Nexus

In een boekhandel met de mooie naam La Condition Humaine in Avignon bleek ook een kast Engelstalige boeken te zijn. Hoewel het niveau van mijn Frans niet tegenviel, besloot ik toch voor Engels te gaan. Het aanbod in het buitenland is dan vaak beperkt tot typische titels. Klassiekers en actuele bestsellers.

In een recente opinie kwam ik een goede typering tegen:

Natuurlijk herverpakt Bregman […]

https://www.filmvanalledag.nl/2025/05/20/nexus/

Millions of people’s biological data was just bought at a steal for just $256 million.

23andMe was bought be Regeneron, a biotech firm, for a tiny fraction of the $6 billion it was worth 5 years ago.

The takeaway: your personal data is not safe. The digital Wild West continues without regulations or guardrails and we’re the pawns. #23andme #privacy #bigtech
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/23andme-sells-its-most-valuable-asset-regeneron-promises-keep-your-dna-private-d8065fc7

Dit gaat over bestanden in de cloud. Maar onlangs gaf #trump het bevel (wettelijk gezien onjuist, maar niemand durft naar de rechter te stappen) om een account af te sluiten van een hoge #icc medewerker. Dat kan dus ook met onze politici. Kan #schoof ineens niet meer bij zijn email en bestanden. #bigtech #microsoft is de gewillige kampbewaker die het vuile werk opknapt voor de laffe nazis.

Overheidsinstanties hebben geen exitstrategie voor Amerikaanse cloud https://www.security.nl/posting/888507/Overheidsinstanties+hebben+geen+exitstrategie+voor+Amerikaanse+cloud?channel=rss

Register now! On 25 September, we discuss #DigitalSovereignty, #BigTech, #publishing and #AcademicFreedom in the #university at "Academia at the digital crossroads": https://www.rug.nl/jantina-tammes-school/calendar/2025/academic-infrastructure-at-the-crossroads

Opening by @universityofgroningen rector Jacquelien Scherpen. Lectures: Tamar Sharon & Juliette Schaafsma. Panel w. Nolda Tipping-Griffioen (@CIT_RUG), David Cheruiyot (@YAGroningen), Fleur Zeldenrust (Dutch Young Academy), Marijke Folgering (@Bibliothecaris) & Michiel Kolman (Elsevier)

2025 summed up in one headline…

𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙖 𝘽𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙'𝙨 𝙁𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝙎𝙪𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙄𝙣 𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙐𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘼𝙄-𝙋𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙎𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙨

https://www.ndtv.com/science/china-building-worlds-first-supercomputer-in-space-using-ai-powered-satellites-8454162

ICE plans 'ImmigrationOS' to track immigrants. Trump's deportation goal: 1M annually. #BigTech #Immigration #Privacy

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/02/ice-deportation-tracking-palantir-thiel/83375538007/

Amazon Alexa stores years of user audio, raising privacy concerns. #BigTech #Privacy #Amazon

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/31/746878763/how-tech-companies-track-your-every-move-and-put-your-data-up-for-sale

Having to use #outlook (web version) to talk to #microsoft and I can't believe how rubbish the #ux is!

Keeping in mind that this is Microsoft emailing a Microsoft account and displayed using Microsoft's own UI... and I can't read a simple only-needs-text-anyway email!

And how much of the world uses this?

#monopoly (or whatever the word is when you have very few options)
#BigTech

Microsoft hat nach Trump-Sanktionen das Mail-Konto des Chefanklägers des Internationalen Gerichtshofs blockiert. #bigtech #usa

Kritiker: "Wir brauchen dringend Alternativen."

https://www.heise.de/news/Strafgerichtshof-Microsofts-E-Mail-Sperre-als-Weckruf-fuer-digitale-Souveraenitaet-10387368.html

The sooner I took responsibility for my online and software experience, the sooner I got free from the supposed clutches of "big-tech". Sure, they do serve the masses and that's OK.

But for the minority discerning user: Block, hide, avoid lock-in, use alternative clients, use open-source and non user-hostile alternatives. Curate, curate, curate.

Importantly, pay (or donate) for good software, don't expect it to be free. Monetarily support what you see potential in.

Bezos, Zuckerberg strike bargain with Trump for hands-off approach they experienced in the 90s. #BigTech #privacy #tech

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/bezos-zuckerberg-and-big-techs-devils-bargain-with-trump.html

https://www.europesays.com/uk/115613/ German antitrust head sees divergence in rhetoric with US peers, not in substance #AndreasMundt #AntitrustOfficials #BigTech #divergence #EU #Europe #EuropeanRegulators #Germany

Ah, Google taking the "what they don't know won't hurt them" approach to AI training. Internal docs reveal they considered asking publishers for permission to use their content, but decided "silent mode" was better.

You know something's sketchy when even the memo says "Do what we say, carefully"

#AI #BigTech

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/19/2054230/google-decided-against-offering-publishers-options-in-ai-search

Unas cuantas verdades bien dichas sobre como crear proyectos de software libre en la era de las macrotecnológicas.

What we in the open world are messing up in trying to compete with big tech - Bert Hubert's writings

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/what-the-open-world-must-do-better/

Weg aus der #Cloud der #bigTech Firmen? Wusstet ihr, dass Telekomkunden kostenfrei eine Nextclud mit 15 GB Speicher aktivieren können? Die lässt sich mit nem ganz normalen #Nextcloud-Client ansprechen. #magentacloud

"All told, it’s fair to say the AI era of the platform-publisher relationship hasn’t gotten off to the smoothest start, but the same could be said about every previous era. “Generative AI has increased the gravitational pull” of some platforms, the news executive quoted at the top of the chapter noted, while others, like X, have less sway. “OpenAI didn’t exist but now is a thing; Microsoft was less of a player and is more of a player,” the executive continued. “The challenge that we have right now is that news, as an industry, tends not to learn terribly well from our past experiences and mistakes.”

This assessment neatly encapsulates a motivating force behind this report. Certain aspects of the AI era are new, while others are eerily familiar; there are opportunities for both news outlets and tech companies to apply the lessons of the past, but structural similarities mean that some mistakes may be repeated. (Sitting outside the scope of this report are questions about the safety and ethical nature of the use of these tools in newsrooms, as well as the impact the widespread adoption of generative AI tools for both content production and consumption might have on the health of the information ecosystem.)

Conscious that this era — and indeed, AI technology as a whole — is in its nascency and critical episodes are yet to fully play out, the primary goal of this latest iteration of our ongoing study is to assess the health of the relationship between platforms and publishers during this early but already stormy period. To achieve this, we conducted 34 semi-structured interviews with representatives from the news and technology industries from the U.S. and Europe: 24 news executives, editors, product managers, and newsroom AI specialists; six former platform executives; two representatives from AI companies; and two AI experts."

https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/journalism-zero-how-platforms-and-publishers-are-navigating-ai.php

TEN YEARS??? AI will be so dangerous going unregulated for so long!
#CorporationsArePeopleToo #Corruption #GOP #BigTech
#DigitalRights

https://themarkup.org/artificial-intelligence/2025/05/16/congress-moves-to-cut-off-states-ai-regulations

Big Tech censorship affects everyone, not just conservatives. Privacy, freedom, and competition are at stake. #BigTech #Censorship #Privacy

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/right-or-left-you-should-be-worried-about-big-tech-censorship

Fighting for privacy, freedom, and market competition against Big Tech. #privacy #BigTech #tech

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/technology/personaltech/big-tech-power-how-to-fight.html