43 stories tagged france, newest first.
98 points by noplay | 87 comments
Blast exclusive reporting that French PM Sébastien Lecornu asked Orange, SFR, Free and Bouygues to prepare blocking TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and X before the October 24 protest.
18 points by benbreen | 4 comments
An essay in The Ideas Letter by Nicholas Mulder on historian Marc Bloch, prompted by his induction into the Panthéon in Paris.
45 points by Wilsoniumite | 34 comments
Blog post arguing France's fiscal and bond yield troubles could be addressed by taxing economic rent via a land value tax funding UBI, promoting the author's SSRN paper.
1320 points by farrokhi | 456 comments
Quad9 blog post announcing it will withdraw its free DNS resolver service from France after a French court ruling in favor of beIN ordering DNS blocking.
217 points by emot | 187 comments
IPinfo blog post analyzing internet-exposed supermarket fridge control dashboards, most in France, that were left vulnerable online for months.
132 points by ohjeez | 88 comments
CBS News report that two Renoir paintings stolen from a museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France were found slightly damaged behind a cinder block wall, with a suspect charged via DNA evidence.
25 points by billybuckwheat | 12 comments
RNZ/AFP news article reporting that French supermarkets had refrigerators shut down following an 'unprecedented' cyberattack.
124 points by thinkcontext | 97 comments
AFP news article on Yahoo Finance about French supermarket chains whose refrigerators were shut down by an 'unprecedented' cyberattack.
142 points by cataflam | 87 comments
BBC News article reporting that refrigeration systems in French supermarkets were disrupted by a cyber attack.
43 points by salaryman777 | 4 comments
Reuters article about a cyberattack on French supermarket chain Intermarché in which hackers heated store fridges, causing fires and food losses.
27 points by HotGarbage | 3 comments
TorrentFreak article reporting that a Paris court rejected Canal+'s request for penalties against Cloudflare, accepting that its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver need not block pirate sites.
322 points by CosmoWenman | 190 comments
Cosmo Wenman's Substack post criticizing the court verdict in his legal fight with the Rodin Museum over public access to 3D scans of Rodin sculptures.
8 points by thelastgallon | 2 comments
A YouTube video reporting that the risk premium on French government bonds has risen to levels last seen during the euro-area debt crisis.
44 points by geox | 32 comments
Reuters report that the US told France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face a US export ban; the page showed only a device verification screen.
65 points by thibaut_barrere | 62 comments
Le Monde interview with Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch arguing AI is controllable software and that US giants manipulate the AI risk discourse.
24 points by harscoat | 33 comments
BBC News article on the controversy in France over an award-winning author accused of using AI to write his work.
946 points by aziaziazi | 450 comments
Le Monde article reporting that France will ban unsolicited telemarketing calls from August 11, with fines and a public reporting website.
445 points by saaaaaam | 355 comments
France 24/AFP news report that a massive wildfire in southwest France produced a pyrocumulonimbus cloud, a first for the country according to firefighters.
586 points by pera | 338 comments
Reuters news article reporting that France suspects Israeli firm BlackCore of meddling in elections in New York and Scotland.
379 points by fidotron | 112 comments
France 24 news report that French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, known for 'Persepolis', has died at 56.
383 points by robtherobber | 138 comments
News report that a French government agency confirmed a data breach after a hacker offered the stolen data for sale.
357 points by pabs3 | 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.
340 points by Teever | 151 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that the French government plans to replace Windows with Linux to reduce dependence on US technology.
746 points by embedding-shape | 358 comments
French government press release on accelerating digital sovereignty and reducing dependence on non-European tech, following an interministerial seminar.
561 points by teleforce | 304 comments
Mining.com news article reporting that France has withdrawn the last of its gold reserves held in the US, realizing a $15B gain.
680 points by nar001 | 293 comments
GitHub organization page for La Suite numérique, the French government's set of open-source applications for digital collaboration and teamwork.
1073 points by AareyBaba | 541 comments
AP News article on France replacing Zoom and Microsoft Teams in government as Europe pushes for digital autonomy from US tech companies.
536 points by vikaveri | 1015 comments
BBC News article reporting that Paris prosecutors raided the French offices of Elon Musk's X while the UK opened a new investigation into the Grok AI chatbot.
794 points by bwb | 689 comments
An X (Twitter) post about France planning to replace US videoconferencing tools like Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams; the content did not load.
487 points by nabakin | 157 comments
Mastodon post by La Quadrature du Net criticizing French press articles attacking GrapheneOS as a tool used by drug traffickers.
325 points by begueradj | 441 comments
BBC News article reporting that former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has begun serving a jail sentence for criminal conspiracy over campaign financing.
560 points by bzg | 182 comments
Mastodon post by code.gouv.fr announcing France as the first government to endorse the UN's eight open source principles, listing them.
905 points by hn_acker | 262 comments
EFF Deeplinks post reporting that France's National Assembly rejected a proposed mandate for encryption backdoors in messaging services.
927 points by ctack | 1706 comments
Ukraine Today .org blog post, citing Forbes, reporting that the US is ending support for Ukraine's F-16s and that French Mirage jets could fill the gap.
752 points by abetusk | 271 comments
Cosmo Wenman's Substack post on his seven-year legal campaign to force the Rodin Museum and French Ministry of Culture to release 3D scans, now before the Conseil d'État.
582 points by toss1 | 669 comments
News article on decripto.org reporting the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov on charges including terrorism, fraud and child pornography for not cooperating with authorities.
879 points by NoxiousPluK | 712 comments
Guardian news article reporting that Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov was arrested at a French airport on an arrest warrant after arriving on his private jet.
844 points by bookstore-romeo | 369 comments
Blog post on Heather Meeker's Copyleft Currents about a French court awarding damages for a violation of the GPL open source license.
397 points by cainxinth | 275 comments
Guardian article on French supermarket chain Carrefour labelling products that have shrunk in size without a price cut, to pressure brands over shrinkflation.
449 points by Raed667 | 208 comments
Mozilla Foundation petition opposing France's SREN bill, which would require browsers like Firefox to block government-listed websites.
377 points by u2077 | 331 comments
Peoples Gazette news article reporting that France passed a bill letting police remotely activate suspects' phone cameras, microphones and GPS.
652 points by Bright_Machine | 413 comments
La Quadrature du Net article on the French "8 December" case, where use of encrypted communications and privacy tools was cited as evidence of terrorist behavior.
325 points by carabiner | 159 comments
Homepage of Hexatrek, a long-distance thru-hiking trail across France, with hiking stages, news, and association information.