Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment(lesnumeriques.com)

886 points by healsdata 5 months ago | 700 comments

Les Numériques article (French) reporting that 130 million Europeans will move to a fully sovereign European payment system from 2026, reducing reliance on Visa and Mastercard.

France's tax authority had data stolen on 680k taxpayers(korben.info)

38 points by rzk 2 months ago | 17 comments

Quebec Ministry of Cybersecurity and Digital Technology employee data leaked(journaldemontreal.com)

27 points by matbilodeau 3 years ago | 15 comments

Homage to Alexander Grothendieck(igrothendieck.org)

84 points by jjgreen 1 year ago | 6 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite(github.com)

680 points by nar001 8 months ago | 293 comments

GitHub organization page for La Suite numérique, the French government's set of open-source applications for digital collaboration and teamwork.

Algeria cuts internet nationwide during the baccalaureat exams(tsa-algerie.com)

119 points by zvmaz 3 years ago | 122 comments

France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk(xda-developers.com)

357 points by pabs3 6 months ago | 197 comments

XDA Developers article reporting that the French government is moving from Windows to Linux, citing dependence on US tech as a strategic risk.

France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech(techcrunch.com)

340 points by Teever 6 months ago | 151 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that the French government plans to replace Windows with Linux to reduce dependence on US technology.

French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data(bleepingcomputer.com)

383 points by robtherobber 6 months ago | 138 comments

News report that a French government agency confirmed a data breach after a hacker offered the stolen data for sale.

France rejects backdoor mandate(eff.org)

905 points by hn_acker 1 year ago | 262 comments

EFF Deeplinks post reporting that France's National Assembly rejected a proposed mandate for encryption backdoors in messaging services.

Petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Firefox to censor websites(foundation.mozilla.org)

449 points by Raed667 3 years ago | 208 comments

Mozilla Foundation petition opposing France's SREN bill, which would require browsers like Firefox to block government-listed websites.

2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop(xeiaso.net)

767 points by todsacerdoti 9 months ago | 572 comments

Xe Iaso's blog note announcing a switch from Windows 11 to Fedora Linux as their main desktop OS in 2026, criticizing Microsoft's recent Windows changes.