Die Presse nennt man nicht umsonst die vierte Gewalt. Gegen Rupert Murdoch sind die Techkonzerne zahnlose Tiger.

Diese Selbstbedienung ist ziemlich bedenklich.

Seriously, why are they producing all these great promo shots for him? If they had done that for someone like Bernie Sanders, the US would be in much better shape now.

(explaining the title reference)

I didn't need that mental image. But since you have installed it in my head, I am honor-bound to upvote.

sigh

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[French media] said the investigation was focused on a lack of moderators on Telegram, and that police considered that this situation allowed criminal activity to go on undeterred on the messaging app.

Europe defending its citizens against the tech giants, I'm sure.

“I'd far rather be happy than right any day."

"And are you?"

"No. That's where it all falls down, of course."

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

(In case someone has been living under a rock in the last 48 hours. Anthropic's new model "Mythos" has been finding a lot of new vulnerabilities. This is about patching one.)

This is a brutally dystopian law. Forget the AI angle and turn on your brain.

Any information will get a label saying who owns it and what can be done with it. Tampering with these labels becomes a crime. This is the infrastructure for the complete control of the flow of all information.

Arrows pointing out from Germany indicating a pointless quest for more space. Why do I feel like I have seen that before?

The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.

― Vladimir Ilich Lenin

This comment is not legal advice.

What did he think a crawler is? Why was he surprised that not allowing companies to use his data lead to them not using his data? Looks like he has another surprise coming when he notices that search engines no longer index his blog.

Almost but not quite.

Despite the fact that Nvidia is now almost the main beneficiary of the growing interest in AI, the head of the company, Jensen Huang, does not believe that additional trillions of dollars need to be invested in the industry.

*Because of

You heard it, guys. There's no need to create competition to Nvidia's chips. It's perfectly fine if all the profits go to Nvidia, says Nvidia's CEO.

People, including many Europeans, make a lot of assumptions about Europe.

Americans in particular seem to assume that issues fall along the same political Dem/Rep divide as in the US. That gives them bad ideas. European countries have more solid social safety nets, more accessible and cheaper health care and education, more developed and usable public transport systems, ...

On other issues like immigration or racism, they are on a MAGA-level. There is no big controversy because it is widely taken for granted that European nations are ethno-states. This is less so in the former colonial powers Britain and France. But they have their own baggage that gnaws at them from within, just like the history of racial segregation undermines the USA.

Another area where Europe is just different from the US is freedom of information. It's just not respected in the same way. Intellectual property, on the other hand, is held in much higher regard. That's how it has been for a long time.

Now that the copyright industry is waging an all-out lobby battle against citizens, you can expect much more like this.

I think most people won't be worrying about their own headphones.

So, which one of them heard boss music?

Translation:

For when you have to move fast

The Böcker Agilo transports your up to 400 kg heavy treasures at 42 m/min - whisper quiet thanks to a 230 V electric motor.

To be honest, I wouldn't have been much impressed by the HTML specifications, either. An open source alternative for gopher? Oh, how cute. Be sure to tell all your geek friends.

The FTC is worried that the big tech firms will further entrench their monopolies. They are doing a lot of good stuff lately; an underappreciated boon of the Biden Presidency. Lina Khan looks to be really set on fixing decades of mistakes.

I guess they just want to know if these deals lock out potential competitors.

Photo of the expectant couple and their doctor: