The kernel Rust drama nears an end but not without some collateral damage, you should back up your Kindle books while you still can, Mozilla so very nearly gets it, Chrome gets even worse, Apple takes its ball home, and Matrix rattles the donation tin.
News
Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code
Passing the torch on Asahi Linux
[PATCH 1/1] MAINTAINERS: Remove myself
On community influencing (was Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] rust: add dma coherent allocator abstraction.) – Theodore Ts’o
Terence Eden on young people in FOSS
Linux Dev Time – Episode 118
Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
Amazon Kindles jailbroken
Updates on Mozilla’s Leadership and Growth Planning
Fingerprinting: Critics say Google rules put profits over privacy
Apple pulls encryption feature from UK over government spying demands
Matrix is at a T junction
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