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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