Millions Face Mobile Internet Outages in Moscow. ‘Digital Crackdown’ Feared

13 million people live in Moscow, reports CNN.

But since early March the city “has experienced internet and mobile service outages on a level previously unseen.” (Though Wi-Fi access to the internet is still available…) Russian social media “is fl… Continue reading Millions Face Mobile Internet Outages in Moscow. ‘Digital Crackdown’ Feared

Firefox Announces Built-In VPN and Other New Features – and Introduces Its New Mascot

A free built-in VPN is coming to Firefox on Tuesday, Mozilla announced this week:

Free VPNs can sometimes mean sketchy arrangements that end up compromising your privacy, but ours is built from our data principles and commitment to be the world’s mos… Continue reading Firefox Announces Built-In VPN and Other New Features – and Introduces Its New Mascot

SystemD Adds Optional ‘birthDate’ Field for Age Verification to JSON User Records

“The systemd project merged a pull request adding a new birthDate field to the JSON user records managed by userdb in response to the age verification laws of California, Colorado, and Brazil,” reports the blog It’s FOSS.

They note that the field “ca… Continue reading SystemD Adds Optional ‘birthDate’ Field for Age Verification to JSON User Records