France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US

France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US

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LONDON (AP) — In France, civil servants will ditch Zoom and Teams for a homegrown video conference system. Soldiers in Austria are using open source office software to write reports after the military dropped Microsoft Office. Bureaucrats in a German state have also turned to free software for their administrative work. Around Europe, governments and…

Google halves Android Open Source Project code dumps

Google halves Android Open Source Project code dumps

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Google has cut Android Open Source Project (AOSP) code dumps to two a year to align release cadences with its trunk stable development model. However, this has sparked debate over the platform’s future. For software engineers and platform maintainers working within the Android ecosystem, the release rhythm of the upstream codebase is a fundamental dependency….