Hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software, Persona. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, and that was just the beginning.

https://www.therage.co/persona-age-verification/

The CEO of Persona, the company that processes your passport, selfie, and facial geometry so you can get a verified badge on LinkedIn, doesn't have a profile picture on LinkedIn.

I'll let you sit with that.

KDE has been selected to participate in Google Summer of Code 2026.

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2026/organizations

Through GSoC, KDE seeks to encourage new contributors to join Free Software projects long term and ensure the continuity of FLOSS.

This year's proposed ideas cover improving Okular, Kdenlive, digiKam, and our localization infrastructures, among others.

https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2026/Ideas

The list is still open. If you would like to participate in GSoC 2026 with your own idea, check out

https://community.kde.org/GSoC#Instructions_for_potential_contributors

Plasma 6.6 is now live!

In Plasma 6.6, Spectacle can read texts from screenshots; we trial-run our very own on-screen keyboard for touchscreens; and we have a new first-time wizard that let's users configure their passwords, timezones, keyboard and networks, on preinstalled systems; among many, many more marvelous things.

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.6.0/

#desktop #Plasma6 #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

Today in InfoSec Job Security News:

I was looking into an obvious ../.. vulnerability introduced into a major web framework today, and it was committed by username Claude on GitHub. Vibe coded, basically.

So I started looking through Claude commits on GitHub, there’s over 2m of them and it’s about 5% of all open source code this month.

https://github.com/search?q=author%3Aclaude&type=commits&s=author-date&o=desc

As I looked through the code I saw the same class of vulns being introduced over, and over, again - several a minute.

A quick anti-FUD FAQ to debunk "the KDE is forcing systemd!" hoax—a thread 🧵

Q: Does the Plasma Login Manager require systemd to work?

A: Yes.

Q: So you ARE forcing Plasma users to use systemd!!?!?!

A: No. The Plasma Login Manager is one of probably half a dozen Login Managers (or more) that can boot Plasma. We made PLM because it will give distro creators a cool piece of kit that can (not "must", not "should": *can*) be tacked onto a system to boot into Plasma.

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Palantir’s Swiss Exit Highlights Global Data Sovereignty Challenge, https://www.newscase.com/palantirs-swiss-exit-highlights-global-data-sovereignty-challenge/.

> Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir Technologies Inc. following a security audit. The review concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data, a deal-breaker for the neutrality-focused Alpine nation.

No. Way. Really? Who could have thought that?!

#palantir #switzerland #privacy