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Wildfires force more than 200,000 people in France and Spain to flee
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260724-spain-declares-state-of-emergency-and-france-seeks-eu-help-as-wildfires-rage

Spain declares state of emergency and France seeks EU help as wildfires rage
Wildfires fuelled by extreme heat and strong winds swept across western Europe on Friday, forcing thousands to evacuate in France, triggering a state of emergency in Spain's Madrid region and prompting Paris to seek emergency assistance from the European Union.

A patient in France has tested positive for Ebola
after returning from a humanitarian mission in an area where the virus is circulating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),
the French Health Ministry said on Wednesday.
It marks the first reported case in France
and the first to test positive outside of Africa
amid the second large Ebola outbreak on record in DRC.
The outbreak is driven by the rare Bundibugyo strain of the virus,
which has …

France reports first Ebola case in patient who returned from humanitarian visit to DRC
A patient in France has tested positive for Ebola after returning from a humanitarian mission in an area where the virus is circulating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

President Emmanuel Macron says France will invest an additional €1B for quantum computing research and a further €550M in state funding for semiconductors (France 24)
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260522-france-announces-bill…

What are you going to do with solar and wind turbines if there is no sun or wind?
Meanwhile in France:
https://www.euronews.com/2026/06/25/france-takes-nuclear-reactors-offline-amid-record-heatwave

A Quarter of a Million people evacuated.
That's like half of Manchester.
France and Spain race to control wildfires as more than 250,000 evacuated – live | Wildfires | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/202

France and Spain race to control wildfires as more than 250,000 evacuated – live
Meanwhile, in the UK, a blaze in the Cairngorms national park has been described as ‘very serious’ by Scotland’s first minister

Even in France, nuclear isn't 100% reliable: three sites taken off-line because of the extreme heat
https://www.franceinfo.fr/environnement/ev

Trois réacteurs nucléaires sont à l'arrêt en France en raison de la canicule
Après la centrale de Golfech (Tarn-et-Garonne), deux autres réacteurs nucléaires ont été arrêtés, au Bugey (Ain) et à Nogent-sur-Seine (Aube).

Ah, those relaxing beach holidays in the south of France...
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/europe/europe-wildfires-france-spain-evacuations-national-emergency-rcna589025

France defends abstention on UN slave trade resolution | Slavery | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/4/25/france-defends-abstention-on-un-slave-trade-resolution

Macron mobilises French military as ‘unprecedented’ wildfire approaches Bordeaux. 44,000 people evacuated here; over 100,000 in total in SW-Framce.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260724-thousands-forced-to-…

Live: More than 40,000 evacuated in southwestern France as wildfire remains out of control
More than 40,000 were evacuated from southwestern France over the past two days as wildfires continued to sweep through the region and were not yet under control, the local prefect said Friday. Spain’s…

N'oublions pas
Vrbanja, l'assaut de la dignité Documentaire en replay La France en Vrai Bretagne France TV - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA2wZecgRsU

Alors les gens en France qui sont exposés Š la canicule, est-ce que ça réveille les mentalités Š propos du fait que le changement climatique c'est mal et qu'il serait temps de s'y confronter avant que ça empire?
... ou pas?
#ChangementClimatique #France

France becomes the first European country to pass a law banning social media access for users under 15, which could go into effect as soon as September 1 (Mark Landler/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/world/e

France Joins a Global Move Toward Restricting Social Media for Children
Its new law, the first of its kind enacted by a European country, will ban access to some accounts for anyone under 15.

Le Monde hat eine ständig aktualisierte Karte der Brände in Europa und Nordafrika.
https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2026/07/23/la-carte-en-temps-reel-des-incen…

Hmmm...so three French travel websites were hacked over the weekend by a supposed white hat hacker who says they wanted to show how vulnerable France is to cyber attacks.
Gîtes de France among three booking websites to be hit by cyberattack
https://www.…

Gîtes de France cyberattack: 389,000 clients affected in France booking data breach
Gîtes de France is the latest travel site hit in a France cyberattack, with hackers accessing data linked to 389,000 clients. The breach is one of three booking website attacks affecting more than two million bookings over the weekend.

