I wanted a durable sustainable large light bottle and found these ones from Spain. Large dog and me consume a lot of water so I opted for a one liter single walled that would still fit in my bum bag bottle holder. Despite not a thermos it keeps refrigerated water cold for at least an hour or more in the current 28ยฐC heat so Iโm happy.
Iโm rebuilding my workshop. All my power tools are in a terrible state, so Iโm basically going to buy new everything - cordless drills, angle grinder, jigsaw, belt sanderโฆ the lot.
Soofi S 30B-A3B is a sovereign, open-source Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) hybrid MambaโTransformer foundation model for German and English. Its hybrid design activates only 3B of 30B parameters per token and keeps the inference cache near-constant as context grows, giving it a decisive throughput advantage over dense models for long-context, high-concurrency deployment.
In a significant move to protect Europeโs subsea critical infrastructure, the European Commission has officially finalized โฌ5.8 million in grants to establish its first two Regional Cable Hubs in the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas. Alongside this rollout, Brussels launched a major โฌ40 million funding call aimed at drastically increasing Europeโs emergency maritime capacity to repair damaged submarine cables.
The tech giant is in breach of the Digital Services Act by focusing on features like infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and the highly personalized recommendation algorithms, the European Commission said.
โTrying to protect children with suspicionless mass surveillance is like frantically mopping the floor while the faucet is still running. Blanket chat control is just as unacceptable as indiscriminately opening everyoneโs physical mail. For five years, this failed system has served as a smokescreen to delay real action, all while overwhelming the police with false alarms. We need more child protection, not lessโbut we need effective protection, not the illusion of security.โ
Europe has launched new โฌ7 million (ยฃ6 million) grants at a time when increased political oversight of research in the US is pushing more scholars to consider leaving the country, but experts say the scheme is not big enough to seriously move the dial on international mobility.
After a long dispute, the EU Parliament has voted in an expedited procedure to extend the controversial exception rule for the indiscriminate scanning of chats.
Several libraries in Surrey are using CCTV cameras made by a Chinese firm whose equipment is banned from sensitive government sites over security concerns.
According to a French financial newspaper, BYD attempted to acquire a stake in Renault twice within two years โ apparently to gain access to Renaultโs plants in Europe. The offer is said to have gone too far for the French, who are otherwise open to alliances.
The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) has successfully traced and analysed a cross-border trafficking route used for the distribution of more than 200,000 counterfeit condoms in Europe. The fake condoms were sold in Europe using the name and logo of a well-known brand.
On 18 June 2026, the Polish Council of Ministers announced a new Resolution for a Strategy on the Digitalisation of the State. The document includes a fully-fledged chapter on open source software use in the national public administration.
Iโm about to get my 27 inch dsktop PC monitor mounted to an arm for usage in my bed. But my monitor doesnโt have any speakers built in so I need something for that. Preferably under 100 โฌ.
State-backed ElectroMobility Poland (EMP) said it will partner with Taiwanโs Foxconn to develop an electric vehicle production and research hub in southern Poland, advancing plans to create a domestic EV champion as Europe demand picks up.
Went through 307 SaaS tools that market themselves as European or EU based and checked what actually sits under the hood: hosting, CDN, DNS, email, analytics.
Released last week was the Servo 0.3 browser engine release along with their latest Servoshell demo browser. Today the project has published their monthly development recap to highlight all of the interesting changes made.
I donated to the devs of Lemmy for the first time, and discovered what LiberaPay is, but found out they only support American payment methods as of now, which is quite sad. But then, I went to check their GitHub suggestions to see if someone had already asked for it to be implemented, and here is their answer :
On Monday, the US Supreme Court decided in Trump v. Slaughter that the US Federal Trade Commission (โFTCโ) may not be independent anymore. Since 2000, the EU has relied on the โindependentโ FTC as the enforcer of EU-US deals on personal data. According to EU treaty law, such oversight must be independent. In the current EU-US deal, the European Commission relies on the independent FTC 259 (!) times.
๐จ A shocking backroom deal is underway to revive Chat Control 1.0 this Friday โ and on Monday 29 June, the final trilogue for permanent mass scanning takes place. We face a double-attack on private communication. Take two minutes now: e-mail your MEPs and Permanent Representation to stop this!
Interesting numbers from Qobuz, a french music streaming service. But the press releases have slightly different emphasis on being european in the different languages.
So Iโm gonna move into my own place in the near future, and Iโll need a TV. So are there any European manufacturers or brands i should keep in mind when buying one?
I am toying with the idea of buying the GS6 with Murena e/os, but there is very little information about this phone. I was wondering if somebody had tried it
I just stumbled upon this app (though never tried it). It says โThe Buy European appโ is particularly useful when youโre shopping in supermarkets or retail stores.
โFor businesses, consciously choosing an email platform is a matter of strict legislation. For individuals, a different, equally urgent threat looms.โ
When Pรฉter Magyar was campaigning in Hungraryโs industrial cities, before the elections that would land him the Prime Minister job, the countryโs Chinese electric vehicle (EV) and battery plants stopped being just an investment story. A worker was killed during the construction of BYDโs EV plant in Szeged, NGO China Labor Watch launched forced labour investigations, police probed toxic emissions at levels that shocked regulators, and the government was accused of covering it all up.
The European Commissionโs move to restrict funding for projects using high-risk inverter vendors marks a turning point for solar cybersecurity. In this opinionated article, Uri Sadot, founder and CEO of SolarDefend and a longtime renewable energy cybersecurity specialist, explains why banning Chinese inverters may support Europeโs strategic independence, but will not solve the sectorโs cybersecurity challenge. The road to greater security must include clear technical standards, stronger asset visibility and practical implementation of NIS2.
Albanian prosecutors said Saturday they had demanded the arrest of 20 people over alleged drug-trafficking and money-laundering, with media saying some may have ties to a resort project linked to relatives of Donald Trump.
A new Which? investigation has found potentially lethal knock-off chargers still being sold on online marketplaces seven years after the consumer champion first exposed the danger they pose to UK consumers.
German launch company Isar Aerospace has raised โฌ270 million in Series D funding as Europe seeks to strengthen its sovereign space launch capability. The investment, announced on 9 June, will support production of the companyโs Spectrum launch vehicle, expansion of launch infrastructure and international growth. It comes at a time when governments and investors are placing increasing strategic value on technologies that underpin communications, navigation, security and economic resilience.
THE 2026 EUROVISION Song Contest was watched by 131 million viewers, organisers said Friday, down 35 million on the year before after Ireland and four other countries boycotted over Israelโs participation.
The EU is betting big on cloud computing and chips to reduce its technological dependence on the US and China, and to re-enter the global tech race. But whether it will succeed and how the two superpowers will react remain open questions.
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