Airbus is moving 70 critical applications from AWS to French cloud provider Scaleway as part of a broader digital sovereignty push to keep sensitive data "under European control." Eventually, the migration will cover 900 applications, including ERP, CRM, manufacturing execution, and product lifecycle management systems. Airbus says it will, however, continue using U.S. providers for less sensitive workloads. "We do not intend to move away from all non European solutions; we balance our choices based on the criticality of the data," the company said. The Register reports: Catherine Jestin, head of digital at Airbus, told us on Thursday: "The selection of Scaleway is a combination of a very strong technical answer and a very strong commercial offer making it competitive compared to hyperscalers' public cloud offerings. In addition, Scaleway is committed to involving Airbus in the definition of its future product roadmap." "The objective is to host Airbus's most critical applications (those required for the Minimum Viable Company). This represents 900 applications and we will start with 70 of them today hosted on AWS."

Applications being sent to Scaleway include ERP, manufacturing execution systems, CRM, and product lifecycle management. Finding a cloud provider to host its most sensitive applications for defense and industrial workloads was not a certainty when the process began, Airbus told us last year, because European cloud providers do not have the scale of their US rivals.

Jestin said Airbus will continue to work with AWS. Skywise, a platform that aggregates and analyzes aviation data, and Case Management Assistant for customers' technical queries will continue to be hosted by AWS. In a statement, she said: "By integrating a trusted, high performance, cloud environment that keeps our critical data assets shielded from foreign extraterritorial laws, we are ensuring that our digital infrastructure keeps pace with our aerospace innovation, while maintaining control and resilience of our industrial operations."

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Longtime Slashdot reader williamyf writes: FireFox 153 was released today. The most important user-facing changes are improvements to PDF handling (you can now merge PDFs and add images to them), and HDR video playback (on Windows, provided HDR is active systemwide). Other under-the-hood changes include browser-wide containers and QWAC support. The full list is in the change notes.

But the most important feature is that this version is an ESR and, therefore, defines the ESR feature set for the next year. Why is being an ESR so important, you ask?

1.) ESR, rather than "normal" (a.k.a. Rapid Release), Firefox is the out-of-the-box browser for many important distros, including Debian, RHEL, Kali, Tails, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Slackware, and others.

2.) Many organizations, large and small, standardize on Firefox ESR as their default browser, regardless of the default browser included with their OS.

3.) Firefox ESR is the basis for many downstream projects, such as Waterfox and KaiOS. All these projects will inherit, for a year, whatever ESR brings to the table today.

4.) Many ISVs and SaaS providers, if they certify their wares for Firefox at all, certify for the ESR version only.

Please note that ESR 153 will not be offered as an automatic update until two months from now (ESR 140 will still be supported). If you want it now, you will need to download and install it manually.

Also of note, ESR 115 will be supported until March 2027. If you use an unsupported version of macOS or Windows (like Windows 7 or 8.x), this is the version to get. However, even Mozilla cautions against running a supported browser on an unsupported OS: "Note that Microsoft ended official support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 in January 2023. Unsupported operating systems receive no security updates and have known vulnerabilities. Without official support from Microsoft, maintaining Firefox for outdated operating systems becomes costly for Mozilla and risky for users."

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Tesla says it is launching its Robotaxi service in Orlando and Tampa, though it has not shared fleet sizes or whether customers can immediately hail rides. The Verge notes the announcement lands on Tesla earnings day and comes as the company's robotaxi rollout remains far smaller than Elon Musk previously projected, with tracker data showing only a small number of unsupervised vehicles operating in existing cities. From the report: [B]ack in May, Tesla had five unsupervised robotaxis in Dallas, six in Houston, and 29 in Austin. As of today, there are only 17 unsupervised vehicles in Austin, four in Dallas, and zero in Houston, according to the Robotaxi Tracker. By comparison, Waymo is estimated to have over 3,500 fully driverless vehicles in operation across over 10 cities.

Like Waymo, Tesla typically introduces robotaxis to a new city with a safety driver behind the wheel. Unlike Waymo, sometimes Tesla moves that person over to the passenger seat with access to a kill switch should anything go wrong. The company has been inconsistent in how it rolls out its robotaxis to new markets. The numbers go up and down, with zero explanation from the company as to why.

[...] By adding new cities, Tesla is clearly trying to sell investors on the idea that its robotaxi project is growing. But the fluctuating fleet size, inconsistency in supervised vs unsupervised vehicles, and long wait times tell a very different story.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: As AI companies search for more training data to improve their models, one company is offering old, printed books as an ideal source because they are guaranteed to be free of the very AI slop AI companies are producing. "The world's best AI training data is sitting on a shelf," ISBNdb, a company that produces what it claims is "the world's largest book database," and that offers high-volume book acquisition services for AI companies, says on its site. "Books represent curated, peer-reviewed, domain-specific human knowledge, structured in a way no web crawl can replicate. Dense, edited, authoritative."

