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The European Commission is preparing to trial a communications platform built on Matrix, the open source messaging protocol already used by the French government, German healthcare providers and European armed forces, as a sovereign backup to Microsoft Teams. Signal currently serves as the backup tool but has proven too inflexible for an organization the Commission's size, it said. The Matrix-based solution could also eventually connect the Commission to other EU bodies like the Parliament.

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06 Feb 2026 2:00am GMT

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05 Feb 2026 11:31pm GMT

A federal court in California has ruled that YouTube creators who use stream-ripping tools to download clips for reaction and commentary videos may face liability under the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions -- a decision that could reshape how one of the platform's most popular content genres operates. U.S. Magistrate Judge Virginia K. DeMarchi of the Northern District of California denied a motion to dismiss in Cordova v. Huneault, a creator-versus-creator dispute, finding that YouTube's "rolling cipher" technology qualifies as an access control measure under section 1201(a) even though the underlying videos are freely viewable by the public. The distinction matters because it separates the act of watching a video from the act of downloading it. The defense had argued that no ripping tools were actually used and that screen recording could account for the copied footage. Judge DeMarchi allowed the claim to proceed to discovery regardless, noting that the plaintiff had adequately pled the circumvention allegation. The ruling opens a legal avenue beyond standard copyright infringement for creators who want to go after rivals. Reaction channels have long leaned on fair use as a blanket defense, but plaintiff's attorney Randall S. Newman told TorrentFreak that circumventing copy protections under section 1201 is a separate violation unaffected by any fair use finding.

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05 Feb 2026 11:30pm GMT

Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI Frontier pitch a future of supervising AI agents.

05 Feb 2026 10:47pm GMT

Hamster Corp.'s new "Console Archives" does what Nintendon't.

05 Feb 2026 10:14pm GMT

The emphasis is on "mid-turn steering and frequent progress updates."

05 Feb 2026 9:47pm GMT

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has announced that astronauts on the upcoming Crew-12 and Artemis II missions will be allowed to carry iPhones and other modern smartphones into orbit and to the Moon -- a reversal of long-standing agency rules that had left crews relying on a 2016 Nikon DSLR and decade-old GoPros for the historic lunar flyby. Isaacman framed the move as part of a broader push to challenge what he called bloated qualification requirements, where hardware approvals get mired in radiation characterization, battery thermal tests, outgassing reviews and vibration testing. "That operational urgency will serve NASA well as we pursue the highest-value science and research in orbit and on the lunar surface," he wrote.

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05 Feb 2026 9:30pm GMT

Darktable 5.4.1, an open-source raw photo editing tool, is out with many bug fixes addressing export issues, RAW processing errors, crashes, and metadata inconsistencies.

05 Feb 2026 5:28pm GMT

Ardour 9.0 DAW is out, introducing clip recording, pianoroll windows, region FX, and major MIDI and audio workflow improvements across Linux, macOS, and Windows.

05 Feb 2026 4:30pm GMT

A critical look at the GNU/Linux naming debate and why everyday usage settled on the shorter, simpler term: Linux.

05 Feb 2026 3:58pm GMT