BREAKING: Federal judge delivers mixed verdict in Google antitrust case: They get to keep their browser and Android, but face new restrictions on exclusive contracts.

What's changing for Google:

- Cannot have exclusive contracts that condition payments or licensing

- Gets to keep Chrome browser

- Keeps Android operating system

- Advertising data stays protected

Judge said DOJ "overreached" on forced sales.

The markets loved this...Google's stock jumped 8% and Apple's rose 4% as investors celebrated what they saw as minimal consequences for a company that was found to illegally monopolize internet search.

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/02/google-antitrust-search-ruling.html

Element users on the default http://matrix.org homeserver are currently impacted by a serious database outage (@matrix@mastodon.matrix.org)which will take at least 12 hours to recover - many apologies to everyone impacted. Users on their own deployments are of course unaffected.

PSA: If you are experiencing intermittent network failures on Fedora with kernel 6.16.3 you should rollback to previous kernel.

Details:

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/kernel-6-16-3-causes-intermittent-network-failures/163310

#Fedora #FedoraLinux

Firefox is getting native support for playing Matroska videos. Yay! 🎉 🥳 https://windowsreport.com/mozilla-firefox-is-officially-getting-mkv-video-support/ #Matroska #mkv

🇬🇧Public pressure works: Belgium, Finland & Czechia will NOT approve the #ChatControl mass surveillance law in October. But other governments whose vote is crucial are still on the fence. Urge them to protect our digital privacy and encryption now: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#WhatYouCanDo

Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC is open source. https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/03/microsoft-open-source-historic-6502-basic/

⚠️ The GDPR is under pressure.

🗓️ At the EU’s high-level dialogue, industry called for “simplification” & reforms, while, with others, we warned: don’t reopen the Regulation.

✅ The Commission’s own evaluation shows the GDPR works. What’s missing is enforcement & resources, not backsliding.

🚨 Proposals to “simplify” Article 30(5) risk opening the window to erosion of hard-won protections.

Read our post-meeting recap ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-warns-against-gdpr-simplification-at-eu-commission-dialogue/

Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” released!

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4881

A big Fairphone welcome to Framework!

Framework Team at Fairphone HQ in Amsterdam

@frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org

@fairphone

@iFixit@mastodon.social

https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/feed/posts/fairphone_a-big-fairphone-welcome-to-framework-were-activity-7369290126222393367-0bAx/

#Framework #FairPhone #DIY #iFixIt #R2R #RightToRepair #OpenSource #FOSS #Tech #Hardware #Smartphone #Laptop #Desktop #PC

Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement https://www.theverge.com/anthropic/773087/anthropic-to-pay-1-5-billion-to-authors-in-landmark-ai-settlement

PSA: If you haven't updated #K9Mail to 12.0, please don't update it. It will crash on start if you use the unified inbox. The bug has been fixed in 12.1 and will be available in the next #FDroid update. #Thunderbird is not affected, kind reminder to consider switching as K-9 will go away in the future anyway.

Workaround for now: Make a widget for a single mailbox, then you can open K-9, you can change accounts and disable unified inbox.

"But #Bluesky is also federated, decentralised!1!!" Well, no. https://arewedecentralizedyet.online by @ricci@discuss.systems

Nate Graham take on the KDE Linux release.

https://pointieststick.com/2025/09/06/announcing-the-alpha-release-of-kde-linux/

The network may stay down for several minutes due to an ISP issue.

The outage has been resolved and the server is online again.

È possibile provare la VPN ufficiale di Tor in versione beta

È da poco disponibile in versione Beta una vera e propria VPN sviluppata dal The Tor Project che sfrutta la rete Tor.

https://www.lealternative.net/2025/09/08/e-possibile-provare-la-vpn-ufficiale-di-tor-in-versione-beta/