The post describes deploying a WebAssembly-based proof-of-work challenge in Anubis to raise the cost of large-scale scraping (inspired by Hashcash). It notes this is a temporary compromise that requires modern JavaScript—breaking some privacy plugins—and says they plan to add fingerprinting (e.g., font rendering) to avoid presenting challenges to likely-legitimate users.

LibreOffice 26.8 recorded over one million installer downloads in a week after The Document Foundation emphasized the release contains no built-in generative AI features, citing privacy and user-control concerns. TDF published principles (local execution, no telemetry, no vendor lock-in, optional plugins) for any future AI integration and recommends community plugins instead.