Perplexity Makes Audacious $34.5 Billion Bid for Google Chrome Amid Antitrust Showdown
Perplexity Makes Audacious $34.5 Billion Bid for Google Chrome Amid Antitrust Showdown
"Te vaak negeren we in Nederland opwinding over AI, simpelweg omdat we AI-ontwikkelaars niet vertrouwen. Maar het is logisch consistent om de integriteit van tech-ceo’s in twijfel te trekken én te geloven dat hun technologie de wereld fundamenteel zal veranderen."
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/08/12/de-overheid-moet-zich-voorbereiden-op-ai-die-superintelligent-is-a4902765
#ai #bigtech
I got new stickers from @fsf so I fixed the outside of my 2012 Mini to match the inside which runs Trisquel GNU/Linux.
Many of us spend a lot of time using computers everyday and we can do more to make sure we use an OS and software that is built to respect our freedom, privacy and security.
Bonus: It runs great on old computers, is climate and resource friendly, saves money.
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- Irland hat (mit Luxemburg) praktisch alle großen Zentralen von #BigTech-Unternehmen
- Das Land hat gesamt nur ca 200 Richter. Fälle kosten schnell €100.00+, in meinem Fall bis zu €10 Mio an Prozessriksio.
- Praktisch gilt EU-Recht hier nur am Papier. Real durchsetzbar ist es nicht, egal ob Datenschutz, Hate Speech oder banaler Vertragsbruch..
@noybeu versucht das zu ändern - mittels strategischer juristischer Prozesse, aber das sind dicke Bretter..
I guess #Perplexity hallucinated the price for #Chrome
W ostatnim czasie dwa portale napisały o oficjalnym otwarciu naszego społecznego portalu gminy Brwinów. Dziękujemy i polecamy zapoznać się z tymi mediami.
Niezależny portal informacyjny w Pruszkowie: ZPruszkowa.pl https://zpruszkowa.pl/ruszyl-spoleczny-portal-gminy-brwinow
Blogiem obywatelskiego dotyczący bezpieczeństwa i prywatności w internecie: @kontrabanda : https://kontrabanda.net/r/spoleczny-portal-gminny-o-brwinowie-zostal-oficjalnie-uruchomiony/
@ulrichkelber ich fürchte, nein! Das Mastodon Angebot des @bundestag dürfte bald mangels "Reichweite" eingestellt werden, eben wegen der Einbahnstraßen Kommunikation per Dreiteiler aus Pressemitteilungen. So ähnlich wie bei den Portalen der Kirchen. Die schwimmen lieber auf den Wellen von Algorithmen der #BigTech.
Anthropic Matches OpenAI’s $1 Government AI Deal in Rivalry for Federal Adoption
#AI #GovTech #Anthropic #OpenAI #BigTech #USGovernment #GSA #AIPolicy
Repeat after me: The Linux Foundation are a bunch of Big Tech bellends. Don’t listen to a single thing they say.
We waren te tegast in de @angrynerdspodcast onderwijsspecial op het hackerkamp #WHY2025
. Samen met @BjornW van @publicspaces en @nicorikken van de @fsfe
Luister de aflevering hier terug:
https://angrynerdspodcast.nl/specials/Angry%20Nerds%20Live%20op%20WHY2025%20-%20Maandag%2002.mp3
"Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech's energy-hungry data centers.
It's not clear that any state has a solution and the actual effect of data centers on electricity bills is difficult to pin down. Some critics question whether states have the spine to take a hard line against tech behemoths like Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta.
But more than a dozen states have begun taking steps as data centers drive a rapid build-out of power plants and transmission lines.
That has meant pressuring the nation's biggest power grid operator to clamp down on price increases, studying the effect of data centers on electricity bills or pushing data center owners to pay a larger share of local transmission costs.
Rising power bills are “something legislators have been hearing a lot about. It’s something we’ve been hearing a lot about. More people are speaking out at the public utility commission in the past year than I’ve ever seen before,” said Charlotte Shuff of the Oregon Citizens’ Utility Board, a consumer advocacy group. “There’s a massive outcry.”
Some data centers could require more electricity than cities the size of Pittsburgh, Cleveland or New Orleans, and make huge factories look tiny by comparison. That's pushing policymakers to rethink a system that, historically, has spread transmission costs among classes of consumers that are proportional to electricity use."
#LettersAndPolitics welcomes #KarenHao (@karenhao), author of #EmpireOfAI: Dreams and Nightmares in #SamAltman’s #OpenAI
https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-august-11-2025/
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #tech #BigTech #SiliconValley #techFutures #books @bookstodon
Vi ayer lo de #Meta haciendo scraping al #Fediverso y parecia bastante malo. Ahora que ya han ido sacando lista de las instancias afectadas parece mucho peor de lo que pensaba. Aún así hasta donde vi en el pdf (podría equivocarme) hispagatos no está allí.
Definitivamente el Zucks si que apesta y no quiere dejar que nadie se le escape. Que p*to asco de empresas las #BigTech.
3 yrs ago, @downey wrote:
> “ Today is a perfect day to exercise your independence from #BigTech, & #GiveUpGitHub.
> #GitHub is the equivalent of #Twitter & #Facebook for software development -- creators of the most enticing proprietary walled garden ever made for #FOSS…
> Don't be stuck when #Microsoft…change[s] the rules on you.“
> https://GiveUpGitHub.org
…now ∃ more reasons to stop procrastinating & GiveUpGitHub *now*…
https://social.kernel.org/objects/bd3ddc58-31ee-41df-a326-e6619b3960e9
https://mastodon.social/@glyph/114995950245874315
Try @Codeberg today!
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke Steps Down, Platform to Join Microsoft’s CoreAI Division
#GitHub #Microsoft #AI #ThomasDohmke #DeveloperTools #AICoding #BigTech
Plataformas e a Crise da Imaginação Política – Carbono
Neste artigo inédito, Letícia Cesarino aborda a crise da imaginação política e a necessidade de afirmação da soberania em um contexto mundial marcado pelo apoio das Big Techs à ideologia neorreacionária
#soberania #SoberaniaDigital #colonialismo #bigtech
https://www.ufrgs.br/carbono/2025/08/10/plataformas-e-a-crise-da-imaginacao-politica/
@tagesschau Bei #BigTech handelt es den Tatbestand der kriminellen Vereinigung? Sie hat die Verwaltungen Konzerne der #EU abhängig gemacht und die Regierungen sind nicht mehr willens dagegen zu halten? Oder werden Sie gar mafia-mässig dazu gebracht, nicht dagegen zu halten? #Grundrechte sind bei BigTech nur auf dem Papier gewährt! #Datenschutz #privatsphare
A friend is running a Quit #Amazon 4 week challenge - in Signal. Join in!
https://www.punchinguppress.com/post/how-to-quit-amazon-4-week-challenge
Quit #bigtech as part of the #DigitalExodus / #BigTechWalkout2025
Waking up @why2025camp. Getting ready for a very sunny day. First up is a talk by @CEDO on digital sovereignty & education.
You can follow this talk at home here:
https://streaming.media.ccc.de/why2025/andromeda