Scanning all messages, photos and files, without consent or even suspicion is a major breach of our right to privacy and a huge security threat. Nevertheless, the European lawmakers are still pushing through with the so-called Chat Control legislation. Under the pretence that it would protect kids from online abuse, all checks and balances for the protection of our privacy are dismantled. And scientists already concluded that Chat Control will not work.
It undermines the democracy, in its peoples ability to do those checks. Coordinated in private communications have been around for longer than Democracy itself. Now the ability to do those remotely (Online) is in danger, and the technology to execute on ‘Chat Control’ exists.
We propose legislation of another approach. Limiting our Governments’ abilities is one of the methods to apply law, so legislature to forbid our governments from using this technology should be developed.
Tuesday 30 September 18.30h CEST – Hosted by Pirate MEP Markéta Gregorová (Greens/EFA)
Guest experts:
Carmela Troncoso – from the Security and Privacy Engineering (SPRING) Laboratory. It is a research group at EPFL – École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland
Joachim – Representative of the Fight Chat Control initiative; will bring the citizen’s perspective on how public pressure shapes the debate.
Udbhav Tiwari – VP, Strategy and Global Affairs, Signal
Asha Allen – Director of The Centre for Democracy & Technology (CDT) Europe
The government should not have access to all the messages or photos you send. Period.
Die Angriffe auf den Nato-Luftraum fühlen sich an, als würden wir nicht nur die warmen Sonnenstrahlen verabschieden. Provokationen werden Alltag. taz.de/!6112471
@ka_lessin Aus Sicht der Gläubigen Putins Propagandanarrativs, Russland verteidige sich gegen Angriffe der Nato die sie durch Manipulation die Ukraine vollziehen lässt:
"Die Nato hat nicht die Kapazitäten Russland mit Angriffen ernshaft zu schaden, sonst lägen schon längst mehrere russische Städte in Trümmern." 😎 @tazgetroete
#GuteNacht liebe Tröties und Toots! #dreigutedingedestages - viel Zeit für die Entdeckung der Leica Welt genommen und beeindruckende Fotos gesehen - herzhaft über gute jiddische Witze gelacht - ein köstliches Abendessen 🧆🍷verspeist. Schlaft bunt und träumt schön 🌈 ✨ 😴 💤 💫 🐈⬛
1992 fing Manfred Becker als Assessor beim RP Gießen an und bezog das freistehende Büro des Juristen der Abteilung Inneres neben meinem Büro als stellvertretende Personalratsvorsitzende. Ein Mensch, immer mit dem Blick für das Wesentliche, einer sehr schnellen Auffassungsgabe, Sinn für die Realität und viel Menschenkenntnis, so durfte ich ihn kennen und schätzen lernen.
Seit 2015 wurden über 320.000 Geflüchtete in Hessen aufgenommen. Eine enorme Belastung für die Mitarbeiter der Erstaufnahmeeinrichtung in Gießen – und für die Flüchtlinge umso mehr.
People who hope to become presidential candidates in 2028, including Sen. Van Hollen, Gov. JB Pritzker, Gov. Andy Beshear, Gov. Tim Walz, former Cabinet secretary Pete Buttigieg, former Ambassador Rahm Emanuel, and Sen. Ruben Gallego, were already recently speaking to voters in Iowa: nytimes.com/2025/09/27/us/poli… #politics #AmericasHope #Campaign2028
Der Journalist Georg Stefan Troller ist im Alter von 103 Jahren gestorben. Geboren in Wien, geflohen vor den Nazis, als US-Soldat im Weltkrieg. Sein Schritt ins Fernsehen machte ihn schließlich zum Vorbild einer Journalistengeneration.
In a post-Roe landscape where access to accurate reproductive health information is more crucial than ever, Meta's enforcement system is silencing the very voices communities need most. eff.org/pages/meta-removing-ab…
BY LISA FEMIA | September 24, 2025This is the fifth installment in a blog series documenting EFF's findings from the Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. You can read additional posts here.
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I have had a very accident-prone 8 days. Exciting week ahead: MRT to determine right knee ligament damage on tuesday. XRay to determine if left foot is broken on monday. Separate accidents.
Coppa provinciale di Terza Categoria, prime qualificate al secondo turno Grande rimonta del Pescaglia con il Gs Barga, avanti di rigore anche Spianate e Atletico Marginone. Tutti i risultati e i tabellini
Current issues of Belarus-Singapore cooperation were discussed during a meeting between Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxim Ryzhenkov and Singaporean Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan in New York.
Hey, @dino - I’ve just found your app available in the Bazaar app store on Bazzite. It’s great! So glad to have a modern #XMPP client on at least one of my systems. Thank you!
It's been extremely warm (again) over global land areas so far this year. Here's a comparison against every other average January-August period since at least 1850...
The NOAA Merged Land Ocean Global Surface Temperature Analysis (NOAAGlobalTemp, formerly known as MLOST) combines long-term sea surface (water) temperature (SST) and land surface (air) temperature datasets to create a complete, accurate depiction of …
De éstos tengo que filtrar las "noticias" de la farándula, de aquéllos las de fútbol, de los de más allá las que refieren a "IA" o soja o usinas fotovoltaicas o Liga de las Naciones, tal persona es centrada y sensata pero perora a repetición sobre juegos y series. Harta.
(Y ni hablar de la cobertura cobarde de hechos "internacionales". Desde la Gran Guerra no hemos aprendido gran cosa, salvo a mentir con más disimulo.)
"Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte" wird von der bpb herausgegeben. Die Zeitschrift veröffentlicht Beiträge zu zeitgeschichtlichen und sozialwissenschaftlichen Themen und aktuellen politischen Fragen.
"...Vor den UN behauptet der russische Außenminister, westliche Politiker würden Angriffe auf Russland vorbereiten.
Lawrow war eigentlich pragmatisch. Es stellt sich die Frage, warum er nun so gaga ist! Ist seine Familie Geisel von Putin? Immerhin möglich, bei den ganzen Fensterunfällen in RuZZland! Oder ist er senil?
Vor den UN behauptet der russische Außenminister, westliche Politiker würden Angriffe auf Russland vorbereiten. Sein Land werde entschlossen auf Aggressionen reagieren.
Aside from Alphabet’s own forays into AI, they’re also selling pickaxes to most other AI prospectors.
It’s a story deSouza likes to tell in numbers. In a conversation with this editor, he notes several times that nine out of the top 10 AI labs use Google’s infrastructure. He also says that nearly all generative AI unicorns run on Google Cloud, that 60% of all GenAI startups worldwide have chosen Google as their cloud provider, and that the company has lined up $58 billion in new revenue commitments over the next two years, which represents more than double its current annual run rate.
Asked what percentage of Google Cloud’s revenue comes from AI companies, he offers instead that “AI is resetting the cloud market, and Google Cloud is leading the way, especially with startups.”
The strategy extends beyond simple customer acquisition. Google offers AI startups $350,000 in cloud credits, access to its technical teams, and go-to-market support through its marketplace. Google Cloud also provides what deSouza describes as a “no compromise” AI stack — from chips to models to applications — with an “open ethos” that gives customers choice at every layer.
The approach reflects both opportunity and necessity. In a market where companies can go “from being a startup to being a multibillion-dollar company in a very short period of time,” as deSouza puts it, capturing future unicorns before they mature could prove more valuable than fighting over today’s giants.
“Companies love the fact that they can get access to our AI stack, they can get access to our teams to understand where our technologies are going,” deSouza says during our interview. “They also love that they’re getting access to enterprise-grade Google class infrastructure.”
Google’s infrastructure play got even more ambitious recently, with reporting revealing the company’s behind-the-scenes maneuvering to expand its custom AI chip business. According to The Information, Google has struck deals to place its tensor processing units (TPUs) in other cloud providers’ data centers for the first time, including an agreement with London-based Fluidstack that includes up to $3.2 billion in financial backing for a New York facility.
Competing directly with AI companies while simultaneously providing them infrastructure requires … finesse. Google Cloud provides TPU chips to OpenAI and hosts Anthropic’s Claude model through its Vertex AI platform, even as its own Gemini models compete head-to-head with both. (Google Cloud’s parent company, Alphabet, also owns a 14% stake in Anthropic, per New York Times court documents obtained earlier this year, though when asked directly about Google’s financial relationship with Anthropic, deSouza calls the relationship a “multi-layered partnership,” then quickly redirects me to Google Cloud’s model marketplace, noting that customers can access various foundation models.)
While the industry's biggest players cement ever-tighter partnerships, Google is hell-bent on capturing the next generation of AI companies before they become too big to court.
I don't think they're trying to get in on the ground floor of the new paradigm, I think they have to make AI work or the whole economy blows up and so they're going all in.
K. Lessin
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Aus Sicht der Gläubigen Putins Propagandanarrativs, Russland verteidige sich gegen Angriffe der Nato die sie durch Manipulation die Ukraine vollziehen lässt:
"Die Nato hat nicht die Kapazitäten Russland mit Angriffen ernshaft zu schaden, sonst lägen schon längst mehrere russische Städte in Trümmern."
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@tazgetroete