This is totally misguided... Let's hope no one will succeed passing such dangerously stupid bills.

It's a bit of a sour article but it rings so true... We let Open Source take the mantle in companies which are mostly free loaders and churn closed products, or even worse have them closed and DRM protected. There's really quite some work to still realize the Free Software goals.

Well done everyone. This bullet was dodged... for now! This kind of fever comes back regularly unfortunately.

Or on the importance of being able to say "no". If you see something fishy, at least refuse to participate in it.

With the latest rulings Google feel like the ecosystem might escape its grip... So they plan to tighten it.

When the European tech regulations encounter the changing geopolitical landscape... can we expect sparkles or the European Commission will cave in? I honestly hope it's the former.

This latest ruling from the German supreme court is rather worrying...

Indeed, you can't trust claims of the big cloud players. If asked by they will hand out your data, wherever it is hosted.

I guess more reviews of that book will come out. It looks like Meta and some EU politicians are even more rotten to the core than we ever suspected...

Still so reliable... could we confine this to NLP uses please? Should never had been used for anything looking remotely like search.

Once again the music labels can't understand the cultural value of building archives. Let's hope they loose the lawsuit.

Maybe it'll at least be a wake up call for governments and businesses to let go of their US cloud addiction. There are reasons why you don't want such vendor lock-in. The political drama unfolding in the United States makes obvious why you should think carefully at how dependent you are from your service and infrastructure providers.

I wish other platforms would go through so much scrutiny. Still it gives a good idea about the mental health issue they collectively represent.

This is not all bad news, there are a few things to rejoice about.

Another lawsuit making progress against OpenAI and their shady practice.

Everything is in the title... if you thought you owned anything on those platforms, think twice.

More shady practices to try to save themselves. Let's hope it won't work.

Definitely this. Sure we should seek for decentralization, but this is not going to happen or be effective without regulation. Ensuring privacy is a legislative and political problem as much as a technical one.

This is clearly less high profile than the Scarlett Johanssen vs OpenAI one. Still this shows it has the potential to become a widespread (even though shady) practice. This might need some regulation fairly soon.

This is a good initiative. It makes no sense for Oracle to still cling onto JavaScript has a trademark.