A Rare Age Verification Win, AI Cameras On School Buses, And A License Plate Tracking Ban

A rare and genuine win against age verification with California following Colorado in exempting Linux and other open source operating systems from its Digital Age Assurance Act, directly because of community pressure. Plus AI cameras on tens of thousands of school buses being quietly repurposed for police access, a bipartisan amendment that could end nationwide automatic license plate reader programs, the open source supply chain under unprecedented attack, and a Trump Mobile data leak.

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Highlight: Age verification laws are coming for everyone except open sourceBusPatrol AI school bus cameras now angling for police accessBipartisan amendment to end nationwide police license plate trackingDefense Bulletin: data breaches at Trump Mobile, 7-Eleven, Charter, plus a major GitHub/TanStack supply chain compromiseThreats: open source code poisoned at unprecedented scale, AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability, Defender zero-days, Apex One zero-day, Linux kernel privilege escalation, Mullvad on exit-IP fingerprinting, Texas AG sues Meta over WhatsApp encryptionFOSS+ Updates: Tails 7.8, Firefox's new design, Tuta improvements, AltStore on-device sideloading, Vivaldi 8.0, Linux Mint / Rhino Linux / MX Linux / AlmaLinux updates🧡 SUPPORT TECHLORE

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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS

(00:00) - WELCOME TO SURVEILLANCE REPORT

(00:52) - HIGHLIGHT: CALIFORNIA & COLORADO EXEMPT LINUX

(06:02) - THINK OF THE CHILDREN BUS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM

(10:22) - SUPPORT THE PODCAST