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The AI bubble looks fit to burst, Bank of America director says.
Bank of America strategist warns AI bubble mirrors dot-com peak — recommends bonds and defensive stocks as 'post-bubble roadmap'
moneywise.com/investing/stocks…
#news #tech #technology #AI #aibubble #grok #aislop #banking #finance
The EU unveiled a tech sovereignty package to cut reliance on foreign cloud, chip and software providers, while keeping markets open to selected partners. 🇪🇺
The plan adds cloud sovereignty tiers, backs EU tech capacity, expands chip intervention powers, and allocates €2B for open-source software. 🔓
🔗 techpolicy.press/eu-unveils-sw…
#TechNews #EU #Europe #TechSovereignty #CloudComputing #Semiconductors #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #DataPrivacy #Cybersecurity #AI #Cloud #Chips #Infrastructure #Tech
EU Unveils Sweeping Tech Sovereignty Push, Balancing Autonomy with Openness
The “tech sovereignty” package marks the bloc’s most ambitious attempt yet to reduce dependence on non-European providers, reports Ramsha Jahangir.Ramsha Jahangir (Tech Policy Press)
👏 👍 Manitoba won't approve massive AI data centre proposed for south of Winnipeg: Kinew
"We've taken a look at this project. We've taken a look at AI more broadly — what's happening across North America — and these hyperscale data centres don't appear to be in the best interests of Manitobans," he told CBC Manitoba Information Radio host Marcy Markusa on Thursday.
#Manitoba #DataCentre #Canada #Tech
Production of DDR4 memory and motherboards is restarting amid unprecedented memory shortages — PC industry preparing for a world without DDR5
"When a tech company saturates its market, it has to come up with a way to convince investors that it can still grow, otherwise they will revalue the "growth company" as a "mature company" and lop a massive chunk off its valuation, depriving it of the highly desirable stock that might allow it to resume its growth."
Growth for the sake of growth - the ideology of the cancer cell.
@pluralistic has a new pre-order out. 🧵
kickstarter.com/projects/docto… #tech #ai #reverseCentaur
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"Even if only a small percentage of the people who use your product experience harm as a result, if your product is intended for widespread deployment (as chatbots are), you will end up harming a lot of people..." - @pluralistic
This is an incredibly important point, because it's the completely accepted principle of responsibility that the tech world has built its success upon being exempt from.
This has to change.
Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Delusion as a service; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/04/mission-space/ #Pluralistic 1/Cory Doctorow (Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du Net)
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i need y’all to take a bat at every #techbro and anybody who said there should be no funding for #liberalArts degrees, that the future of college education is #STEM as in SCIENCE, technology, ENGINEERING and maths.
the biggest con was that T: there is no #technology without #arts, #crafts and #maths first. science and engineering are more specialized aspects of the other three. computers are a technology, not #tech.
#SiliconValley is a wasteland that should be nuked into oblivion.
Climate News Now (@climatenewsnow@mastodon.social)
Scientists lose critical climate record as ocean observatory will go dark under Trump funding cuts. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming https://apnews.com/article/climate-oceans-data-trump-science-a9539443dfaa32b3a67468a25f8b2674Climate News Now (Mastodon)
We must change the system so that companies like Palantir don’t get their hands on UK public services.
Hitching our wagon to proprietary systems makes it punitive to change providers and leaves us vulnerable to foreign interference.
If we back open source, everything from the NHS to defence is more secure.
Sign the petition ⬇️
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions…
#digitalsovereignty #palantir #nhs #bigtech #tech #ukpolitics #ukpol
Stop the "Kill Switch": Demand the UK takes back control of our technology.
From the NHS to our energy grid, we are too reliant on US tech. Help us demand digital independence.38 Degrees
MPs want Palantir OUT of the NHS and the UK public sector!
ORG has long warned about our dependency on Big Tech – from vendor lock-in to security risks from foreign-owned companies.
