From the linked article:

Time, meanwhile, is trying to monetize the bots by using what the Journal calls “a sort of Trojan horse approach — creating text-based ads that regular readers never see but that AI crawlers might find.” The idea is that AI chatbots might then reference those ads when responding to user queries without knowing they are ads, like some sort of insidious sponsored content.

Das ist eine Nebelkerze die man den Bahnmitarbeitern vorzeigen kann. Für zielführende Maßnahmen, wie Alkoholverkaufsverbot an Bahnhöfen, ist DB zu feige.

It's illegal in EU. There is an ongoing complaint against Heise submitted to Data protection authority in North Rhine-Westphalia. Just because the responsible authority has been dragging out the decision for four years, doesn't make it legal.

From the Strategy document:

Strengthen the open source social media space by supporting open and decentralised social media solutions and platforms. The Commission currently runs a Mastodon instance, which hosts the Commission’s presence and plans to extend the users basis to EU institutions.

EDIT: EU Commission just launched a new digital-tech account: @digitaleu@ec.social-network.europa.eu

No one takes Söder seriosly. What he says today, has no predictive value for what he will say tomorrow and he talks a lot.

When it comes to mobility transition, Berlin is the one and only city moving in the wrong direction, compared to the rest of germany. I do understand that the NYT correspondent is located in Berlin, but the perspective they give is misleading. There is (quite often a bipartisan) suport for mobility transition at the municipal level. The main hurdle remains the federal government, ministry of transportation and the federal laws.

"Nein, Sie können nicht Briefmarken auf das Paket kleben. DHL akzeptiert keine Briefmarken. Nur Deutsche Post."

"Ja, was Sie meinen ist Warensendung, das ist von Deutsche Post. Da kann man Briefmarken drauf tun. Sie müssen sich nur entscheiden ob Sie es als Warensendung mit Deutsche Post versenden möchten, weil auf Paket darf man keine Briefmarken kleben."

What I mean is, one could just create a public charge card network that works the same way, with the same infrastructure that Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express, Diner’s Club, etc all use.

Visa and co. mostly don't work on modern mobile phones. Digital euro strives to replace apple pay and google pay as well. Visa and co. also have lot of redundant functions like payment by credit, solvency assessment, cash back rewards, travel points and purchase protections. Digital euro doesn't have that and as a consequence, it doesn't need to intrude into customer's privacy as much as credit card companies do. Nor does it incur the vast costs associated with credit recuperation on banks.

ECB specifies the legal framework for digital euro which is tech-agnostic. The current plan is that it would be possible to use plastic card, web browser with username+password, smart watch, retail terminal or any future technology with digital euro.

Invitation claim was made by Netayahu's office and was never confirmed by Magyar.

For its part, Magyar’s party declined to confirm the invitation when emailed by EUobserver and by Israeli daily Haaretz on Thursday. 

Magyar later said on Facebook only that he had spoken with Netanyahu, without mentioning any invitation.

Netanyahu’s office also declined to reply to Haaretz’s questions.

But Haaretz journalist David Issacharoff said on X that Netanyahu had a record of ICC-busting invitation bluffs. Source

Domestic refineries were capable of covering about 70% of the bloc’s kerosene requirements Source

EU's production is sufficient to cover the critical flight infrastructure. That's also the reason why EU countries don't stockpile jet fuel. This is just fear-mongering from airlines who fear lower profits during the coming vacation season due to rising fuel costs.

Nicht alle Journalisten. Euractiv titeliert klar mit "Kennedy Jr. beschuldigt Deutschland fälschlicherweise, Covid-bezogene Strafverfolgungen durchzuführen ". Die schlechte Quellenhygiene auf DACH ist tatsächlich der Grund wieso ich die Community nicht abonniert habe.