The debate over privacy in Europe has intensified in recent months, with laws like Chat Control threatening to legalize mass surveillance at the continental level. But while governments prepare to impose direct access into our private communications, another threat has…
In the quiet background of the internet, where most users never look, a silent catastrophe has just unfolded. The largest supply chain compromise in npm’s history was revealed yesterday, affecting packages with a combined 2 billion weekly downloads. This wasn’t…
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…
After years of jumping between email clients, many of which have either disappeared, become bloated, or pivoted into something unrecognizable, I’ve decided to return to an old acquaintance: Thunderbird. Or more precisely, its better-behaved fork, Betterbird. Before I…