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AI companies have managed to persuade the EU they need to cut GDPR up. https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-knifes-privacy-to-feed-the-ai-boom-gdpr-digital-omnibus/
Brussels knifes privacy to feed the AI boom

Draft proposals obtained by POLITICO show EU is breaking sacred privacy regime to placate industry.

POLITICO

Today the Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) became a First Public Draft Note.

This specification defines web-focused guidelines that use planetary, people, and prosperity principles (the PPP approach) throughout the decision-making process, allowing users to minimize their environmental impact in various way.

https://www.w3.org/news/2025/web-sustainability-guidelines-wsg-becomes-a-first-public-draft-note/

#sustainability

Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) becomes a first public Draft Note

This specification defines guidelines that use planetary, people, and prosperity principles (the PPP approach) throughout the decision-making process, allowing users to minimize their environmental impact in various ways.

W3C
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@mailbox_org Unfortunately, it is still not possible to register an account - the same error appears.

Hi @mailbox_org Iโ€™ve been trying to register an account
https://register.mailbox.org/en/private1?plan=standard
for the past 12+ hours, but keep getting โ€˜An error occurred while creating the account. Please try again later.โ€™

The status page shows everything is working... Iโ€™m wondering if there might be an issue with the registration server that hasnโ€™t been flagged yet. Can you help or advise?

We have some new LibreOffice Expert magazines from @linuxmagazine to give away! We want to get them to schools, libraries and local communities, especially in remote places where internet access isn't easily available: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/09/09/new-libreoffice-expert-2025-2026-magazines-available-for-schools-and-local-communities/ #foss #OpenSource
This needs to be law everywhere
holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second
Literally every good person I know who is working in tech actually wants to be doing something else like gardening or carpentry, says a lot about how much we've all fucked up this industry

๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan has officially banned Appleโ€™s iOS browser engine restrictions.

Starting Dec 2025, iPhones must allow real Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi and others to run their own engines, just like on desktop.

This is a major step forward for browser competition.

Full analysis here:

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https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/japan-apple-must-lift-engine-ban-by-december/

Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December - Open Web Advocacy

Open Web Advocacy