"France records hottest day ever as 40 people drown across country"
#France #Heatwave #Climate #ClimateChange

France records hottest day ever as 40 people drown across country
National weather service, Météo-France, says Tuesday was the hottest day since measurements began in 1947

"French weather service says temperature hit 44.3C in Pissos as heat forces Louvre and Eiffel Tower to close early."
That is hot. 32° here where I am in England, and that is far too hot.
France records hottest day ever as 40 people drown across country | Europe weather | The Guardian
https://www.…

Forty drown across France in heatwave and parts of Spain above 30C at night
France has its hottest night on record, 15 Italian cities under red heat alert and UN chief says London is ‘cooking’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/22/france-recorded-more-than-5700-excess-deaths-during-june-heatwave

France recorded more than 5,700 excess deaths during June heatwave
Figures come as large parts of southern Europe endure another record-breaking period of extreme temperatures

Psycho killer corp but make it EU®opean.
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-germany-want-to-develop-a-palantir-rival/

France, Germany vow to develop Palantir rival
A top NATO commander said recently there was no real European alternative.

Ich plane Ende September die AnaEE Science Conference zu besuchen, eine europäische Fachkonferenz für Ökosystemforschung, experimentelle Ökologie und Klimafolgenforschung. Sie bringt Forscher und politische Entscheidungsträger zusammen, um Strategien für eine widerstandsfähige Zukunft von Ökosystemen zu entwickeln.
Falls ihr auch dort seid oder Eure Forschung dazu Bezug hat, freue ich mich über einen Tröt!

France Salutes America, Flying Over Statue of Liberty–Launching Month of Celebrations for 250 Years of Friendship https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/france-salutes-america-flying-over-statue-of-liberty-for-250th-anniv/

ooh they’re playing the specials on radio france

In 1994, Eros Poli defied all odds to ascend legendary Mont Ventoux to a solo breakaway victory on a brutally hot day in the 15th stage of the Tour de France.
#TdF…

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France becomes the first European country to pass a law banning social media access for users under 15, potentially going into effect as soon as September 1 (Mark Landler/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/world/e…

France Joins a Global Move Toward Restricting Social Media for Children
Its new law, the first of its kind enacted by a European country, will ban access to some accounts for anyone under 15.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/opinion/holocaust-france-photographs-1941.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jVA.2PsG.YqhclfA3BJ62&smid=nytcore-android-share

Opinion | France Has a New Picture of the Holocaust
A new collection of propaganda photos shows the first roundup of Jews in Paris, in 1941.

Climate-fueled wildfires strike again:
20,000 tourists (mostly) evacuated from the French coastal region of the Gironde, near Bordeaux.
https://www.bfmtv.com/meteo/secheresse/direct-…

DIRECT. Incendies en France: le feu en Gironde a désormais parcouru 3.400 hectares
Un feu très virulent sévit depuis mercredi à proximité du bassin d'Arcachon en Gironde. Des évacuations, à titre préventif, sont menées par la préfecture. Dans le Var, les pompiers n'ont toujours pas fixé l'incendie "contenu" ce jeudi 23 juillet, alors que l'inquiétude est ravivée par les conditions...

Ausfall bei der Tour - Horrorverletzung nach Sturz mit 20 Stichen genäht #News #Nachrichten

France follows England in measuring hottest spring on record #France

France follows England in measuring hottest spring on record
France experienced its hottest spring on record, the country's weather service said Tuesday, after an exceptional early heat wave that also broke seasonal highs in England and Wales.

Each week, Metacurity offers our subscribers a run-down of the top infosec-related long reads we couldn't get to in the daily crush of news.
This week's selection covers
--France grapples with an unprecedented wave of data breaches,
--AI voice systems can be manipulated with malicious audio,
--Big Tech is backing a massive spying operation in Seattle,
-- Russia overreached on the cybercrime convention,
--Framing AI as an arms race threatens safety an…

Losing control of the systems meant to secure society - Best infosec long reads 5/23/26
France grapples with an unprecedented wave of data breaches, AI voice systems can be manipulated with malicious audio, Big Tech is backing a massive spying operation in Seattle, Russia overreached on the cybercrime convention, Framing AI as an arms race threatens safety and accountability

