A closer look at how undersea cables connect the world.

While Europe still thinks in markets, the world thinks in ecosystems. To understand the challenge for European tech, we must look at the gravitational pulls shaping the global landscape, write Frederike Kaltheuner and Leevi Saari. Tech Policy Press is launching a new series with AI Now Institute:

"The moderators of the biohacking subreddit say that peptide and hormone replacement therapy companies have been surreptitiously spamming Reddit in an attempt to get their posts scraped by AI chatbots."

"A major part of that sovereignty push will see Canada “strengthen multinational partnerships with trusted allies” as part of the Sovereign Technology Alliance Ottawa entered into with Germany this past February. "

Face à Edge, six éditeurs appellent Microsoft à changer les règles du jeu

"The discovery of NameTag in the live Meta AI app shows that Meta had begun shipping face-recognition code to users' phones ... Though not yet enabled, NameTag sits inside a Meta AI companion app that's been downloaded over 50 million times and is necessary for ..key features of its smart glasses"

Palantir wins £9M contract to run UK firearms licensing: CIA-backed biz to hold gun, bomb, and poison records

My new article, 'User Perspectives on T&Cs in Virtual Worlds' is published! www.elgaronline.com/view/journal... A sociolegal empirical work examining users’ understanding, motivation, and compliance with T&Cs in a persistent online community. More over at www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

IA and copyright: French bill proposes to establish a presumption of use of protected works by AI providers, when there is an indication of such use, shifting the burden of proof to the provider to disprove unauthorized use.

New proposals will see the EU further invest in European startups and companies as it looks to strengthen its homegrown tech footprint.

"UK regulators today ordered Google to put clearer attributions and links to publishers’ content in its AI-generated search features. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) also said Google must give publishers a way to opt out of AI features in search."

Demand Is Booming For New No Tech, Repairable Tractor https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/06/04/0043253/demand-is-booming-for-new-no-tech-repairable-tractor?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Municipales 2025 : retour sur l’opération d’ingérence numérique contre LFI

Le Chips Act 2.0 dessine une nouvelle philosophie industrielle européenne

Taiwan's Foxconn, France's Thales (defence) and Radiall (electronics) to build semiconductor fab near Bordeaux.

Listen up, England. The Health Secretary is going to be data controller for everyone's Single Patient Record

"“When people work next to their colleagues, they receive more feedback on their output and more mentorship,” the economists said of their findings. Introducing just a bit of distance (e.g., a junior dev stuck hot-desking in a different part of the office) reduces mentorship and feedback ...”

"While cybercrime is technically illegal in Russia and other CIS countries, their governments often provide safe harbor for extortionists and other financially motivated crims - especially if they also happen to work day jobs as state-sponsored hackers - and local police look the other way..."

Microsoft claimed last year that it had made a key breakthrough in quantum computing with Majorana 1. While physicists were immediately skeptical of Microsoft’s claims, the software giant is announcing Majorana 2 today, the next generation of its topological quantum chip.

Microsoft Deliberately Bricking All Office For Mac 2019/2021 Installations https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/06/02/1725210/microsoft-deliberately-bricking-all-office-for-mac-20192021-installations?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

A federal IT staffer filed a complaint about DOGE, then went public. Shortly after Elon Musk boosted a post calling his claims false, his brake lines were cut. Now he’s suing for defamation.

" European Parliament to ditch Google for European alternative - France's Qwant will this week become the default search engine on MEPs' computers"

To put it another way: if the official position of the Android and Linux kernel teams is “we, some of the world’s best coders, can’t safely use C” then the bar under CRA’s requirements of “safe by design” should be nearly impossible to meet for mere mortals when using C.

In a CRA webinar last week, I commented it is possible that C/C++ are a per se CRA violation, since C/C++ are insecure by design. An attendee replied "but C/C++ is what embedded use" and I said, more or less, "tough". Here's @gregkh.bsky.social on it: www.zdnet.com/article/rust...

Sellers of products with names like Boner Bears and DTF have voluntarily recalled their products after testing positive for the active ingredients in Viagra and Cialis. www.wired.com/story/sexual...

Microsoft could be the next Big Tech antitrust target

After months of testing, weeks of writing, here is finally my new full Linux install guide: "Interim Install Guide: KDE Neon User Edition for a professional digital painter workstation": www.davidrevoy.com/article1145/... #linux #artist

"UCLA has entered pre-litigation discussions with Oracle, one of the suppliers underpinning its finance transformation project, which has been delayed by nearly six years."

Microsoft is threatening legal action for disclosing exploits

Meta's latest attempt to stop the progress of my 2018 GDPR access complaint dramatically failed in the Irish High Court last week www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

[Op-eds] Here's a combo for you. We have two new op-eds: 1) When workers become ‘skills’: Governance gaps in AI systems, By Qian & Yu policyreview.info/articles/new... #AIlabour 2) The EU AI Act’s intellectual property blind spot, By Eshaghi policyreview.info/articles/new... #AIAct

"Microsoft has been accused of leaking the data of civil servants working for the Netherlands' regulatory agencies to the US [Congress]. The civil servants affected by the leak work at the Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) and the Dutch Data Protection Authority, according to the NL Times. "

AI hiring algorithms reject Black, Asian job seekers at higher rates

Listerine Leaves 0.1% Of Germs Alive To Spread Message Of Terror Throughout Microbial Community https://theonion.com/listerine-leaves-0-1-of-germs-alive-to-spread-message-of-terror-throughout-microbial-community/

Stapler Not The Same Since Tasting Human Flesh

Alibaba gets Android 16 running on RISC-V

Google engineer accused of turning Year in Search secrets into Polymarket payday

The European Commission has slapped Temu with a €200 million ($232 million) fine for failing to prevent the sales of illegal products on its platform.

Tony Blair and the Reform party both want AI in government, though they can't agree on what for

Open source and commons ideals are more important than ever If you asked me to name the topic I'd class as my core academic specialisation, you'd probably guess artificial intelligence, and you'd be wrong, or at least premature, that one came later. The real answer is openness: open access, open…

Expect to see a lot more of this kind of sovereignty-preserving market intervention.

As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show. www.wired.com/story/us-law...

Editorial: Plantation Simulator Is the Kind of Game the Industry Should Reject

Pope Leo warns AI boom can give Big Tech and the people who run it too much power