No News is Good News? Q&A Episode
Our top stories this week:
- Slow news week, come say hi!
- Announcing Mozilla.org
- Following user outcry, AMD reinstates memory encryption in consumer CPUs
- White House app auto-downloads to government phones, can’t be uninstalled
- 50% of LG and Samsung smart TV apps embed residential proxies
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Updates from the Team
It's Time to Ditch Plex Media Server...
After Plex announced their astronomical price hike a few weeks ago, we realized that there would be a huge influx of users looking for ways around it and thought it might be a good time to suggest people try out Jellyfin. In addition to being free, FOSS, and privacy-respecting, Jellyfin is also one of the easiest services you could host to dip your toes into "homelab" stuff. Our video is now out to the public. Enjoy!
News Briefs
This week's news briefs included several stories that you may have missed from other parts of the web, like how the DOJ has been haled in their efforts to get Apple and Google to hand over data on 100,000 people, facial recognition coming to Kansas City public transit, Meta's AI training program paused after a disasterous internal leak, and more.
Jonah Aragon
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Q&A Episode
This week was a slow news week, so we decided to lean into it. If you're reading this as we're live, please come say hi and hang out with us!
"The web is evolving. So are we."
Mozilla has stood up a new 501(c)(3) nonprofit - Mozilla.org - to manage the Mozilla brand. While the Mozilla Foundation remains at the top of the hierarchy of Mozilla's numerous projects, Mozilla.org appears to have been granted control of the direction and stewardship of things overall. It remains to be seen what the actual real-world effects of this restructuring will mean for users and Mozilla, and it's also unclear why Mozilla felt this was the move worth taking.
Mark Surman