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Weekly News Digest
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October 21, 2025 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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ZDNET Reports on the Latest European Tech Conference
Steven Vaughan-Nichols writes the following in “Europe’s Plan to Ditch US Tech Giants Is Built on Open Source—And It’s Gaining Steam” for ZDNET:Unlike any tech conference I’ve attended in the last few years, the top issue at the 2025 OpenInfra Summit Europe at the École Polytechnique Paris was not AI. Shocking, I know. Indeed, OpenInfra Foundation general manager Thierry Carrez commented, ‘Did you notice what I didn’t talk about in my keynote? I made no mention of AI.’ But one issue that did appear—and would show up over and over again in the keynotes, the halls, and the vendor booths—was digital sovereignty. Digital sovereignty is the ability of a country, organization, or individual to control its own digital infrastructure, technologies, data, and online processes without undue external dependency on foreign entities or large technology companies. In other words, Europeans are tired of relying on what they see as increasingly unreliable American companies and the US government. For more information, read the article.
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