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  • Trump says EU to pay 'very big price' for €890 million Google fine

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  • I'm not sure how much sense this makes for European citizens. What the commission wants is that Google should direct more users to European competitors rather than its own services. For example regarding price comparison sites. The major German competitor is Idealo, owned by right-wing media empire Axel Springer. Some of this seems to be only about serving the interests of our European oligarchs.

  • DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng Breaks His Silence: In a rare four-hour talk, the reclusive founder reveals an almost Daoist philosophy of AI—AGI as a tide no company can own...

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  • The EU's AI Act calls them open source, so that ship has sailed.

  • Microsoft strikes 'multibillion-dollar' deal with French AI firm Mistral

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  • Yes, but that only puts an upper limit on the price that anyone would be willing to pay.

    It's like this: Both companies estimate how much money they expect to make from using those servers for their own purposes. In Mistral's case, that might be a negative amount. Regardless, Microsoft obviously can put the capacity to better use. So they can offer to rent it from Mistral for more than Mistral believes it can make on its own. Basically, MS passes on some of their profits to Mistral.

  • 'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark Anne Frank copyright ruling

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  • Continental Europe had worse copyright laws since the 19th century. The US founding fathers were enlightenment age idealists, hence the copyright clause. European copyright laws were created by authoritarian empires. It's a major reason why we can't do tech. And I suspect also why Europe can't answer to the dominance of US culture.

    Legal theft like the Mickey-Mouse-Protection-Law is controversial in the US. In the EU, it goes by without comment. That ends up giving casual observers an exactly reverse impression of the legal and social situation. Same for a lot of issues.

  • 'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark Anne Frank copyright ruling

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  • Very minor. They are simply not illegal at present. This does not put a check on lawmakers wanting to outlaw or "regulate" them.

  • 'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark Anne Frank copyright ruling

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  • a) The EU extended copyright before the US. It went even further than the US by reviving previously expired copyrights.

    b) The relevant copyrights are expired in most of Europe. They still exist in the NL because of a special exemption granted by lawmakers.

  • OpenAI says its AI technology acted on its own in an 'unprecedented' hack of another company

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  • What would you consider sufficient to confirm the story?

  • OpenAI admits responsibility for HuggingFace Attack - an agent from an internal evaluation is reportedly the cause

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  • That reddit comment makes no sense.

  • Autonomous AI Agent Hacked Hugging Face. Strict US Safety Guardrails Forced them to Use a Chinese LLM to Catch It—Expensive, Proprietary US Models Were No Help To Defenders, and Free Chinese Ones Were

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  • Peter Thiel to Receive the 2026 Axel Springer Award

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  • Hah. I don't even know if you mean Thiel or the guy behind Axel Springer.

  • Peter Thiel to Receive the 2026 Axel Springer Award

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  • There are no ads on that site. It is a press release by the company and not a press report. They make no money of your clicks.

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    Peter Thiel to Receive the 2026 Axel Springer Award

    www.axelspringer.com /en/ax-press-release/peter-thiel-to-receive-the-2026-axel-springer-award

  • Not Everything that is on Fire Should be Extinguished

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  • Doesn't it, though?

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    Not Everything that is on Fire Should be Extinguished

  • EU Mandates Driver-Facing Cameras in New Cars From Today

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  • Probably, but it's certainly more complicated. Fiat complained about the added cost of such systems. On the low budget end, this adds a noticeable chunk to the price. Bad for sales in the EU, added complications for export. I could imagine the "premium brands" like such regulations that remove some competition.

    The yahoo post in OP is a press release by a Swedish tech company that makes such systems. They're not exactly part of the car industry, but they claim to have lobbied for this.

  • EU Mandates Driver-Facing Cameras in New Cars From Today

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  • The manufacturers make money. They have lobbied for it. See that press release: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/advanced-driver-distraction-warning-systems-071000637.html

    Maybe local car manufacturers appreciate a barrier for importing foreign cars.

    But maybe it is simply bad law-making. The law requires such a system. It does not require that it works. Many regulations in Europe are like that.

    Partly that may be because industry likes it that way. If they were held accountable for deaths caused by their cars, they would have to do open-ended research. They might be held accountable for sneaky maneuvers. They might have to implement unpopular features, which the politicians would not like either cause voters. This way, they just tick boxes on a compliance checklist. It doesn't matter if it works. That's called "legal certainty". Everyone says how important that is.

    But I'm sure, in many cases it is simply incompetence. Neither the politicians nor the bureaucrats who write the laws know what they are doing. Clueless people often try to compensate by micromanaging. They don't know the problems that causes. In fairness, the actual experts work for the industry that is being regulated. You can't trust those guys. So there's no reason to believe the experts when they say something is a bad idea. They say that about anything that costs them money.

  • EU Mandates Driver-Facing Cameras in New Cars From Today

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  • It was mandatory for new vehicle types since 2024. Now it is mandatory for all new vehicles, including old types.

  • EU Mandates Driver-Facing Cameras in New Cars From Today

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  • Do you happen to know of any empirical studies on the effectiveness?

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    EU Mandates Driver-Facing Cameras in New Cars From Today

    reclaimthenet.org /eu-mandates-driver-facing-cameras-in-new-cars-from-today

  • Ukraine’s Strikes Have Disabled Nearly 43% of Russia’s Oil Refining Capacity

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  • Ahh. But the Ukrainian attack only happened because of a Russian attack, so...

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    Copyright challenges in open-source AI development in the European Union – Open Future

    openfuture.eu /publication/copyright-challenges-in-open-source-ai-development-in-the-european-union/

  • 22-year-old Mozart’s handwritten notebook unearthed in ‘major discovery’

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  • This could be the greatest historical discovery since the Hitler Diaries!

    Seriously, though. I have no idea how credible this is, but does it sound too good to be true?

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    Anthropic disables top-tier AI models after US order limiting foreign access

    www.reuters.com /technology/us-blocks-foreign-access-anthropics-most-advanced-ai-models-axios-reports-2026-06-13/
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    New plans to stop children taking, sharing or viewing nude images

    www.gov.uk /government/news/new-plans-to-stop-children-taking-sharing-or-viewing-nude-images
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    An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

    openai.com /index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/
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    Apple’s AirPods with cameras for AI are apparently close to production

    www.theverge.com /tech/926376/apple-airpods-cameras-ai-production
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    Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

    hacks.mozilla.org /2026/05/behind-the-scenes-hardening-firefox/
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    Sci-Hub has created a new AI chatbot. Is it any good?

    cen.acs.org /policy/publishing/Sci-Hub-created-new-AI/104/web/2026/04
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    White House against Anthropic expanding Mythos model access: report

    www.france24.com /en/live-news/20260430-white-house-against-anthropic-expanding-mythos-model-access-report
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    Europe craves its own superhacking AI

    www.politico.eu /article/europe-craves-its-own-superhacking-ai/
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    Commission preliminarily finds Meta in breach of Digital Services Act for failing to prevent minors under 13 from using Instagram and Facebook

    ec.europa.eu /commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_920
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    Even experts are surprised by AI’s latest ‘vibe-mathing’ advance

    www.scientificamerican.com /article/amateur-armed-with-chatgpt-vibe-maths-a-60-year-old-problem/
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    I'm enjoying the Perfect Date

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    Siemens warns EU over restrictive rules

    www.thestar.com.my /business/business-news/2026/04/21/siemens-warns-eu-over-restrictive-rules
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    The zero-days are numbered | The Mozilla Blog

    blog.mozilla.org /en/firefox/ai-security-zero-day-vulnerabilities/
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    So much Love for a Friend