LibreOffice and the Art of Overreacting
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/25/libreoffice-and-the-art-of-overreacting/
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/25/libreoffice-and-the-art-of-overreacting/
TDF Community Blog
LibreOffice and the art of overreacting - TDF Community Blog
A donation banner is not an attack to users The announcement that LibreOffice 26.8 will feature a donation banner in the Start Centre has prompted a flood of responses, ranging from positive from many FOSS supporters, who understand the need for funding,…
End of "Chat Control": EU Parliament Stops Mass Surveillance in Voting Thriller
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/end-of-chat-control-eu-parliament-stops-mass-surveillance-in-voting-thriller-paving-the-way-for-genuine-child-protection/
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/end-of-chat-control-eu-parliament-stops-mass-surveillance-in-voting-thriller-paving-the-way-for-genuine-child-protection/
Patrick Breyer
End of “Chat Control”: EU Parliament Stops Mass Surveillance in Voting Thriller – Paving the Way for Genuine Child Protection!
The controversial mass surveillance of private messages in Europe is coming to an end. After the European Parliament had already rejected the indiscriminate and blanket Chat Control by US tech companies on 13 March, conservative forces attempted a democratically…
European Parliament decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop
https://bsky.app/profile/tuta.com/post/3mhxkfowv322c
https://bsky.app/profile/tuta.com/post/3mhxkfowv322c
Bluesky Social
Tuta (@tuta.com)
You did it! 🥳
European Parliament just decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop.
This means on April 6, 2026, Gmail, LinkedIn, Microsoft and other Big Techs must stop scanning your private messages in the EU. #PrivacyWins 💪
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European Parliament just decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop.
This means on April 6, 2026, Gmail, LinkedIn, Microsoft and other Big Techs must stop scanning your private messages in the EU. #PrivacyWins 💪
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Asbestos, talc, and The Lancet's 1977 publication
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00558-1/fulltext
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00558-1/fulltext
The Lancet
Asbestos, talc, and The Lancet's 1977 publication
In December, 2024, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a proposed regulation
on testing for the presence of asbestos in cosmetic talc that would have represented
a tremendous public health victory.1 The proposed methodology would assure consumers…
on testing for the presence of asbestos in cosmetic talc that would have represented
a tremendous public health victory.1 The proposed methodology would assure consumers…
Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Social-Media Addiction Trial
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/meta-and-youtube-found-negligent-in-social-media-addiction-trial-35b2830d
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/meta-and-youtube-found-negligent-in-social-media-addiction-trial-35b2830d
The Wall Street Journal
Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Social-Media Addiction Trial
Plus, the White House threatens more attacks if Iran refuses a deal, and driving the wrong car to work here can get you a ticket
Cory Doctorow: Interoperability Can Save the Open Web
https://spectrum.ieee.org/doctorow-interoperability
https://spectrum.ieee.org/doctorow-interoperability
IEEE Spectrum
Cory Doctorow: Interoperability Can Save the Open Web
How to free users from Big Tech’s walled gardens
My minute-by-minute response to the LiteLLM malware attack
https://futuresearch.ai/blog/litellm-attack-transcript/
https://futuresearch.ai/blog/litellm-attack-transcript/
FutureSearch
How I Found the LiteLLM PyPI Supply Chain Attack
The full Claude Code transcript from discovering and responding to the litellm 1.82.8 PyPI supply chain attack on March 24, 2026 — from mysterious process explosions to malware identification to public disclosure.
Show HN: Claude skill that evaluates B2B vendors by talking to their AI agents
https://github.com/salespeak-ai/buyer-eval-skill
https://github.com/salespeak-ai/buyer-eval-skill
GitHub
GitHub - salespeak-ai/buyer-eval-skill: B2B software vendor evaluation skill for Claude Code — domain-expert questions, vendor…
B2B software vendor evaluation skill for Claude Code — domain-expert questions, vendor AI agent conversations, evidence-based scoring - salespeak-ai/buyer-eval-skill
Colibri – chat platform built on the AT Protocol for communities big and small
https://colibri.social/
https://colibri.social/
Colibri
Chats where you truly own your data.
Colibri is an open source chat platform built on the AT protocol for
communities big and small.
communities big and small.
Taming LLMs: Using Executable Oracles to Prevent Bad Code
https://john.regehr.org/writing/zero_dof_programming.html
https://john.regehr.org/writing/zero_dof_programming.html
CERN to host Europe's flagship open access publishing platform
https://home.cern/news/news/cern/cern-host-europes-flagship-open-access-publishing-platform
https://home.cern/news/news/cern/cern-host-europes-flagship-open-access-publishing-platform
CERN
CERN to host Europe’s flagship open access publishing platform
In an important step for open science, CERN has been selected to host a new phase of Open Research Europe (ORE), an initiative supported by the European Commission and a new funding consortium of European national funding agencies and research organisations.…
How much precision can you squeeze out of a table?
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/03/26/table-precision/
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/03/26/table-precision/
John D. Cook | Applied Mathematics Consulting
How much precision can you squeeze out of a table?
When you interpolate a function from a table of values, higher order interpolation may reduce pure interpolation error while increasing numerical error.
We Haven't Seen the Worst of What Gambling and Prediction Markets Will Do
https://www.derekthompson.org/p/we-havent-seen-the-worst-of-what
https://www.derekthompson.org/p/we-havent-seen-the-worst-of-what
www.derekthompson.org
We Haven’t Seen the Worst of What Gambling and Prediction Markets Will Do to America
I don’t think people have thought hard enough about how bad this could get.