Starting September 2026, Google will require every Android app developer to register centrally, provide government ID, and submit signing key evidence. Apps from unregistered developers will be blocked on all certified devices worldwide. This threatens F-Droid, open-source distribution, and user autonomy. @keepandroidopen #KeepAndroidOpen https://keepandroidopen.org
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Per AxbomIf you are considering the Kagi search engine, there are aspects you should be aware of from an ethics perspective.
https://khevans.com/2025/08/21/kagi-ethics.html
”A portion of your fee goes towards Yandex, indirectly funding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Vlad, the CEO, has stated that 2% of their total costs in 2024 goes towards Yandex. He has also stated that there is no intent of changing this.”
”At least other search engines like DuckDuckGo have halted their partnerships with Yandex. Kagi’s refusal to do so and Vlad’s firm support of Yandex is quite telling. If others have ceased partnering with Yandex, why can’t Vlad?”
”It’s worth mentioning that Kagi previously listed the sources they used in their search. It seems that they’ve now hidden that information on that page, seemingly contradictory to their “commitment to transparency.”
”A portion of your fee goes towards Elon Musk’s xAI, of X/Twitter, to support Grok in their AI assistant. Indeed, you can simply not use this assistant, however all paying users are effectively subsidizing the cost of the Grok API calls. There is no way to opt-out of this.”
https://khevans.com/2025/08/21/kagi-ethics.html
”A portion of your fee goes towards Yandex, indirectly funding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Vlad, the CEO, has stated that 2% of their total costs in 2024 goes towards Yandex. He has also stated that there is no intent of changing this.”
”At least other search engines like DuckDuckGo have halted their partnerships with Yandex. Kagi’s refusal to do so and Vlad’s firm support of Yandex is quite telling. If others have ceased partnering with Yandex, why can’t Vlad?”
”It’s worth mentioning that Kagi previously listed the sources they used in their search. It seems that they’ve now hidden that information on that page, seemingly contradictory to their “commitment to transparency.”
”A portion of your fee goes towards Elon Musk’s xAI, of X/Twitter, to support Grok in their AI assistant. Indeed, you can simply not use this assistant, however all paying users are effectively subsidizing the cost of the Grok API calls. There is no way to opt-out of this.”
Dan LuuI was thinking about this prediction that we were going to see a lot more CPU bugs, danluu.com/cpu-bugs/, as yet another Intel CPU bug story is on the front page of HN.
At the time, Intel threw quality under the bus in the name of velocity. I've seen this happen quite a few times now, sometimes with the stated intention of improving quality later. I'm sure it's ever happened, but I don't think I've ever seen a company do this and then ship very high quality products later.
European Commission🚆 One journey. One ticket. Full rights.
We’re making cross-border train journeys simpler:
🎫 One booking across rail operators
Find, compare and book trains from different operators in one transaction.
🛡️ Full passenger rights for the whole journey
If you miss a connection on a single ticket, you’ll get assistance, including rerouting, reimbursement and compensation.
📲 Clearer pricing info
Travel options shown fairly and clearly, so you can easily compare and choose.
Mitchell HashimotoLibghostty can now be used to fuzz TUIs, thanks to Oskar and Antithesis. They already found bugs in multiple including btop. I always imagined libghostty would be useful for testing TUIs, super happy to see this is both practical and valuable. https://wickstrom.tech/2026-04-30-bombadil-terminal-experiment.html
This is another example of where speed matters! "Why does Ghostty need to be so fast?"
Well, if you're running hundreds or thousands of unit tests that each use a clean in-memory terminal, you want that to be fast. If you're fuzz testing and trying to push an unlimited amount of data through a terminal, you want that terminal to be fast.
So many people got hung up on "why does my terminal _GUI_ need to be fast" without connecting one more dot and realizing the GUI is only fast if the core is fast, and the core being fast unlocks a hell of a lot more.
Like this.
Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: EU ready to cave to Trump on tech; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/04/digital-subjugation/
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Alex RussellThe mobile app stores demand we believe that they *must* be trusted exclusively to protect us, to the exclusion of a powerful open web:
The only thing they're protecting is profits:
Ghostty is getting an updated AI policy. AI assisted PRs are now only allowed for accepted issues. Drive-by AI-written PRs will be closed without question. Bad AI drivers will be banned from all future contributions. If you're going to use AI, you better be good. https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10412
Updated AI usage policy for contributions by mitchellh · Pull Request #10412 · ghostty-org/ghostty
Follow up to #8289 The rise of agentic programming has eliminated the natural effort-based backpressure that previously limited low-effort contributions. It is now too easy to create large amounts ...
Jan SchaumannHere #curl is again showing the way in Open Source, this time with vulnerability management. Per their well-known/security.txt:
Stéphane BortzmeyerIn a discussion at #IETF, about trust: "Ideally, you would use 3 servers run by 3 different organizations using 3 different software implementations running on 3 different operating systems in 3 different well guarded buildings in 3 different countries..."
It was intended to be fun but is is actually quite true. Those days, you need to be paranoid like this.