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  • Slashdot: Denmark Is Dumping Microsoft Office and Windows For LibreOffice and Linux

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    Source URL: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/06/12/0335229/denmark-is-dumping-microsoft-office-and-windows-for-libreoffice-and-linux?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Denmark Is Dumping Microsoft Office and Windows For LibreOffice and Linux Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Denmark’s shift from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice highlights a significant movement towards digital sovereignty driven by security, economic, and political factors in the EU. This trend underlines concerns over reliance…

  • Slashdot: Apple Lets Developers Tap Into Its Offline AI Models

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    Source URL: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/06/09/1859253/apple-lets-developers-tap-into-its-offline-ai-models?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Apple Lets Developers Tap Into Its Offline AI Models Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Apple is set to introduce the Foundation Models framework, enabling developers to leverage its AI models on devices while ensuring user privacy and reducing cloud dependency. This innovation allows for personalized experiences…

  • The Register: As Europe eyes move from US hyperscalers, IONOS dismisses scaleability worries

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/06/ionos_dismisses_scalability_worries_interview/ Source: The Register Title: As Europe eyes move from US hyperscalers, IONOS dismisses scaleability worries Feedly Summary: The world has changed. EU hosting CTO says not considering alternatives is ‘negligent’ Interview European cloud providers and software vendors used this week’s Nextcloud summit to insist that not only can workloads be moved from…

  • The Register: AWS forms EU-based cloud unit as customers fret about Trump 2.0

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/aws_european_sovereign_cloud/ Source: The Register Title: AWS forms EU-based cloud unit as customers fret about Trump 2.0 Feedly Summary: Locally run, Euro-controlled, ‘legally independent,’ and ready by the end of 2025 In a nod to European customers’ growing mistrust of American hyperscalers, Amazon Web Services says it is establishing a new organization in the…

  • Cloud Blog: Emulating the air-gapped experience: GDC Sandbox is now generally available

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/hybrid-cloud/using-gdc-sandbox-to-emulate-air-gapped-environments/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Emulating the air-gapped experience: GDC Sandbox is now generally available Feedly Summary: Many organizations in regulated industries and the public sector that want to start using generative AI face significant challenges in adopting cloud-based AI solutions due to stringent regulatory mandates, sovereignty requirements, the need for low-latency processing,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Shisa V2 405B: Japan’s Highest Performing LLM

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/3/shisa-v2/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Shisa V2 405B: Japan’s Highest Performing LLM Feedly Summary: Shisa V2 405B: Japan’s Highest Performing LLM Leonard Lin and Adam Lensenmayer have been working on Shisa for a while. They describe their latest release as “Japan’s Highest Performing LLM". Shisa V2 405B is the highest-performing LLM ever…

  • The Register: Poll of 1,000 senior techies: Euro execs mull use of US clouds

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/28/uk_execs_cloud/ Source: The Register Title: Poll of 1,000 senior techies: Euro execs mull use of US clouds Feedly Summary: IT leaders in region eyeing Amercian hyperscalers escape hatch Amid the economic uncertainty of Trump 2.0, dependence on American tech has become a growing concern for many businesses, and a survey of 1,000 IT…

  • Cloud Blog: Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) & GDC air-gapped appliance achieve DoD Impact Level 6 (IL6) authorization

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-sector/google-distributed-cloud-gdc-gdc-air-gapped-appliance-achieve-dod-impact-level-6-il6-authorization/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) & GDC air-gapped appliance achieve DoD Impact Level 6 (IL6) authorization Feedly Summary: Today, we’re thrilled to announce another significant milestone for our Google Public Sector business: Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) & GDC air-gapped appliance achieved Department of Defense (DoD) Impact Level 6 (IL6)…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-llama-server 0.2

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/28/llama-server-tools/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-llama-server 0.2 Feedly Summary: llm-llama-server 0.2 Here’s a second option for using LLM’s new tool support against local models (the first was via llm-ollama). It turns out the llama.cpp ecosystem has pretty robust OpenAI-compatible tool support already, so my llm-llama-server plugin only needed a quick upgrade to…