The free in FOSS has always been freedom, and it was never about cost. Richard Stallman made this very clear and has been saying this for years.

Norveška želi prepovedati pametna očala na javnih prostorih

• Matej Huš :: 6. okt 2026 ob 19:34
• Zasebnost

Slo-Tech - Norveška vlada razmišlja o uvedbi prepovedi uporabe pametnih očal s funkcijo snemanja na javnih površinah. Strah ni le teoretičen, temveč zelo resničen, saj Metina očala tovrstno snemanje povsod in kadarkoli že omogočajo. Zato vlada pripravlja zakon o omejitvah, ki ga bo v najkrajšem možnem času poslala v parlament. Z njim želijo omejiti rabo pametnih očal v parkih, na plažah, muzejih, trgovinah, šolah, bolnišnicah, telovadnicah, na javnih dogodkih in povsod drugod, kjer bi lahko z njimi neupravičeno snemali druge. Raba v zasebnih krogih bi ostala dovoljena. Več na Slo-Techu.

OpenAI bo v EU označeval strojno generirana besedila

• Matej Huš :: 6. okt 2026 ob 19:34
• Znanost in tehnologija

Slo-Tech - OpenAI je sporočil, da bo v prihodnjih tednih na evropskem trgu v svojih storitvah ChatGPT in Codex začel uporabljati metodo za označevanje provenience. Vanje bo vgradil vodne žige, ki bodo izkazovali, da je izdelke ustvarila umetna inteligenca. Storitev bo v EU obvezno vključena, drugod po svetu pa jo bo mogoče vključiti z izrecno nastavitvijo (opt-in). Sprememba je posledica evropske zakonodaje. Več na Slo-Techu.

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Nobelova nagrada za fiziko 2026

• Matej Huš :: 6. okt 2026 ob 18:01
• Znanost in tehnologija

Slo-Tech - Po več kot treh desetletjih je letos Kraljeva švedska akademija znanosti Nobelovo nagrado za fiziko podelila enemu posamezniku in ne dvema ali trem. Letošnji nagrajenec je belgijski fizik Francis Halzen, ki je odigral ključno vlogo pri vzpostavitvi velikega detektorja nevtrinov na Antarktiki. Od leta 2011 IceCube Neutrino Observatory zaznava delce z najvišjo energijo, ki skozi Zemljo letijo vsak dan, a jih večinoma sploh ne opazimo. Več na Slo-Techu.

Raspberry Pi OS 2026-10-06 is now available for download with battery and squeekboard dock widgets, Control Centre improvements, and Linux kernel 6.18.50 LTS.

Python's random and secrets modules both include utilities for obtaining random values, but only one of them is suitable for generating passwords and security tokens. For much of Python's history, random was used for passwords and tokens anyway, despite documentation that called it unsuitable for cryptography. In 2015, Python's core team debated whether to fix that misuse by making random secure by default. Instead, in 2016, Python 3.6 added a second module: secrets. The random module is still misused at times, so it is instructive to look into how the random-number modules should be used.

Raspberry Pi Desktop for PC and Mac has been updated to the latest Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series and comes with all the new features from Raspberry Pi OS.

Chromium, the open-source upstream project for Google's Chrome web browser, is the browser of choice for many Linux users. It has also gained a reputation as being difficult for Linux distributions to package and build: Chromium has a complex build system, the project bundles many of its dependencies, and it has frequent releases. All of that, plus user complaints, has led the maintainers of the Gentoo Chromium package to give up on trying to maintain the package.

Version 10.6 of OpenSSH has been released. The announcement notes that the OpenSSH team has been receiving a large number of AI-assisted security bug reports. "We very much welcome these reports, especially when combined with human triage, analysis, test-cases and particularly when accompanied by proposed fixes". As a result, the project expects to be making more frequent releases to get updates to users more quickly rather than batching the bug fixes until the next planned release.

Notable changes in this release include enabling the hybrid post-quantum ssh-mldsa44-ed25519 signature algorithm, addition of a -p option for sftp's lmkdir/mkdir commands, as well as disabling the LZ77 dictionary coder in ssh and sshd to mitigate side-channel leaks (which will result in reduced effectiveness of the Compression option). The scp -R option, which allows copies between two remote hosts, is being deprecated due to security risks; the option will be ignored in the future. See the announcement for full details of all changes and bug fixes.