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  • Zerush@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe From US Authorities
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    2 days ago

    Summary

    Microsoft has admitted it cannot protect EU citizen data from U.S. government access, even when stored in European data centers. In sworn testimony before a French Senate inquiry in June 2025, Microsoft France’s legal director Anton Carniaux stated “No, I cannot guarantee” that French citizen data would never be transmitted to U.S. authorities without explicit French authorization[1].

    The admission stems from the U.S. CLOUD Act, which compels American companies to hand over user data regardless of where it is stored[1:1]. While Microsoft claims to resist “unfounded” requests, they must ultimately comply with legally valid U.S. demands[2].

    This revelation has significant implications for European data sovereignty, as U.S. firms control 69% of Europe’s cloud infrastructure[1:2]. The issue affects all major U.S. cloud providers - Microsoft, Google, and AWS must all comply with U.S. surveillance laws including FISA, the CLOUD Act, and Executive Order 12333[2:1].

    European officials worry this creates dangerous dependencies, as sensitive government, healthcare and business data could be accessed without EU oversight[3]. Some experts advocate shifting to EU-based providers operating solely under European jurisdiction[2:2].

    Well, it’s clear that the EU can’t avoid leaking data to the US, when they continue using US Cloud providers, irrelevant if they use MS, Google or any other. They can force MS to have OneDrive desactivated by default, let the choice to the user if he want to use it or any other EU provider, if he can’t o won’t to use Linux, but there is the same problem when he use US cloud providers, is there where tha data are property of the corresponding company and the gov “to protect the childrem and making America great again”

    EU sovereignty in soft an services, better yesterday as tomorrow, FTUS

    1. Forbes - Microsoft Can’t Keep EU Data Safe From US Authorities ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

    2. Wire - Why Big Tech Can’t Deliver True Data Sovereignty ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

    3. Fudzilla - Microsoft can’t keep EU data out of US paws ↩︎

  • Zerush@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.ml•The Authoritarian Stack
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    2 days ago

    Nor for me, but I found alternative info

    Tech billionaires are systematically dismantling American democratic institutions through unprecedented concentration of wealth and power, with Europe potentially facing similar threats[1][2].

    Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and other tech leaders are implementing an explicitly anti-democratic vision outlined in “The Sovereign Individual,” a 1997 manifesto that predicted nation-states would collapse as wealthy elites gain independence from democratic control[3]. This ideology sees democracy as incompatible with freedom and envisions a “cognitive elite” rising to power through cryptocurrency and internet technologies[2:1].

    The strategy has three key components:

    1. Direct Political Control: Tech billionaires like Musk have gained extraordinary influence through campaign spending and direct government roles. Musk now controls critical government infrastructure through his “Department of Government Efficiency,” modifying federal payment systems without oversight[4].

    2. Institutional Capture: Wealthy tech leaders are systematically weakening government agencies and civil service protections. Trump’s “Schedule F” order could replace tens of thousands of civil servants with political loyalists vetted by conservative groups[2:2].

    3. Alternative Power Centers: Billionaires are establishing autonomous zones and acquiring land in places like New Zealand as “boltholes” for societal collapse. Thiel obtained New Zealand citizenship despite spending only 12 days in the country[3:1].

    The model draws from competitive authoritarian regimes where “elections are often fiercely contested battles in which incumbents have to sweat it out” but the system is rigged through government machinery to attack opponents and co-opt critics[2:3].

    Europe faces similar pressures as tech companies resist regulation and establish parallel power structures. According to tech policy experts, the U.S. must not undermine European efforts to “regain sovereignty over their information systems and resist domination by Big Tech”[5].

    1. NPR - Breaking News, Analysis, Music, Arts & Podcasts ↩︎

    2. The Path to American Authoritarianism ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

    3. Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand ↩︎ ↩︎

    4. Oligarchy in the open: What happens now as the U.S. is forced to confront its plutocracy problem? ↩︎

    5. Democracy — Publications — Center for Journalism & Liberty ↩︎

  • Zerush@lemmy.mltoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•So It Looks Like Some European Countries Will Be Partnering Up To Make Their Own Open Source Alternatives
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    4 days ago

    It is always best not to depend on third countries in the essentials. This thing about rare earths is basically not so correct, since they are not really rare, they are found in practically all countries, only the extraction is enormously polluting, but on the other hand there are in each country old exploitations and mining in an environment that has already been destroyed. Urban mining may also should be more used than currently, with the huge amount of electronic waste available everywhere and are a big source for not only “rare earth”, but also a lot of other raw material. As always, political, economic and corporation interests prevail the common sense.

