We are doing our utmost to strengthen Ukraine's hand.
We've disbursed the fourth €1 billion tranche of our exceptional Macro-Financial Assistance loans.
This funding supports urgent military needs and will be repaid using proceeds from immobilised Russian state assets in the EU.
With this, the EU strengthens its role as Ukraine’s top donor since the full-scale invasion.
Our support to Ukraine is unwavering. We stay ready to respond swiftly to any further requests.
Today's misinformation provided by Google Search's "AI Overview" (which cannot be disabled, apparently):
"All EU member states are parties to the Rome Statute, except for Turkey."
(I am not complaining that the AI missed today's withdrawal of Hungary)
2024 was a record-breaking year for forest fires in Ukraine.
This is another devastating consequence of Russia’s illegal invasion.
Nearly one million hectares were burnt in the country – more than twice the area burned in the EU in the same period.
The EU is committed to helping Ukrainians strengthen their rescue and fire services by providing them with machinery and protective equipment.
With Ukraine – and its brave firefighters – unflinchingly.
if it walks like a russian agent and quacks like a russian agent, then it probably doesn't matter whether it really is a russian agent or not
If you've ever wondered what it is like to throw up and have diarrhea simultaneously, JIRA now has an AI button.
I’ve told LF repeatedly that “education” as the leading point is insulting. Many maintainers know exactly what they need to do, but they lack time and energy for it. Lecturing them, I mean “giving them skills”, is… not actually a solution.
But it allows LF (and friends like GH) to continue elephant-in-the-room-ing the actual solution, which is paying maintainers for the trillions of dollars of value they create.
I've been expecting something like this since the XZ hack, but still ... frustrated/annoyed/sad to see Microsoft and 13 (!) partners jointly announcing that their answer is to “educate” open source maintainers.
It's nice that they're compensating maintainers for the time spent on that training, but ... compliance with corporate security policies is still a whole lot of ongoing, unpaid work after that? Sigh.
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/announcing-github-secure-open-source-fund/