Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

Academic website and blog of Vincent Arel-Bundock.

YouTube video by Democracy Now!

Air 0.10.0 is here! This release rounds up everything new since 0.8.2: a new `assignment-style` option, tighter Positron and RStudio integrations, installation via uv and friends, pre-commit support, ...

European public institutions are betting big on digital sovereignty and open source software. And yet they recently moved their Bluesky accounts to W Social, a private, for profit network owned by Swe...

European public institutions are betting big on digital sovereignty and open source software. And yet they recently moved their Bluesky accounts to W Social, a private, for profit network owned by Swe...

Mapping Earth’s underground mycorrhizal fungal networks — the hidden infrastructure beneath our feet.

For the Cancer Calculus, ICIJ’s data team created datasets using records from patent offices and courts, and analyzed the opaque pricing of a lifesaving drug with a sky-high price tag.

The European Commission has decided not to extend the Digital Markets Act's interoperability rules to social media, closing off a potential pathway for adoption for open social networks.

Introducing a new Rust-powered PDF presenter CLI with features including slide groups, drawing, blackouts, a whiteboard, zooming, and live text boxes with math support.

Bioplastics derived from biomass show promise as sustainable alternatives to petrochemical plastics, but their adoption is hindered by their inferior mechanical properties and processability. Here, th...

Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) is a developer friendly, open access journal for research software packages.

roxygen2 8.0.0 is now on CRAN, with first-class support for S7, a bunch of R6 improvements, a new configuration style, and a slimmer dependency footprint.

VibeVoice is Microsoft's Whisper-style audio model for speech-to-text, MIT licensed and with speaker diarization built into the model. Microsoft released it on January 21st, 2026 but I hadn't tried it...

Ireland is the second richest country in Europe, and this week a single protest shut it down. Here's why.

Le gouvernement a tenu un séminaire interministériel pour accélérer la réduction des dépendances numériques extra-européennes. Il en ressort une migration de Microsoft vers Linux, et un plan d'action ministériel à rendre d'ici l'automne.

Hackaday Article

The open-source initiative promises seamless document compatibility, transparent governance, and reduced dependency on non-European platforms.

Madrid says a renewables boom is shielding its citizens from soaring fossil fuel costs. But that’s not the full story.

Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech

A data model for Git (and other docs updates)