Popular Front recently did a piece on the current conflicts in Ethiopia:
https://popularfront.substack.com/p/everything-you-didnt-know-about-the
It's a good primer for anyone who's unfamiliar, but is definitely lacking if you know any Ethiopian folks or pay attention to much news out of the Horn of Africa.
The interplay between authoritarian liberal nationalism, as represented by Abiy Ahmed and his government, and tribal federalism , represented by various tribal factions, reads to me very similarly to the liberalization of Europe (enclosure of the commons, a push to sacrifice ethnic identities for nationalist ones, etc). Like the liberalization of, say, France, it's a lot more complicated than "old thing bad, new thing good."
Liberalism was violent and authoritarian. It often sacrificed leftists. Liberalism's focus on borders and national identity led directly to pogroms and Nazism. Similarly, liberalization of Ethiopia has led to genocide and ethnic cleansing.
People think of "the terror" in France as a leftist thing, but it wasn't. It was a Liberal thing, centrist extremism, carried out against right and left.
I understand that tribal federalism is also not a good system, but I don't have a ton of depth so I'm not going to try to explain it. During the European Liberal revolutionary period of 1848, ethnic minorities would often side with some monarch or emperor against liberalism out of fear of liberal nationalism. It makes sense to support a system that's bad if your other option is a nationalism that erases your identity.
But even in Europe at that time, anarchism offered an alternative but that alternative often also drew from simply a different branch of liberalism that also suppressed culture and identity. Today the world is different. Democratic Confederalism offers a solution to *exactly* this problem, tested for more than a decade in Syria and developing now in Myanmar.
But the cross pollination between Syria and Myanmar in terms of fighters really made the ideological cross pollination possible. I don't think anything like that is happening now in Ethiopia.
Eurocentrism makes it easy to ignore what's happening now, but Addis Ababa is the seat of the African Union Commission. Ethiopia is a major military power in the region, so these developments carry a lot of weight. Especially as the US collapses and the world becomes more multipolar, the development of regional powers like Ethiopia will have a big impact on how that part of the continent develops.
If any folks are more familiar with Ethiopia than I am (which shouldn't be hard since I'm basically not), please correct me or add context if anything is missing or wrong.

"Spain, France and Portugal miss out on top 10 most climate-resilient capitals – see full list"
#Spain #France #Portugal

This Nordic city has been crowned EU’s most climate-resilient capital
Europe has been identified as the planet’s fastest-warming continent, underlining the ‘urgency’ to reduce emissions and strengthen climate resilience.

"By the end of May 2026, petrol car registrations declined by 18.2%, with decreases across all major markets. France recorded the sharpest drop, with registrations plummeting by 36.8%, whereas other key markets also saw double-digit decreases [..] In addition, the diesel car market continued its downward trend [.] with registrations declining by 16.6%"

Info partout, Musique nulle part... 😡 Les bouseux en centre bretagne ne peuvent plus écouter France Musique sur leurs vieux tromblons de postes de radio / autoradios. C'était la dernière radio de service public que j'avais plaisir Š écouter régulièrement. Est-ce que j'ai une tête Š m'équiper en dab pour mon Berlingo Š de 450000 km ? (va de ce pas vérifier les tarifs, on ne sait jamais) #RadioFrance

"Présidentielle 2027 : comment Matignon négocie avec les banques françaises pour qu’elles acceptent de financer la campagne de Marine Le Pen"
... Quoi???!
https://www.

Présidentielle 2027 : comment Matignon négocie avec les banques françaises pour qu’elles acceptent de financer la campagne de Marine Le Pen
Un consortium de banques devrait permettre à la candidate d’extrême droite d’obtenir un emprunt en France. Le premier ministre est disposé à ce que ce prêt soit partiellement garanti par l’Etat, par le biais de la prochaine loi de finances.

U.S. Ambassador to France,
Charles Kushner,
whose son Jared is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka,
clashed with his French hosts weeks after arriving last July
when he accused them of not doing enough to combat antisemitism.
Nearly a year later, he contends the problem has gotten worse
— so much so that he has suggested the Trump administration grant refugee status to French Jews, even as it otherwise scales back asylum provision.
“It would be an obje…

Charles Kushner, U.S. Ambassador to France, Riles Paris With Trump Diplomacy
The U.S. envoy to Paris has emerged as the embodiment of combative diplomacy in the age of President Trump, riling the French establishment notably with his accusations of antisemitism.

France Moves to Break Encrypted Messaging
Seems every "democratic" government is jealous of the totalitarians. And totally tech ignorant.
https://reclaimthenet.org/france-moves-to-break-encrypted-messaging

France Moves to Break Encrypted Messaging
France's parliament just endorsed the one idea every cryptographer on earth has already debunked and they're calling it a compromise.

