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Retraites, gel du point d'indice des fonctionnaires, "carence" pour les étrangers… Les principales pistes du gouvernement pour réaliser 54 milliards d’euros d'économies sur le budget 2027
https://www.franceinfo.fr/economie/budget/retraites-gel-du-point-d-indice-des-fonctionnaires-carence-pour-les-etrangers-les-principales-pistes-du-gouvernement-pour-realiser-54-milliards-d-euros-d-economies-sur-le-budget-2027_8197454.html#xtor=RSS-3-[lestitres]
Dans les colonnes du "Figaro" jeudi, le Premier ...

Yet another space debris event - caused by USA 32, a spy satellite launched in 1988 in a circular polar orbit at 775 km altitude.

Other satellites in the program included RAQUEL I and URSULA IV 🤩

https://bsky.app/profile/planet4589.bsky.social/post/3mvljx4lmos2p
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Xbox’s clever disc-to-digital feature was 15 years in the making
https://www.theverge.com/tech/996826/microsoft-xbox-disc-to-digital-history-notepad?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Loconundrum no.186
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I don't think it is much of a spoiler to reveal to any other players of #Loconundrum that
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today's destination is among my favourite names of any railway station in Britain.
Tbh, I think that only really rules out Southampton Airport Parkway.

https://loconundrum.aaronc.cc/

Your robotaxi might be a narc
https://www.theverge.com/transportation/996863/robotaxi-waymo-police-privacy-surveillance?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Camp Snap’s 110D gives slim retro film cameras a digital upgrade
https://www.theverge.com/tech/996453/camp-snap-110d-digital-camera-retro-horizontal-kodak-100-film?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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When AI assistants generate scientific scripts or simulations, common failure modes immediately appear. Last week, RSE Faruk Diblen released rseng-agent-skills to fix this. It packages 67 Research Software Engineering practices into native agent skills so AI coding agents follow the research software best practices and open-science standards while writing code, not after the fact. Check it out 👉 https://github.com/fdiblen/rseng-agent-skills

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@albertcardona/117286402503806104

I think the contribution that journals can make toward this goal is to mandate deposition of datasets into public databases. But these need to already exist. So first, your field needs to recognize and address the need for standard databases.

I can't imagine what it is like working in a field that doesn't have such databases... 😱
I would be so lost without Uniprot, the PDB, EMDB and EMPIAR that are standard in #StructuralBiology #CryoEM

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/117286365086343209

I'm not going to make the obvious tech analogy here because I think you can figure it out.

Turned on the furnace.

Fall is here.

Sad.

#yeg #yegwx

The Apple Watch Series 12 is the start of a new wearable era
https://www.theverge.com/tech/996715/apple-watch-series-12-review-wearables-smartwatch?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Kurz vor Beginn der Sitzung ist noch kaum wer da, aber wir zumindest sind bestens vorbereitet.

Today, the Commission proposed the EU KIDS Act, with age-appropriate protections to make online platforms safer for children and teenagers.

No addictive features. No unwanted contact. No beauty filters for under-18s. No minors livestreaming.

Read more ↓
https://link.europa.eu/fmGF79

We're reworking how settings are organized in Thunderbird Desktop and would love your thoughts.

Take our short survey, 10-15 minutes tops. No trick questions, no wrong answers, and your feedback goes straight to the designers.

Take the survey 👇
https://usabi.li/do/38d3jndivg3z/kpjgdi

#opensource #thunderbird #ux

How can can 🇳🇱 universities overcome their dependency on cloud providers? New open-access article (with Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn & Ronald P. Stolk):

https://doi.org/10.21827/yoda.2026.43823

Three intertwined strategies emerge:

⚖️ Regulatory — compliance & contracts (necessary, but minimal)

🧭 Strategic — exit plans, open standards, collective bargaining

💡 Value-based — infrastructure aligned with public values & academic freedom

1&2 are in the works, 3 missing...

#Data #DigitalSovereignty #AcademicFreedom

Medienstaatsminister Weimer schlägt vor, den öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk zu privatisieren. Das ist weder seine Aufgabe noch eine gute Idee.

👉️ https://buff.ly/v1FxVig

I love how clever and fleeting these pieces of street art by French urban artist OakOak are ...

"The Little Girl & The Apple Tree" (2016)

"Snoopy" (2015)

More of his work here:
https://www.oakoak.fr/

#Art #StreetArt