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Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on an Org Mode

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-23 05:55:35

Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on an Org Mode file over HTTP. Quickstart Create a file called social.org . M-x find-file RET social.org RET Edit the file and add your basic information: #+TITLE: Bob's journal #+NICK: Bob #+DESCRIPTION: I'm a software developer and I love open source. #+AVATAR: https://my-awesome-website.com/avatar.jpg #+LINK: https://my-awesome-website.com #+FOLLOW: foo http://foo.org/social.org #+FOLLOW: jane https://jane.com/social.org * Posts ** :

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Our European search index goes live

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 02:12:47

We’ve started delivering search results from our new European-based search index to Ecosia users! This will help us build the kind of ethical and fair internet we believe in. Last year we launched European Search Perspective (EUSP) , a joint venture with Qwant. The launch marked a big step forward in our journey towards tech independence and digital sovereignty for Europe. Now, we’ve taken the next step: our users in France are receiving a portion of their search results directly from EUSP’s o

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The Emperor's New Trade Deal – Paul Krugman

news.ycombinator.com Paul Krugman 2025-12-07 09:26:33

On Tuesday Donald Trump went on CNBC to explain why the European Union is facing a tariff of “only” 15 percent. But what he said was simply delusional — and the delusion should be even more concerning than the tariffs. The Europeans, Trump asserted, had agreed to cough up $600 billion, which he described as a “gift,” not a loan. And he emphasized that this is “$600 billion to invest in anything I want. Anything. I can do anything I want with it.” So Trump apparently believes that the European

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Qwant and Ecosia debut Staan, a European search index that aims to take on Big Tech

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-10 04:45:38

European search engines Qwant and Ecosia said on Wednesday that they have both started serving search queries through an index they developed together, Staan, which aims to be a cheaper, more privacy-focused alternative to Google and Bing. Last year, French privacy-focused search engine Qwant struck a joint venture with German non-profit search engine Ecosia, to develop a European search index. Called European Search Perspective (EUSP), the JV now aims to serve around 50% of French queries and

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The EU AI Act aims to create a level playing field for AI innovation: Here’s what it is

techcrunch.com Anna Heim 2025-12-11 11:24:10

The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act, known as the EU AI Act, has been described by the European Commission as “the world’s first comprehensive AI law.” After years in the making, it is progressively becoming a part of reality for the 450 million people living in the 27 countries that comprise the EU. The EU AI Act, however, is more than a European affair. It applies to companies both local and foreign, and it can affect both providers and deployers of AI systems; the European Commi

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The EU AI Act aims to create a level playing field for AI innovation. Here’s what it is.

techcrunch.com Anna Heim 2025-12-11 17:24:10

The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act, known as the EU AI Act, has been described by the European Commission as “the world’s first comprehensive AI law.” After years in the making, it is progressively becoming a part of reality for the 450 million people living in the 27 countries that comprise the EU. The EU AI Act, however, is more than a European affair. It applies to companies both local and foreign, and it can affect both providers and deployers of AI systems; the European Commi

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AWS European Sovereign Cloud to be operated by EU citizens

news.ycombinator.com Written 2025-12-13 05:44:58

The AWS European Sovereign Cloud will be the only fully-featured, independently operated sovereign cloud, backed by strong technical controls, sovereign assurances and legal protections. It will have no critical dependencies on non-EU infrastructure, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud is operated only by personnel who are European Union (EU) residents located in the EU, subject to EU law. Based on evolving customer requirements for digital sovereignty in Europe, we are adding EU citizenship t

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Lyft and China’s Baidu look to bring robotaxis to Europe next year

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-12-14 22:55:05

Lyft’s European expansion will include Chinese-made robotaxis. The U.S. ride-hailing company announced Monday it has made a strategic partnership with Baidu to deploy the Chinese tech giant’s Apollo Go autonomous vehicles across several European markets. The companies want to launch robotaxi services in Germany and the United Kingdom in 2026, pending regulatory approval. If approved, Baidu’s RT6 vehicles, which are equipped with its Apollo Go self-driving system, will be integrated into Lyft

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Baidu plans to expand its robotaxis to Europe with Lyft deal

