@kubikpixel@chaos.socialDoxers Posing as Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms Into Sharing People’s Private Data
A spoofed email address and an easily faked document is all it takes for major tech companies to hand over your most personal information.
👉 https://www.wired.com/stor…
@nelson@tech.lgbtRE: https://tech.lgbt/@somebitslinks/116058348297956373
I was suspicious of the etymology of molly-guard because it only dates to 1982, and the devices are much older. But Ed Krol from UIUC tells the story about his daughter Molly on page 14 of this PDF.
The only thing about it was that on one side was a big red switch—kid-sized, about 2 inches wide. ... I took my daughter Molly in to work with me. I said, ‘You play with your trucks on the floor while I work,’ and she saw this amazing big red thing and gave it a yank and turned it off.
/cc @…
@fgraver@hcommons.socialThe Guardian view on changes to copyright laws: authors should be protected over big tech
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/13/the-guardian-view-on…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialIs this the disturbed view of AI / BigTech optimists, or does he have a point?
"Something Big Is Happening"
#ai
@crell@phpc.socialThis is the most depressing thing I've read in a long time.
https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening
Of particular note:
"The people building this technology are simultaneously more excited and more frightened than anyone else on the planet. They believe it…
@cdarwin@c.im
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgDon't know who this guy is, but I would love someone else's take on what he is saying here. I can't decide if this is utterly apocalyptic, or a guy who is just up to his eyeballs in the Kool-Aid.
Context: was sent to me by a financial advisor friend
https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-ha
@heiseonline@social.heise.deDigital Networks Act: EU verzichtet angeblich auf Milliardenstrafen für Big Tech
Der Digital Networks Act sollte Big Tech zur Kasse bitten. Doch statt harter Regulierung erwarten Netflix, Google und Meta nun Dialog und Handreichungen.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTrump says Microsoft will "ensure" Americans don't face higher bills due to data centers' power use and Big Tech must "pay their own way" for their data centers (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-micr
@paul@social.van.buu.reFTM heeft een nuttig artikel (nuttig als in: lastig, anti-autoritair) over BZK en NLdigital.
"BZK wees branchevereniging NLdigital aan als ‘poortwachter’ voor het organiseren van de gesprekken van het aanjaagteam Cloud. En die keuze is opmerkelijk. Anders dan de naam doet vermoeden, maakt de belangenbehartiger met ruim 500 leden zich namelijk ook hard voor Amerikaanse belangen van leden als Microsoft, Google, Amazon, IBM en Oracle.”
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://esq.social/@SuffolkLITLab/116054463472872585
For Big Tech, “deleted” means setting deleted = false to deleted = true.
@publicvoit@graz.socialBerlin 😍
I can relate when #socialmedia is a synonym with the #megacorp #algorithms (because the general public doesn't know about healthy alternatives
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social"Van het ministerie mag big tech de gesprekken over digitale autonomie zelf leiden"
https://www.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialUS DOJ antitrust chief Gail Slater says she is leaving, in a departure viewed as a victory for tech giants over some of MAGA's more populist voices (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/12/justice-antitrust-chief-gail-slateer-resigns
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzI think this should be off-putting for any self-respecting NZer. The parties should also, perhaps, lose popular support due to their willingness to accept the money. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/589237
@nic@geno.socialBeim Einsatz digitaler Tools auch das Thema #Nachhaltigkeit zu berücksichtigen, kann eine große Herausforderung sein. Die Auseinandersetzung damit bietet allerdings auch sehr viele Chancen, insbesondere für Genossenschaften, Vereine und Kollektivbetriebe.
Schwerpunkte des kommenden Termins: Freie Software Nachhaltigkeit von Hardware.
Außerdem werden
@Techmeme@techhub.socialApple, whose capital expenditure is just a fraction of its peers, is the only Big Tech company that saw capex decline YoY in Q4, decreasing 19% to $2.37B (Rani Molla/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/apple-is-the-only-big-tech-company-…
@der_raddler@dresden.networkGruselig! 😬
Hörsaal - Deutschlandfunk Nova: Digital-Oligarchie - Der Rechtsruck der Big-Tech-Bosse
Webseite der Episode: https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/digital-oligarchie-der-rechtsruck-der-big-tech-bosse
Medi…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeA spate of big developments emerged yesterday regarding Anthropic, its status as a "supply chain threat," and what that means for organizations that have deployed the company's tech as well as what it means for the company.
