2026-07-23 08:29:34
A compact #ereader with 4.3 inch display proves there is a market for smaller mobile devices - are #phone vendors listening?
https://www.digitaltrends.com/tablets/xteinks-tiny-e-reader-finally-gets-the-upgrades-it-was-missing/
2026-07-22 12:42:00
For the rest of us who like to enjoy good food and wine while traveling in #Europe we have the ranking of top 7 cities for food, and the best wine regions as assessed in 2026. #travel #food #wine .https://klaava.com/the-best-cities-in-europe-for-enjoying-food-and-wine/
2026-07-22 08:45:28
For everyday internet users, the "So What?" of this #EU ruling is deeply reassuring. It validates that using a #VPN to encrypt your online traffic, hide your IP address, or bypass digital borders is a legitimate use of technology.
https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/vpns-are-lawful-technical-tools-says-eu-court-in-landmark-anne-frank-copyright-ruling
2026-07-21 08:31:38
Updating #EV software over the air:
“Aside from data privacy concerns, the potential of a foreign actor sabotaging the controls of a moving vehicle is a possibility"
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/18/over-the-air-tech-in-vehicles-poses-cybersecurity-risks.html
2026-07-20 08:29:11
As traditional lithium-ion batteries push boundaries in size and scale, alternative #battery types could provide the same vital role in harnessing low-carbon energy.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/19/molten-salt-human-sweat-weird-batteries-store-renewable-energy
2026-07-17 12:44:49
For the rest of us who like to enjoy good food and wine while traveling in #Europe we have the ranking of top 7 cities for food, and the best wine regions as assessed in 2026. #travel #food #wine
https://klaava.com/the-best-cities-in-europe-for-enjoying-food-and-wine/
2026-07-03 08:30:43
"LLMs are not a path towards human level or human-like intelligence, or even animal-like intelligence, because they cannot deal with real world data, they just are not built for that,"
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6gr0xkyr3o
2026-07-02 08:36:16
The UK Competition and Markets Authority argues that consumers and app owners are being let down by #Apple and #Google restrictions on spending money outside their app stores.
The regulator has described both tech companies as operating an “effective duopoly”.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jun/30/uk-apple-google-mobile-app-stores-developers-payment-cma
2026-06-30 08:32:24
Home broadband connection down? How to use a phone as a backup internet service provider for the home network.
https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/how-to-use-old-android-phone-as-backup-internet-connection-for-home-router/
2026-06-29 08:24:24
Nearly one-third of Australian children still have social media accounts after ban.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/28/tech-firms-are-losing-the-public-social-media-age-bans-near-tipping-point
2026-06-26 19:26:11
A lot of people just don't know that they can get a device that isn't spying on them, that isn't constantly sending data back to Google or to Apple. And just the fact that these devices exist and work out of the box. #degoogled
https://itsfoss.com/brian-iode/
2026-06-24 08:13:35
The European Central Bank secured key parliamentary backing on Tuesday for the launch of a digital euro, an electronic means of payments aimed at making the euro zone less reliant on U.S. credit cards. #EU #digitaleuro
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/ecb-secures-key-parliamentary-backing-digital-euro-2026-06-23/
2026-06-23 08:45:09
Have you installed apps on your TV? You may have allowed external access to your home network and internet connection:
--- Once a TV app can act as a proxy, the risk is not limited to someone borrowing your public IP address. The app is running inside your home network. #smarttv #proxy
https://spur.us/blog/smart-tv-apps-residential-proxy-sdks
2026-06-22 08:39:08
A view to AI development in #Europe:
--- “As somebody who travels to San Francisco quite a bit and talks to people there, what is happening in Europe just seemed like a slow-moving car crash to me,” he says.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/20/europe-sleepwalking-ai-disaster-us-china
2026-06-21 08:01:00
When Icelandair launched a competition to find "a really bad #photographer", you might have rolled your eyes. But having looked through the winning pictures from Blanche Mortemard's portfolio, I think we can actually learn something.https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/awards-and-competitions/shot-by-winner-of-worst-photographer-contest-what-these-travel-pictures-actually-prove-is-that-good-photography-isnt-the-same-as-technical-skill
2026-06-20 14:35:55
If you ask a philosopher what trust is, the answer could be something like this: Trust is valuable. Without it, we face not only cooperation problems, but we also incur substantial risks to our well-being, namely, those ubiquitous risks to life that characterize the “state of nature”. #travel
2026-06-19 08:40:11
OVH, one of #Europe ’s leading homegrown cloud providers, plans to train a family of #AI models from scratch and aims to open-source them once they meet its performance targets.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/4186752/frances-ovhcloud-bets-on-frontier-ai-as-europe-seeks-alternatives-to-us-models.html
2026-06-18 08:30:44
Heliboard is another #opensource keyboard option for Android:
--- Gboard is the default #Android keyboard, and unless you take the time to make it private, it's #tracking you.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-prevent-your-android-phone-keyboard-from-tracking-you/
2026-06-17 09:12:45
Nextcloud CEO on #digitalsovereignity in #Europe:
To what degree is this translating into action, with organizations migrating away from US cloud providers? “The interest is gigantic."
https://www.computerworld.com/article/4184628/nextcloud-ceo-open-source-moves-from-a-nerdy-audience-to-the-geopolitical-stage.html
2026-06-16 16:49:20
Exactly, allowing private data to leak to #bigtech and #adtech is invisible, and difficult to grasp:
--- The study showed that 1 in 3 people don’t understand how smart devices collect, use, and share their personal data. On top of that, 42% of the participants said they have concerns about how their data is handled when buying smart devices. #smarttv #privacy
https://cybernews.com/privacy/uk-watchdog-smart-tvs-collect-personal-data/