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🔐 Introducing: Unified Attestation
An open-source project for verifying the integrity of Android apps—as an alternative to Google's Play Integrity.

The goal is to make apps such as banking and payment apps usable on independent Android systems without relying on Google services.

We invite developers, ROM projects, and app providers to get involved.

https://uattest.net/

#Volla #VollaOS #OpenSource #software #hardware #Privacy #Security #DeGoogle

ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-financial-disclosures-steve-feinberg?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #Government #USPolitics #Law #Finance #Data #Research

That's it!

#Antifa #Antifascism #Fascism

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