Don't miss today's Metacurity for a précis on these critical developments and other top infosec news you should know, including
--FBI warns of phishing campaigns impersonating city and county officials,
--TX governor warns health ag…
@axbom@axbom.me @Techmeme@techhub.socialAlphabet hits a $4T market cap in intraday trading, becoming the fourth Big Tech company to reach the milestone, after its stock rose 6% in the past month (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/02d44794-815f-40dc-9b49-0e10432147a9
@cdarwin@c.imA healthy (in body and mind),
active, frugal, sociable, mostly offline citizen
who is highly educated and informed, in full control of their data, avoiding Big Tech’s platforms and algorithms,
with a positive self-esteem and self-image,
is probably persona non grata for the tech billionaires.
But a small, insignificant nuisance, like a fly
– they don’t care about ONE.
But imagine having thousands,
then hundreds of thousands,
then millio…
@rmdes@mstdn.sociallet me rephrase that title : Big Tech basically flipped their script and bowed to the King (other images come to mind but would be very vulgar)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/big-tech-basically-took-trumps-unpredicta…
@sean@scoat.esIt is day 12 of waiting for an #iOS App Store review of an update (the app is already live; they approved our previous version). Not a single bit of feedback in those 12 days.
Did they replace their review staff with poorly-functioning LLMs like the rest of Big Tech?
Seriously, though, is this abnormally-long delay happening to everyone right now?
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“The founder of OpenClaw, vibe coder Peter Steinberger, was also hired by a Big Tech firm.”
If there’s one thing that gives me comfort in this world, it’s knowing I will never be called “vibe coder”.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/meta-acquire…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@HeidiSeibold@fosstodon.orgSoftware used in German public offices has become geopolitical.
Part of the solution: #OpenSource
https://www.zdfheute.de/video/heute-journal/abkehr-us-software-…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioThe two best feelings in the world are:
1. Helping another person
2. Learning something new
Interesting how both big tech with “AI” and “conservatives” do not want you to do either.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comPluralistic: Predistribution vs redistribution (Big Tech edition) (10 Jan 2026) (Cory Doctorow/Pluralistic)
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/10/markets-are-regulations/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260110/p55#a260110p55
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyBy 2027, 2.5 million French civil servants will stop using video conference tools from U.S. providers — including Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex and GoTo Meeting — and switch to Visio, a homegrown service.
https://apnews.com/article/europe-digital…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUS DOJ antitrust chief Gail Slater says she is leaving, in a departure viewed as a victory for tech giants over some of MAGA's more populist voices (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/12/justice-antitrust-chief-gail-slateer-resigns
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgRE: https://mastodon.social/@alatiera/116041284960493206
Look: If I ever take a job at big tech as Mark Zuckerberg's court jester or Sam Altman's conscience or whatever. Drag me. Give me all the shit in the world. Make every EUR I got for selling …
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social📢 Trump fordert, dass Big Tech eigene Kraftwerke für KI-Rechenzentren baut – angeblich, um Verbraucher vor steigenden Stromkosten zu schützen. Doch die Mehrheit dieser Anlagen soll mit Erdgas laufen, obwohl sich Konzerne zu sauberer Energie verpflichtet haben. 🇺🇸 Autor: Business Insider Deutschland
#Energiepolitik
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialDigital-Oligarchie - Der Rechtsruck der Big-Tech-Bosse
Big-Tech-Bosse vertreten verstärkt rechte Ideen und nehmen vermehrt politischen Einfluss. In ihren ideologischen Konzepten und in der aktuellen US-Politik macht der Politikwissenschaftler Christopher Coenen faschistische Tendenzen aus.
📻 https:…
@mia@hcommons.social'I am scared to live in a society whose members are incapable of having deep discussions and arguments'
From: @…
https://scholar.social/@gedan…
@chrisnelder@mastodon.energyBig Tech, business groups and the governor successfully gutted State Sen. Steve Padilla's attempt to protect consumers from the costs, emissions & unintended consequences of the AI data center frenzy. Big money wins again! https://
@marcel@waldvogel.family“Big Tech’s AI hype is distracting users from the rapid and dangerous expansion of giant, energy and water-intensive data centres […].
There is simply no evidence that AI will help the climate more than it will harm it.
Rather than relying on credible and substantiated data, Big Tech companies are writing themselves a blank cheque to pollute on the empty promise of future salvation. We cannot bet the climate on these baseless claims.”
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGPT-5.3-Codex and Claude Opus 4.6 can handle the full app development lifecycle on their own, a sign of what's coming for most knowledge work within five years (Matt Shumer)
https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening
@haayman@todon.nlHear hear!
