Mastodon has taken the strategic decision not to accept venture capital investments for growth, but rather restructure to a European non-profit organisation. đ
Mastodon has taken the strategic decision not to accept venture capital investments for growth, but rather restructure to a European non-profit organisation. đ
Gevoelige persoonsgegevens van miljoenen burgers stromen vanuit Europa naar Israël. Dat is mogelijk dankzij een besluit van de Europese Commissie. Zij laat de belangen van Israëlische techbedrijven zwaarder wegen dan het risico op massasurveillance van Europese burgers. Dat is in strijd met Europese privacywetgeving en de principes waarop de EU is gebouwd.
Huge respect đ«Ą
As part of the "Dialogue for Cybersecurity" project, the @fsfe and the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) are working together with representatives from civil society, academia, industry and government in a project on the #CRA and its implications for #FreeSoftware.
đș Watch the recording of the first event in this series, which took place on 3 April: https://media.fsfe.org/w/f14ys5iqatZgKucz7WGPNT
Loopscale: Exploit nur zwei Wochen nach dem Start. Autsch.
A new Solana-based defi protocol called Loopscale, backed by Coinbase Ventures and Solana Labs, suffered a $5.8 million exploit only two weeks after its launch. The stolen funds represented 12% of the protocol's TVL. The project blamed the exploit on a bug in the protocol's pricing calculations. Although the project had been audited in February by OShield, the audit evidently did not detect the flaw.
Tracked by #Microsoft, but nobody takes responsibility đŻđȘ
When the Austrian DPA asked Microsoft about tracking cookies in Microsoft 365, they claimed to only be a sub-processor, despite the school not being able to configure or decide on the cookies.
Read more: https://noyb.eu/en/microsoft-violates-childrens-privacy-blames-your-local-school
Microsoft recently patched CVE-2025â21204, a vuln which allows users to abuse symlinks to elevate privileges using the Windows servicing stack and the c:\inetpub folder. Thereâs a good write up hereâŠ