⚽️ Finale de la coupe de France du Ven 22 mai
Pour accéder au Stade de France, portes A, B, C, D, E, H, X, Y, Z : prendre RER B ou ligne 12 du métro. Portes J, K, L, N, R, S, T, U : prendre ligne 13 du métro. Portes T, U, X, Y, Z : prendre RER D ou ligne 14 du métro.
🤖 22/05 21:30

Donc, pour éviter le blackout, il nous faut absolument construire de nouvelles centrales nucléaires en Suisse?
https://www.rts.ch/info/environnement/2026/article/canicule-en-france-des-reacteurs-a-l-arret-et-des-in…

What Tour de France Riders Eat During the Race https://www.bicycling.com/tour-de-france/a71806549/tour-de-france-nutrition-rider-food/

What Tour de France Riders Actually Eat During the Race
Learn what Tour de France riders eat and drink before, during, and after each stage to fuel performance and recovery.

Unless it comes from the Algae region of France, it’s just sparkling pool juice.

Netflix subscribers in France can now access TF1 broadcasts and TF1 on-demand content within Netflix at no extra cost; TF1 handles ad sales and programming (Elsa Keslassy/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/global/netflix-tf1-streaming-broadcast…

Netflix and TF1 Kick Off Landmark Streaming-Broadcast Tie-Up in France
A year after stunning the television industry with news of their unexpected alliance, France’s TF1 Group and Netflix are launching their partnership.

Temperatures in Spain and France are predicted to reach up to 45C, Northern Italy 40, Germany and Balkans mid-30s, this and next week. The heat dome is expected to hold for the whole month of June.
https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weath

Scorching Heat for the Summer Solstice: The Dangerous Longevity of Europe’s New June Heatwave
The heat dome is arriving, bringing scorching temperatures and an early-season heatwave across Europe. Temperatures will surpass 40 °C across Iberia and France.

I included Leo Ferre and Les berus in my 10 live gigs list but it just came to me that I can do a special "Made in France" variation
1 Berurier Noir
2 Ludwig Von 88
3 Parabellum
4 Les Garcons Bouchers
5 Les Wampas
6 Leo Ferre
7 Les Sheriffs
8 Les Naufrages
9 Tagada Jones
10 Les Ramoneurs de Menhirs

Next to the UK and France, Ireland also experienced its highest May temperature on record today: 28.6°C
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0525/1575068-ireland-weather/

28.6C reached at Shannon, breaking May temperature record
A temperature of 28.6C has been recorded in Co Clare, breaking the May record for Ireland.

paris_transportation: Paris Transportation (2016)
A multiplex transportation network of Ile-de-France, jointly representing the road network, train network, and subway network. Nodes are intersections, rail stations or metro stations. Different modes of transportation are given by different layers. Within-layer edges represent direct transference by a particular mode of transportation, and between-layer edges represent the conjunction of those layers at that node.
This network ha…

AL pitchers blank NL in MLB All-Star Game; Spain shut down France to reach World Cup final

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/al-pitchers-nl-mlb-all-star-game-spain-fra…

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones booed at World Cup match between Spain and France https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-owner-jerry-jones-booed-world-cup-spain-france/1fe613c951f246f79525883…

So G20 is coming to #manchester next year - and the Tour de France has a stage going through it as well - I wonder if they overlaps; can we have the leaders of the G20 biking the route?

Science Corp. received CE mark such that they may start selling their PRIMA retinal implant in Europe (implant originally developed by Pixium in France) #blindness

Science Corp. Announces European Commercial Launch of PRIMA, the Only Treatment to Restore Functional Central Vision to Patients with Geographic Atrophy Caused by Age-Related Macular Degeneration, a Leading Cause of Blindness | Science Corporation
Science Corporation is a clinical-stage medical technology company.

Torstein Træen ist auf gestrigen Etappe trotz 4 gebrochener Rippen und einer Gehirnerschütterung, die er sich bei einem Sturz zugezogen hat bis ins Ziel gefahren.
Ich glaube da können sich Fußballspieler, die schon Flennen, wenn jemand an Trikot zuppelt, eine dicke Scheibe abschneiden!