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-12-15 08:00:07

Baidu will bring its driverless taxis to Europe next year via a partnership with U.S. ridehailing firm Lyft , as the Chinese tech giant looks to expand its autonomous vehicles globally. The robotaxis will initially be deployed in the U.K. and Germany from 2026 with the aim to have "thousands" of vehicles across Europe in the "following years," the two companies said. Lyft has had very little presence in Europe until last week when it closed the acquisition of Germany-based ride hailing company

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Google will sign EU's AI Code of Practice

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-22 22:07:41

Google says it will sign the European Union’s new AI Code of Practice, which provides a framework for compliance with the EU’s AI Act. The act itself was passed in 2024, but its many provisions will take months to years to come into effect. The non-binding Code of Practice is a voluntary measure intended to help ensure that companies generally meet the obligations laid out by the Act in the meantime. In a blog post announcing Google’s participation, the tech giant shared some skepticism about t

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Big Tech split? Google to sign EU’s AI guidelines despite Meta snub

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-12-23 15:33:31

Google on Wednesday said it will sign the European Union's guidelines on artificial intelligence, which Meta previously rebuffed due to concerns they could stifle innovation. In a blog post, Google said it planned to sign the code in the hope that it would promote European citizens' access to advanced new AI tools, as they become available. Google's endorsement comes after Meta recently said it would refuse to sign the code over concerns that it could constrain European AI innovation. "Prompt

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Trump claims Europe won’t make Big Tech pay ISPs; EU says it still might

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-24 11:52:40

The White House said yesterday that the European Union agreed to scrap a controversial proposal to make online platforms pay for telecom companies' broadband network upgrades and expansions. But European officials have not confirmed the White House claim, and a European Commission spokesperson said the issue must go through the legislative process. A White House fact sheet on President Trump's trade deal with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen contains a brief reference to Europ

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This founder left Silicon Valley to challenge US defense supremacy from Athens, and investors are paying attention

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-12-25 03:05:34

In the summer of 2021, Dimitrios Kottas made a move that would be unfathomable to most Silicon Valley engineers: after leaving his coveted position as an engineering manager at Apple’s Special Projects Group, he packed up his life in California and moved back to Athens to start a defense company. Three and a half years later, his startup, Delian Alliance Industries, has set up solar-powered surveillance towers that monitor some of Greece’s borders around the clock and detect wildfires on remote

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This founder left Silicon Valley to challenge U.S. defense supremacy from Athens, and investors are paying attention

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-12-26 03:05:34

In the summer of 2021, Dimitrious Kottas made a move that would be unfathomable to most Silicon Valley engineers: after leaving his coveted position at Apple’s Special Projects Group, he packed up his life in California and moved back to Athens to start a defense company. Three and a half years later, his startup, Delian Alliance Industries, has set up solar-powered surveillance towers that monitor some of Greece’s borders around the clock and detect wildfires on remote islands, along with a pi

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The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League

news.ycombinator.com Agree Ahmed 2025-12-24 23:36:04

Today, we typically think of coalitions in the context of modern electoral politics. So it might be surprising that one of the greatest case studies in the history of coalitions is a community of medieval German merchants known as the Hansa. Starting as individual traveling traders, the Hansa built up coalitions for collective bargaining, collective action, and collective security. Through this process, they formed Northern Europe’s first ever long-distance trade network. Without corporate str

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The Rise and Fall of the Hanseatic League

news.ycombinator.com Agree Ahmed 2025-12-25 05:36:04

Today, we typically think of coalitions in the context of modern electoral politics. So it might be surprising that one of the greatest case studies in the history of coalitions is a community of medieval German merchants known as the Hansa. Starting as individual traveling traders, the Hansa built up coalitions for collective bargaining, collective action, and collective security. Through this process, they formed Northern Europe’s first ever long-distance trade network. Without corporate str

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60 Italian Mayors Want to Be the Unlikely Solution to Self-Driving Cars in Europe

wired.com Antonio Dini 2025-12-28 22:00:00

The future of self-driving cars in Italy it seems needs not only technology but also (possibly above all) political backing. The good news, then, is that more than 60 mayors in Italy have decided to take the field for the cars of the future. On July 14, in the hall of the MEET Digital Culture Center in Milan, Pierfrancesco Maran, a member of the European Parliament for the Italian Democratic Party, launched the Autonomous Driving: Italy in the Front Row initiative, which has backing from admini

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Estonia's tech elite are getting behind a European challenger to Robinhood

