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The very short version: It has now become clear that European governments can no longer rely on American clouds, and that we lack good and comprehensive alternatives. Market forces have failed to deliver a truly European cloud, and businesses won’t naturally buy as yet unproven cloud services, even when adorned with a beautiful European 🇪🇺 flag, so for now nothing will happen. This means it’s time for industrial policy, which requires politics to be proficient in “industry.

A new breed of elite flexes its muscle

Western Civilization in the Intelligence Age

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is quitting a major climate group for banks, as increasingly complex regulations and US political attacks lead some of the financial industry’s biggest firms to rethink such affiliations.

Blockchain evidence points to users carrying out market manipulation to inflate trading volumes on the popular political betting platform.

The mind-boggling figure has been levied due to the company restricting Russian state media on YouTube.

Seizing on the politicization of the government response, white supremacist groups have turned out to help after recent storms in North Carolina and Florida in order to boost recruitment and burnish their image.

Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has lost an appeal in a Kenyan labor court. On Friday, the court ruled that Meta could be sued in Kenya over the mass sacking of content moderators.

An innovation aimed at empowering the body politic and closing the democratic deficit.

75% of infected devices were located in homes and offices in North America and Europe.

The Tax Justice Network said trillions could be raised with a ‘featherlight’ tax on the 0.5% of richest households, copying a current Spanish tax

Top aides to President Joe Biden have been crafting a proposal to create a sovereign wealth fund that would allow the US to invest in national security interests including technology, energy, and critical links in the supply chain, according to people familiar with the effort.

The US Justice Department sent subpoenas to Nvidia Corp. and other companies as it seeks evidence that the chipmaker violated antitrust laws, an escalation of its investigation into the dominant provider of AI processors.

Kids are attending Israel-Hamas war protests on Roblox, and so far, a pro-Palestinian virtual protest has been visited more than 275,000 times.

Recipients had increased agency to make employment decisions that worked best for them and their families.

As geopolitical tensions grow, many employees have decided that a career with the Silicon Valley tech giant isn’t worth giving up the comforts of home.

FollowTheCrypto.org: A new project to track cryptocurrency industry spending to influence 2024 elections in the United States.

The unrest is centered around the country’s quota system that requires a third of government jobs to be reserved for relatives of veterans who had fought for Bangladesh’s independence from Pakistan in 1971.

The culture of Silicon Valley was once associated with social liberalism and tolerance. However, the tech community worldwide, from moguls such as Elon Musk or Peter Thiel, to IT professionals in Poland, and self-described OSINT users in India, is showing signs of a noted right-wing shift.

Fans wore Cybertruck shirts, signed shareholder banners, and praised Musk during the meeting's Q&A.

A French sociologist characterizes the boats of the ultra rich a form of “ecocide” for the heavy toll they’re taking on the planet.

Despite Meta’s promise to crack down on political content in the app, Taiwanese activists are using it to organize.

In a new interview, drag superstar RuPaul Andre Charles dishes on a variety of topics -- including his fortified compound.

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An authoritative new study finds there are 183 regional and local conflicts underway in 2023, the highest number in three decades.

378 likes, 10 comments - carvell_wallace on October 24, 2023: "parents: these kids just waste their time online. they need to learn how to deal with the world ..."

Andrew Gray is running for office in Selby and Ainsty on a manifesto generated by an artificial intelligence tool.

Hylton Murray-Philipson says he contributed to gathering in Brazil because of growing climate threat

As the campaign for the 2024 elections in India goes digital, social media influencers have become a powerful tool to try and shape voter behavior.

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