Surprisingly didn't mention school shooting in US that happened few days ago.

Another privacy epidemic unfolding, only waiting when it auto link people you see om the streets to their social media profiles

Isn't it part of Project 2025 to collapse economy so they can shaft it for quick profit?

I don't understand American obsession with UFO, is there something behind it?

France providing majority of intelligence for Ukraine

https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20260116-macron-says-france-is-providing-two-thirds-of-ukraine-s-intelligence-information

Also US stopped all ait to Ukraine since Trump took office, and even withheld some thst was allocated under Biden

https://www.cfr.org/articles/how-much-us-aid-going-ukraine

Then he put tariffs on it so Europe has to pay more

https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2025/higher-us-tariffs-part-of-the-price-europe-was-willing-to-pay-for-its-security-and-arms-for-ukraine/

Then US stopped sending even those already paid for

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-officials-tell-european-countries-expect-weapons-delivery-delays-sources-say-2026-04-16/

AFAIK most datacenters use evaporative cooling so water simply evaporate and system has to be filled up again, other systems that are dumping water have issue with all kind of additives like anti corrosion, residual etc and water shouldn't be just dumped but go through wastewater treatment

The lower court had sentenced her to four years in prison, including two suspended and the other two to be served at home with an electronic tag, a €100,000 fine, and a five-year ban on holding elected office.

Because she in fact received election ban, her appeal doesn't reset the clock.

Marine Le Pen has already served the non-suspended segment of the 45-month ban on holding elected office handed to her by the appeals court. Because the initial ban was effective even during her appeal, she has been serving it since March 31, 2025, the day of her conviction by a lower court. That was precisely 15 months ago.

"it's sacrifice I'm willing to make" ~Netanyahu probably

Maybe rule of law and democracy has something to do with it? Erdogan just jailed another opposition leader, what about Turkey do something about it before complaining why they can't join EU? What about stop occupying Cyprus?

But everyone is involved not just settlers

She said she had received testimonies from several women who alleged that 'doctors, educators, police officers, and past and present members of the Knesset' were involved in the abuse. 

It says there in article

The legislation is intended to clamp down on what is known in Poland as patostreaming (a portmanteau of “pathological” and “streaming”), meaning livestreams in which hosts engage in shocking – and often dangerous and illegal – behaviour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trash_stream

Yeah that's how they're trying to fool people. In Poland they're building 3.2gw datacenter and admitted in the end it'll require 300 jobs to run it 🤦 Wow what a whooping contribution to society in exchange for draining energy worth of 3 nuclear plants

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/gigawatt-scale-data-center-planned-for-choczewo-poland/

My personal hurdle as teenager always was having to keep windows on same disk for my sisters to use while struggling to install Linux besides it so I could have that semi transparent terminal like in the movies. Can't even count how many times I've bricked bootloader because of that, but when it worked I felt like I'm a president

It was almost midnight in Brussels and the leaders of Europe were locked in their fifth hour of an emergency meeting with a single theme for discussion: how to manage a breakup with America.

The new year was only three weeks old and President Trump, after removing Venezuela’s autocratic strongman, had briefly threatened to seize Greenland from Denmark. Around a circular table in the European Council headquarters known as “The Space Egg,” heads of government were venting so emotionally about the 47th president that some of the nearly 30 leaders present would later call the session “therapy night.” There were no cameras or recordings and each of the presidents and prime ministers was told to come alone, no phones allowed, for a moment to speak candidly.

“We are drawing a line here,” began Emmanuel Macron, president of France, according to several leaders present and their most senior aides. For a year, America’s closest allies had tried to placate Trump with a mix of flattery and concessions on mutual-defense and trade issues, hoping to buy time. Now, French soldiers were in Greenland, alongside Danish special forces equipped for a shooting war with America. The French president repeated an argument he’d been pressing for years, with mounting urgency: that Europe’s overreliance on America was a security risk. “There is no going back,” he said.

