Apple can delist apps “with or without cause,” judge says in loss for Musi app.
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Open Document Format (.odf) ousts Microsoft word.docx format in German Public Administration.
"This is not a recommendation or a preference, it is a mandate"
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/19/germanys-sovereign-digital-stack-mandates-odf/
Small step for man...
Germany's Sovereign Digital Stack Mandates ODF: a Landmark Validation of Open Document Standards - TDF Community Blog
The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice, welcomes the inclusion of the Open Document Format (ODF) as a mandated standard format in Germany’s Deutschland-Stack, the federal government’s sovereign digital infrastructure framework for all public administrations. The Stack, published by the German Federal Ministry for Digital and State Modernisation (Bundesministerium für Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung), establishes the technical standards for a shared, interoperable and sovereign digital infrastructure serving all Germany’s public administrations. Under the framework’s “Semantic Technologies and Real-Time Analytics” pillar, ODF and PDF/UA are explicitly named as the two mandated document formats, to the exclusion of proprietary alternatives. “This is not a recommendation or a preference, it is a mandate,” said Florian Effenberger, Executive Director of The Document Foundation. “Germany’s decision to anchor ODF at the heart of its national sovereign stack confirms what we have argued for years: open, vendor-neutral document formats are not a niche concern for some technology specialists and FOSS advocates. They are a fundamental infrastructure for democratic, interoperable and sovereign public administrations.” The Deutschland-Stack is grounded in a set of principles that align with TDF’s long-standing advocacy positions. The framework adopts a “Made in EU first” principle, requires open interfaces and local data storage,
nixCraft 🐧After committing one of the greatest thefts of all information known to mankind, ChatGPT started showing Ads to everyone while killing all independent websites,wikis, forums, journalism sites, artists' work, songs, and blogs. The circle of life is complete. All this talk of a "changing world" ends with selling your data to the highest bidder while destroying human creators and environments. What innovation.
https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-advertising-and-expanding-access/
Electronic Frontier FoundationICE is using a Palantir tool that uses Medicaid and other government data to stalk people for arrest, @404mediaco reports. This is exactly the kind of data privacy abuse that EFF has been warning about. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/report-ice-using-palantir-tool-feeds-medicaid-data
Jeff JarvisThis paper defines creativity as "capable of resulting from humans experiencing, reflecting upon and shaping the meaning of human existence as their own existence." It argues that "novelty can result from both AI and us, but value can exclusively result from us."
Artificial Creativity?
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-025-09758-5
Artificial Creativity?
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-025-09758-5
Artificial Creativity? - Minds and Machines
Can an artificial intelligence (AI), whose outputs are correlated with humans’ inputs in an extremely opaque way, be thought of as creative? I will answer in the negative, starting with the analysis of the case of Edmond de Belamy, together with further cases. More precisely, I will offer the following three kinds of arguments. First, what results from testing the idea of creative AI against the background of traditional definitions of creativity, especially from a philosophical perspective. Second, what results from testing the idea of creative AI against the background of the notion of meta-sensemaking. Third, what results from testing the idea of creative AI against the background of the epistemology of creativity. After arguing that the possible answer to my starting question is negative, at least in the sense that speaking of creative AI means speaking of something far different from human creativity, I will argue that the reflection upon the idea of creative AI should not make us lose sight of what is most important: what creativity is always for, i.e. making sense of our own existence, from art to anything, not only because it is a kind of existential urgency for us but also because it is pleasant in itself for us.
“Unfortunately, immigrants and noncitizens should now assume that anything they share publicly on social media might be surveilled by the government and potentially used against them,” EFF’s Lisa Femia told Borderless Magazine. https://borderlessmag.org/2026/01/08/ice-social-media-surveillance-immigration-applications-enforcement-chicago/
European News 🇪🇺The European Commission wants to commercialise open source for sovereignty
An incoming strategy looks set to target support at European open source projects to scale into commercial alternatives to US tech
https://www.euractiv.com/news/commission-wants-to-commercialise-open-source-for-sovereignty/
Europe readies digital infrastructure push in 2026
A wave of EU legislation will target cloud services, chips and networks and step up Europe’s push to curb dependence on US technology
https://www.euractiv.com/news/europe-readies-digital-infrastructure-push-in-2026/
Emil Jacobs - CollectifissionToday is Digital Independence Day, a German initiative to move more and more away from Big Tech in 2026. Let's reclaim our independence!
This chart shows the total number of Stack Overflow questions asked each month. As you can see, AI summaries in Google and AI coding tools have nearly killed the site. It is only a matter of time before the site shuts down completely. The golden age of independent news, blogs, forums, and specialized sites like Stack Overflow is over. Whether this is good or bad, only time will tell. Personally, I think we are now restricting all internet traffic to just a few Gen AI apps https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph
