In Munich, early signs of a European hyperscaler revolt
"Under the Trump administration, US tech dominance is rattling public and private sector organisations across Europe. Digital sovereignty initiatives are gaining momentum as a result"
https://www.raconteur.net/technology/in-munich-early-signs-of-a-european-hyperscaler-revolt
#sovereignty #europe
What's the 2025 digital trend for you: #AI or digital #sovereignty?
If it's the latter, check out these European alternatives 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/boycott-us-choose-european-products
And, yes, Tuta is proudly #European! 💪 🇪🇺
Meanwhile, #Russia rejects #NATO troop deployment in #Ukraine
British minister #StephenKinnock reiterated Britain's support for #Ukraine #sovereignty & its right to pursue NATO & #EU membership without external constraints.
Russia does not consider the deployment of NATO troops in Ukraine a viable solution to the conflict, the Russian Foreign Ministry said
It views recent statements from the #UK on the matter as provocative.
At the individual scale, self-hosting is not a good way to “be in control of my data.”
It’s like saying I do a vegetable garden to be in control of my food. I need much more than I can grow, it’s an inefficient use of my time, and I’m one bad season away from losing it all.
Resilience and transparency are key to be in control of my data and I can’t achieve this alone. This is a social problem, we need to bring solutions as a society.
In that post I talk about the importance of governance for projects that aim to solve social problems
https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/02/28-prosthetics-that-dont-betray/
Here I write about why I want to own my music and play it locally without depending on a service provider that could take it away from me, and how I do it
At the individual scale, self-hosting is not a good way to “be in control of my data.”
It’s like saying I do a vegetable garden to be in control of my food. I need much more than I can grow, it’s an inefficient use of my time, and I’m one bad season away from losing it all.
Resilience and transparency are key to be in control of my data and I can’t achieve this alone. This is a social problem, we need to bring solutions as a society.
“At no point will #Brazil negotiate as if it were a small country up against a big country,” #Lula said. “We know the economic power of the #UnitedStates, we recognize the military power of the United States, we recognize the technological size of the United States.”
“But that doesn’t make us afraid,” he added. “It makes us concerned.”
There is perhaps no world leader defying #Trump as strongly as Lula.
The president of #Brazil — a leftist in his 3rd term who is arguably this century’s most important Latin American statesman — has been hitting back at #Trump in speeches across Brazil. His social media pages have suddenly become filled with references to Brazil’s #sovereignty. And he has taken to wearing a hat that says “Brazil belongs to Brazilians.”
Trump has said that, starting on Friday, he plans to impose 50% #tariffs on Brazilian goods, in large part because Brazilian authorities have charged former President Jair #Bolsonaro with trying to hold on to #power after losing the 2022 election. [inspired by Trump 2020]
In the interview, Lula said that the American president is infringing on Brazil’s #sovereignty.
Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data #sovereignty - https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/microsoft_admits_it_cannot_guarantee/ "Under oath in French Senate, exec says it would be compelled – however unlikely – to pass local customer info to US admin" and there we have it... #trump
Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data #sovereignty - https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/microsoft_admits_it_cannot_guarantee/ "Under oath in French Senate, exec says it would be compelled – however unlikely – to pass local customer info to US admin" and there we have it... #trump
ETHZ and EPFL announced the release of a Large Language Model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure: Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in 8B and 70B parameters configurations, using open-source training data, respecting web crawling opt-outs during data acquisition, and natively fluent in over 1000 languages. Quoting: "The model will be fully open: source code and weights will be publicly available, and the training data will be transparent and reproducible".
I don't know how good it's going to be, but if true for me this is the real definition of "open-source" in AI (not the ridiculous, corporate-promiscuous definition by the Open Source Initiative).
#AI#LLM#ETH#EPFL #switzerland #eu #sovereignty #digitalsovereignty #opensource #osi #openwashing #privacy #gdpr
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