They'll do anything to further their grip on tech. The European Union is sleep walking on this one.

Email encryption is indeed still an open issue. There's no fix in sight for it. It's mostly a lack of political will though, so none of the big players are going to change anything.

Probably one of the most important talks of 39C3. It's a powerful call to action for the European Union to wake up and do the right thing to ensure digital sovereignty for itself and everyone else in the world. The time is definitely right due to the unexpected allies to be found along the way. It'd be a way to turn the currently bad geopolitical landscape into a bunch of positive opportunities.

A long but important report in my opinion. Reading the executive summary is a must. This gives a good overview of the AI industrial complex and the type of society it's leading us into. The report algo gives a political agenda to put us on a better path.

This arm race should be stopped... This is becoming an ecological disaster, so much wasted energy.

I think I'd have gone further in the past for such a thought experiment... still if you wonder why people are fighting for digital freedom, here is why.

Facebook getting interested in the fediverse indeed looks like XMPP or OOXML all over again. Beware of those old tactics, they are very efficient against communities.

Indeed, don't use this by default. This is likely overkill and has terrible side effects. Look up for the alternatives proposed in this article first.

Interesting research on how relying on digital systems reshape our memory and our perception of our own abilities.

Definitely this. We got a bunch of rich people with a very shallow understanding of cyberpunk literature. They're focusing on the gimmicks, missing completely the big picture... all of this to not face they'd be the villains in those stories.