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Setapp Mobile, one of the first alt iOS app stores launched in 2024 after the EU's DMA, plans to shut down, blaming "still-evolving and complex business terms" (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/15/setapp-mobile-eu-app…

MacPaw Pulls Plug on Setapp Mobile iOS Store, Citing 'Still-Evolving and Complex Business Terms' for...
Ukraine-based developer MacPaw is set to close Setapp Mobile, its alternative app store for iOS devices in the European Union, next month. The...

Increasing amounts of metal, such as lithium, as a byproduct of the modern-day space race, are beginning to alter the chemical composition of Earth’s atmosphere. 
Robin Wing, and his colleagues at the Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Rostock in Germany, measured a 10-fold concentration of lithium atoms in the upper atmosphere around 20 hours after the uncontrolled re-entry of a Falcon 9 rocket.
The findings are detailed in a new studypublished Thursda…

Study Confirms: Reentering SpaceX Rockets Are Peppering the Upper Atmosphere With Metal Pollution
For the first time, scientists were able to directly detect upper-atmospheric pollution from space debris.

«Cloud-Ernüchterung — Zwei Drittel suchen neue Desktop-Virtualisierung:
Eine aktuelle Befragung von IT-Profis zeigt massive Bedenken vor Herstellerabhängigkeit. Zwei Drittel suchen aktiv nach Alternativen zu ihrer DaaS/VDI-Lösung.»
Das ist kein neues Thema und doch wollen viele Firmen ihre Verantwortung abschieben und zahlen dafür immer mehr ohne das es ihnen auffält.
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Cloud-Ernüchterung: Zwei Drittel suchen neue Desktop-Virtualisierung
Eine aktuelle Befragung von IT-Profis zeigt massive Bedenken vor Herstellerabhängigkeit. Zwei Drittel suchen aktiv nach Alternativen zu ihrer DaaS/VDI-Lösung.

"Scotland legalizes water cremation, giving families a greener third option"
#Scotland #Environment

Scotland legalizes water cremation, giving families a greener third option | The Optimist Daily
Scotland is now the first country in the UK to offer alkaline hydrolysis as a legal alternative to burial or traditional cremation.

In Großbritannien überlegen sie sich Alternativen zu Visa und Mastercard...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/16/uk-bank-bosses-plan-visa-mastercard-alternative?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Friends Don't Let Friends Use #Ollama
#LLM

Das SPD-Papier (das noch gar keine beschlossene Fraktions- oder Parteiposition ist, soweit ich sehe) schlägt die europ. digitale Identität via EUDI für verschiedene Altersbegrenzungen für 14- und 16-jährige vor.
Die aber bis 16 ja noch gar keinen Personalausweis haben. Ich habe ein paar Fragen.

It feels like the open source world is fracturing. It used to be if we wanted alternatives to commercial software we could look to open source, but so much of open source software today is using AI.
Sure, some maintainers are saying "I only use it to speed things up, I still review all code before it gets added." but for lots of folks that's not good enough, and they draw a hard line at the use of any AI.
Are we looking at "open source" versus "open …

Democrats that are very ineffective and weak in their opposition to Trump, telling he will be gone in three years, not exactly credible..
#democrats

Democrats seek to reassure Europe about post-Trump America
Opposition politicians flocked to a summit in Munich to offer an alternative to America First - and stake a claim as future party leaders.

Nvidia says game developers have full "artistic control over DLSS 5's effects", following backlash alleging that the AI upscaling tech altered source material (Tyler Wilde/PC Gamer)
https://www.pcgamer.com/soft…

DLSS 5 clearly overwrites game characters with AI beauty standards, but Nvidia says devs have 'artistic control'
The first demo for Nvidia's new AI rendering technique doesn't do much to combat the perception that generative AI homogenizes artwork.