the scale of compute. LLMs have already hit their developmental plateau https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/oracle-layoffs-tech-giant-to-slash-30-000-jobs-as-banks-pull-out-from-financing-ai-data-centres-11769996619410.html

🇪🇺Just released: Italy warns against #ChatControl 1.0 mass scans without judicial oversight! 👀⚖️ https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-15993-2025-ADD-1/en/pdf

The EU Parliament decides on Wednesday! 🗳️

Apply pressure – protest! ✊

https://fightchatcontrol.eu

🇮🇹Appena reso pubblico: l'Italia mette in guardia contro le scansioni di massa del #ChatControl senza controllo giudiziario! 👀⚖️ https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-15993-2025-ADD-1/en/pdf

Il Parlamento europeo decide mercoledì! 🗳️

Fai pressione – protesta! ✊

https://fightchatcontrol.eu

3mdeb Making Progress On AMD Ryzen AM5 Motherboard Port With Coreboot + openSIL

In addition to the 3mdeb firmware consulting firm porting Coreboot with AMD openSIL to an EPYC 9005 "Turin" Gigabyte motherboard, their developers have also been working on a similar Coreboot + openSIL port to an AM5 Ryzen consumer motherboard...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/3mdeb-Ryzen-MSI-Port-Progress

We strongly oppose the Unified Attestation initiative and call for app developers supporting privacy, security and freedom on mobile to avoid it. Companies selling phones should not be deciding which operating systems people are allowed to use for apps.

https://uattest.net/

New FOSS funding model just dropped

1/ Today, we filed a complaint with the 🇧🇪 Digital Services Coordinator vs. YouTube under the #DSA.

We challenge how YouTube uses deceptive interface design to steer users towards its profiling-based recommender system.

YouTube curates & ranks content primarily through systems that monitor & analyse user behaviour.

🤖 Clicks, likes, shares, watch time & interaction patterns are used to predict & shape future behaviour, influencing what billions of users see online.

https://edri.org/our-work/edri-files-dsa-complaint-against-youtube-for-undermining-user-autonomy/

Full thread: https://eupolicy.social/@edri/116204013677425909

1996: be careful entering your credit card details online because the connection might not be secure

2026: be careful entering your credit card details online because the website might have an extremely secure connection to 798 advertising partners, 24 malicious NPM package authors, 5 secretly North Korean software contractors, 3 firms that collect personal info for right wing political campaigns, 2 data sets used for training the AI that picks ballistic missile targets, and ICE

📩 Leggi e diffondi la lettera aperta contro il programma di verifica degli sviluppatori Android

La descrizione del programma di Google continua a dichiarare chiaramente che:

"A partire da settembre 2026, #Android richiederà che tutte le app vengano registrate da sviluppatori verificati per poter essere installate su dispositivi Android certificati."

https://keepandroidopen.org/it/

@eticadigitale

Grazie a @raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest per la segnalazione

RE: https://chaos.social/@bitsoffreedom/116204497093736465

🥳 Court victory against Meta 🎉

Today, a Dutch judge ruled in favour of EDRi member @bitsoffreedom@chaos.social of Freedom in the appeal vs. Meta.

Facebook and Instagram users will be free to choose how information appears in their feed - and not be forced into algorithmic timelines - will remain intact.

But the fight isn’t over as Meta is still ignoring these rules in other European countries.

💪 We will keep pushing to make sure the law is respected everywhere.

More details ➡️ https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/2026/03/10/court-again-rules-in-favor-of-bits-of-freedom-freedom-of-choice-for-instagram-and-facebook-users-remains-intact/

its really hard for me to express how enraging the last few years of software have been

i've been saying for that there's been significant, voluntary regression of software quality for a while now, but this kind of obvious regression makes it undeniable

this was a choice

https://x.com/peer_rich/status/2031287133982392412

"I pulled the actual bill text from 5 state age verification laws. They're copy-pasted from two templates. Meta is funding one to dodge ~$50B in COPPA fines — and the other one covers Linux."

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rmhxk1/i_pulled_the_actual_bill_text_from_5_state_age/

🚨🚨 URGENT: Multiple political groups are meeting NOW to discuss their voting on the Chat Control amendments TOMORROW. They are being lobbied massively by industry and NGOs. Chat Control hurts everyone. The template has been updated, take contact now: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ !

MSI PRO B850-P WiFi: A Special AMD Ryzen AM5 Motherboard For Linux / Open-Source Enthusiasts

The MSI PRO B850-P WIFI motherboard is a unique AMD Ryzen AM5 motherboard for Linux/open-source enthusiasts that is competitively priced at just $179 USD. It's interesting not because of the doings of MSI but rather 3mdeb with this being the desktop motherboard they are working on porting AMD openSIL and Coreboot to for allowing an open-source firmware stack.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/msi-pro-b850p-wifi

#PeerTube v8.1 is out!

This update brings optimized audio files for podcasts, an improved channel collaboration experience, a major overhaul of image processing, and much more…

👉 https://joinpeertube.org/news/release-8.1

Rather than empowering users to access the services they need in a secure and safe way, the #eIDWallet risks becoming a tool of surveillance and control.

EDRi, @epicenter_works@chaos.social and other digital rights and consumer protection organisations across Europe wrote to the @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu Commission to urge them to amend their plan and ensure that the rights of users are properly safeguarded.

Read the open letter ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/the-eid-wallet-still-doesnt-deserve-your-full-trust/

💙 @HomoDigitalisGR@mastodon.social, @CCC@social.bau-ha.us, @digiges@chaos.social, @vrijschrift@hsnl.social, @apti@mastodon.online

🇪🇺🎉 HUGE VICTORY! Thanks to your protests, the EU Parliament voted today to END untargeted mass scanning! 💪

But beware: The final decision will now be made in the trilogue with EU governments. The fight continues! ⚔️

All info: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/historic-chat-control-vote-in-the-eu-parliament-meps-vote-to-end-untargeted-mass-scanning-of-private-chats/

🇮🇹🎉 VITTORIA! Grazie alla vostra mobilitazione, il Parlamento europeo ha votato oggi per la FINE delle scansioni di massa indiscriminate! 💪

Ma attenzione: la decisione finale spetta ora al trilogo con i governi dell'UE. La lotta continua! ⚔️

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/historic-chat-control-vote-in-the-eu-parliament-meps-vote-to-end-untargeted-mass-scanning-of-private-chats/