Kolibri is an open-weight large language model (LLM) from Aleph Alpha for German and English: a mixture of experts with 78 billion parameters that only uses about 3.5 billion of them for each token it reads or writes. It came … Read more
Around one‑third of Germany’s gold — worth roughly 160 billion euros — remains in the vaults of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. While Bundesbank officials insist the reserves enjoy special protection, some experts fear a shift in US leadership … Read more
European nations have generally been more progressive in adopting open source solutions for government operations. Sure, regressive proposals like the EU Chat Control bill make headlines, but there’s genuine progress happening too. The German state of Schleswig-Holstein is back in … Read more
MCC analysis for the Ariadne energy transition project shows 30 percent more rail journeys. The announced increase in price to 58 euros per month undoes half of this. The state-subsidised 49-euro ”Deutschland-Ticket”, which allows you to travel by local and … Read more
Following Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund providing significant funding for GNOME, Rust Coreutils, PHP, a systemd bug bounty, and numerous other free software projects, the FFmpeg multimedia library is the latest beneficiary to this funding from the Germany government. The Sovereign … Read more
Domestic manufacturers are caught between China’s low prices and U.S. protectionist policies, even as demand increases. Before China came to dominate the solar panel industry, Germany led the way. It was the world’s largest producer of solar panels, with several … Read more
European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, June 17, 2022. REUTERS/Yves Herman//File Photo Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register LUXEMBOURG, Sept 20 (Reuters) – Germany’s general data retention law violates EU law, … Read more
Germany is mulling over the consequences of soon becoming the world’s largest potential market for legally sold cannabis, as the country’s left-liberal government presses ahead with plans to allow the controlled distribution of the drug among adults. Olaf Scholz’s coalition … Read more
Why it matters: According to reports out of Germany, the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) purchased spyware from Israel-based developer NSO. The software in question is the controversial spyware known as Pegasus. Pegasus has been used by other governments … Read more
Hi folks, We’re incredibly excited to officially announce that the national agency for the digitalisation of the healthcare system in Germany (gematik) has selected Matrix as the open standard on which to base all its interoperable instant messaging standard – … Read more