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BREAKING! Meshcore team splits over dispute over AI-generated code disclosure, and hostile trademark takeover.

Meshcore is an off-grid, decentralised mesh radio platform powered by low-cost and public access LoRa radio technology for reliable, long-range emergency text and embedded sensors communication. It can communicate across kilometres — no towers, no subscriptions, no single point of failure.

https://blog.meshcore.io/2026/04/23/the-split

#meshcore #meshtastic #lora #radio #opensource #foss #drama #privacy #security #selfsovereignty #ai #copyright #takeover

Israeli soldiers have been looting civilian property on a large scale from homes and businesses in southern Lebanon with the knowledge of their commanders, Haaretz reported on Thursday.

As Israeli troops leave Lebanon, they openly load stolen goods onto their vehicles without attempting to conceal them.

#israel #zionism #Lebanon #us #usa #uspol #eu #eupol #uk #ukpol #Iran

Today is an important anniversary.

75 years ago, on April 23, 1951, in Farmville, VA, Barbara Johns led a walkout of her segregated high school to protest the unfair and deplorable conditions of her school.

What?! You don’t know who Barbara Johns was?

She led her walkout more than 4 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus, and before MLK, Jr. embraced nonviolence as the way to equality. After she and her classmates turned the rural town of Farmville upside down . . .

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custom domain support for the new (git-pages based) Codeberg Pages backend is now generally available!

if you publish a site from a CI workflow (which seems to be the majority of use cases), follow the instructions in https://codeberg.org/git-pages/action#with-a-custom-domain

In our newest Speaking Freely, attorney Lizzie O'shea discusses her belief that giving people of all ages more control over restricting access to and use of their personal information is the basis for creating an online environment that respects everyone's human rights. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/speaking-freely-lizzie-oshea

"New Checkmarx supply-chain breach affects KICS analysis tool"

"[...] Hackers have compromised Docker images, VSCode and Open VSX extensions for the Checkmarx KICS analysis tool to harvest sensitive data from developer environments."

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-checkmarx-supply-chain-breach-affects-kics-analysis-tool/

#Docker

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@BleepingComputer/116454215176535461

finally! a new feature that actually improves user productivity!

David Ellison "may not turn CNN into Fox News overnight...But it’s a virtual certainty that when his business interests are at stake, Trump will be given a seat at the editor’s desk," FPF's Seth Stern told Al Jazeera.

Read more:

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/economy/2026/4/22/warner-bros-and-paramount-merger-could-reshape-us-media-landscape

The no-go zone paradox: #Chornobyl’s wildlife thrives amid pro-nuclear shift - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/23/exclusion-zone-chornobyl-wildlife-thrives-amid-pro-nuclear-shift "very powerful demonstration of the relative impact of the world’s worst nuclear accident, which is not so big, and the impact of human habitation, which is devastating."

We're a little over a week away from the Upstate Anarchist Book Fair! See you there!
https://upstateanarchistbookfair.com/

Not what I would call entertainment, Microsoft. But okay.

Claude Code rate limits: Anthropic AI squeezes the customers

what are they going to do? learn to code?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTSg0Xsic8k&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260423-claude-code-rate-limits-anthropic-ai-squeezes-customers - podcast

time: 8 min 11 sec

There’s no such thing as “parental rights.” There is only parents exercising their child’s rights in trust until they reach the age of majority.

As parents, we have a duty to seriously consider what our children want and value when exercising those rights, and to confine our activities to what the child themselves would approve of.

Failing to do so seems to be a demonstration of bad-faith and exploitation. You don’t get extra rights to control government policy simply by having kids.

I'll take decentralized and janky over simple and evil.

Medical data of 500k #Biobank volunteers listed for sale on Alibaba, UK minister reveals - https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/23/500k_biobank_volunteers_data_listed/ oh look: just as we warned would happen... easy to deanonymise too...

On May 5th, join a TechSoup Connect webinar with @michael for a session on our Apps for Change programme!

We'll be exploring how Apps for Change can provide an escape from Big Tech and unlock deeper connection to community.

RSVP now to ensure you get in: https://events.techsoup.org/events/details/techsoup-techsoup-connect-canada-chapter-presents-apps-for-change-building-community-owned-spaces-in-a-big-tech-world/

#TechForGood #SocialWeb #AppsForChange #Newsmast #Fediverse #TechSoup