Pitch deck gives new details on company’s plan to listen to your devices for ad targeting

For years now, people believe that their smartphones are listening to their conversations through their microphones, all the time, even when the microphone is clearly not activated. Targeted advertising lies at the root of this conviction; when you j

https://www.osnews.com/story/140661/pitch-deck-gives-new-details-on-companys-plan-to-listen-to-your-devices-for-ad-targeting/

#PrivacySecurity 

 End of the road: an AnandTech farewell

I hate this timeline.

It is with great sadness that I find myself penning the hardest news post I’ve ever needed to write here at AnandTech. After over 27 years of covering the wide – and wild – word of computing hardware, today is AnandTech’s final day of publication.

For better or worse, we’ve reached the end of a long journey – one that started wit

https://www.osnews.com/story/140635/end-of-the-road-an-anandtech-farewell/

#InTheNews 

 Intel: Raptor Lake faults excessive voltage from microcode, fix coming in August

In what started last year as a handful of reports about instability with Intel's Raptor Lake desktop chips has, over the last several months, grown into a much larger saga. Facing their biggest client chip instability impediment in decades, Intel has been under increasing pressure

https://www.osnews.com/story/140327/intel-raptor-lake-faults-excessive-voltage-from-microcode-fix-coming-in-august/

#Intel 

 Getting the most out of TWM, X11’s default window manager

Graham's TWM page has been around for like two decades or so and still isn't even remotely as old as TWM itself, and in 2021 they published an updated version with even more information, tips, and tricks for TWM. The Tab Window Manager finds its origins in the lat 1980s, and has been the default window manager for the X W

https://www.osnews.com/story/140172/getting-the-most-out-of-twm-x11s-default-window-manager/

#Wayland 

 Cloudflare lets customers block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a single click

It seems the dislike for machine learning runs deep. In a blog post, Cloudflare has announced that blocking machine learning scrapers is so popular, they decided to just add a feature to the Cloudflare dashboard that will block all machine learning scrapers with a single c

https://www.osnews.com/story/140146/cloudflare-lets-customers-block-ai-bots-scrapers-and-crawlers-with-a-single-click/

#Internet 

 If your immutable Linux desktop uses Flatpak, I’m going to have a bad time

The openSUSE project recently announced the second release candidate (RC2) of its Aeon Desktop, formerly known as MicroOS Desktop GNOME. Aside from the new coat of naming paint, Aeon breaks ground in a few other ways by dabbling with technologies not found in other openSUSE releases. The go

https://www.osnews.com/story/140090/if-your-immutable-linux-desktop-uses-flatpak-im-going-to-have-a-bad-time/

#Linux 

 Microsoft charged with EU antitrust violations for bundling Teams

The European Commission has informed Microsoft of its preliminary view that Microsoft has breached EU antitrust rules by tying its communication and collaboration product Teams to its popular productivity applications included in its suites for businesses Office 365 and Microsoft 365.
↫ Tom Warren at The

https://www.osnews.com/story/140063/microsoft-charged-with-eu-antitrust-violations-for-bundling-teams/

#Microsoft 

 Apple’s won’t release its new AI features in the EU because they don’t comply with EU privacy and competition laws

Apple has announced it's not shipping three of its tentpole new features, announced during WWDC, in the European Union: Apple Intelligence, iPhone Mirroring, and SharePlay Screen Sharing.

Ever since the in

https://www.osnews.com/story/140034/apples-wont-release-its-new-ai-features-in-the-eu-because-they-dont-comply-with-eu-privacy-and-competition-laws/

#Apple 

 Snikket: this week’s sponsor

Snikket is a FOSS project for creating private chat spaces for small groups, such as families, friends, or clubs. It doesn’t depend on a phone number, doesn’t upload address books anywhere, and doesn’t sell data to advertisers. It supports all the features you expect, including media and voice messages, audio and video calls, end-to-end encryption, group messaging, and more. Use

https://www.osnews.com/story/139582/snikket-this-weeks-sponsor/

#Sponsor 

 GNOME 46 released

GNOME 46 has been released, and its packs a ton of new features and improvements. One of the headline improvements is the new global search feature.

Files comes with a new global search feature in GNOME 46. The feature is simple: activate it by clicking the new search button, or by using the Ctrl+Shift+F shortcut, then enter your query to search all your configured search locations.

Global searc

https://www.osnews.com/story/138890/gnome-46-released/

#Gnome 

 There is no EU cookie banner law

You know those modal screens that interrupt your groove when you are surfing?

There are no laws forcing websites to use them.

They use them because they choose to.
↫ Bite code!

Cookie banners are not only not required, they're not even needed, and most implementations you encounter today are illegal anyway. You can use session cookies and anonymous stats cookies w

https://www.osnews.com/story/138870/there-is-no-eu-cookie-banner-law/

#Legal