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EU Passes Chat Control Anyway, Plus Microsoft's Secure Boot Mess & the Flock Resistance
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- Jul 16, 2026
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Summary
This week's a double-week catch-up: the EU just greenlit Chat Control even after Parliament voted against it, Microsoft had a brutal stretch between a decade-old Secure Boot flaw and a Windows Defender zero-day, Texas's app-store age verification law cleared its Supreme Court hurdle while the KIDS Act moves through Congress, and LAPD just let its Flock license-plate contract expire. Plus a double-week Defense Bulletin with breaches, threats and open source news! 🗺️ The open-source answer to Google Timeline is finally here! Replay every route and light up every city you've visited on a map nobody else owns; self-host Dawarich free or grab the hosted version at https://dawarich.app/techlore/ with code TECHLORE for 20% off your first year. This week's episode covers: Highlight: EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 despite the vote against it Microsoft's brutal week: Secure Boot broken for a decade, a Windows Defender zero-day, and Windows share dropping below 60% The age-verification wave: SCOTUS lets Texas's app-store law stand, the KIDS Act clears the House The Flock resistance: LAPD lets its contract expire, National Week of Action against ALPRs coming August 16–22 Defense Bulletin: breaches at KDDI, AssuranceAmerica, Accenture, Mount Royal University, Lidl, Xsolis, and DHS's HSIN platform FOSS+: GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, LineageOS, Brave containers, Organic Maps, Proton updates, Tuta migration, and more 🧡 SUPPORT TECHLORE Become a Techlorian and keep this show growing: ★ Support this podcast ★ 🔗 SOURCES & LINKS View all sources here: https://techlore.tech/eu-passes-chat-control-anyway-plus-microsofts-secure-boot-mess-the-flock-resistance/ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS (00:00) - INTRO TO SURVEILLANCE REPORT (00:56) - CHAT CONTROL IS BACK (07:06) - MICROSOFT HAD A ROUGH WEEK (16:3…