Did you enable and start the service?

systemctl enable pcscd.service

systemctl start pcscd.service

That’s what worked for me. Maybe try reinstalling pcscd if that doesn’t work.

Enable the PCSCD service. This happened to me after updating Arch yesterday. You’ll find details on the Arch Wiki if you search for ‘yubikey’.

There isn’t a source. It’s nonsense. Someone was arrested for encouraging violent rioters in the summer in English cities, and rightly so. It wasn’t a protest. It was violent, unruly behaviour by abhorrent thugs. This person sounds like someone who believes everything Elon Musk and Nigel Farage tells him.