Current Developments & News
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EU to fine TikTok for breaching children's pricacy
The European Data Protection Board decided to fine the Chinese-owned video-sharing platform TikTok for breaching children's privacy.
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Arrival of LibreOffice 7.6: Demonstrating the Maturity of the Open Source Veteran
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The Document Foundation released a new version of the Open Source office-suite LibreOffice. What is new in LibreOffice 7.6 and what comes after the 7.x release series?
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Safeguarding Our Rights with Encryption
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Encryption in private communication is under attack by legislators in the EU, the UK and the US. Privacy and data protection should not be criminalized in a our society.
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Europe is fallind behind in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
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McKinsey's groundbreaking study highlights the critical importance of transversal tech dominance for Europe's growth. The current assessment of Europe's performance ranges from unsatisfactory to disappointing. By 2040, this could account for 30-70% of projected growth or €2-4 trillion in yearly corporate value-added that Europe risks not achieving, as per McKinsey's analysis.
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Your VPN Could Be Prone to the Privacy-Threatening TunnelCrack Attack
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In certain scenarios, malicious actors can employ a set of techniques called TunnelCrack to manipulate victims' network traffic, causing it to bypass encrypted VPNs.
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ViOffice - Behind the Scenes
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ViOffice Core: Now GRATIS for accounts with up to 3GB
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In case you have not noticed, we revamped our price modeling for our cloud solution ViOffice Core. The service is now completely for free for accounts with an upper storage limit of 3GB. That's plenty of space for working collaboratively on documents, chatting with collegues and organizing yourself using the integrated task boards, calendars and so much more!
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Discount code: OpenTech10
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Whether it's a complete home office platform in the cloud, privacy-protecting web analytics or exclusive Collabora online office hosting, ViOffice offers a variety of useful tools in a straightforward subscription model. Use the discount code OpenTech10 to save 10% on any subscription for 6 months!
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Of course, the monthly cancellation period still applies.
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ViOffice Blog:
In our blog, we want to get involved in current discussions, create social awareness for digital topics such as open source, free software, data protection and privacy, and transparently communicate internal processes to you. We also address aspects such as social and environmental sustainability in the context of digitalization. This month we published one new article on our blog:
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Conferences & Events
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- September 16, 2023: Software Freedom Day - Annual worldwide celebration of Free Software organized by the Digital Freedom Foundation (DFF) - https://www.softwarefreedomday.org/
- September 19 - 21, 2023: Open Source Summit Europe - Event for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders to collaborate, share information, solve problems and gain knowledge, furthering open source innovation and ensuring a sustainable open source ecosystem - https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-europe
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