Firefox's Opt-out ad setting, AI tool pirated movies, SecureBoot broken

Linux & Open Source News

Jul 27, 2024•42 min•Season 2Ep. 29

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00:00 Intro

01:30 Firefox data collection issue https://news.itsfoss.com/firefox-ppa-ad/ https://blog.privacyguides.org/2024/07/14/mozilla-disappoints-us-yet-again-2/?ref=news.itsfoss.com

08:23 AI tool caught using youtube videos and pirated movies https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-video-startup-runway-reportedly-trained-on-thousands-of-youtube-videos-without-permission-182314160.html

12:07 SecureBoot broken on hundreds of models from popular PC vendors https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/secure-boot-is-completely-compromised-on-200-models-from-5-big-device-makers

15:48 Cosmic pushed to early August https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/07/pop_os-24-04-alpha-with-cosmic-drops-on-august-8

18:40 Mint 22 was released https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_wilma_whatsnew.php

23:51 Fedora will have opt-in telemetry https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-42-FESCo-Opt-In-Metrics

26:02 Nvidia open drivers are in beta https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/nvidia-560-linux-driver-beta-has-wayland-improvements-defaults-to-open-gpu-kernel-modules/

28:18 Meta says AI should be open source https://about.fb.com/news/2024/07/open-source-ai-is-the-path-forward/

31:06 Microsoft blames the EU for the Crowdstrike issue https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/microsoft-blames-eu-rules-for-its-inability-to-lock-down-windows-following-crowdstrike-incident

33:49 CrowdStrike offers gift cards as apology https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/malaysia-asks-microsoft-crowdstrike-consider-covering-losses-global-outage-4501666 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/24/crowdstrike-outage-companies-cost

36:49 Google backs down on their replacement for 3rd party cookies https://digiday.com/marketing/after-years-of-uncertainty-google-says-it-wont-be-deprecating-third-party-cookies-in-chrome/

40:58 Outro

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