Chi Onwurah MP has echoed our call for Digital Sovereignty to ensure we have control over our critical infrastructure.
Read more ⬇️
theregister.com/software/2026/…
#digitalsovereignty #palantir #nhs #bigtech #tech #ukpolitics #ukpol
UK lawmakers call on government to ditch Palantir NHS contract
Lock-in to a small number of suppliers holding up digital government plans, committee saysLindsay Clark (theregister)
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"Nervous NatSec hawks, ambitious entrepreneurs and technologists, furious digital rights activists. We’re on the same side. What stands in our way?
A prodigious technical challenge, that’s what. But that’s the kind of challenge we’re good at solving..." - @pluralistic
#tech #BigTech #resist #enshittification
Great read from @pluralistic in The Walrus.thewalrus.ca/the-internet-has-…
#tech #governance #privacy #enshittification
The Internet Has Become Too American to Trust
Trump and Big Tech have fused into a new kind of threatCory Doctorow (The Walrus)
Great read from @pluralistic in The Walrus.
thewalrus.ca/the-internet-has-…
#tech #governance #privacy #enshittification
The Internet Has Become Too American to Trust
Trump and Big Tech have fused into a new kind of threatCory Doctorow (The Walrus)
This might leave a mark.
European Parliament to ditch Google for European alternative | Euractiv
#Tech #Google
euractiv.com/news/european-par…
European Parliament to ditch Google for European alternative
France's Qwant will this week become the default search engine on MEPs' computersMaximilian Henning (Euractiv)
A Danish pension fund has blacklisted SpaceX, calling it grossly overvalued with catastrophic governance
Denmark’s AkademikerPension, which manages roughly $25 billion for academic professionals, has said it will not participate in SpaceX’s initial public offering or buy shares in any secondary-market transaction, according to Bloomberg.The Next Web
#UX is asked to do less and less design to ship more and more features. But no amount of fiddling around the edges adds up to one impactful change.
Real systems design requires a different kind of thinking, because product logic squashes agency to make users fungible, while resilient services must embrace and extend that agency.
Building and scaling a system like that requires a new set of skills. These skills are the future of #UXdesign.
productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/th…
The future of UX design is not a higher-velocity version of its present
Scaling the rate at which we fiddle around the edges of a system will never translate into meaningful transformation of that system.Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)
The man who wrote "Don't be evil" said he chose it specifically so it would be hard to remove. Paul Buchheit, the engineer who later built Gmail, suggested the phrase at a Google corporate values meeting on July 19, 2001.
Then in early 2018, internal documents leaked showing that Google had signed a Pentagon contract to build AI to analyze drone footage. By April, over 3,000 Google employees had signed a letter to Sundar Pichai demanding the contract be cancelled.
The letter specifically cited "Don't be evil" as the standard the company was failing to meet. Dozens of engineers resigned in protest.
Sometime between late April and early May, the slogan disappeared from the code of conduct's preface.
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We’ll soon get a chance to see whether, frankly, our last hope, evil corp #Google, can still distinguish content created by #AI from Human one 🤖
Here’s how I would rank the detection difficulty:
1️⃣ Text
2️⃣ Code
3️⃣ Images
4️⃣ Gifs
5️⃣ Videos
If they already fail at level 5, we have a SERIOUS problem:
futurism.com/artificial-intell…
#Artificialintelligence #Content #Data #IT #LLM #Model #News #Futurism #Tech #Technology #Detection #Article #Video #Youtube #AIslop #slop #future #internet
YouTube Announces Plans to Crack Down on AI Slop
YouTube said it will start automatically detecting "photorealistic" AI videos and slapping them with a more noticeable label.Frank Landymore (Futurism)
Also see ar.al/2018/11/29/gdmr-this-one… and ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of…
#EU #FreeSoftware #SmallTech #sovereignty #freedom #tech #GDMR
GDMR: this one simple regulation could end surveillance capitalism in the EU
GDMR: The regulation EU citizens deserve. No, you didn’t misread it and, no, it’s not a typo. GDMR – the General Data Minimisation Regulation – can end surveillance capitalism in the EU. The problem is that no such regulation exists.Aral Balkan
Raphus Social is a Mastodon server that aims to be a safe and inclusive place for open minded people interested in technology, open source, games, and other general geekery.