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2026-01-03 12:13:19

Some of the biggest names of Estonia's tech scene are backing Lightyear, a startup looking to become Europe's answer to commission-free trading pioneer Robinhood . Based in London, Lightyear develops an app that lets users invest in a range of over 5,000 stocks, exchange-traded funds and money market funds. It was founded by two former Wise employees, Martin Sokk and Mihkel Aamer, in 2021. The company is set to announce later on Thursday that it has raised $23 million in a new round of funding

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CARA – High precision robot dog using rope

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-03 22:38:20

Finding the Exact 8:1 Gear Ratio The starting point of this project was figuring out how to achieve an exact 8:1 gear ratio with the capstan drives. In my capstan drive video, I designed all the drives to have an 8:1 gear ratio—but when measured, none of them actually did. The commenters on that video pretty accurately diagnosed my mistake. I had made the outer diameter of the big drum 8 times larger than the outer diameter of the small drum, but this doesn't account for the diameter of the rop

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Cara – High Precision Robot Dog Using Rope

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-04 22:38:20

Finding the Exact 8:1 Gear Ratio The starting point of this project was figuring out how to achieve an exact 8:1 gear ratio with the capstan drives. In my capstan drive video, I designed all the drives to have an 8:1 gear ratio—but when measured, none of them actually did. The commenters on that video pretty accurately diagnosed my mistake. I had made the outer diameter of the big drum 8 times larger than the outer diameter of the small drum, but this doesn't account for the diameter of the rop

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Digital vassals? French Government ‘exposes citizens’ data to US'

news.ycombinator.com Anne-Laure Dufeal 2026-01-11 00:26:09

France’s deepening reliance on US tech giants is raising alarms about digital sovereignty and exposing public data to foreign jurisdictions. In a French Senate report on economic and digital sovereignty, Senators accused the French State of “political fault”. That was in regard to outsourcing essential data infrastructure to US companies subject to US extraterritorial laws, including Microsoft, despite repeated warnings and alternatives. “France is subject to US extraterritorial law,” the repo

Topics: data eu european french report

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Digital vassals? French Government 'exposes citizens' data to US'

news.ycombinator.com Anne-Laure Dufeal 2026-01-11 12:26:09

France’s deepening reliance on US tech giants is raising alarms about digital sovereignty and exposing public data to foreign jurisdictions. In a French Senate report on economic and digital sovereignty, Senators accused the French State of “political fault”. That was in regard to outsourcing essential data infrastructure to US companies subject to US extraterritorial laws, including Microsoft, despite repeated warnings and alternatives. “France is subject to US extraterritorial law,” the repo

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Meta says it won’t sign Europe AI agreement, calling it an overreach

news.ycombinator.com Samantha Subin 2026-01-10 16:56:37

Meta Platforms declined to sign the European Union's artificial intelligence code of practice because it is an overreach that will "stunt" companies, according to global affairs chief Joel Kaplan. "Europe is heading down the wrong path on AI," Kaplan wrote in a post Friday on LinkedIn. "This code introduces a number of legal uncertainties for model developers, as well as measures which go far beyond the scope of the AI Act." Last week, the European Commission, the executive body of the EU, pub

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Meta says it won't sign the EU's AI code of practice

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-11 00:01:32

Meta said on Friday that it won't sign the European Union's new AI code of practice. The guidelines provide a framework for the EU's AI Act, which regulates companies operating in the European Union. The EU's code of practice is voluntary, so Meta was under no legal obligation to sign it. Yet Meta's Chief Global Affairs Officer, Joel Kaplan, made a point to publicly knock the guidelines on Friday. He described the code as "over-reach." "Europe is heading down the wrong path on AI," Kaplan post

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Meta says it wont sign Europe AI agreement, calling it growth stunting overreach

news.ycombinator.com Samantha Subin 2026-01-12 16:56:37

Meta Platforms declined to sign the European Union's artificial intelligence code of practice because it is an overreach that will "stunt" companies, according to global affairs chief Joel Kaplan. "Europe is heading down the wrong path on AI," Kaplan wrote in a post Friday on LinkedIn. "This code introduces a number of legal uncertainties for model developers, as well as measures which go far beyond the scope of the AI Act." Last week, the European Commission, the executive body of the EU, pub

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Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement, calling it an overreach that will stunt growth