A clutch of European leaders chimed in to complain that the administration seemed more interested in mining and energy deals than upholding America’s traditional role in the world. Europe risked becoming “a miserable slave” to the U.S., groused the prime minister of Belgium. The conservative prime minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, dissented, telling the roomful of more-liberal leaders that while they might not like President Trump, he could still be reasoned with, according to people present.

To Meloni’s left sat Denmark’s Mette Frederiksen, trying to maintain composure. After a week of brinkmanship with Trump, the Danish prime minister looked so shaken that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz took a moment to ask how she was holding up: “You OK?”

Hours passed as people talked over each other in a conversation with such seismic implications it seemed surreal: In its 250th year, had America, protector of Europe, now become a threat?

Several participants mentioned a man who wasn’t in the room. Mark Carney, the new Canadian prime minister, had been regularly messaging Europe’s major leaders using a British phone number from his time in London, trying to persuade them that “the old America isn’t coming back.” Now, on the heels of a blistering speech at the annual Davos gathering, his arguments were gaining ground. “Canada,” said the prime minister of Spain, “is openly saying what we should do.”

In the months to come, the January crisis meeting would be remembered by Europe’s most powerful figures as the moment that countries bound together by blood and a sense of shared destiny since the aftermath of World War II began to explore separate paths. Nobody has filed divorce papers, and important players on both sides are working hard to keep a loveless marriage going. Untangling the ties between Europe and the U.S. would be a massive undertaking. Canada, which is encouraging Europe to hedge against a more capricious America, is paradoxically much more reliant on the U.S. than almost any country on earth.

Militarily, it is hard to imagine the allies entirely going separate ways. This week’s summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will test the resolve of leaders to preserve an iconic fixture of Western might in the face of growing mutual distrust.

The White House said Trump is looking forward to having “constructive and frank conversations with many world leaders” at the meeting in Turkey. “President Trump has effectively restored America’s standing on the world stage, and he has done more for NATO than anyone else,” said White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly. “He also believes that some NATO members should do much more to fulfill their obligations.”

And yet the unvarnished private talks now taking place at the commanding heights of European democracies, many reported here in detail for the first time, signal the perilous path ahead.

American allies have begun pushing the gas pedal on an unprecedented experiment in de-Americanization. Authorities from France to the Netherlands are quietly removing American tech from their systems, adopting European open-source software and urging civil servants to no longer use Microsoft Teams or Office. Belatedly, they are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to try to boost Europe’s own private space firms, AI companies, and data centers, to avoid leaning on U.S. juggernauts.

Europeans are running studies on where they would store their data or process their payments should friction with the U.S. escalate, and how well their American-made weaponry would operate without Washington’s authorization. Nations whose empires once spanned the globe are now stuck trying to extricate themselves from their humbling dependency on American technology and military power, without provoking the U.S.

More recent U.S. actions are only stiffening the Europeans’ resolve. By the time European Council leaders met again at the Space Egg in March, Trump’s airstrikes on Iran had spiked fuel prices across the continent and Chancellor Merz was furious. Russia, he said, would be the only winner of the Middle East’s newest war, according to leaders present. Several participants began a wry debate over whether a JD Vance presidency would be preferable. Even Italy’s prime minister conceded she was revising her view of the American president. Trump, Meloni lamented, “is not reasonable.”

I mean, if police and government is involved we can safely assume it's country wide issue, not just some isolated incident in fringe group of people

‘Diminishing returns’

Weeks later, the mid-August Alaska summit between Trump and Putin set alarm bells ringing anew in Europe. Trump emerged apparently skeptical about Ukraine’s chances in the war, and intrigued by a Russian plan to end it on terms closer to Moscow’s than Europe’s. An eyes-only intelligence report circulated by a European country offered details of commercial and economic plans the Trump administration was pursuing with the Kremlin, including jointly mining rare earths in the Arctic. France’s Macron argued in an encrypted group chat with his fellow leaders that they should travel together to Washington for an urgent meeting with Trump to support Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Six European presidents and prime ministers, plus Rutte and the EU’s von der Leyen, filed into the White House past a string quartet, and complimented the president for his strength as a negotiator, as news cameras rolled. “Thank you very much, Mark,” Trump said to Rutte. “You’re a great leader. You’re doing a fantastic job.”

