Dassault Falcon 10X made its first flight last week taking off from Bordeaux Merignac for a 2h30 test flight, climbing to 40.000 feet and reaching Mach 0.82
The Falcon 10X will be to largest business jet in the Falcon familly and will reach Mach 0.925 and a range of 7500 nautical miles (13900 kms) with up to 19 passengers
#aviation #dassault #business #news
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/06/19/3314725/0/en/dassault-aviation-dassault-s-falcon-10x-makes-maiden-flight.html
17 years ago on June 1, 2009 flight AF447 disappeared off the coast of Brazil. This anniversary a week after the announcement of the conviction on appeal of Air France and Airbus. Having worked a lot on a personal basis on this tragedy, it is quite incomprehensible that the European Aeronautical Regulator (EASA) is not also among the defendants.
Will post an updated personal analysis later on Mastodon
The French Gendarmerie led the way by migrating from Windows to Linux in order to achieve significant cost savings (half a billion euros saved over 20 years) and enhance sovereignty.
I would add that the National Police (Police Academy) is no slouch when it comes to streamlining, having chosen GoFAST to replace an in-house development.
See the article (in FR) summarizing the hearing at the National Assembly of General Marc Boget, director of the ANFSI
The wide body 767 United from Venice to Newark was really far too low last week on his RNAV29 then visual approach on Runway 29 (only 2050m long). The consequence was hitting a light pole that felt on the truck (recorded on the driver's cam) but worse could have happen.
Last segment visual approaches with a last turn close to the runway are always tricky.
The European Commission has taken a bold step (for which it deserves praise) by removing the "Follow us on X" link from its website and replacing it with "Mastodon"
A democratic resistance to the numerous attempts at destabilization originating from the X network and Musk's extremism
Mastodon is a federated technology as Element/Matrix reducing the risk of power and influence abuse
Follow them https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission (@EUCommission)
And my account @cpot
QNAP is launching an interesting new LLM NAS hardware the QAI-h1290fx for SMB+ allowing to run locally Internal Chatbot & Knowledge Base, Private RAG Search Engine & AI Inference & Content Generation.
A potential great options for CIOs to keep sensitive data in-house by using a local LLM with RTX6000 serie and AMD Ryzen Epyc, delivering 100+token/s for an 8B model.
Software includes AnythingLLM, OpenWebUI, Ollama, Whisper, Comfyui (image generation/processing)and more
https://www.qnap.com/en-uk/product/qai-h1290fx
We were delighted to celebrate the second anniversary of our partnership with DXC Technology Morocco at GITEX AFRICA last week in Marrakech. We share the same values, the same professionalism, and the same passion for digital sovereignty—and therefore for GoFAST. Thank you to Mehdi Kettani (CEO), Amine Benjelloun (Deputy CEO), and Amal Lahbabi (Sales Director), as well as the entire DXC team, for this special moment!
#GITEX #Africa #DXC #Morocco #CEO-Vision #GoFAST #technology #sovereignty
The kill switch for Anthropic. Rejecting clauses on the freedom to use Claude for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, Trump bans Claude as a supplier to the Department of War and, more broadly, to federal agencies. A bombshell in Silicon Valley.
Anthropic's values are more European, and they should consider moving their headquarters there
