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Our top stories this week:
- F-Droid warns that Google’s mandatory developer registration would destroy the project.
- Google confirms that there will be free and paid tiers for developer registration. However, FOSS developers may need to pay after a certain number of downloads.
- Apple receives another technical capabilities notice by the UK to implement a backdoor into iCloud’s Advanced Data Protection Program. This time, it will only target British users.
- AMD and Intel CPU were discovered to be vulnerable against physical attacks. The companies refuse to implement a fix as they are “out-of-scope”.
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