Czech author Dora Kaprálová has been named the 2026 laureate of the European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL) for her book Mariborská Hypnóza (Maribor Hypnosis), published by Větrné mlýny 👏
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May 19
Spotlight on #EUPL shortlisted authors:
🇱🇺 Elise Schmit's “General doubts about the future course of events” explores the shifting landscape of life
🇲🇩 Paula Erizanu's “Here Is Both Heaven and Hell” traces Moldova's story from 1903 till today
🔗 link.europa.eu/Wb9Njf
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Apr 19
You see hundreds of ads every single day. On your phone. Your laptop. Your smart TV. Your game console. Your kid's tablet. Even your thermostat.
Someone built a tiny $5 computer that blocks every single one of them. For every device in your house. Forever.
It's called Pi-hole.
Not a browser extension. Not an app. A network-wide ad blocker that lives on your WiFi. Every device that connects to your home internet gets ad-free browsing automatically. No setup on each device. No subscription. No tracking.
Here's how it works:
Every time your phone loads an ad, it asks the internet "where is this ad server?" Pi-hole sits between your phone and the internet. When your phone asks for an ad, Pi-hole says "that server does not exist" and the ad never loads.
The ad is dead before it reaches your screen.
Here's what Pi-hole blocks:
→ Ads in mobile apps. Ads inside games. Ads on free apps that usually can't be blocked.
→ Smart TV ads. Roku ads. Amazon Fire ads. Samsung TV ads. Every TV ad at the DNS level.
→ Tracking pixels. Facebook tracking. Google Analytics. TikTok pixels.
→ Telemetry. Windows spying on you. Apple sending data. Your smart fridge phoning home.
→ Malware domains. Phishing sites. Crypto miners.
→ Ads and telemetry on Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch.
Here's the wildest part:
A Raspberry Pi Zero costs $5. An old Android phone, you already own. An old laptop in your closet, you already own.
Any of them can run Pi-hole.
One small device. Plug it in once. Forget about it. Every phone, tablet, laptop, smart TV, and game console on your WiFi gets ad-free browsing.
Forever.
No monthly fee. No subscription. No tracking. No account. No login.
Pi-hole users report their home internet feels faster because ads are never downloaded in the first place.
The developers are volunteers. They've been building this for over a decade. It handles hundreds of millions of DNS queries on server-grade hardware.
52,000 GitHub stars. EUPL-1.2 license.
100% Open Source.
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We want to introduce, Lemer.
The first of 4 LetheanEthicalModel (LEM) models for Gemma4.
Adapters to re-introduce the ethics speciality in our Gemma3 models to come later.
Compatable with EU AI laws, EUPL-1.2, requires around 4GB mem 9.5 for bf16.
huggingface.co/lthn/lemer
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Arsenal fan since 2003 when I was 9 years old.
2004 - EPL trophy 🏆
2005 - FA Cup🏆
2006 - UCL final😔
2007 - EFL final😔
2011 - EFL final😔
2014 - FA Cup🏆
2015 - FA Cup🏆
2018 - EFL final😔
2017 - FA Cup🏆
2019 - EUPL final😔
2020 - FA Cup🏆
2026 - EFL final😔
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Our first #EUPL spotlight: 🇦🇲Sargis Hovsepyan with "You Die Today, I Die Tomorrow."
His work traces one woman’s search for a forgotten victim of Stalinist repression — a journey through archives, family silences and the weight of unresolved history.
🔗link.europa.eu/WkVX3G
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🚀 Spring Prism v1.0.0 is LIVE!
🧱 Stop leaking PII to LLMs.
High-perf privacy firewall for #SpringAI & #LangChain4j.
⚡️ PERFORMANCE (JMH):
• PII Scan: ~47μs
• Stream Restore: ~281ns
✅ GDPR-Ready
✅ Java 21
✅ OSS (EUPL)
👇 github.com/catalin87/spring-…
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I've been an Arsenal fan since 2003 when I was 9 years old.
2004 - EPL trophy
2005 - FA Cup
2006 - UCL final 😔
2011 - EFL final 😔
2014 - FA Cup
2015 - FA Cup
2017 - FA Cup
2019 - EUPL final 😔
2020 - FA Cup
2026 - EFL Cup 😔
I hope I can update this happily come May.
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