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39C3: CCC-Sprecher erdgeist über autoritäre Trends in der Tech-Branche
In Hamburg tummeln sich die Hacker zum 39. Chaos Communication Congress. Wofür das Motto „Power Cycles“ steht, erläutert CCC-Sprecher erdgeist im Interview.

"…the world needs to log off corporate-owned, centrally-controlled social media platforms & log on to a better way of being online. The world needs an open social web through the fediverse & Mastodon.
Calls for public institutions to invest in digital sovereignty are increasing across civil society. The term digital sovereignty means that an institution has autonomy & control over the critical digital infrastructure, data, & services that make up their online prese…

The world needs social sovereignty
The world needs to log off corporate-owned, centrally-controlled social media platforms and log on to a better way of being online. The world needs an open social web through the fediverse and Mastodon.

#Steady-#Klimacrew
Wie gut erkennt man gefälschte Stimmen am Telefon?
Eine Studie beschäftigte sich damit, inwiefern Menschen Sprach-#Deepfakes von echten Stimmen unterscheiden können. Ei…

Deepfake-Betrug: Wie gut erkennen Menschen Sprach-Deepfakes?
Können Menschen Sprach-Deepfakes erkennen? Eine neue Studie zeigt ernüchternde Ergebnisse und macht deutlich, dass automatische Erkennungssysteme notwendig sind.

France plans to replace Microsoft Teams and Zoom with French-made and Outscale-hosted Visio by 2027, as part of a push to drop US software vendors in government (Pascale Davies/Euronews)
https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/01/27/f

France to replace US's Teams and Zoom for 'sovereign control'
France announced that it will roll out the Visio platform across all government departments by 2027.

Fungal Spores in Wildfire Smoke Could Cause Lung Disease
Mice exposed to fungi spread by wildfires developed symptoms,
exposing a potential health hazard to humans that has been understudied.
“It was really an unknown that there were living microorganisms in wildland fire smoke.
I think most people assumed that it was sterile because it comes from a hot fire,”
said Phinehas Lampman,
a former wildland firefighter,
coauthor on the study,
and wi…

Fungal Spores in Wildfire Smoke Could Cause Lung Disease
Mice exposed to fungi spready by wildfires developed symptoms, exposing a potential health hazard to humans that has been understudied.

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Amazon announced an investment of up to $50 billion to expand AI and supercomputing capabilities for Amazon Web Services (AWS)
U.S. government customers.
This investment, set to break ground in 2026, will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of AI and supercomputing capacity across
AWS Top Secret,
AWS Secret,
and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
by building data centers with advanced compute and networking technologies.
Federal agencies will gain expanded access to A…

Amazon to invest up to $50 billion to expand AI and supercomputing infrastructure for US government agencies
Federal agencies will gain access to Amazon SageMaker AI, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Nova among other AI services from AWS.

Google zahlt 68 Millionen US-Dollar zur Beilegung einer Datenschutzklage
Im jahrelangen Streit um die illegale Aufzeichnung von privaten Gesprächen durch seinen Sprachassistenten Google Assistant einigt sich Google mit den Klägern.

Mexiko erhält einen nationalen Supercomputer
Das „größte öffentliche Hochleistungsrechnersystem“ Lateinamerikas gilt als zentral für die Strategie des Landes zur technologischen Souveränität.
https://www.

Mittwoch: Internationaler Streit um Cloud-Daten, WhatsApp bald ohne externe KI
Kanadas französischer Datenwunsch Chatbot-Verbot von WhatsApp Klarnas eigener Stablecoin Mexikos eigener Supercomputer Black Friday für Apple-Hardware