Schwer verletzt ins Ziel gequält! Schlimmer Sturz beendet Tour-de-France-Märchen
Der norwegische Radprofi Torstein Træen ist auf der sechsten Etappe der Tour de France in Gelb fahrend so schwer gestürzt, dass er die Rundfahrt abbrechen muss. | TAG24

Arrivée du Tour de France le dimanche 26 juillet: certaines stations seront fermées Š la demande de la Préfecture de Police. Retrouvez les détails sur les sites et applis Ile de France Mobilités et RATP.
🤖 22/07 11:21

France Is Hotter Than the Sahara. This Is Everyone’s Warning.
https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/france-is-hotter-than-the-sahara-this-is-everyone-s-warning

Wildfires are raging in Europe as over 80,000 forced to evacuate. Spain has declared a national emergency and, in France, two fires threaten a major tourist hotspot. Two fires merge outside Madrid, with a third on the verge of combining. https://

Fahrlässige Tötung! - Nach Absturz: Air France und Airbus verurteilt #News #Nachrichten

Just on the way to bed and to the South East on the horizon is a spectacular thunder storm. I checked my lightning app and I can see it a huge storm stretching from Amiens to Lille in France - 140 miles away across the Channel!
#weather #lightning

Economy and A.I. Top G7 Agenda Amid Questions Over Iran Deal (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06/17/world/g7-summit-trump-france
http://www.memeorandum.com/260617/p80#a260617p80

a little Grist mention in here, see if you can find it https://www.wired.com/story/the-eu-is-going-through-a-trump-fueled-breakup-with-big-tech/

The EU Is Going Through a Trump-Fueled Breakup With Big Tech
France is already moving on from Zoom and Microsoft Teams in favor of homegrown alternatives. Other countries are quickly following suit.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@burger_jaap/116641230079807243
France 🇫🇷 has introduced new tools on its electrification campaign site to help citizens find out more about electric vehicles, charging and (support for) heat pumps. There is also a kind of e…

"France adds 157,000 hectares of protected forest as nature preserves face pressure elsewhere"
#France #Nature #Trees #Environment

France adds 157,000 hectares of protected forest
France aims to protect an additional 250,000 hectares of forest by 2030, including 180,000 hectares in French Guiana.

Thousands flee wildfires in France as temperatures reach extreme levels in southern Europe
#ClimateChange
#ClimateBreakdown https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/23/people-evacuated-intense-wildfire-saumos-france?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

For a country that loves its foie gras, France's goose certainly seems very cooked…

Enfin une bonne nouvelle!
"En France, les émissions de CO₂ en 2024 et en 2025 ont baissé plus qu’anticipé"
https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2026/06/16/en-france-…

En France, les émissions de CO₂ en 2024 et en 2025 ont baissé plus qu’anticipé
Le centre interprofessionnel technique d’études de la pollution atmosphérique a rapporté que les émissions de gaz à effet de serre ont baissé de 3 % en 2024 et de 2,1 % l’année suivante, alors que la dernière estimation envisageait plutôt des baisses de l’ordre de 1,8 % et de 1,5 %.

Wildfires sweep across France – in pictures #France

President Trump says he warned Emmanuel Macron to drop France's 3% digital services tax on US tech giants, or face a 100% tariff on French champagne and wine (James Franey/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/06/15/business…

Exclusive | Trump warns France in exclusive interview with The Post: Kill tech tax or face 100% wine tariffs: 'I have no choice'
A senior source close to the French president told reporters last week that the issue was “no longer up for debate” ahead of the G7—an account a US official immediately dismissed as …

sp_office: Workplace contacts (2013)
A temporal network of contacts between individuals, measured in an office building in France, from June 24 to July 3, 2013.
This network has 92 nodes and 9827 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_offi

France listening to 10 ‘new’ suspected victims of Epstein: Prosecutor | Human Trafficking News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/17/france-listening-to-10-new-suspected-victims-of-epstein-prosecutor?traffic_source=rss

Watching the France v England match in a roadhouse in Ossineke

Der Pirnaer Max Kanter, der in diesem Jahr zum ersten Mal bei der Tour antritt, hat bei der gestrigen Etappe den zweiten Platz erreicht.
Glückwunsch!
https://www.eurosport.de/radsport/tour-…

Tour de France 2026: Max Kanter verpasst ersten deutschen Tagessieg seit fünf Jahren - Olav Kooij triumphiert im Sprint
Max Kanter hat den ersten deutschen Tagessieg bei der Tour de France seit fünf Jahren denkbar knapp verpasst. Olav Kooij setzte sich im Sprint durch.

