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The French regulator CNIL has imposed a penalty of 5.2 million euros on ClearView AI, a company that makes facial recognition software. The company did not pay the fine and did not show that it removed Fransen from its database.This…

The Document Foundation has released version 7.5.3 of LibreOffice. This open source office package was created as a spin-off from OpenOffice and comes with the word processor Writer, spreadsheet program Calc, presentation program…

STMicro and GlobalFoundries may receive a subsidy from the French government for the construction of a chip factory. France is allocating 7.4 billion euros for this. The two companies want to run at full capacity in 2027 and then produce…

Cura is being developed by Ultimaker to make 3D printing as easy and streamlined as possible. Cura contains everything you need to print a 3D file. It works with all Ultimaker printers, as well as those from RepRap and Printrbot. Cura…

Apple is fined 8 million euros by the French privacy regulator CNIL. The regulator found that the tech giant was using the identifiers of French iPhone users for advertising purposes in iOS 14.6 without permission.The Commission Nationale…

Arianespace and ESA have launched an independent investigation into the cause of Tuesday evening's failed launch of a Vega C rocket. There was an issue with the second stage of the relatively new European rocket.Arianespace reported…

In times when games are setting new audiovisual standards and getting more and more beautiful, a game like Pentiment is the odd one out. The game can be called artistic, but we are talking about classic visual art. The game takes place in a…

A new development build of Wine has been released with version number 7.21. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API and allows running DOS and Windows programs on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and macOS. A large group of…

Subtitle Edit is an open source program for creating, editing, synchronizing and converting subtitles. Support is available for more than 250 different formats and the program can be used in more than thirty languages. It is being…

Europol and Eurojust, in conjunction with French, Spanish and Latvian authorities, have rounded up a gang of car thieves targeting 'keyless' cars. 31 suspects have been arrested, including software developers, resellers and actual car…