Fire out and shelter order lifted after Texas oil refinery explosion

Officials say an oil refinery fire near the Texas coast has been put out and a shelter-in-place order has been lifted following air quality testing. The large explosion at the complex had shot plumes of smoke into the air. A Valero spokesperson says no one was injured and all employees are accounted for after Monday’s explosion at the company's refinery in Port Arthur. The explosion comes amid a spike in gas prices driven by uncertainty over the global oil supply because of the Iran war. Valero’s website says the refinery has about 770 employees and can process about 435,000 barrels of oil per day. The plant refines heavy sour crude oil into gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.

Dear Europe: Germany has shown the way forward - TDF Community Blog

Germany has made ODF mandatory as the standard format for documents within its sovereign digital infrastructure. The decision is incorporated into the Deutschland-Stack, the framework governing the development, procurement and management of digital systems for public administration at all levels. This is neither a pilot project nor a recommendation from a working group, but a mandate backed by the federal government and the coalition agreement. The official document has been published by the IT-Planungsrat, the central political steering body comprising the federal government and state governments, which promotes and develops common, user-oriented IT solutions for efficient and secure digital administration in Germany: https://www.it-planungsrat.de/beschluss/b-2026-03-it. At this point, the question for all other European governments is clear: what are you waiting for? With this decision, the distinction between those who care about digital sovereignty and those who do not becomes stark. There are no more excuses Over the years, public administrations in Europe have accumulated a series of tired excuses, long since overtaken by the facts, for not making standard and open document formats mandatory. Let’s examine them one by one. ODF isn’t mature enough. ODF has been an ISO standard since 2006. It is now at version 1.4, with active development,

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Municipales 2026. Les soucis judiciaires des candidats ont-ils eu un impact sur les votes ?

Les élections municipales révèlent toute la complexité du rapport des Français à l’exemplarité politique. Décryptage.

Souveraineté numérique : comment convaincre sa mairie de passer au libre ?

Les élections municipales viennent de s’achever. Dans certaines communes, une nouvelle équipe s’installe. Dans d’autres, le scrutin a surtout confirmé un équilibre déjà en place. Un moment où une mairie redéfinit ses priorités, ses marges de manœuvre, ses dépendances aussi. Et, au fond, sa manière d’aborder le numérique C’est à ce moment précis que la [...]

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La Suite numérique de l’État : critique des critiques

Framasoft prend rarement position sur la politique numérique de l’État. La dernière fois où nous l'avions fait, c'était il y a 10 ans, en 2016, dans un article intitulé « Pourquoi Framasoft n'ira plus prendre le thé au Ministère de l’Éducation Nationale ». Si nous le faisons aujourd’hui, c’est parce que les débats autour de...