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Staff of Czech public broadcasters stage a warning strike, protesting government plans to shift funding from license fees to the state budget starting next year (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/czech-public-media-financing-p…

Journalists form chain at Czech public radio in warning strike
Journalists and employees have formed a human chain around Czech public radio in Prague. The action is part of a warning strike against a government plan to change the way the public broadcaster is funded. The government of populist Prime Minister Andrej Babiš wants to finance public radio and television from the state budget instead of from fees. Critics say this could threaten media independence, citing Slovakia and Hungary as examples. The plan would also reduce media funding by about 15%, …

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A new suite of modern tools for editing and publishing IETF RFCs.
https://www.ietf.org/blog/new-tools-coming-for-editing-and-publishing-rfcs/
saved 2026-05-23

A new suite of modern tools coming for editing and publishing RFCs
After a number of years of work, the initial rollout of a modern suite of tools for editing and publishing RFCs, including an entirely new rfc-editor.org website, will take place in May 2026.

GitHub plans a two-tier bug bounty system, cutting rewards for public reports and boosting payouts for an invite-only group, amid an AI-powered submission surge (Carly Page/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/07

GitHub slashes public bug bounty payouts as AI report flood buries its security team
Code shack also putting new limits on first-time researchers, and reserving the biggest rewards for a hand-picked group of proven hunters

Plant-Based Public Menus Could Save EU €11.6 Billion a Year, New Research Finds https://vegconomist.com/studies-numbers/plant-based-public-menus-could-save-eu-11-6-billion-year-new-research-finds/

Plant-Based Public Menus Could Save EU €11.6 Billion a Year, New Research Finds - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
New modelling commissioned by ProVeg International finds that shifting EU public food procurement to 85% plant-based menus could generate €11.61 billion in

French consumer organisation Que Choisir has examined public EV charging prices and found differences of up to 490%, depending on the payment method/subscription used by #V drivers.

Que Choisir Ensemble appelle les pouvoirs publics à sortir les consommateurs de la jungle tarifaire
Alors que le développement de la voiture électrique suppose un accès simple, fiable et transparent à la recharge, Que Choisir Ensemble publie une étude qui met en lumière les obstacles persistants rencontrés par les consommateurs. Malgré la forte progression du réseau, les difficultés restent nombreuses : accès encore insuffisant en habitat collectif, bornes publiques trop souvent indisponibles, tarifs illisibles et écarts de prix pouvant atteindre près de 500 % pour une recharge i…

re:publica: Große Fragen, kaum Antworten
An digitalpolitischen Fragestellungen gab es bei der dreitägigen Konferenz re:publica in Berlin keinen Mangel – auch dank der Weltlage.
https://www.heise.de/new…

re:publica: Große Fragen, kaum Antworten
An digitalpolitischen Fragestellungen gab es bei der dreitägigen Konferenz re:publica in Berlin keinen Mangel – auch dank der Weltlage.

Satellite Detected Around a Star’s #Substellar Companion: https://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso2610/eso2610a.pdf -> New ‘exomoon’ detection challenges cosmic labels: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2610/

How major publishers in the UK are pivoting away from quantity of content towards quality as Google AI changes lead to falling traffic referrals (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/hearst-starts-w…

Hearst starts with 'why' as journalists asked to produce fewer articles
Plus, why Telegraph cut down its newsletters in quality over quantity focus.

NewsGuard launches NewsGuard AI, a $6/month chatbot that accesses information from news sources it rates as reliable, promising publishers a 50-50 revenue share (Brian Stelter/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/06/22/media/newsguard-ai-chatbot-news-atlantic-publish…

This chatbot wants to solve AI’s news problem
AI chatbots are fast becoming a way people find news. But the systems are only as reliable as their sources, and are prone to misinformation and manipulation.

A look at the history of US radio and how it grew with the idea that media should serve the public interest, as CBS Radio News goes silent on Friday night (Matthew Jordan/The Conversation)
https://theconversation.com/as-goes-cb

As goes CBS Radio News, so goes the idea that news media should serve the public interest
There was once a bipartisan consensus that media power had to be regulated if democracy were to survive.