Universiteit Groningen probeert zich los te rukken van big tech: ‘Geen alternatief voor Microsoft’ | BNR Nieuwsradio
https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/tech-innovatie/10593189/universite…
@cdarwin@c.imAlphabet has lined up banks to sell a rare 100-year bond,
stepping up a borrowing spree by Big Tech companies racing to fund their vast investments in AI this year.
The so-called century bond will form part of a debut sterling issuance this week by Google’s parent company, said people familiar with the matter.
Alphabet was also selling $20 billion of dollar bonds on Monday
and lining up a Swiss franc bond sale, the people said.
The dollar portion of the deal was…
@holger_moller@bildung.socialIch bin auf einen Artikel gestoßen, den ich sehr inspirierend finde - auch und gerade im Zusammenhang mit dem #diday:
📌 Sichtbar ohne #BigTech. Warum echte #Verbindung rebellisch ist.
@trezzer@social.linux.pizzaWow. Finally a truly good article about moving away from big tech in the national news here in Denmark. And yes, Mastodon is in it. It’s not a perfect list, but it’s the first good one I’ve seen outside of personal blogs. https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/viden/teknolo…
@ErikUden@mastodon.deDespite the hot air from government about protecting children, they've voted down our Bill to turn off the toxic algorithms.
These algorithms push toxic content promoting eating disorders, self harm, misogyny and hate.
Big Tech profits should not come before children's health.
— Paul Murphy, Member of the Irish Parliament for the party People before Profit.
@kurtsh@mastodon.social
@johnleonard@mastodon.socialComments by heads of Amazon, Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI and others, many delivered at the World Economic Forum in Davos, reveal a shift of narrative from optimistic inevitability towards recognition of geopolitical tensions, energy scarcity, economic bubbles and the race to make AI truly useful.
https://www.
@heiseonline@social.heise.deBig Tech 2025: Alphabet und Nvidia dominieren die Börse – den übrigen fehlt Luft
Erstmals seit drei Jahren KI-Hype geriet der AI-Trade 2025 etwas ins Wanken. Das Jahr, in dem Big Tech an der Wall Street teilweise entzaubert wurde.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPoland's President Karol Nawrocki vetoes legislation meant to enforce the EU's DSA in Poland, arguing it would grant excessive powers to government officials (Wojciech Kość/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/polish-pre
@UlrikeHeiss@eldritch.cafeEmpfehlung für die ganze Verwandtschaft (von @… und @…:
"Genau hier setzt die Artikelserie an: Sie macht den Wechsel konkret, priorisiert und machbar – und zwar ausdrücklich für Einsteiger. Big Tech…
@nelson@tech.lgbtI really like Genoa! A big city, industrial and with an enormous port. But also a lovely city center very dense with tiny pedestrian streets. And of course lots of monumental Italian architecture.
@petaqui@masto.esEs increíble cómo esta gente tiene una lógica de "no me gusta la historia, la reescribiré a mi gusto"
@… https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/
@timbray@cosocial.caThe big Ticketmaster anti-monopoly trial is spinning up: https://www.bigtechontrial.com/p/the-ticketmaster-monopoly-trial-starts
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioidk instead of hoping that your Big Tech software vendor—who had many data leaks before and was sued many times for abusing customer data—doesn't steal your data for AI training you could maybe not store your data in a Big Tech cloud
@cdarwin@c.imOver the past year, tech industry lobby groups have used their lavish budgets to aggressively push for the deregulation of the EU’s digital rulebook.
The intensity of this policy battle is also reflected in the fact that Big Tech companies have on average more than one lobby meeting per day with EU Commission officials.
This lobbying offensive appears to be paying off.
Recently, a string of policy-makers have called for a pause of the Artificial Intelligence Act,
a…
@emilis@social.linux.pizzaLet's stop calling them "big tech" and start calling them "tech oligarchs".
"Big tech" is too ambiguous. E.g. Linux could be called "big tech" too.
Also the problematic aspect is immediately revealed: the individuals at the top, their corruption and misuse of the power.
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social @tante@tldr.nettime.orgRE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115858971390801673
This is not a plea for everyone to self-host. Communities should host infrastructures in a biased and value-based way: Your community doesn't need to do or setup things in the way big tech or other …
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialHow independent of the US corporations is your website that you use or even operate?
«Replace US tech with European alternatives:
Your current stack sends EU data to US servers under US law. Find sovereign, GDPR-native replacements in seconds.»