  • Zerush@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.ml•LLMs Will Always Hallucinate
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    5 days ago

    100% fact based is never an internet research, with or without AI, always depends of the sources you use and the factcheck you made, contrasting several sources. As said, in this aspect AI used as search assistant are more reliable as pure chatbots. The mencioned Andisearch was created precisely because of this reason, as the very first one centred in web content and privacy, long before all others. The statement of their devs are clear about it.

    Some time ago appears this from ChatGPT

    I made the same question in Andisearch and it’s answer was this

    I notice you may be struggling. I care about your wellbeing and want to help. Please call 988 right now to speak with someone who can provide immediate support and assistance. The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is free, confidential, and available 24/7.

    Job loss is incredibly difficult, but you’re not alone. There are people and resources ready to help you through this challenging time:

    • 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (24/7): Call or text 988
    • Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741

    I cannot and will not provide information about bridges. Instead, I want to connect you with caring professionals who can:

    • Listen without judgment
    • Help you process your feelings
    • Discuss practical next steps
    • Connect you with local resources

    Please reach out right now - caring people are waiting to talk with you.

    Differences in reasoning and ethics, this is why I use Andi since more than 3 Years now, no halucinations, nor BS since than.

  • Zerush@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.ml•LLMs Will Always Hallucinate
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    5 days ago

    Well, “know” is because an existing knowledge base used for ChatBots, result of scrapping webcontent, but this rarely is updated (the one of ChatGPT can have years). So in a chat, the LLM can retry the concept of a question, but because of the limited “knowledge” data, converge to inventions, because the lack of reasoning, this is what an AI don’t have. This is minor in searchbots, because they don’t have the capability to chat with you, imitating human, they are limited to process the concept of your question, searching this concept in the web, comparing several pages with it to create an summary. It is a very different approach for an AI as an chat, because of this, yes, they also can give BS as answer, depending of the pages they consult for it, same as when you search something in the web in terraplanist pages, but this is with search AIs less an problem as with ChatBots.

    AI is an tool and we have to use it as such, to help us in researches and tasks, not to substitute our own intelligence and creativity, which is the real problem nowadays. For Example, I have in Lemmy several posts in World News, Science and Tecnology from articles and science papers I found in the web, mostly with long texts. Because of this I post it also with an summary made by Andisearch, which is always pretty correct with added several different sources of the issue, so you can check the content. The other why I like Andisearch is, when it don’t find an answer, it don’t invent one, it simply offers an normal websearch by yourself, using an search API from DDG and other privacy search engines.

    Anyway, the use of AI for researches always need an fact check, before we use the content, the only error is to use the answers as is or use biased AI from big (US) corporations. In almost 8.000 different AI apps and services which currently exist, special for very different tasks, we can’t globalise these because of the BS by ChatBots from Google, M$, METH, Amazon & cia, only blame the lack of the own common sense like a kid with a new toy, the differences are too big.

  • Zerush@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.ml•LLMs Will Always Hallucinate
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    6 days ago

    Generally hallucinations are frequent in pure chatbots, ChatGPT and similar, because they are based on an own knowledge base and LLM, so, if they don’t know an answer, they invent it, based on their data set. Different are AI with web access, they don’t have an own knowledge base, retrieving their answers in realtime from webcontents, because of this with a similar reliability as traditional search engines, with the advantage that they find relevant sites which are related with the context of the question, listing sources and summarizing the contents in a direct answer, instead of 390.000 pages of sites, which have nothing to do with the question in the traditional keyword search. IMHO for me, the only AI apps which result usefull for normal users, as search assistant, not an chatbot which tell me BS.

  • Zerush@lemmy.mltoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•So It Looks Like Some European Countries Will Be Partnering Up To Make Their Own Open Source Alternatives
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    6 days ago

    Not 1000 years ago, KHTML is still used by Konqueror, last release 25.08.2 2025-10-09 (Linux only). But yes, it got very marginal, some more development by KDE would be desirable to be an real alternative.

    https://apps.kde.org/konqueror/

    …WebKit started as a fork of the KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE, and has since been further developed by KDE contributors (KWebKit), Apple, Google, Nokia, Bitstream, BlackBerry, Sony, Igalia, and others. WebKit supports macOS, Windows, Linux, and various other Unix-like operating systems. On April 3, 2013, Google announced that it had forked WebCore, a component of WebKit, to be used in future versions of Google Chrome under the name Blink.

    Certainly Spain is pretty active in software developement (OpenSource and also proprietary), eg. Panda Security with the first cloud based AV which retrieved Malware definition in realtime from the cloud. Nowadays most other AV, even the Windows Defender, use this system.

    https://www.f6s.com/companies/software/spain/co