Late Night Linux – Episode 374

Discord’s new age gating policy might be a real opportunity for open source but it’s not clear that we have anything that can compete, the complex and bizarre tale of an AI agent writing a blog post attacking a FOSS maintainer, why we lost some trust in a major tech publication, the Firefox AI kill switch arrives, and a quick KDE Korner.

News

Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late (mastodon.social/@latenightlinux/11610985712828…)

Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally (discord.com/press-releases/discord-launches-te…)

Discord Voluntarily Pushes Mandatory Age Verification Despite Recent Data Breach (eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/discord-voluntarily-…)

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web (therage.co/persona-age-verification)

I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here’s What I Actually Handed Over. (thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verif…)

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me (theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-pi…)

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened (theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-pi…)

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout (theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-pi…)

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward (theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-wrote-a-hit-piece-…)

The obnoxious GitHub OpenClaw AI bot is … a crypto bro (pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/16/the-obnoxious-githu…)

Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations (arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-ret…)

Sorry all this is my fault (bsky.app/profile/benjedwards.com/post/3mewgow6…)

Firefox 148 Now Available With The New AI Controls / AI Kill Switches (phoronix.com/news/Firefox-148)

KDE Korner 4

A quick anti-FUD FAQ to debunk “the KDE is forcing systemd!” hoax (floss.social/@kde/116080098289301477)

KDE endorses the UN’s Open Source Principles (ev.kde.org/2026/02/18/kde-joins-osu)

Plasma 6.6 (kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.6.0)

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