🇪🇺 https://www.cloudinfraatlas.eu
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon, Google, and Microsoft reported a collective $1.1T backlog of cloud computing revenue in their latest quarterly earnings, including Microsoft's $625B (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/big-techs-usd1-1-trillion-cloud-computing-backl…
@crell@phpc.social"If your business model requires doing something unethical, you don't have a business model." --Larry Garfield
By that metric, I don't think there's any big-tech company with a valuation over $1 billion that has a business model.
The entire US economy is well and truly fucked.
@trezzer@social.linux.pizzaDet var på tide med en god artikel om alternativerne hos DR! https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/viden/teknologi/kan-man-klare-sig-uden-amerikansk-big-tech-her-er-nogle-af-alternativerne
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioI thought that was a really interesting thing, when people rebelled against social media bullshit of big tech
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle unveils WAXAL, a new open speech dataset for 21 African languages to ease speech technology development; African institutions own the dataset (Damilare Dosunmu/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/google-waxal-african-languages-ai-sovereignty/…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de39C3: Digital Independence Day – CCC-Sprecher über Weg raus aus Big Tech
Auf dem Hackerkongress 39C3 wurde der Digital Independence Day ausgerufen. Warum und was das bedeutet, erklärt CCC-Sprecher Linus Neumann im Interview.
@mia@hcommons.socialI'm with the auditors on this one! Companies deploying AI need more expert human auditing, not less, at least until fundamental flaws in 'AI' are addressed and it's reliably accurate
'KPMG gets money off its own audit by arguing AI makes accounting cheaper'
@memeorandum@universeodon.comICE Asks Companies About 'Ad Tech and Big Data' Tools It Could Use in Investigations (Caroline Haskins/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-asks-companies-about-ad-tech-and-big-data-tools/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p35#a260125p35
@nelson@tech.lgbtJust saw how various websites are using 50 GB total in Chrome. A big culprit is every site with an embedded YouTube video seems to have its own copy of 313MB of YouTube crap. It's partitioned for privacy purposes and I'm guessing nothing is de-duping that storage. I wonder if every site has to download it too?
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Amazon, Google, and others plan to skirt Trump's $100K H-1B fee by finding workers in categories that don't include the fee, like existing H-1B holders (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.co…
@tante@tldr.nettime.org"Regulate outcomes. The tech doesn’t matter. For the person hurt the tool that was used to hurt them isn’t that relevant. We need to make sure that we are reducing, ideally eliminating the hurt."
(Original title: Nothing to Declare)
https://tante.cc/2026/03/05/nothing-to-de…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alHey @…, you want to incentivise small sustainable online organisations in the EU (e.g., small not-for-profits like Small Technology Foundation) as an alternative to Big Tech?
Raise the EU's €10,000 cross-border OSS threshold to €1M (or even €10M).
You’ll still stop Big Tech corporations from jurisdiction shopping and you’ll r…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deVom AI-Hype zur AI-Angst: Warum Tech-Aktien 2026 so stark verlieren
Backlash: Big-Tech-Aktien notieren seit Jahresbeginn im Minus. Die Wall Street ist über das Disruptionspotenzial besorgt.
https://www.…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US Senate passed COPPA 2.0 again, which would create new protections for young users; the bill now heads to the House, where it has struggled to pass (Anna Washenko/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/coppa-20-passes-the-sen…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDeepSeek researchers detail a new mHC architecture they used to train 3B, 9B, and 27B models, finding it scaled without adding significant computational burden (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article
@tante@tldr.nettime.org"We also found that the evidence presented for examples of climate benefit, regardless of AI type, tend to be weak whether from companies or organisations like the IEA. The potential benefits are overstated, in surprising and significant ways."
