Weekly Brief

Weekly brief, 2026 week 40

Six stories from 15 to 29 September, including Wayback Machine access limits that block real people, a live facial recognition trial at London stations, the Dutch government's NixOS-based work environment, New Mexico's Cambridge Analytica verdict, Australia's proposed algorithm opt-out and the federated chat system Parley.

Based on 7 sources, including The Guardian, DAWO, It's FOSS