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2026-01-13 08:22:52

Meta Platforms declined to sign the European Union's artificial intelligence code of practice because it is an overreach that will "stunt" companies, according to global affairs chief Joel Kaplan. "Europe is heading down the wrong path on AI," Kaplan wrote in a post on LinkedIn Friday. "This code introduces a number of legal uncertainties for model developers, as well as measures which go far beyond the scope of the AI Act." Last week, the European Commission published a final iteration of its

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Rocket Report: SpaceX won’t land at Johnston Atoll; new North Sea launch site

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-14 09:15:11

Welcome to Edition 8.03 of the Rocket Report! We are at an interesting stage in Europe, with its efforts to commercialize spaceflight. Finally, it seems the long-slumbering continent is waking up to the need to leverage private capital to drive down the costs of space access, and we are seeing more investment flow into European companies. But it is critical that European policymakers make strategic investments across the industry or companies like PLD Space, which outlined big plans this week, w

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Sony phones are disappearing across key markets: Is the Xperia era coming to an end?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-22 21:55:47

Alex Walker-Todd / Android Authority TL;DR Sony may be on the verge of completely exiting the European market. The company has already confirmed a full retreat from Finland, but its devices are no longer available through official channels in multiple European countries. Sony’s smartphone presence looks just as weak outside of Europe, with the mobile phone category completely wiped off from its US website. Sony may be heading toward a full retreat from the smartphone market, with clear signs

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Rocket Lab stock jumps nearly 11%, building on strong rally

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2026-01-23 12:07:48

An Electron rocket launches the Baby Come Back mission from New Zealand on July 17, 2023. Rocket Lab stock soared nearly 11% Monday, building on a strong run fueled by space innovation. Shares of the space infrastructure company have nearly doubled over the past two months following a slew of successful launches and a deal with the European Union. The stock is up 63% year to date after surging nearly sixfold in 2024. Shares have skyrocketed nearly 70% over the last month. Last month, Rocket

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Musk's xAI faces European scrutiny over Grok's 'horrific' antisemitic posts

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2026-01-23 16:54:00

The Grok logo is being displayed on a smartphone with Xai visible in the background in this photo illustration on April 1, 2024. The European Union on Monday called in representatives from Elon Musk's xAI after the company's social network X, and chatbot Grok, generated and spread anti-semitic hate speech, including praise for Adolf Hitler, last week. A spokesperson for the European Commission told CNBC via e-mail that a technical meeting will take place on Tuesday. xAI did not immediately re

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Latest Tech News

Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on an Org Mode

Our European search index goes live

The Emperor's New Trade Deal – Paul Krugman

Qwant and Ecosia debut Staan, a European search index that aims to take on Big Tech

The EU AI Act aims to create a level playing field for AI innovation: Here’s what it is

The EU AI Act aims to create a level playing field for AI innovation. Here’s what it is.

AWS European Sovereign Cloud to be operated by EU citizens

Lyft and China’s Baidu look to bring robotaxis to Europe next year

Baidu plans to expand its robotaxis to Europe with Lyft deal

Google will sign EU's AI Code of Practice

Big Tech split? Google to sign EU’s AI guidelines despite Meta snub

Trump claims Europe won’t make Big Tech pay ISPs; EU says it still might

This founder left Silicon Valley to challenge US defense supremacy from Athens, and investors are paying attention

This founder left Silicon Valley to challenge U.S. defense supremacy from Athens, and investors are paying attention

The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League

The Rise and Fall of the Hanseatic League

60 Italian Mayors Want to Be the Unlikely Solution to Self-Driving Cars in Europe

Estonia's tech elite are getting behind a European challenger to Robinhood

CARA – High precision robot dog using rope

Cara – High Precision Robot Dog Using Rope

Digital vassals? French Government ‘exposes citizens’ data to US'

Digital vassals? French Government 'exposes citizens' data to US'

Meta says it won’t sign Europe AI agreement, calling it an overreach

Meta says it won't sign the EU's AI code of practice

Meta says it wont sign Europe AI agreement, calling it growth stunting overreach

Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement, calling it an overreach that will stunt growth

Rocket Report: SpaceX won’t land at Johnston Atoll; new North Sea launch site

Sony phones are disappearing across key markets: Is the Xperia era coming to an end?

Rocket Lab stock jumps nearly 11%, building on strong rally

Musk's xAI faces European scrutiny over Grok's 'horrific' antisemitic posts

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