(Original title: NEW REPORT – The AI climate hoax)
https://
@heiseonline@social.heise.deheise | Tschüss, Big Tech: Acht sichere E-Mail-Alternativen aus Europa im Vergleich
Gmail, iCloud, Outlook – die größten E-Mail-Anbieter sitzen in den USA. Mit diesen europäischen Alternativen erklären Sie Ihre digitale Unabhängigkeit.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115840252209889277
I'm thoroughly convinced that a lot of the problems we have as a society in general and with the tech industry in particular is toxic positivity—when people just can't get themselves to call out bad things for what they are; it's so often I see needless defending of bad work or outright insults hurled at customers by big corporations, and endless calls for a false civility.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle unveils Home updates to fix a long list of annoyances and idiosyncrasies, and debuts Live Search to let Gemini analyze and describe live camera feeds (Thomas Ricker/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/888008/big-google-home-updat…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deMontag: Rückkehr der Vorratsdatenspeicherung, Deutschlandfonds für Tech-Boost
Gesetzentwurf in ministerieller Abstimmung Milliarden-Boost für Big-Tech Warnung von US-Firmen vor Visa-Prüfung Avatar-Spiel unterschätzt Trump pro Mond
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: ByteDance plans to spend about $14B on Nvidia's AI chips in 2026, an increase of about 18% from 2025 (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3338191/bytedance-pour-u…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump has effectively turned the White House into a slush fund,
running the federal government like a personal ATM.
Public money, political favors and government power are funneled to his friends and family businesses,
while regulatory agencies and enforcement mechanisms are hollowed out or weaponized for profit.
His oligarch allies, from big tech executives to big oil barons, are already seeing massive returns on their political investments.
This is not demo…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe war in Iran is complicating plans by Gulf nations to spend $300B on AI investments, putting at risk a potential source of funding for tech companies (Miles Kruppa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/iran-war-imperils-300-billio…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQualcomm unveils the Dragonwing IQ10 Series, a full-stack robotics architecture integrating hardware, software, and AI for industrial and consumer humanoids (Katie Collins/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/qualcomm-announces-dragonwing-iq10-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBig US hospital systems have become a proving ground for AI adoption; a survey finds that 27% of health systems are paying for commercial AI licenses (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/hospitals-are-
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at India's push to become a major provider of AI services, as US tech companies pledge tens of billions in Indian data center investments (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-te…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deZum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
39C3: Die Krux mit der digitalen Souveränität | c’t uplink
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle, and OpenAI will sign White House's initiative to build their own electricity supply for AI data centers (Emma Colton/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/scoop-trump-brings-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUS Big Tech companies have been on an energy-related hiring spree; Workforce.AI says Microsoft has hired 570 people with energy-related expertise since 2022 (Tasmin Lockwood/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/14/big-tech-google-microsoft-energy-hiring-ai.html…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBig Tech got almost everything it wanted from President Trump, as he backs policies that allow the industry to grow unfettered, worrying some conservatives (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/technol<…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Google, Meta, Netflix, Microsoft, and Amazon will not be included in the EU's Digital Networks Act, despite calls from telecoms companies (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAs Trump and Big Tech aim to build SMRs to win the AI race, a look at the issues they face; none of the 50 SMRs under development have a US operating license (Jamie Smyth/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9f6c4db1-559f-48e1-8c21-ac0bc1a1237c
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTech whistleblowers like Yaël Eisenstat say coming forward has unexpectedly derailed their lives and careers; Meta is in litigation with Sarah Wynn-Williams (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/15/big-tech-whist…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialRecon: the US market share of Copilot as paid users' first choice fell from 18.8% in July 2025 to 11.5% in January 2026, while Gemini's rose from 12.8% to 15.7% (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsofts-piv
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUS data center demand has driven stock surges of contractors and equipment makers like Corning, Sterling Infrastructure, Comfort Systems USA, and Carrier Global (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/meet-the-non-
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow Anthropic's ruthless efficiency comes in part from its mission-obsessed culture, which eliminates the friction that tends to slow things down at Big Tech (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-0…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at the fundamental questions facing OpenAI: its models have a very large user base but very narrow engagement, incumbents are matching its tech, and more (Benedict Evans)
https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2026/2/19/how-will-openai-compete-nkg2x
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAlphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft forecast capital expenditures that reach a combined ~$650B in 2026, a 60% YoY increase driven by data center construction (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOver the past month, the US paused talks on a tech pact with the UK, canceled a South Korea trade meeting, and threatened the EU over Big Tech regulations (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/23/trump-administra…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI fired an employee for insider trading on prediction markets like Polymarket; Unusual Whales has flagged 77 suspected insider trades around OpenAI events (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-fires-employee-insider-trading-polymarke…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: in the EU, US criticism over censorship has been met with disbelief and anger, and some Big Tech lobbyists acknowledge US accusations are overstated (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/37d47387-7e31-484a-8c8a-f01efbeb4151
@Techmeme@techhub.socialEU officials and policymakers say the EC will intensify its enforcement of the DMA and DSA in 2026, a move expected to renew clashes with US Big Tech and Trump (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ca6f3062-f286-4a13-b81d-6e2a35c91fdc
