France’s digital agency dumping Windows desktops for Linux • The Register

France’s Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs (DINUM) will drop Windows desktops, and adopt Linux instead. DINUM announced the swap last week during an interministerial seminar that saw several government agencies try to create momentum for development of sovereign technologies that reduce France’s dependence on non-European technology. A government statement about the seminar included a quote…

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Why the US needs a unified, mission-based strategy for health innovation

For 80 years, federally supported research in the United States has fuelled scientific and technological advancements, including the Internet, space exploration and the development of semiconductors and biotechnologies. In biomedicine, innovations have led to vaccines and therapeutics, breakthroughs in cancer and cardiovascular care and gains in life expectancy and quality of life. How data can…

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Musician Loses $420K Bitcoin From Fake Ledger App

Blockchain sleuth ZachXBT said Garrett Dutton’s 5.9 Bitcoin has already been sent to deposit addresses associated with KuCoin. Garrett Dutton, an American musician better known as “G. Love,” said he lost $420,000 worth of Bitcoin after installing a malicious app impersonating the self-custody crypto app Ledger Live from Apple’s App Store and entering his seed…

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