Macron, watching on, looked uncomfortable.

The White House was barely recognizable for the French president who had served since the early months of Trump’s first term. A European sessile oak sapling, taken from a World War I battlefield, which the two presidents had ceremoniously planted together in 2018 on the South Lawn, had been removed on concerns it carried parasites, and died. An antechamber off the Oval Office was decorated with framed magazine covers of the 47th President. The leaders sat in suspense as Trump, from another room, unexpectedly called Putin for 40 minutes.

In the end, the intervention bought them only a short reprieve. Within weeks, Trump was once again expressing doubt about Ukraine’s chances and entertaining a Russian peace plan that touted opportunities for U.S. businesses. The leaders realized they wouldn’t be able to pin down Trump to support the Western position on Ukraine—or perhaps any other policy.

It was “an excruciating experience,” one person present said, and a signal how little influence America’s closest allies, even traveling as a collective, exerted with the administration.

The fragile consensus on flattery was starting to splinter, a trend captured by Britain’s MI6. That form of diplomacy, per an assessment from the spy service, was “subject to the law of diminishing returns.”

Archive link: https://archive.ph/1Rp9v

NL Wallet, the government's upcoming digital identity app, relies on software from Apple and Google, according to research by Follow the Money. In a response, the ministry told ‘to study whether there are any options to make the app less dependent on American tech giants.

‘Using the Dutch digital wallet app is completely safe, unless Google or Apple collude with that man in the White House.’

A government official made a joke about it in a packed room in a Utrecht conference center NL Wallet. This identification system will probably eventually take the place of DigiD.

Last month, during a ‘meet-up’ in Utrecht, the civil servant updated interested parties about the development of the new app, which the Dutch will not be able to install on their phones until next year at the earliest.

NL Wallet will soon be able to do more than DigiD. In all Member States of the European Union, citizens can identify with it in a safe way. They can also share documents with it, for example an income statement with a landlord, or a school diploma with a university. And NL Wallet can also be used to sign a digital document.

But there is another difference with DigiD, according to the joke about the man in the White House.

Because while the whole of Europe is trying to break away from American technology, NL Wallet can only be used by citizens with an account with Google or Apple. At least that's what it looks like, a spokesperson for the responsible confirms state secretary.

At the same time, it has already been established that healthcare providers will soon be obliged to offer the app as a login method in addition to DigiD.

Jaap-Henk Hoepman, privacy expert and associate professor digital security at Radboud University in Nijmegen, he is concerned about this. ‘Issuing identity documents, paper or digital, is emphatically a task for the government. They should keep this in their own hands as much as possible and not outsource it to Apple and Google.’

Bart Jacobs, professor computer security, privacy & identity (also Radboud), thinks this design choice ‘fits poorly in with the Dutch and European pursuit of digital autonomy’.

‘A government app should never be dependent on an account with Apple or Google,’ also says Member of Parliament Barbara Kathmann (Progressive Netherlands). ‘DigiD proves that secure access without a big tech account is possible. The same standard should apply to NL Wallet. Anyone who does not have an account with an American tech giant should be able to use the same digital services.’

The State Secretariat for Digital Affairs denies that the intention is to replace DigiD with NL Wallet.

But that doesn't go down with experts like Jacobs and Hoepman, the latter of whom points out, among other things, the money involved. DigiD's maintenance cost last year 61,9 million euro and the maintenance of the new app will not be cheaper.

‘I think that denial is very crazy. If you keep both apps in the air, the Tax Authorities, all municipalities and healthcare institutions must also support two apps, which also costs them extra money,’ says Hoepman. ‘And why would people switch to the wallet if you also continue to offer DigiD?’

It will still be possible take several years before the replacement is a fact.

The built-in reliance on Google and Apple is also in stark contrast to the outcome of the recent discussion about DigiD.

That app, operated by Solvinity, was in danger of becoming the property of the American software company Kyndryl, which led to a fierce debate in the House of Representatives and several lawsuits. The takeover was held on May 26 forbidden. That was, according to Willemijn Aerdts, State Secretary for the Digital Economy and Sovereignty, ‘to protect the public interest’.

