Could This Be the End of F-Droid?

Our top stories this week:

• F-Droid warns that Google’s mandatory developer registration would destroy the project.
• Google confirms that there will be free and paid tiers for developer registration. However, FOSS developers may need to pay after a certain number of downloads.
• Apple receives another technical capabilities notice by the UK to implement a backdoor into iCloud’s Advanced Data Protection Program. This time, it will only target British users.
• AMD and Intel CPU were discovered to be vulnerable against physical attacks. The companies refuse to implement a fix as they are “out-of-scope”.

https://www.privacyguides.org/livestreams/2025/10/04/could-this-be-the-end-of-f-droid/