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EU Court Advisor Warns Google AI Chatbot May Breach Copyright Rules
An adviser to the EU’s highest court says Google’s Gemini may violate publishers’ copyright when it reproduces recognizable portions of their articles or circumvents paywalls and other technical protections to generate answers. Reuters reports: The case before the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union pitted Hungarian websi 
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@arne@uplegger.eu Geile Idee, der sieht echt klasse aus. :-) Mir gefÀllt auch besonders gut, dass Du den Gelben-Sack-Schriftzug schön mittig oben platziert hast. Macht richtig was her. <3

Wir haben heute auf unserer kleinen Wanderung auch einige Leute ihre Drachen steigen lassen sehen und da musste ich sofort an Dich denken. Freut mich riesig, dass das bei Dir trotz Windmangel ein geglĂŒcktes Unterfangen war. :-) Leider hatten wir dafĂŒr sehr krĂ€ftigen, bitterkalten Nordostwind und mussten dann weiter, es war einfach zu eisig im Schatten. Ich hĂ€tte gern noch weiter zugeschaut.

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Canada to Join EU Network of Supercomputers
Canada is joining the European Union’s supercomputing network to give Canadian companies, startups, and researchers access to European computing resources for AI development. The partnership aims to strengthen AI cooperation and reduce dependence on US technology. Politico reports: The EU’s supercomputing network is run by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, an EU public-private vehicle with 
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@arne@uplegger.eu Backpapier klingt ja mal spontan auch richtig gut! Ich finde es ja immer sehr befriedigend, wenn man Dinge einfach sinnvoll zweckentfremded. :-) Schön zu hören, dass der heimische GemĂŒseanbau von Erfolg gekrönt war.

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@arne@uplegger.eu Der Fachmann erkennt sofort die guten Raketenstecken! :-) Hast Du das Zeitungspapier irgendwie verstĂ€rkt? Je nach QualitĂ€t dieses Druckerzeugnisses könnte ich mir durchaus vorstellen, dass das recht bald einreißt. Ich wĂŒnsche allezeit gutes Steigen und bin schon auf Deine Berichte dazu sehr gespannt.

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Greece Enacts Social Media Ban For Kids Under 15
Greece has passed a law banning children under 15 from social media platforms beginning January 1, 2027. The legislation requires platforms to implement reliable age verification and parents to use government-backed apps to restrict access, with penalties for noncompliance under the EU’s Digital Services Act. Engadget reports: “It would have been very easy to do absolutely noth 
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@arne@uplegger.eu Ganze acht Millimeter, irre?! Zwei Stunden klingen fĂŒr mich recht flott, sehr schön. Ich bin schon gespannt, was Du uns als nĂ€chstes zauber^WhĂ€kelst. :-)

Hahaha, beim Lesen des Filmrequisitenkommentars musste ich lauthals loslachen. :‘-D

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@arne@uplegger.eu @movq@www.uninformativ.de Hut ab! Die Schnur sieht fast aus wie ein Seil von der Dicke. Das muss ja eine mords HĂ€kelnadel sein, die Du dazu nimmst. Wie lang hast Du dafĂŒr gebraucht? MĂŒsste ja eine ganze Weile gedauert haben, wenn ich mich sehr wage an die Schulzeit zurĂŒckerinner, als ich das letzte Mal gehĂ€kelt habe. Also nicht nur Luft-, sondern richtig mit Kettmaschen. Luftmaschen mach ich regelmĂ€ĂŸig von Hand.

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US Tech Giants Warn Europe That Data Sovereignty Requirements Could Cost $128 Billion
A study commissioned by CCIA Europe, whose members include Amazon, Google, and Meta, estimates that the EU’s proposed Cloud and AI Development Act could impose 115 billion euros ($128 billion) in costs over a decade as governments and companies migrate workloads and rewrite software. The figure is more tha 
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Three EU Officials Not Sold on Europe’s Homegrown Alternative to Microsoft Teams
Politico EU reports:

The European Commission has rolled out an alternative to Microsoft Teams — but officials using it aren’t impressed, with one describing the tool as “absolute shit.”

The Commission introduced Element Pro over the summer as a “sovereign back-up to Teams,” according to an internal staff memo seen b 
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EU’s Microsoft Teams Alternative Draws Bad Reviews From Officials
The European Commission has rolled out Element Pro as a self-hosted “sovereign back-up” to Microsoft Teams and the reviews aren’t great. Politico reported that several officials questioned its usefulness and usability, with one calling it “absolute shit.” Politico reports: “I don’t understand the added value here,” one official wrote on an internal s 
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To Enforce Its Proposed Social Media Ban for 450 Million Pre-Teens, EU Builds an Open Source App
The European Commission “proposed on Thursday banning children under 13 from social media, with parent-supervised accounts until 15,” reports Reuters.

“Enforcement would rely on a tool Brussels built itself” — a free, open-source age verification smartphone app “that tells a platform 
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August Was World’s Joint-Hottest Month On Record, Scientists Say
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from the BBC: August was the joint-hottest month ever recorded, tying with July 2023, according to the EU’s climate service. The record was driven by a combination of climate change and the rising influence of El Nino, pushing heat into the atmosphere across the Pacific. Temperatures for the month wer 
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Google Will ‘Degrade’ Search In Europe to Avoid EU Fines
Google says it will overhaul Search in Europe to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act, giving more prominence to comparison services like Expedia and Hotels.com while stripping some real-time features from hotel, airline, and restaurant results. “These changes degrade the user experience for Europeans – boosting online intermediaries at the expense of local 
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@arne@uplegger.eu @movq@www.uninformativ.de Ui, heiße KostĂŒme! Und klingt gar nicht schlecht. Je lĂ€nger ich es anhör, desto besser gefĂ€llt es mir. Nur die „Ansagen“ und den „Gesang“ – oder was auch immer das Geschepper sein soll – brĂ€ucht es wirklich nicht.