This server has a post size of up to 1024 characters and up to 8 poll options.
You can find out more at raphus.social/about or contact the admin account @raphus
#FeaturedServer #Tech #Technology #FOSS #Gaming #Geeks #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
Raphus Social
Raphus Social 🦤 is a better bird site, a safe and inclusive place for bringing together open minded people interested in technology, open source, tabletop games, and other general geekery.Mastodon hosted on raphus.social
#BariWeiss, the editor in chief of #CBSNews, signaled a new direction for the nation’s top news program Thursday, replacing the executive producer of “#60Minutes” with #NickBilton, a longtime #tech #journalist & #documentarian who has NEVER worked in traditional broadcast #news.
Bilton, 49, is a former NYT technology columnist & a #filmmaker who has directed & produced documentaries on business & technology for #HBO & #Netflix.
Ever thought about how we make this place sound cool to other people?
Spoiler: It's not 'Fedi'-anything.
forbetter.ghost.io/the-normal-…
#SocialWeb #Blog #Fediverse #Mastodon #Tech
The 'normal' response to the Social Web
How (mostly) 'normal' people respond to the ideas of the Social Web Marketing the Social Web is a headache. Only heightened by the clashing of heads as everyone offers an opinion.Saskia (FORbetter)
Majority of Americans Support Ban on Surveillance Pricing and Electronic Shelf Labels
gizmodo.com/majority-of-americ…
#tech #technology #news #technews #security #privacy #business
Majority of Americans Support Ban on Surveillance Pricing and Electronic Shelf Labels
Surprisingly, 3% saying it would make them more likely to shop at a store.Matt Novak (Gizmodo)
Prediction markets are one of the many ways society is crumbling under the pressure to financialize everything — which crypto and NFTs were part of.
I spoke with Jathan Sadowski to dig into how tech companies are harming us to maximize profit.
Listen to the full episode: techwontsave.us/episode/329_pr…
#tech #nft #crypto #sportsbetting #kalshi #polymarket #predictionmarkets
Dutch government blocks US company from acquisition, citing 'risk to public interest' | TechCrunch
The move to block the acquisition of the cloud company that hosts the Dutch digital ID service comes as Europe continues to reduce its reliance on U.S. technology.Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)
How I make my solar panels last long enough to pay for themselves
You need to maintain your solar panels if you want them to last. Here are my top care tips, plus how to test for faulty ones.
zdnet.com/article/how-to-make-…
#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #ZDNet [ZDNet]
Google I/O showed how the industry has seized upon LLMs as the "future" of software. But that couldn't be further from the truth! It is an intensification of the old way. The same features as before, only MORE and FASTER.
It's the same mediocre vision execs have had for 40 years: give customers more tasks to do on your platform, sell them tools to solve the problems you created.
But the conditions that made this business model possible are collapsing.
productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/ai…
AI is not the future of software development, but the last dying gasp of the past
The industry has been building careers and business models around solving the very problems it created. But the conditions that once made this possible are breaking down.Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)
@pluralistic picked up some reading material at the library recently. The wait list was quite long!
I’m looking forward to “Part 4: The Cure.”
#enshittification #society #tech #books #publiclibraries
I'm flat-out amazed that we can monitor the currents of molten metal in Earth's outer core, 2200 kilometers underground--but we can. Lately, part of that flow has reversed direction, for reasons unknown.
