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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.

As more than two billion people vote, we’re monitoring the way AI is being used in political campaigns, memes, and misinformation.

Authorities impose restrictions on bike hire after huge group blocks a highway between Zhengzhou and Kaifeng in China, as night biking trend takes off

U.S. spying on it's citizens and China taking advantage of that backdoor for months before anyone realizing.

This is only going to get worse over time.

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

As greenwashing gets more public scrutiny, a new phenomenon seems to offer a far more challenging barrier to sustainability and climate…

A history of policemen using violent content to build their online personalities has policymakers on edge.

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

In her first days as Mexico’s new president, Claudia Sheinbaum made a point of distancing herself from the fossil fuel reliance promoted by her predecessor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and vowed to resume an energy transition that he halted.

The popular ski resort of Zermatt is in the affected area.

Alibaba’s Qwen has been shining on benchmark tests, despite chip restrictions.

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.

There have been instances of generative AI being "used to confuse – and even suppress – voters," Sen. Warner says.

Co-author Gordon Pennycook: "The work overturns a lot of how we thought about conspiracies."

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.

Design research agency FranklinTill has compiled a list of principles to help designers, makers and brands avoid greenwashing when sourcing textiles.

State-linked Chinese entities are using cloud services provided by Amazon or its rivals to access advanced U.S. chips and artificial intelligence capabilities that they cannot acquire otherwise, recent public tender documents showed.

The asset management unit of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has walked away from the world’s biggest climate alliance for investors, marking the latest in a string of similar defections amid continued Republican Party attacks on green finance.

Two years in, union leaders say Biden’s big climate law is making a difference.

Our results highlight hate speech online as a potential channel through which temperature alters interpersonal conflict and societal aggression. We provide empirical evidence that hot and cold temperatures can aggravate aggressive tendencies online. The prevalence of the results across climatic and socioeconomic subgroups points to limitations in the ability of humans to adapt to temperature extremes.

Ancestral lands will be returned to the Shasta Indian Nation as part of a massive Klamath River dam removal project.

Eating meat with a lower carbon footprint often means killing more animals and treating them more poorly.

Multiple groups are working to keep Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from doubling the number of centers in the country, fearing environmental devastation.

They claimed X's AI chatbot, Grok, had spread "false information on ballot deadlines."

A victory for Donald Trump in November’s presidential election could add 4bn tonnes of US emissions by 2030 compared with Joe Biden’s plans

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.

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.