Sauce from Google The NL Wallet app has its origins in the corona pandemic, privacy expert Hoepman knows.

‘Before that, Apple and Google already had wallet apps in which you could store train or concert tickets. But since corona you can also use those apps for the American driver's license, an official government document.’

That is why Hoepman will be on the news platform in 2022 Nu.nl careful responded positively when the European Commission initiated its own infrastructure for an identity wallet: ‘If they [the Commission, red.] don't come up with European verification, then Apple and Google will realize something like this. This means that you are completely dependent on tech giants for digital passports. That's a situation you don't want to end up in.’

At the same time warned he pays close attention when designing the app.

The vast majority of smartphone users have an iPhone (with the Apple operating system iOS) or an Android phone, the operating system of which has in many cases been doused with one strong Google sauce.

One of the sauces is the so-called Play Integrity-software, it checks whether the phone and the installed apps are ‘reliable’. iPhones have similar control software: iOS App Attest.

In practice, it means that Google and Apple have far-reaching control over which apps you can install – and under what conditions.

This is sensitive for an official identity app: as if the government does not check who you are when applying for an identity card (by means of a passport photo and your old passport), but checks whether Google and Apple have the wallet in which you want to keep that card. consider safe enough.

Ready-made In 2023, the Commission published on the software platform GitHub a first version of the technische requirements to the European identity wallet.

Those requirements do not include an obligation to use the services of Apple and Google. Member States are completely free to build a wallet that does not rely on American tech. At GitHub, the Commission has recently also mentioned a European alternative: the Belgian company Dexguard.

But, says security expert Brenno de Winter, who does use Google's and Apple's ready-made control software, was by far the easiest way for app builders to meet technical requirements.

The 27 European member states diligently started building their own wallet apps. The first Dutch version was released in March 2024 on GitHub published.

Long crowed there geen rooster more about possible dependence on Google and Apple.

Until autumn 2024, when Italian software developers erachter came that their national app alone would work on phones with Google or Apple software.

The same obligation was introduced in February 2025 for the Dutch app, evident from the editing history on GitHub. Integration with Google's and Apple's systems became ‘unconditionally’: the user would always need a Google or Apple account.

It seemed like the Dutch IT community niet op te fall.

Not even when the discussion about dependence on American technology gained momentum, because in May last year the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague became locked out of his Microsoft account.

Other countries made a different assessment than Italy and the Netherlands.

Switzerland promised last year in response to criticism – started working on a Google-free version.

Germany mentions ‘digital sovereignty’ an important goal for your own app.

That's why it eventually must work without the software from Google and Apple, says a spokesperson for the German Ministry of Digital Affairs. Support for Google's software may be built in later, but only if that ‘offers additional security benefits’, he explains.

According to a spokesperson for State Secretary Aerdts, the Google and Apple software was chosen for security reasons. ‘That provide support and protection to a large user group and are for that reason first implemented.’

A wallet version that is usable without an account with Apple or Google is not currently being worked on, this spokesperson said. Although he does not rule out that this may change in the future.

DigiD works Google-free on Android It is striking that NL Wallet would not be safe without control software from Google or Apple.

The current DigiD app works since 2023 on Google-less versions of Android. A spokesperson for Logius (DigiD's administrator): ‘The fact that DigiD does not use Play Integrity does not mean that the DigiD app is not secure or less secure than the NL Wallet.’

The European Commission obliges all European Member States to launch a working identity app before the end of this year. But presumably will no Member State meet that deadline, neither will the Netherlands.

Security expert Brenno de Winter would have liked to see phones with other operating systems taken into account from the start. After all, there are also Android phones without the Google sauce. ‘So the ministry is just saying that those other users are unlucky? That is really completely unacceptable. Did they miss the whole discussion about sovereignty? And even then, it's not too late to shift course immediately and not introduce this dependency into such an important app.’

Privacy expert Jaap-Henk Hoepman: ‘If dependence on Google is not necessary, why do you do that?’