No, that's not how you do it... "The European Union is making a big push for digital sovereignty, cutting down on how much it uses and relies on US big tech like Google and Microsoft and proprietary formats that prevent easy switching." ...and pushes a product that defaults to the proprietary OOXML document format, which is developed by Microsoft...

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LibreOffice slams Euro-Office as 'de facto ally' of Microsoft - OMG! Ubuntu

Euro-Office launches its stable 1.0 release on June 9, billed as a 'truly open' sovereign alternative to Microsoft Office – a claim ril...

Exactly 48 years ago Intel released that thing and the rise of the x86 architecture began...

This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

de Volkskrant

Gunshot wounds in Palestinian children indicate targeted fire

Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately ta...

(Thanks to Thomas Fazi)

"France is watching one of its own monsters crawl out of the shadows. In a sealed Paris courtroom, twenty-two men sit in the dock. They stand accused of turning a quiet Masonic lodge into a private murder-and-intimidation franchise. The indictment reads like a disturbing merger between active officers from the DGSE, France’s foreign-intelligence service (the French CIA), veterans of the DGSI, the domestic-intelligence agency often compared to the FBI, street cops, ex-spooks now posing as “security consultants,” lodge bigwigs, businessmen, and hired muscle. What started as men in white gloves calling each other “brother” allegedly became a shadow service that sold surveillance, beatings, and killings to anyone with a grudge and enough cash."

21st Century Wire

The Athanor Affair: French Intelligence Veterans Ran a Masonic Murder Ring - 21st Century Wire

Freddie Ponton | Masonic aprons, intelligence badges and a murder trial revealing how Frances' death squads went private.

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It seems the Albanians don't want Jared and Ivanka Kushner to build Epstein Island 2.0...🫡

Ever wished you could talk in to a text field rather than type? Ubuntu 26.10 hears you – quite literally.

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Ubuntu 26.10 to add AI-powered voice input to all text fields

Ever wished you could talk in to a text field rather than type? Ubuntu 26.10 hears you – quite literally. Canonical's VP of Engineer Jon Sea...

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What you all don't know is that this thing (no, I don't call it a Ferrari for obvious reasons) has some hidden features... View quoted note →

"Before dawn on May 21, masked men entered Sameeha Rasheed’s farm in Masafer Yatta, a spread of Palestinian hamlets pressed into the dry hills south of Yatta in the occupied West Bank. They took the family’s guard dogs first, removing the alarm before they removed the animals. Then they herded 45 sheep into the darkness. The animals were Rasheed’s preparation for the Eid al-Adha sacrifice. They were also her income. Her husband has cancer. Without the sheep, she has nothing to pay for his treatment."

The IDF Stole Sameeha Rasheed's Livestock

Before dawn on May 21, masked men entered Sameeha Rasheed’s farm in Masafer Yatta, a spread of Palestinian hamlets pressed into the dry hills sou...

"To transform “mining rents into a lever for sustainable development and economic sovereignty for the benefit of the people of Burkina Faso,” its Council of Ministers decreed the establishment of the Burkina Faso Sovereign Mining Investment Fund (FSMIB) on 21 May."

Burkina Faso Launches Sovereign Mining Fund

Traoré Government Targets Long-Term Economic Independence