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The European Commission's push for digital sovereignty is running into a very human problem. Staff have reportedly soured on the Commission's in-house alternative to Microsoft Teams, with a new report suggesting the platform simply isn't meeting the day-to-day demands of a large bureaucracy. It's a familiar tension between political principle and practical reality.
Shifting to a story with more serious stakes, a researcher at a Russian plague laboratory has died from what officials are describing only as an unknown infection. The incident, reported in two thousand twenty six, is drawing attention to biosafety conditions at high-containment facilities, and the lack of transparency around the cause is raising questions that go well beyond Russia's borders.
And on a lighter but genuinely interesting note for the vintage computing crowd, a project called MacSurf is making waves. It's a browser built for classic Macintosh systems that can actually render the modern web, bridging nearly four decades of computing history. Whether it's nostalgia or engineering curiosity driving it, the fact that it works at all says something about how far web standards have come.
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