"Voter anger over the cost of living is hurtling forward into next year's midterm elections, when pivotal contests will be decided by communities that are home to fast-rising electric bills or fights over who's footing the bill to power Big Tech's energy-hungry data centers."

Meta's fraud problem: The social media giant projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by @Reuters show reut.rs/4qJTpdH

Die eine Hälfte der AfD fährt nach Washington, die andere nach Moskau, aber alle verfolgen dasselbe Ziel. www.t-online.de/nachrichten/...

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Former FTC chair Lina Khan was just named to NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition team—just one sign that his new administration will take tech matters seriously, writes Rebecca Williams. She offers a tech agenda for the new mayor to advance his campaign goals:

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

The European Commission just announced that, under the new DSA rules, researchers will gain access to data from large online platforms. Here's Daphne Keller's take on what the rules have said thus far and what it means for platform accountability research in Europe.

Such a nice setting to talk about impact in think tanking. Also loved seeing Wiebke again..

A survey of 16K+ creators in eight countries: 86% use creative GenAI tools, 60% use multiple, 48% use them for ideation, and 52% for creating video and more (Adobe Newsroom) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia Competitor.' It is the antithesis of Wikipedia in every possible way, and it is not going to work: www.404media.co/grokipedia-i...

"How Microsoft has managed to avoid disclosing such basic details is baffling. The company in its financial reports identifies OpenAI as an equity-method investment. That means OpenAI, by definition, is a related party of Microsoft under the accounting rules."

In unserem Beitrag für @internationalepolitik.de beschreiben @kzenner.bsky.social &ich einen 🇪🇺 Weg der digitalen Souveränität - eine wertebasierte Alternative, die sich bewusst vom 🇺🇸 Techno-Kapitalismus & 🇨🇳 Digital-Autoritarismus abgrenzt. internationalepolitik.de/de/europas-d...

We are publishing an "Ideas for Europe" series from leading experts on how Europe can turn its sovereignty ambitions into action. In this piece, MEP @alexandrageese.bsky.social asks: Does Europe lack control over the digital infrastructure it depends on? www.techpolicy.press/europe-cant-...

The Chinese Communist Party’s new five-year plan emphasizes self-sufficiency and advanced manufacturing as a rivalry with America looms large www.wsj.com/world/china-...

French lawmakers have voted in favor of a fivefold increase on the taxation of tech giants in France amid ongoing negotiations on the country’s 2026 budget.

News Analysis: After President Trump's phone call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, Trump appeared to express doubts about supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons.

An amateur satellite tracker stumbled across the signal which is coming from Starshield satellites in a "hidden" part of the radio spectrum. n.pr/3WGaS8X

My Trade Secrets column today. Trump's been thrashing round with his tariffs for nearly nine months now but the global economy's doing....not too badly? I look at why, and also note there's a much bigger threat from the AI bubble and the US's renewed addiction to fossil fuels.

The Economist with good reporting on the case - with some reflections from my side. www.economist.com/business/202...

By capturing our social and economic infrastructure, tech companies have made it difficult for us to take up the question, ”Is this what’s best for us?” The time has come to insist that it is, writes Emily Tucker.

Really great work by my @cfr.org colleague Matthew C. Waxman on the legality of Trump's "counterterrorism" drone strikes near #Venezuela, finding that the White House "hasn't persuasively made the legal case that cartels are waging a war against the U.S." www.cfr.org/expert-brief...

Gerade gestern darüber geredet wie Vertrauen weg von political establishment hin zu Individuen hin migriert und jetzt dieser Artikel… 🚀

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

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A quiet bombshell in Europe’s tech world The Dutch government seems to have effectively frozen operations of Nexperia, the Chinese-owned chipmaker, citing national security, according to corporate filing today - via @zichenwanghere

Not only denying Trump the Nobel peace prize… but also, saying why…

My take after playing around with Sora2… it's disappointing to see this incredibly powerful tool released in this way

Visualizing the infrastructure links of AI … investments carousel has the purpose to reinforce narratives of AI dominance etc.

Disinformation, now in 3D.

Wie mir gerade eine EU-Quelle bestätigte, ist die Abstimmung zur #Chatkontrolle am 14. Oktober von der Tagesordnung im EU-Rat genommen worden.

„Digitale Souveränität ist kein technisches Nischenthema mehr, sondern eine geo- & sicherheitspolitische Zukunftsfrage“ – im Webtalk der @internationalepolitik.de sprachen @katjamunoz.bsky.social & @mabialecki.bsky.social über eine 🇪🇺 Grand Strategy für das digitale Zeitalter. Jetzt anschauen! 📺👇

AI’s influence on democratic discourse isn’t a future concern – it’s the present reality. How can fragmented societies receiving hyperpersonalized, AI-mediated information through infrastructure controlled by foreign corporations sustain the shared reality democratic discourse requires. Link ⬇️

They could also have said that this is Hybrid warfare… operating below the threshold of war and working towards expanding the grayzone. Editorial choices matter…

Vladimir Putin is waging a grey-zone campaign against Europe. He is trying to achieve three things, and he needs to fail at all of them

Die verbotene Frucht, die ich eben #plattformprivatheit zur Einführung des Themas von @katjamunoz.bsky.social erwähnt habe: Die zurückgezogene Studie im Gefolge des umstrittenen Reddit-Versuchs.

Larry Ellison, der zweitreichste Mann der Welt, will die US-Version von TikTok mitübernehmen. Da kommt was auf uns zu.

🚨NEW🚨 Amazon has been developing drone surveillance tech for American cops, from gun detection to repurposing Twitch's streaming code. It's also pushing all manner of surveillance tools, including Flock car tracking and AI that constantly monitors all prison calls. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

On hot button issues, a majority say children should be vaccinated; controlling gun violence is more important than gun rights; and Epstein files should be released, in a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.

(Reuters) - More than 150,000 federal employees will leave the U.S. government payroll this week after accepting buyouts - the largest single-year exodus of civil servants in nearly 80 years .. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

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“The problem is that our rules assume technology is either a product (regulated for physical safety), a service (regulated for speech), or an app (governed through platforms). Embodied AI is all three, but no single regulatory agency or statute can oversee the full picture,” writes Matt Steinberg.

"US Tiktok users would be asked to shift to new app" controlled by Trump friends Oracle and Andreessen Horowitz. Good fuckin' luck with that.

Let me guess: it involves selling TikTok's U.S. domestic operations to the right wing Ellison family and Oracle, who'll combine CBS/Paramount/Time Warner/CNN with TikTok to create one of the most effective right wing propaganda machines ever constructed?

One of the first public signs the Korean govt is coming to grips with the new reality in the US. Fon Min Cho Hyun: “I could feel this is no longer the US which had really cooperated well with allies and friendly nations in the past.” 1/ www.joongang.co.kr/article/2536...

Tech keeps reshaping democracy In 🇦🇱, an Al avatar was appointed as Minister In Nepal, Gen Z protesters toppled the gov & elected a new head of state via Discord. In 🇺🇸, the bullet casings found related to the assassination of Charlie Kirk were inscribed with meme references. Substack link ⬇️

I had my first fight with a bot today. And noticed too late. It feels funny.

Good morning, Asia. While you were sleeping, one of our most-read stories was about the small talk that was accidentally caught by a mic and broadcast as the two leaders headed to the military parade in Beijing on.ft.com/4ga7rAz

Leaving typos in emails is the new verifier „this is not AI“ was not on my bingo list for now… but here we are.