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Apple Lowers App Store Fees In Europe to Settle Dispute With EU
Apple is overhauling its EU App Store fees to settle its Digital Markets Act dispute, simplifying the fee structure and “[resolving] Apple’s disagreements with the Commission over business terms and alternative distribution.” MacRumors reports: The initial acquisition fee and store services fee are being removed for apps distributed outside of t 
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@arne@uplegger.eu Also von da oben sieht das meiner Auffassung nach wirklich hĂŒbsch aus, da kann man echt nichts sagen. Mir gefĂ€llt’s prĂ€chtig. Gut, wenn man dieser BrĂŒhe dann auf Meereshöhe begegnet, ist das sicherlich ‘ne andere Sache.

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Reddit Bans 11-Year Account for GPL Game Post, Testing the EU’s DSA
Longtime Slashdot reader DF5JT writes: On July 26, I posted a single announcement in r/backgammon: GNU Backgammon for Android, GPLv3, the first standalone backgammon engine on F-Droid. Reddit’s spam filter removed the post and permanently banned my 11-year, 30,000-karma account – the result is publicly visible at reddit.com/user/OE1FEU. To t 
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Big Tech Accused of Stonewalling European Social Media Researchers
European misinformation researchers say TikTok, X, and Meta are obstructing access to platform data required under the EU’s Digital Services Act through rejections, restrictive quotas, costly APIs, and burdensome security demands. Although regulators have fined X and pushed platforms to improve access, researchers remain skeptical that the ch 
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‘Inside the Dystopian World of Germany’s Free Speech Crackdown’
Thousands of Germans have been threatened with fines or prison sentences for social media posts, reports The Telegraph, calling the country’s political speech laws “unusually stringent for an EU member state.”
One German had his home raided for calling a minister a “Schwachkopf [dummy]” while another was fined €2,000 (£1,700) for calling Friedrich Me 
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Trump Threatens New Tariffs Against EU Over Google Fine
President Trump threatened a “substantial” new tariff on the European Union after Brussels fined Google more than $1 billion over alleged illegal trade practices. “The European Union will pay a very big price for this illegal and highly unethical conduct, which I have consistently warned them about,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “The penalties will be entirely reve 
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@arne@uplegger.eu Diese Karten sind ja echt winzig. :-)

Aber da fĂ€llt mir ein, ich sollte mir auch mal wieder ein Taschenmesser zulegen. Hab ich es doch ĂŒber all die Jahre geschafft, alle schlussendlich zu verlieren.

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↳ In-reply-to » Anyone using XMPP? I've been hearing a lot about how it is the OG messaging protocol. That G00gle Talk used to use it as a back-end, that FB messanger and w_hatsapp use some modified version of it or something; And that setting up a server (or even using a public one) would be a better alternative to the aforementioned apps, so I did. Now the question is: "Where the Fu__ are my video calls at!!? đŸ€Ł" ... The protocol supports videoconferencing and I'm yet to find a decent Desktop/Mobile client that implements it. I wish I knew enough Code-Fu to contribute/help implement some, somewhere.

@arne@uplegger.eu I’ve tried Matrix before, it was all good and dandy until servers started getting spammed with stuff no sane human being should see (if you know what I men). So, I took down my server and never looked back.

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↳ In-reply-to » Anyone using XMPP? I've been hearing a lot about how it is the OG messaging protocol. That G00gle Talk used to use it as a back-end, that FB messanger and w_hatsapp use some modified version of it or something; And that setting up a server (or even using a public one) would be a better alternative to the aforementioned apps, so I did. Now the question is: "Where the Fu__ are my video calls at!!? đŸ€Ł" ... The protocol supports videoconferencing and I'm yet to find a decent Desktop/Mobile client that implements it. I wish I knew enough Code-Fu to contribute/help implement some, somewhere.

Wow! @arne@uplegger.eu isn’t kidding! See: https://rz.uni-greifswald.de/dienste/allgemein/instant-messaging-chat/

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↳ In-reply-to » Anyone using XMPP? I've been hearing a lot about how it is the OG messaging protocol. That G00gle Talk used to use it as a back-end, that FB messanger and w_hatsapp use some modified version of it or something; And that setting up a server (or even using a public one) would be a better alternative to the aforementioned apps, so I did. Now the question is: "Where the Fu__ are my video calls at!!? đŸ€Ł" ... The protocol supports videoconferencing and I'm yet to find a decent Desktop/Mobile client that implements it. I wish I knew enough Code-Fu to contribute/help implement some, somewhere.

@arne@uplegger.eu You have Matrix at work? No Teams, Google Chat, Slack, Discord, whatever, but Matrix? Really? Where do you work, is this Socialist Russia?!

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@arne@uplegger.eu Whoah! „Schaffung eines Aufenthaltsraumes fĂŒr Nichtraucher!“ Irre, dass es einen solchen vor dem 1. Mai 1975 nicht gab. Kann man sich heute ĂŒberhaupt nicht vorstellen.

Cool, schönes Heftchen hast Du da gesetzt. :-) Die Lochkartenanzahlen sind auch der absolute Wahnsinn.

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