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Czechia illegally stored citizens’ phone data: here’s what it means
The ruling affects metadata from calls and texts, shows who communicated and where; lawmakers must revise rules, tightening access and protecting privacy.

TMS-evoked phosphenes and oculomotor responses in visual-snow syndrome #neuroscience

TMS-evoked phosphenes and oculomotor responses in visual-snow syndrome
Visual Snow Syndrome (VSS) is a neurological condition characterized by continuous visual disturbances resembling television static across the visual field. Despite its significant impact on quality of life, objective assessment methods remain limited, with diagnosis relying primarily on subjective patient reports. Current understanding of VSS pathophysiology suggests cortical hyperexcitability, but precise mechanisms remain unclear. Here we developed an integrated protocol combining transcrani…

Tech-CEOs umgeben sich zunehmend mit Hofberichterstattung – von sich selbst produziert. Wie „Direct-to-people“-PR den unabhängigen Journalismus ersetzt. Machtfülle trifft Filterblase: Wer die Plattform besitzt, schreibt die Geschichte.
#BigTech #Journalismus

The 6th #AAS247 press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nss3zNi5SYA about Cosmology and Galaxy Clusters discussed the lensed supernova Ares from the Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources (VENUS) program (https://www.stsci.edu/jwst-program-info/download/jwst/pdf/9478/), the paper PASSAGES: The Discovery of a Strongly Lensed Protocluster Core Candidate at Cosmic Noon (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adf4d5 with https://public.nrao.edu/news/cosmic-lens-reveals-hyperactive-cradle-of-future-galaxy-cluster/), new results from the One-hundred-deg^2 DECam Imaging in Narrowbands (ODIN) survey (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad165e) and the paper Sunyaev–Zeldovich detection of hot intracluster gas at redshift 4.3
(https://scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/115849463900911844 with https://public.nrao.edu/news/alma-galaxy-clusters/).

if you are in Brno this Thursday (Feb-5), please come and meet some good #IT people, including me :)
#brno

Engineers Hanging Out (No Recruiters, Really) · Luma
How AI is actually changing our day-to-day work (vs. the hype). Engineering practices that are working for us (and ones that aren't). Product engineering and…

I wonder what keeps every country on the planet from unilaterally dropping US treasury bonds? It would immediately starve any war efforts. Granted, it would break the world, but maybe less folks would die meaningless deaths on pointless battlefields predicated on hubris.

La géopolitique des microprocesseurs : une leçon cruelle pour les Européens
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2025/12/22/la-geopolitique-des-microprocesseurs-une-lecon-cruelle-pour-les-europeens_665…

La géopolitique des microprocesseurs : une leçon cruelle pour les Européens
La production de masse de puces incarne un hypercapitalisme extrêmement gourmand en investissements, en recherche et développement et en énergie, dans lequel l’Europe n’a pas encore trouvé les moyens de rivaliser.

Hello #FOSDEM crowd. If you know someone attending 2026 who creates some form of an #openart - under a free license, let them know that there could be a small community gathering for them. Theater producers, visual artists, actors, musicians, painters, photographers and more and more are welcomed.

FOSSArt
artists who create under a free license @FOSDEM

One of the interesting articles that came after #KubeCon is touching the problem of the platform engineering anti-patterns. Is there anything in particular that bothers you and you want to discuss it at #DevOpsDays #Prague

8 platform engineering anti-patterns
Golden paths gone gray? Avoid these common mistakes that sink platform engineering initiatives.