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Euro-Office Wants To Replace Google Docs and Microsoft Office

Yesterday at 18:00 PM, via Slashdot

Euro-Office is a new open-source project supported by several European companies that aims to offer a “truly open, transparent and sovereign solution for collaborate document editing,” using OnlyOffice as a starting point. The project is positioned around European digital independence and familiar Office-style editing, though it has already drawn pushback from OnlyOffice over alleged licensing...

US Paves Way For Private Assets To Be Included In 401(k) Retirement Plans

Yesterday at 17:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The Trump administration on Monday issued a long-awaited proposed rule to open up retirement plans to alternative assets, paving the way for private equity and cryptocurrencies to be added to 401(k) accounts. The measure, announced by the U.S. Department of Labor, is intended to ease longstanding barriers to incorporating these less liquid and...

AI Has Flooded All the Weather Apps

Yesterday at 15:00 PM, via Wired

Weather forecasting has gotten a big boost from machine learning. How that translates into what users see can vary.

‘Should never have been prescribed’: private UK cannabis clinics face call for tighter regulation

Yesterday at 14:51 PM, via The Guardian

Family pushing for greater controls after inquest finds Oliver Robinson’s prescription was ‘obstacle’ to proper care

Oliver Robinson felt he had exhausted conventional therapies when he left the Priory, a private mental health facility where he was treated for depression and addiction between 2019 and 2022. Initially he found relief from a new kind of prescription elsewhere. But by the time he...

Ozow appoints chief risk and governance officer

Yesterday at 13:59 PM, via ITWeb

Tendi Nyathi moves from her current role as chief legal officer into the newly created position, which consolidates governance, risk and legal functions under one leadership role.

Government steps in as fuel shock hits

Yesterday at 13:38 PM, via TechCentral

Diesel will still cost up to R7.51/l more from Wednesday despite the intervention as the Iran war roils global markets.

Quadratic Gravity Theory Reshapes Quantum View of Big Bang

Yesterday at 13:00 PM, via Slashdot

Researchers at the University of Waterloo say a new “quadratic quantum gravity” framework could explain the universe’s rapid early expansion without adding extra ingredients to Einstein’s theory by hand. The idea is especially notable because it makes testable predictions, including a minimum level of primordial gravitational waves that future experiments may be able to detect. “Even though...

‘This feels fragile’: how a satellite-smashing chain reaction could spiral out of control

Yesterday at 12:15 PM, via The Guardian

Today, the space around Earth can no longer be considered empty. More than 30,000 objects are in orbit, and that figure is rising exponentially

Some reports suggest that by the end of this decade there could more than 60,000 active satellites in space. Launch by launch, what began with a handful of scientific and military spacecraft has accelerated into a constant flow of objects, publicly and...

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