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/
2026-06-15 12:45:07
Rice-grain-sized cameras in a pair of off-the-shelf Sony WF-1000XM3 wireless earbuds. The prototype, called VueBuds, captures low-resolution black-and-white images, transmits them over Bluetooth to a phone, and processes them through an on-device vision language model that can answer questions about whatever the wearer is looking at. #photography #camera
https://fstoppers.com/originals/there-are-now-cameras-earbuds-photographers-should-be-thinking-about-what-means-902598
2026-06-14 17:33:54
#surveillance working for business:::
-- Washington Post “covertly harvested” the personal data of newspaper subscribers through their phones, computers, and tablets, by “collecting, aggregating, and analyzing deeply personal information that it would later weaponize to determine how much more money it could extract from each Subscriber to maximize its profits.”
https://gizmodo.com/washington-post-sued-over-alleged-surveillance-pricing-after-subscription-prices-jump-dramatically-2000770744
2026-06-13 19:58:08
The rich understand the value of #privacy:
--- They have no active social media accounts, no glossy photos at charity benefits or public events, or personal information available about themselves or their young family on Google.
https://www.ft.com/content/185a3419-a760-468b-b71e-59095ab874e2?syn-25a6b1a6=1
2026-06-12 08:32:09
While you can install Euro-Office on your own #Linux server, you'll need to integrate it yourself. If you're not a Linux expert, however, don't give up hope. Some companies have already released packaged, ready-to-install #EuroOffice stacks.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/euro-office-is-here-libreoffice-supporters-arent-happy/
2026-06-11 15:09:46
According to the German court, “AI” overviews in #Google #search are not the same as regular search results, because they rewrite findings and just make shit up, thereby making claims that are nowhere to be found in any search results (or in reality in general). Furthermore, the court states that Google develops the “AI”, it runs it, it offers it to users, and Google alone controls its output.
https://www.osnews.com/story/145261/german-court-rules-google-is-liable-for-whatever-googles-ai-generates/
2026-06-10 08:42:00
Since March 1, #Europe’s #solar fleet has helped avoid more than €11 billion in fossil fuel import costs, offering a clear demonstration of what a renewable-first energy system can achieve in times of volatility.
https://cleantechnica.com/2026/06/08/solar-energy-saves-europeans-135-million-a-day/
2026-06-07 14:24:00
Camera technology has come a long way in 96 years – but the subject, moment and composition of these World Cup photographs haven’t aged a day. #photographyhttps://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/sports-photography/these-photos-of-the-very-first-fifa-world-cup-final-are-surprisingly-good-considering-they-were-taken-on-100-year-old-cameras
2026-06-06 08:36:18
Before the tunnel a sign indicated I had entered the Andorra territory, and after that there was a booth for paying the tunnel section. My problem was that I didn’t have a clue which currency or language I should try with the cashier? #travel #Europe
https://klaava.com/europes-highest-capital-is-in-andorra-but-the-country-is-much-more-than-a-single-city-alone/
2026-06-05 08:26:26
More than 8 in 10 (84%) of Europeans say they don't trust American tech companies to handle their personal data responsibly, according to a Politico survey. #search #Europe
https://cybernews.com/tech/alternatives-google-search/
2026-06-04 08:46:47
#WordPress is showing its first sustained market share decline in years.
New data from web technology tracker W3Techs puts WordPress at 41.9 percent of all websites, down from 43.2 percent six months earlier.
https://www.theregister.com/saas/2026/06/03/automattics-cms-empire-shows-cracks-as-wordpress-share-falls/5250420
2026-06-03 08:22:32
Starting from the top, #EU implements #digitalsovereignity
--- #Qwant will replace #Google as default search engine on European Parliament computers,” officials told lawmakers in an email. The change is being made “in line with the Parliament's commitment to digital sovereignty and the protection of users' personal data.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-ditches-google-for-french-search-engine/