There's a whole other dynamic world inside the world we see.
esa.int/Applications/Observing… #space #science #tech
Insights into Earth’s molten outer core from space
The liquid iron in Earth’s outer core doesn’t always behave as expected. When it changed direction in an unexplained way, ESA satellites provided data on the direction of flow, helping scientists gain better insight into the dynamics at the centre of…www.esa.int
James Murray just been appointed as #Health Secretary, & can end #NHS's dangerous contract with #US #surveillance giant Palantir
#Palantir are embedded in #OurNHS - despite their links to Donald #Trump and their supply of #tech to the #Israeli & US militaries
Murray is new, and what happens on his first few days on the job can transform what happens with the Palantir contract
Lets flood his inbox today so he can see just how many of us want that contract terminated
It takes less than 30 seconds
the.organise.network/campaigns…
#corruption #privacy #UK #backhanders #HealthCare
James Murray: Get Palantir OUT of our NHS!
I've just emailed the Department for Work and Pensions to ask them to fix their broken consultation on reforms to PIP. Can you join in too?the.organise.network
(2024) #GrapheneOS
Any1 using GrapheneOS?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=hrqqQOFp…
#tech
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Bekijk je favoriete video's, luister naar de muziek die je leuk vindt, upload originele content en deel alles met vrienden, familie en anderen op YouTube.m.youtube.com
Google Is Paving A New Information Superhighway
Getting from here to there is about to change
#Google #Tech #AI #Apple
warnercrocker.com/2026/05/23/g…
Just a little favor for his #billionaire #donor #TechBros
#Trump delays executive order on #AI #oversight hours before planned signing
The White House had already sent out invitations to the event, where Trump had been expected to sign an order increasing government scrutiny of new #ArtificialIntelligence models.
#law #tech #business #regulation #MentalHealth #plutocracy #aristocracy #technocracy
washingtonpost.com/technology/…
Gee, ya don’t say …
#Bluesky Says #Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread #Propaganda
The company said it was fighting Russian efforts to hijack real #users’ accounts to post fake #content, an apparently novel tactic.
#MediaLiteracy #disinformation #misinformation #Russia #RussianPropaganda #tech #SocialMedia
nytimes.com/2026/05/21/busines…
New from me: France is done with US big tech companies—arguably its moving away from American tech faster than other countries in Europe
The French government has built its own replacement for Google Docs/Microsoft Office. Cities, including Lyon, are moving to Linux and other tech. Open source is at the center of their efforts.
wired.com/story/the-eu-is-goin…
#tech #digitalsovereignty #opensource #techn
The EU Is Going Through a Trump-Fueled Breakup With Big Tech
France is already moving on from Zoom and Microsoft Teams in favor of homegrown alternatives. Other countries are quickly following suit.Matt Burgess (WIRED)
It's pretty interesting to see #China order a #US company to unwind the purchase of another company in #Singapore, after it was already complete.
🇺🇸 #Meta > 🇸🇬 #Manus ❌ 🇨🇳 #Government
reuters.com/technology/chinas-…
#SingaporeWashing #News #Business #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Legal #Politics #Reuters #Economy #Tech
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At #CPDP2026, sponsored by Google (Alphabet) and Microsoft, companies complicit in the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people according to the UN:
aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un…
If you can’t even abide by #BDS to show solidarity with the people of Gaza are you truly an ally?
bdsmovement.net/no-tech-oppres…
If you’re anti genocide you would be boycotting Microsoft and Google and thus boycotting #CPDP2026 which is sponsored by them.
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #privacyInternational #CPDP #BDS #complicity #privacy #humanRights #tech
UN report lists companies complicit in Israel’s ‘genocide’: Who are they?
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has named several US giants among the companies aiding Israel.Federica Marsi (Al Jazeera)
📰 Grafana Labs, an open source tool maker, announced that hackers stole its codebase and threatened to publish it if the company did not pay a ransom.
🔗 techcrunch.com/2026/05/18/open…
Open source tool maker Grafana Labs says hackers stole its code, refuses to pay ransom | TechCrunch
The open source project said hackers stole its codebase and threatened to publish its source code if the company did not pay.Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)
