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The European Union is once again moving forward with the so-called “Chat Control” proposal, a legislative initiative that would require scanning of all private digital communications, including encrypted messages and photos. Framed as a measure to combat serious crimes,…

A storm hit social media this week. FFmpeg maintainers, the developers behind one of the world’s most important open-source multimedia libraries, were accused of demanding monetary compensation and license acknowledgments from commercial platforms using their code. Among those…