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Age verification risks tying users’ “most sensitive and immutable data” — names, faces, birthdays, home addresses — to their online activity, EFF’s Molly Buckley told CNBC. “Age verification strikes at the foundation of the free and open internet.” https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/08/social-media-child-safety-internet-ai-surveillance.html

There's Hope That At Least Colorado's Age Attestation Bill Could Exclude Open-Source

Last week was a statement by System76 regarding recent age verification laws in California and Colorado among other US states that could have a profound impact on Linux distributions and other open-source software. The Colorado legislation is especially pressing to System76 considering that is where they are based. Fortunately, they aren't taking this lightly and there is some hope tha…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Colorado-Maybe-Exclude-OSS

NVIDIA 595 Linux Driver Running Well In Early Benchmarks

Last week NVIDIA released the 595.45.04 beta Linux driver as their first public build in the R595 release branch. The NVIDIA R595 Linux driver is bringing a number of Vulkan driver improvements, HDR enhancements, DRI3 v1.2 support, and a variety of other improvements. Benchmarking the NVIDIA 595.45.04 Linux driver the past few days on GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" have been showing some nice incremental performance i…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-595-linux

Ireland has just closed its last coal power plant, becoming the 15th coal free country in Europe. This is mostly due to an increase in wind power.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/20/ireland-coal-free-ends-coal-power-generation-moneypoint/

Not too shabby, able to get my training in without missing a beat and listening to my music.

#mobilelinux #fitness #running #FLX1

Fox News finally credits Ukraine Wild Hornets drones after previously showing the drones as American. The network corrected the mistake and acknowledged the company and its country of origin. #Ukraine

Poland launches production of Ukraine Bohdana self-propelled howitzers through a joint venture between Ponar Wadowice and the Kramatorsk Heavy Machine Tool Plant. The company PK MIL SA was founded in October 2025 to manufacture the artillery system in Poland. #Europe

Read below 👇 why you should start using LibreSpeed from now on for internet speed tests

"Speedtest and Downdetector were just sold to Accenture for $1.2 billion. (...) Ookla, the parent company of both tools, has been acquired by the global IT consulting giant Accenture (...).

The open source alternative: LibreSpeed. No tracking scripts, no GPS harvesting, no profile building, no ads and no data sold to anyone."

https://librespeed.org/

https://www.reddit.com/r/xprivo/comments/1rmalpy/news_librespeed_opensource_alternative_made_in/

#FOSS #opensource

Took the work of @nielsdg on #Gnome mail client #Geary GTK4 port, essential for usage on #LinuxMobile, and created a rebased pull request 🚀 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/-/merge_requests/892

Iran fired 810 ballistic missiles and 1,245 drones in the first 8 days of the conflict, per IDF, US Air University of Defense, and OSINT data. Daily launches have fallen sharply: from 350 missiles and 294 drones on day 1 to 15 missiles and 12 drones on day 8. #Iran

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#239 Accessibility Contributions
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/03/twig-239/

#GNOME #TWIG

KDE Plasma Saw A Lot Of Bug/Crash Fixing & UI Polishing This Week

Nate Graham and John Veness are out today with the newest issue of This Week in Plasma. Notable for KDE Plasma 6.6.x~6.7 development this week were a lot of bug fixing -- including multiple crash fixes -- and some UI polishing too...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.6.x-Polish-Fixes

Computer Scientists Caution Against Internet #AgeVerification Mandates

https://reason.com/2026/03/04/computer-scientists-caution-against-internet-age-verification-mandates/

#privacy #cybersecurity #politics

Looking forward to work with #modemmanager upstream on improving dual SIM support in our #LinuxMobile stack: https://nlnet.nl/project/Linux-MultiSIM/ .

Thanks a lot to @NGIZero for supporting this!

#phosh #gnome

Very true 🤣

#winslop #windows #copilot

The Israel Defense Forces confirmed killing Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in a surprise joint strike by hundreds of fighter jets targeting his emergency leadership compound. The IDF said Khamenei was directly responsible for suppressing Iranian citizens, funding proxy forces across the Middle East, and working toward Israel's destruction. IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Kamal Penhasi issued a formal statement confirming the kill. #Iran

Putin conveyed condolences to Iranian President Pezeshkian over the killing of Supreme Leader Khamenei, calling it a cynical murder violating all norms of human morality and international law, TASS reported. Putin said Khamenei would be remembered in Russia as an outstanding statesman who made an enormous contribution to relations between the two countries. #Iran

Israel has killed nine senior Iranian officials overnight in what the IDF called unprecedented strikes against the Islamic Republic. Those killed include Supreme Leader Khamenei, armed forces chief Mousavi, Defense Minister Nasirzadeh, IRGC commander Pakpour, Defense Council secretary Shamkhani, SIND head Jabal Amilian, Khamenei's military office chief Shirazi, GHQ intelligence chief Asadi, and former SIND director general Mozaffari Nia. #Iran

People say you shouldn't compare apples and oranges but it seems to work fine for me in Python 3.14, I don't see what the issue is...

I’m surprised we are seeing the payload. Very cool. New fairing level unlocked!
https://bird.makeup/users/rocketlab/statuses/2022061165917155629