"Summer solstice heatwave grips much of Europe as France restricts alcohol consumption"
#Europe #France #Heatwave #Climate

Heatwave grips much of Europe as France restricts alcohol consumption
Sunday is the summer solstice, meaning the sun is at its strongest and UV levels will be high across the continent.

Génocide au Rwanda : la commission Duclert conclut Š une faillite militaire et politique de la France de 1990 Š 1994
https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2021/03/26/rw…

Génocide au Rwanda : la commission Duclert conclut à une faillite militaire et politique de la France de 1990 à 1994
Le groupe de chercheurs sur le Rwanda, réuni par Emmanuel Macron pour étudier le rôle de la France, a remis son rapport au président le 26 mars. Il conclut à « un ensemble de responsabilités, lourdes et accablantes », au sein de l’Etat français. Mais il écarte l’idée d’une complicité de génocide.

Ce matin, je glandouillais sur Firefox pour ranger mes marque-pages. J'ai ouvert Arte.tv, j'y ai remarqué une série doc sur DJ Mehdi. Je connais pas, ou plutôt je croyais ne pas connaître. J'avais vaguement entendu des échos élogieux sur le documentaire. Je vais regarder un petit bout, pour me faire une idée. Grave erreur... J'ai vu de la lumière tout du long des six épisodes que j'ai enchaînés. Un mec solaire au talent fou, une ouverture musicale incroyable. Une claque. …

DJ Mehdi : Made in France - Culture et pop | ARTE
Compositeur autodidacte et producteur visionnaire, DJ Mehdi fut le premier artiste français à réunir deux univers alors opposés : le rap et l’électro. Treize ans après sa disparition, son ami d’enfance et réalisateur Thibaut de Longeville révèle le rôle de ce passeur dans l’émergence de scènes musicales reconnues à l'international. La série a remporté le prix de la meilleure création audiovisuelle aux Victoires de la Musique 2025.

Italian police dismantle a piracy network that streamed paid content from Netflix and others via an app called Cinemagoal with annual subscriptions of €40-€130 (Ana-Maria Stanciuc/The Next Web)
https://thenextweb.com/news/italy-cinemagoal-piracy-bust-gdf-ravenna…

Deaths in France surged 30% during hottest week of record June heatwave https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/03/deaths-france-surged-hottest-week-record-heatwave-june

Italian police dismantle a piracy network that streamed paid content from Netflix and others via an app called Cinemagoal with annual subscriptions of €40-€130 (Ana-Maria Stanciuc/The Next Web)
https://thenextweb.com/news/italy-cinemagoal-piracy-bust-gdf-ravenna…

sp_high_school: High school temporal contacts (2013)
These data sets correspond to the contacts and friendship relations between students in a high school in Marseilles, France, in December 2013, as measured through several techniques.
This network has 329 nodes and 502 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

A year ago, the US ambassador in Paris blamed France for not doing enough to fight anti-Semitism.
Today he suggests that the US should offer refugee status to French people of Jewish faith...
-- @…
https://

... 2050 😣
"La France, éreintée par les canicules, adopte une feuille de route pour être neutre en carbone en 2050, qui devra démontrer sa crédibilité"
https://www.

La France, éreintée par les canicules, adopte une feuille de route pour être neutre en carbone en 2050, qui devra démontrer sa crédibilité
Mercredi, le ministère de la transition écologique a présenté la troisième stratégie nationale bas-carbone, le document qui fixe le cap de la réduction des émissions de gaz à effet de serre jusqu’en 2050. Les objectifs sont très ambitieux au regard des politiques menées jusqu’à présent.

Cybersecurity is now a burning topic in capitals around the globe, so stay ahead of the curve by checking out today's Metacurity for the most crucial developments, including
--Anthropic watch: Congress scrambles, Europe recoils, and Anthropic's halo grows brighter,
--Leak exposes members of Peter Thiel's secretive power network,
--Cybercrime now accounts for a third of crimes in parts of Asia,
--France picks local rival to replace Palantir at spy agency,

Anthropic watch: Congress scrambles, Europe recoils, and Anthropic's halo grows brighter
Leak exposes members of Peter Thiel's secretive power network, Cybercrime now accounts for a third of crimes in parts of Asia, France picks local rival to replace Palantir at spy agency, Americans lost $3.5B to imposter scams last year, Hackers hijack Roblox games by seizing dev accounts, much more

WPP Media expects ad revenue from AI search and chatbots to reach $5.1B in 2026 and $101B in 2030, but notes lack of historical data makes forecasting difficult (Martin Peers/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cannes-ad-fest…

Cannes Ad Festival Puts OpenAI’s Projections in Spotlight
If you’ve wanted to visit the South of France, this might be the week. The annual Cannes Lion ad festival, a time for ad folks from all quarters to gather, gets underway tomorrow. The impact of AI on advertising and media is sure to be front and center. OpenAI’s chief revenue officer, Denise ...

France to send its last captive orcas to marine park, not sanctuary https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/france-to-send-its-last-captive-orcas-to-marine-park-not-sanctuary/

France to send its last captive orcas to marine park, not sanctuary
The French government recently announced it has greenlit a plan to send its last captive cetaceans — two orcas and 12 dolphins — to zoos and entertainment parks in Spain. These cetaceans live in the Marineland Antibes park on the French Riviera, which closed in 2025. In 2021, France passed a law banning the breeding […]

Planning a tour of the castles of the Loire in France? Maybe not this week. Although the BBC's description 'sunny and a gentle breeze' sounds innocent.

Antarctica’s west coast is missing an area of winter sea ice the size of France,
sparking concerns for threatened penguins other marine life and global sea levels.
One expert said the loss of ice in the Bellingshausen Sea was “depressing”
and the failure of ice to form could have intensified a heatwave over the continent’s peninsula
Last week saw daytime temperatures peak at 15.4C
which is more than 20C above average.

"How Paris uses the Seine to cool thousands of buildings without AC"
#France #Paris
https://…

How Paris uses the Seine to cool thousands of buildings without AC | The Optimist Daily
Paris’s underground district cooling network uses the Seine to chill buildings across the city, with plans to expand to 3,000 structures by 2042.

French domestic spy agency ditches Palantir for local rival, PM says
https://www.reuters.com/technology/france-invest-655-mln-ai-set-up-common-chatbot-all-state-services-2026-06-16/

"Au Collège de France, un faux détecteur de fumée pour filmer les femmes aux toilettes"
https://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2026/06/09/au-college-de-france-un-faux-detecteur-de-fumee-pou…

Au Collège de France, un faux détecteur de fumée pour filmer les femmes aux toilettes
Un agent administratif du CNRS a été condamné à dix-huit mois de prison, mardi 9 juin, pour des faits de voyeurisme à caractère sexuel à l’encontre de dizaines de scientifiques d’un laboratoire de recherche en biologie.

France's National Gambling Authority blocks access to Polymarket's website, citing concerns of exposing users to significant losses and manipulated trading (Sudip Kar-Gupta/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/french-

Donald Trump, who celebrated his 80th birthday over the weekend,
is sparking health concerns once again after appearing unsteady in recent footage from the G7 summit in France.
https://www.irishstar.com/news/politics/unsteady-tr…

Unsteady Trump caught warily lowering himself onto chair as he's chased by multiple health concerns
President Donald Trump, who celebrated his 80th birthday over the weekend, is sparking health concerns once again after appearing unsteady in recent footage from the G7 summit in France.

"France’s education minister says exams should be held at cooler times of day as extreme heat hits"
#France #Education

French schools could change exam times due to extreme heat
Baccalaureate 2026 is in session today – but exam timing could look very different in the future.

Pour ceux qui ont accès...
"La recherche française déstabilisée par une crise multiforme"
https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2026/06/22/la-recherche-francaise-destabilisee-par-une-crise-multiforme_67…

La recherche française déstabilisée par une crise multiforme
Affaiblissement financier et humain, montée des attaques idéologiques, émergence de l’intelligence artificielle… La communauté scientifique est confrontée à de nombreux défis, à l’image du CNRS, victime de restrictions budgétaires. Un contexte préoccupant pour les chercheurs, alors que la France décroche en nombre de publications.

A look at the nonprofit Current AI, backed by $400M in commitments from many partners including $100M from France, that's funding open, public AI infrastructure (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/19/nonpr…

Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide Web of AI, free for all | TechCrunch
Current AI, a non-profit building AI that leaves no one culture behind, has made remarkable progress across devices, AI chat and more.

