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Left-leaning French alternative media startups surged over the past decade amid the country's rightward shift and consolidation of billionaire media ownership (Christopher Clark/Nieman Reports)
https://niemanreports.org/french-media-blast-mediapart-lag…

France’s Independent Press Fights Back - Nieman Reports
Alternative media startups in France see themselves as a bulwark against billionaires and the far right. Can they survive? 

France's La Poste says it has suffered a suspected DDoS attack in "a major network incident" on Monday, which disrupted its postal and banking services (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/23/fran

France's postal and banking services disrupted by suspected DDoS attack | TechCrunch
France's postal service, La Poste, said it was hit by a disruptive cyberattack that knocked its services offline.

Cyberattack knocks France's postal service and its banking arm offline
https://www.euronews.com/2025/12/22/cyberattack-knocks-frances-postal-service-and-its-banking-arm-offline

Cyberattack knocks France's postal service and its banking arm offline
The same services affected on Monday — Colissimo parcel tracking and the Digiposte digital vault — were already disrupted on Saturday, though La Poste did not immediately confirm whether that incident was also an attack.

DDoS incident disrupts France’s postal and banking services ahead of Christmas https://therecord.media/la-poste-france-ddos-disruption-days-before-christmas

Teurere Abos für Musik auf dem iPhone: Sammelklage gegen Apple in Frankreich
Wer Abos in iOS-Apps abschließt, zahlt teils deutlich drauf. Schuld daran sei Apple, monieren französische Verbraucherschützer und haben den Konzern verklagt.

'you can’t get enough of what you don’t need'
'Beyond the Machine: Creative agency in the AI landscape' is about AI, but that line struck me in the lead-up to Christmas https://frankchimero.com/blog/2025/beyond-the-machine/

(6) J'envisage de quitter la France, et c’est intégralement la faute de M.Darmanin. | LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/jenvisage-de-quitter-la-france-et-cest-intégralement-faute-kempf-psyfe/

J'envisage de quitter la France, et c’est intégralement la faute de M.Darmanin.
Ce n’est pas un canular, et je sais que ce post sera long, ce qui est rare pour moi qui ai tendance à être dans le bref, l’efficace et le court, pour ceux qui me connaissent bien : Monsieur« OK. » et ses mails de 2 lignes :) Mais le sujet le nécessite.

"Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'"
https://www.lemonde.fr…

Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'
Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses the impact of these measures on his work and daily life.

Waymo, which paused its service during blackouts in San Francisco on December 20, says it is updating its fleet to improve navigation during widespread outages (Ari Levy/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/23/waymo-updating-fleet-af…

Waymo will update driverless fleet after San Francisco blackout to improve navigation during outages
Three days after blackouts in San Francisco brought down Waymo's service, the company said it's implementing changes for when "infrastructure fails."

Sources: Shopify salespeople engaged in a sales fraud scheme inflating deal values for over a year, leading to internal investigations in mid-2024 and firings (Aleksandra Sagan/The Logic)
https://thelogic.co/news/exclusive/shopify-sales-fraud-investigation-firin…

Shopify rocked by sales fraud scandal that led to ultimatums and firings - The Logic
Shopify salespeople were inflating the value of the deals they were closing. When management found out, they told staff to own up or face the consequences.