Nemški organi redno prisluškujejo pogovorom prek WhatsAppa in Signala

• Matej Huš :: 3. sep 2026 ob 06:53
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Slo-Tech - Aplikacije za hipno sporočanje WhatsApp, Signal in do neke mere tudi Telegram uporabljajo šifriranje od pošiljatelja do prejemnika, ki preprečuje prisluškovanje s prestrezanjem komunikacije. A to ne pomeni, da prisluškovanje nemogoče. Na Netzpolitik so pridobili interne dokumente nemške Zvezne carinske uprave (Zollkriminalamt), ki pričajo o pogostosti in enostavnosti prisluškovanja. Več na Slo-Techu.

Uber bo odpustil desetino zaposlenih

• Matej Huš :: 3. sep 2026 ob 06:53
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Slo-Tech - Uber bo odpustil približno 10 odstotkov svojih zaposlenih, torej okoli 3300 ljudi, je sporočil izvršni direktor Dara Khosrowshahi. V elektronskem sporočilu, ki ga je poslal vsem zaposlenim, je orisal prestrukturiranje podjetja, ki trenutno poteka. Obseg srednjega in višjega menedžmenta želijo zmanjšati za 20 odstotkov. Prav tako bodo ukinili približno polovico malih ekip, ki jih sestavljata en ali dva človeka. Zmanjšali bodo tudi število nivojev, ki bo po novem največ sedem. Več na Slo-Techu.

FTC: Amazon naj bi oglaševalce oškodoval za več milijard dolarjev

• Matej Huš :: 3. sep 2026 ob 06:52
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Slo-Tech - Ameriška Zvezna komisija za trgovino (FTC) in 22 zveznih držav so v začetku tedna vložili tožbo zoper Amazon, v kateri podjetju očitajo nepošteno vodenje avkcij. Zaradi prikritih zvišanj končnih cen so 1,2 milijona strank oškodovali za približno 20 milijard dolarjev, podjetju očitajo v tožbi. Amazon očitke zavrača in tožnikom očita nerazumevanje. Več na Slo-Techu.

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Python JIT; rnull block driver; steal time; GNOME governance; 7.3 merge window; LUKS.
• Briefs: Kernel infrastructure; Debian AI; Dolphin 26.08; Firefox 155; Incus 7.4; OpenShot 4.0; Quotes; ...
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

1Password is facing customer and internal employee backlash after pledging $300,000 to support a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published racist and anti-immigrant rhetoric. "The popular password manager is now a 'distinguished corporate patron' of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy," reports The Verge. From the report: One viral blog post declared that 1Password "Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe" because of the donation. Others on social media asked for suggestions for alternative password managers so they would not support the funding of a project from Heinemeier Hansson, better known as DHH. The donation has also resulted in internal pushback from employees of 1Password who are disappointed by the affiliation, The Verge has learned. 1Password CEO David Faugno and cofounder Roustem Karimov have since posted internal messages addressing what Faugno describes as "concerns, both internally and externally" that have been raised "due to the polarizing nature" of DHH. DHH is a Danish entrepreneur best known for creating Ruby on Rails, Basecamp, and the Hey email client. Omarchy is DHH's "opinionated" version of Linux, meaning it's Linux the way he likes to use it. It's based on Arch Linux, with certain apps that install by default. It's also, apparently, one of 1Password's big customer environments. [...] In an internal Slack message obtained by The Verge, 1Password's Karimov downplayed the overtly racist comments from DHH, telling staff the following: "As I said, people have different personal opinions. You believe in your heart that DHH is evil, that you have the moral high ground, and that nothing will change your mind. However, not everyone believes that. It is not fair to claim a monopoly and ostracize team members who might disagree with you. There are people who are afraid to speak up simply because they will be personally attacked." 1Password CEO Faugno took a different approach, trying to reassure staff that "1Password does not endorse hateful, dehumanizing, or exclusionary views, including those shared publicly by DHH." Nonetheless, it seems the company has sacrificed a moral position for a "mission-driven" position. In the same message to staff, Faugno says "the scale and growth of [Omarchy's] use among our customers is significant -- Omarchy has grown to be the second most used Linux distribution among 1Password users." Faugno then tries to create distance, telling staff that its contribution is "to the Omacom Foundation, not an individual." Still, he says "we recognize that Omarchy is associated with DHH, its founder. Our donation is not in any way an endorsement of his personal views or conduct."

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Longtime Slashdot reader Microsplat: CERN plans to have all 2,200+ industrial computers and embedded systems in its accelerator-control infrastructure running Debian 13 by the end of 2026. These are systems used for accelerator control, laboratory equipment and other operational functions ... They also generate and interact with a hefty amount of data, although this Linux.com article refers more broadly to CERN's computing infrastructure. It's unclear whether the Debian migration covers all server infrastructure or what scientific-research-based systems are included. Our shops have done much the same in recent years, mostly due to CentOS and CFEngine getting the can. Phoronix adds some additional context in its article: CERN was a longtime RHEL/CentOS shop, previously co-maintained the Scientific Linux RHEL derivative, moved to CentOS in 2015, and later considered CentOS Stream. CERN says Red Hat's adoption of the "-march=x86-64-v2" compiler flag by default, which it viewed as "forced obsolescence" of older hardware, was the "straw that broke the camel's back."

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When a laptop is asleep, its memory is not unreadable. The right tooling can attach to the computer's memory bus and read out its contents, and cold-boot attacks can theoretically read values from memory for a short time after the computer loses power. That is really an unavoidable fact about the hardware, but some users would still like to ensure that, even if this happens, their long-term encryption keys, such as the key for full-disk encryption, remain unreadable. In June 2026, Ingo Blechschmidt discovered that Linux kernel versions after 6.9 (released in May 2024) were not erasing disk-encryption keys when a laptop was put to sleep, even when configured to do so. He quickly identified a potential fix, which has been merged, but it was not a comprehensive solution.

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