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“Find European tech, software, and service alternatives that respect your data sovereignty, are built with GDPR in mind, and store data in Europe. I created the European Tech Map to change this. It is aimed to be the most comprehensive and curated directory of European tech, software, and services companies. Built on a single conviction: …
Business Insider: “I come bearing great news for my kind of people (horrible typists): Typos are the new status symbol. Garbled spelling, a missed space, improper capitalization — those are all the new and best ways to signal to others that you are powerful and elite.. The most notable recent example of how the rich …
Abby André – Executive Director of The Impact Project. “Today, we released an expanded version of The Security Map – and the data is alarming. Between 2015 and 2025: 🔴 Threats to local public servants increased by 2,030% 🔴 Threats to families of public servants increased by 3,700% 🔴 34% of threats against families occurred …
“Every March, literary bloodsport reigns supreme. Since 2005, the Tournament of Books has been home to a month-long battle royale among the year’s best novels. Each weekday in March, two works of fiction go head to head, with one of our judges deciding which book moves forward in the competition—until one finally wins that year’s …
All Rise News: “In a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Ala.) joined Democratic Senators Dick Durbin of Illinois, Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico, giving the request bipartisan buy-in. “On January 30, 2026, DOJ published over three million pages and files of Epstein-related records, including …
FT.com – Tim Harford [no paywall]: “In the 1970s, some basic ideas in supposedly useless number theory were deployed by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman. They developed the RSA algorithm, which enables public key cryptography, without which there would be no ecommerce. Cryptography is hardly valueless to the military, either. One never knows …
Center for Countering Digital Hate: How mainstream AI chatbots assist users planning violent attacks – 8 in 10 AI chatbots were regularly willing to assist users in planning violent attacks including school shootings, religious bombings, and high-profile assassinations. DeepSeek went as far as wishing the would-be attacker a “Happy (and safe) shooting!”. These are the …
The New Yorker – no paywall – “Memes such as “monitoring the situation” reflect a deluded belief that we can be more than just passive, confused bystanders to a spray of digital shrapnel. On TikTok, the war against Iran began with a series of videos from influencer types in Dubai, Doha, and elsewhere in the …
Follow up to Trump’s Battle With Big Firms Heads into 2026: What to Know See Also WSJ via MSN – “The Justice Department’s surprise reversal last week on defending the White House’s sanctions against law firms came after an angry outburst by President Trump, according to people familiar with the matter. After The Wall Street …
The Register: “GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability. Scarcely a day goes by without an outage at a cloud service. Forget five nines – the way things are going, one nine is looking like an ambitious goal. GitHub has had a rough month so far. On February 9, Actions, pull requests, …
[What!] The Verge – no paywall: “Superhuman says it has disabled Grammarly’s “expert review” AI feature that said its edit suggestions were “inspired by” real writers, including our editor-in-chief and other Verge staff members. “After careful consideration, we have decided to disable Expert Review as we reimagine the feature to make it more useful for …
The Guardian: “…More than a half a dozen current and former Amazon corporate employees, in roles ranging from software engineer to user experience researcher to data analyst, told the Guardian that Amazon is pressing employees to integrate AI across all aspects of their work, even though these workers say this push is hurting productivity. They …