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by Marie Achour.  

Hello Community Members,

Over the last few months, we at Moodle HQ have been monitoring the development of new legislation in the European Union that has the potential to negatively impact open source software, its users, the people who contribute to its development and our community of educators and learners globally.

The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) aims to safeguard European consumers and businesses buying or using products or software with a digital component. The act seeks to establish a uniform set of cybersecurity requirements for all digital products in the European Union, requiring auditing and compliance with standards yet to be established. 

The overarching goal of the act is one that Moodle supports unequivocally. A defining characteristic of Moodle’s open source values and practices is our pledge to build a secure learning management system that protects the privacy and security of learners’ and employees’ data.

However, Moodle HQ, as well as a number of other open source software developers; and foundations, such as the Eclipse Foundation and the Apareo Foundation, are concerned that the CRA, as currently written, will dramatically impact users of open source solutions and damage the open source ecosystem.

The CRA aims to establish legislation that will require product manufacturers to apply for accreditation (referred to as the CE mark) of their products to indicate conformance to the act’s requirements. This process will impose expensive administrative overheads, limit best practice development practices, and may negatively impact cyber resilience in an open source context.

Further reading on the accreditation requirements and their implications can be found in numerous informative articles, such as:

• This comprehensive blog post by the Internet Society

• A detailed assessment by the Apache Foundation

• A number of articles published by Github, including this articulation of the key issues at play

• An open letter from prominent open source content management providers; Drupal, Joomla, Typo 3 and Wordpress.

For Moodle, the implications could be grave. Although the CRA currently includes an exemption for open source software developed or supplied outside the course of a commercial activity, this exemption has caveats that disqualify Moodle from it, being: 

• The CRA regulates open source projects receiving donations – Moodle receives donations necessary for the sustainability of our project.

• The CRA regulates open source projects that do not have “a fully decentralised development model” – Moodle is developed by both community contributors and Moodle HQ employees, meaning that, as a project that has “corporate” employees with commit rights, we would not be exempt. 

And for institutions, universities or companies that are adopters and adapters of open source software, contribute to open source projects and the community, or simply consume these solutions, the implications could be just as grave. The act has the potential to:

• Make the software you rely on no longer available in the EU – with distribution limited to other geographies or solutions disappearing due to lack of sustainability.

• Limit the potential of open research – with the use of open source software limited by compliance costs.

• Increase the complexity of multi-organisation work – with collaboration on open source software projects difficult due to legal accountability requirements, limiting university and commercial partnerships.

• Increase software licensing costs – with fees charged for any software product increased to cover required re-factoring and compliance obligations.

Last month the CRA was voted on and passed through to the next stage of implementation. However, dialogue with the European Commission is ongoing and further refinements to the act are being debated. This means that change is still possible, and you can help Moodle, and the open source ecosystem as a whole, with action.

We invite you to:

• Join the OpenForum Europe – multi-stakeholder discussions are happening here.

• Publicly state your position that the development of open source is critical to Europe’s prosperity and digital sovereignty.

• Engage directly with the policymakers of your country (MEPs, governments) and corporate public affairs departments. Members of relevant committees can be found via this page.

• Educate your colleagues in government relations on the importance of open source to your business or institution.

We at Moodle HQ will continue to engage with relevant parties through our associations and involvement in the FOSS Legal Network. We will be relentless in our efforts to protect open source and its contribution to providing safe and inclusive educational environments that empower individuals and foster access to quality education for all.

Thank you in advance for your support,

The Moodle HQ Team 

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Over the past few days, there have been a lot of reports in the media that the UK government was backing down from its requirement that every end-to-end encrypted messenger application inside the country had to give the government backdoor access to these messenger applications. However, after reading the actual words from the UK’s junior minister Stephen Parkinson, it seemed like all she did was give a “pinky promise!” not to enforce this requirement. The law itself did not change, is not changing, and will not change, and the requirement is still in there. Today, the UK’s technology minister Michelle Donelan made that even clearer than it already was. Donelan, however, denied on Thursday that the bill had been watered down in the final stages before it becomes law. “We haven’t changed the bill at all,” she told Times Radio. “If there was a situation where the mitigations that the social media providers are taking are not enough, and if after further work with the regulator they still can’t demonstrate that they can meet the requirements within the bill, then the conversation about technology around encryption takes place,” she said. This raises an interesting question – why was everyone so keen on pushing the narrative yesterday that the “technology sector” had won, and that the UK government had backed down? Well, Facebook and Apple have kind of talked themselves into a corner in response to the UK’s requirement for backdoor access to WhatsApp and iMessage. The two companies threatened they would pull these services out of the UK if the government didn’t remove this requirement. When it became clear that the UK government wasn’t going to back down, Facebook and Apple were going to lose a lot of face if they didn’t actually pull WhatsApp and iMessage out of the UK in response. They needed something to get them out of this. This vague pinky promise is all they needed. Now they can shit all over their supposed morals and values once again, completely abandon their grandstanding and promises about protecting end-to-end encryption in messaging, and continue to operate in the UK as if nothing has changed, despite them legally being obligated to break end-to-end encryption if the UK government asks them to – which they can now do whenever it pleases them. And entirely unsurprisingly, the general tech media, ever looking to please the corporations they are supposed to do the journalism stuff about, fell for it, hook, line, and sinker. The narrative that the UK backed down and Facebook and Google won is out there now, and that’s all the tech sector needed.

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Longer and Wider Interior, New BMW X1 SUV 2024

New BMW X1 A total of 4 models were launched. The front of the new car has a wider kidney-shaped grille and the exterior is sportier as well. The new BMW X1 has a wheelbase of 2802mm, which is longer than the current model and helps create a wider interior.

Price Range is 288,900-349,900 Yuan.

The next-gen X1 still adopts the familiar double kidney grille design, but has been further increased in size; This has also been the trend of recent years for the chrome-plated BMW front grilles to further emphasize the elegant atmosphere. The headlights on both sides are also quite distinctive. The double “7” structure is well recognized after it is illuminated. The heat dissipation and ventilation openings in the middle of the front bezel and the tooth-style decoration on both sides further enhance the visual impact.

It is worth noting that the wheelbase of this generation of the domestic production BMW X1 has reached 2802 mm, which is 22 mm longer than the previous generation domestic BMW X1, and the rear clearance will be further improved. In addition, its length, width and height are 4616 mm, 1845 mm and 1641 mm, respectively.
The new car will continue to offer two body styles to choose from. In the sports kit version, changes will be made to the front bezel, side decorations, rear frame and other parts. The new car will be offered with a choice of up to 7 wheels.
Interior-wise, the new generation X1 is equipped with a 10.25-inch full LCD instrument cluster and a 10.7-inch central control multimedia display. Below the center console is a large wireless cell phone charging panel and two cup holders, while the functional control area and center armrest form a cliff-like design and are equipped with a lever-type electronic shift mechanism. In addition, the new car’s air conditioning outlet design is also relatively unique: the center is monolithic and the co-pilot has a double row type design.

As the power system, it will be equipped with 20Li model (B38A15R 1.5T engine) and 25Li model (B48A20R 2.0T engine) and the maximum net power of the engines will be 115kW and 150kW, respectively.

Source: https://www.pcauto.com.cn/nation/3715/37151095.html#ad=20420