The Register: Microsoft is a national security threat, says ex-White House cyber policy director
LibreOffice: German state moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice
Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open source software) on the 30,000 PCs used in the local government.
Netzpolitik.org: Österreichs gefährliches Spiel mit der Pressefreiheit
EFF: European Court of Human Rights Confirms: Weakening Encryption Violates Fundamental Rights
In a milestone judgment—Podchasov v. Russia—the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that weakening of encryption can lead to general and indiscriminate surveillance of the communications of all users and violates the human right to privacy.
Ars Technica: A big boost to Europe’s climate-change goals
The Guardian: ‘It will be the end of democracy’: Bernie Sanders on what happens if Trump wins – and how to stop him
Democrats Have a Better Option Than Biden
Ist Biden zu alt? Ezra Klein denkt wieder einmal am klarsten darüber nach.
Voices of Open Source: The European regulators listened to the Open Source communities!
Schneier on Security: A Self-Enforcing Protocol to Solve Gerrymandering
BBC Culture: Dr Strangelove at 60: The mystery behind Kubrick's Cold War masterpiece
Open Culture: The Existentialism Files: How the FBI Targeted Camus, and Then Sartre After the JFK Assassination
The Register: Apple redecorates its iPhone prison to appease Europe
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs described the computer as a bicycle for the mind. But he failed to let that metaphor shape his greatest achievement, the iPhone, which has become a shackle for the soul.
The iPhone is a computer; you just can't use it as one most of the time because it's a closed system. You're not free to install software that Apple has not approved, unless you "jailbreak" the device – the very term suggesting unlawful transgression rather than a right that follows from ownership.
CNN (via YouTube): The world sees what America does not. Fareed Zakaria explains
CNN's Fareed Zakaria details why America is in a better place than most Americans believe.
Netzpolitik.org: AMS erntet Hohn mit neuem KI-Chatbot
Der österreichische Arbeitsmarktservice hat einen auf ChatGPT basierenden „Berufsinfomat“ eingeführt. Der Bot soll zu Berufsbildern informieren. Stattdessen erweist er sich als Lehrbuch-Beispiel dafür, welche Schwächen eine Behörde in Kauf nimmt, wenn sie solche Systeme einsetzt.
The Guardian: Brexit has completely failed for UK, say clear majority of Britons – poll
A clear majority of the British public now believes Brexit has been bad for the UK economy, has driven up prices in shops, and has hampered government attempts to control immigration, according to a poll by Opinium to mark the third anniversary of the UK leaving the EU single market and customs union.