I hope they get him good.
French prosecutors seek charges against Elon Musk and X over child sexual abuse images
https://apnews.com/article/france-x-grok-deepfakes-child-sexual-abuse-charges-cac04b1869201bb4c9d425dafc4593a6…

French prosecutors seek charges against Elon Musk and X over sexual abuse images
French prosecutors are seeking charges against Elon Musk and X for child sexual images on the platform, deepfakes, disinformation and complicity in denying crimes against humanity by Grok. The Paris public prosecutor’s office said Wednesday it has opened an investigation into X on charges including complicity in possessing and distributing child sexual abuse images, unlawfully collecting personal data and without ensuring data security. Other potential charges include disseminating non-consen…

Microsoft, Amazon and Google’s collective carbon emissions
have increased by nearly a fifth in the past year,
driven largely by datacentre construction.
In the financial year ending March 2026, the three tech companies emitted
119m mTCO₂e (metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent),
or about a third of those of France.
The previous year, they emitted roughly 101m mTCO₂e,
roughly equivalent to the 2024 emissions of Czechia.
The US companies’ cl…

Datacentres drive up big tech’s carbon emissions to a third of those of France
Microsoft, Amazon and Google say they still aim to achieve net zero output despite construction boom

RE: https://mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCars/116788066153895704
Great timing by Macron:

Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft and chairman of gaming hardware company Guillemot Corporation, died at 69 after a plane crash in France (Angela Cullen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-20/ubis…

Wildfires raging across southern Europe have forced thousands to flee their homes
and prompted officials to ban spectators from a stage of the Tour de France,
amid warnings of “powder keg” conditions after a record-breaking early summer heatwave.
Hundreds of firefighters are tackling blazes that have burned through almost 20,000 hectares (49,500 acres)
in Portugal, Spain, France and Greece.
Strong winds are forecast to fan the flames and temperatures are expect…

Wildfires rage across southern Europe, forcing thousands to flee homes
Tour de France spectator ban as country along with Spain, Portugal and Greece faces ‘powder keg’ after heatwave

'Never before have 11,000 hectares burned this early in the summer in southern France in at least the past 20 years'
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/arti

'Never before have 11,000 hectares burned this early in the summer in southern France in at least the past 20 years'
Researcher Julien Ruffault argues that land-use policies are crucial to adapting to fire seasons that are becoming more intense, longer and more extreme as a result of global warming.

"Une vidéo de militants de la flottille pour Gaza agenouillés et les mains liées, diffusée par le ministre israélien Ben Gvir, provoque l’indignation”
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Une vidéo de militants de la flottille pour Gaza agenouillés et les mains liées, diffusée par le ministre israélien Ben Gvir, provoque l’indignation
Cette vidéo humiliante diffusée par le ministre de la sécurité nationale indigne plusieurs gouvernements, y compris celui d’Israël. La France, l’Espagne, la Belgique et les Pays-Bas vont jusqu’à convoquer les ambassadeurs israéliens dans leur pays.

As parts of Europe continue to experience an unprecedented heat wave,
French health officials said Sunday there had been around 1,000 more deaths in the country than expected.
"Since June 24, approximately 1,000 additional deaths (unconsolidated figures) have been observed
compared to the deaths recorded in previous months,"
Public Health France said in a statement

Heat wave: France sees over 1,000 ‘excess deaths’ as Europe swelters under record temperatures
France has reported approximately 1,000 excess deaths since June 24 due to a historic heat wave. The heat impacted hospitals severely, particularly in Paris. Record-high temperatures were noted across several European countries, raising concerns about climate change's role in extreme weather.

French firefighters are tackling a blaze of unprecedented scale sweeping through Fontainebleau forest south-east of Paris,
while in southern Spain the prime minister visited the scene of a deadly wildfire and warned:
“The climate emergency kills.”
The fire in Fontainebleau, a one-time royal hunting preserve about 40 miles (60km) from the French capital
that today is dotted with villages,
began late on Sunday afternoon.
The blaze, which is unusual in its p…

Firefighting planes scrambled from south of France to tackle huge wildfire near Paris
Officials say blaze in Fontainebleau forest is of ‘exceptional scale’, with 900 homes evacuated and road and rail links hit