In one article on its site, ISBNdb explains that printed books published before 2022 are ideal for AI training data because they don't include AI generated text. As the article correctly notes, much of the data that AI companies can scrape from the internet today is likely to include AI generated text, which could result in "model collapse," a process by which AI models that are trained on AI generated data results in worse models that are more prone to errors. The article also notes that book authors who object to their writing being scraped for training purposes can now easily poison AI models by producing writing designed to manipulate and sabotage the resulting AI models.

"Print books from the pre-LLM era are structurally guaranteed to be free of this contamination. That alone is a significant advantage [...] "Physical books published before this date [pre-2022] are structurally clean of modern poisoning tools." [...] ISBNdb advertises that it can keep the identity of AI companies secret. "Strict NDA [non-disclosure agreement] on every engagement," ISBNdb's site says. "Every project begins with a legally binding non-disclosure agreement. Your identity, strategy, and acquisition targets are never disclosed." ISBNdb notes that AI companies may not want to be caught destroying printed books during the scanning process. "The optics problem is real," ISBNdb's site says. "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy."

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Met het warme weer ontbijten wij in de ochtend buiten. De frisheid van de morgen brengt een jong vogeltje nieuwsgierig naar onze tafel.

Je krijgt een paar cijfers cadeau, maar het grid van 9x9 moet foutloos ingevuld worden.

Als je wel zin hebt om te sudokuen, maar het liever bij een gridje van 5x5 houdt.

Een Precies Vier bestaat uit 16 woorden, begrippen of namen, die moeten worden verdeeld in precies vier groepen van vier. Er is telkens maar één oplossing mogelijk. Welke woorden vormen een connectie?

Een kruiswoordpuzzel, maar dan heel klein (en snel).

Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️ - 22-07-2026 01:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 18.1°C · Bewolkt ☁️ | Min 14.5°C / Max 22.5°C | Kans op neerslag 2%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 14.5°C, Max 22.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1023.8 hPa ↘️ -1.5 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 17.3 km/u (4.8 m/s), richting: ↓ 338°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 02:00: 18.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1025.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.1 km/u (2.8 m/s), richting: ↘ 334°
• 03:00: 17.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1025.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ↘ 325°
• 04:00: 17.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1024.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ↘ 318°
• 05:00: 17.5°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, 🧭 1024.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ↘ 322°
• 06:00: 17.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1024.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.2 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: ↘ 324°
• 07:00: 17.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1024.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ↘ 327°
• 08:00: 17.8°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1024.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.3 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: ↘ 329°
• 09:00: 18.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1024.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.0 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: ↘ 332°
• 10:00: 18.4°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1024.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.5 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ↘ 311°
• 11:00: 18.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1024.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.0 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: ↘ 315°
• 12:00: 17.6°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 18%, 🧭 1024.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.0 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: ↘ 311°
• 13:00: 18.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 39%, 🧭 1024.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: ↘ 309°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• donderdag 23 juli: Min 17.5°C, Max 19.2°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.4 mm, Kans op neerslag 12%, 🧭 1021.6 hPa ↘️ -2.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 19.4 km/u (5.4 m/s), richting: ↘ 325°
• vrijdag 24 juli: Min 16.1°C, Max 20.0°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.3 mm, Kans op neerslag 4%, 🧭 1018.5 hPa ↘️ -3.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: ↘ 331°
• zaterdag 25 juli: Min 17.2°C, Max 24.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1009.9 hPa ↘️ -8.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 8.4 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: ↘ 299°
• zondag 26 juli: Min 17.1°C, Max 25.2°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.2 mm, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1003.9 hPa ↘️ -6.0 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.8 km/u (4.1 m/s), richting: ↗ 240°
• maandag 27 juli: Min 17.1°C, Max 21.6°C (Matige buien) 🌧️, Neerslag 10.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 44%, 🧭 1014.1 hPa ↗️ +10.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 17.0 km/u (4.7 m/s), richting: → 258°
• dinsdag 28 juli: Min 15.9°C, Max 19.3°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.8 mm, Kans op neerslag 25%, 🧭 1019.9 hPa ↗️ +5.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 10.9 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ↓ 345°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 18.1°C (Bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 17.2°C (-0.9°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ↘ 336°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 20.2 km/h (5.6 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 69%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1025.3 hPa ↘️ -0.6 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 20.1 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 05:48 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 21:48

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 32 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 6.6 μg/m³
• PM10: 12.2 μg/m³

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