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Russia’s Teen Baby Bribes: When Demographic Panic Meets Teenage Wallets
Russia is paying schoolgirls $950 to have babies before graduation - roughly 70% of the average monthly wage in rural Oryol region. This dystopian maternity program reveals a nation hemorrhaging peopl...
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Europe's Paperwork Revolution: How LibreOffice Became Digital Sovereignty's Secret Weapon
The most radical act in European tech right now isn't happening in a Berlin startup garage or Parisian AI lab – it's unfolding in the mouse-click rhythms of German civil servants migrating from Micros...
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Europe's Digital Declaration of Independence: The €2 Trillion Battle for Tech Autonomy
The Dutch parliament just fired the first shot in Europe's tech independence revolution. Their recent call to completely end reliance on US software signals a dramatic escalation in the continent's pu...
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DOGE in the Machine: How Elon Musk's Government Efficiency Department Reveals Silicon Valley's Growing Political Power
Elon Musk's latest venture doesn't involve rockets, electric cars, or brain implants. Instead, it's DOGE—the Department of Government Efficiency—a hybrid creation existing somewhere between formal gov...