@servelan@newsie.socialBig Tech sues Texas, says age-verification law is “broad censorship regime” - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/big-tech-sues-texas-says-age-verification-law-is-broad-censorship-regime/
@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…
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialAgora Digitale Transformation fordert: mehr Geld & Strategie für offene Plattformen – von Fediverse bis Bluesky (??). Europas digitale Öffentlichkeit darf nicht länger an BigTech hängen. Souveränität heißt: offene Infrastruktur statt Abhängigkeit. 1-Prinzip jetzt konsequent umsetzen!
#DigitaleSouveränität
@kctipton@mas.toUS may owe $1 trillion in refunds if SCOTUS cancels Trump tariffs - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/tariff-refunds-may-get-messy-if-trump-loses-supreme-court-fight/
@stargazer@woof.tech#WritersCoffeeClub
10. What have you recently learned which will have a big impact on your work?
11. How accessible is your work?
12. How can writers ensure the focus is on the work and not the writer? Or should they?
---
10. That's a hard question.
I fear I've reached a plateau where nothing freshly learned can do that.
11. It consists of words.
@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.orgThe Plan Is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever.
https://novaramedia.com/2025/12/07/the-plan-is-to-make-the-internet-worse-and-big-tech-rich/
An interesting interview with Cory Doctorow.
@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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAlibaba halves Qwen3-Max prices, from $0.861 to $0.459 per 1M input tokens and $3.441 to $1.836 per 1M output tokens for API users, amid China's AI price wars (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article
@metacurity@infosec.exchange
@bencurthoys@mastodon.socialRE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115569820207257167
This is why all the big tech bosses you have heard of are insane: because the sane people filter themselves out. There is no sane version of Mark Zuckerman, because if Mark Zuckerman was sane, he woul…
@kingconsult@berlin.social3/x
Ein Perspketivwechsel:
Das Fediverse ist keine Alternative zu #BigTech #SocialMedia, sondern der erste Versuch des Aufbaus eines dezentralen, demokratischen, öffentlichen Netzwerks. Big Tech-Plattformen sind dysfunktionale Alternativen zu einer öffentlichen Infrastruktur, die wir nicht haben. So gesehen geht es sehr gut voran, trotz mangelhafter Ressourcen:
• Anerkennung v. Mastodon als digitales öffentliches Gut
• #GrimmeOnlineAward für Mastodon/Fediverse
• …
@castarco@hachyderm.ioWe are cooked.
We were always a problem for the ones above: we had the opportunity to enjoy high levels of education, access to relatively free & unpolluted knowledge, and welfare systems that worked relatively well for at least half of our lifes.
That was unacceptable, and "AI" is here to fix that.
Big Tech and their fascist friends have convinced many among our younger generations about the idea that "AI" (in its current form) is cool, amazing, necessary, and unstoppable.
We can resist all we want, except it's not our resistance that matters, but the resistance of the younger ones who haven't finished their formal studies yet.
Mozilla's CEO knows it... so he'll happily contribute to dumb us down as much as possible (before anyone has time to react) to ensure that we don't bother ever again the fragile sensibilites of his friends, our capitalist overlords.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAfter Big Tech implemented a blackout on political advertising in the EU following a new law, the European Commission says it's in talks with Big Tech (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-political-ad-rules-google-meta-microsoft-big-…
@tante@tldr.nettime.org"Don't be evil" is so far in the past, it's not even a memory anymore
(Original title: Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort)
https://www.404media.co/google-has-chosen-a-side-in-trumps-mass-deportation-ef…
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.pageDo We Need Subsidiarity in Software?
Louisa Conwill, Megan Levis Scheirer, Walter Scheirer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13466 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.1346…
@gwire@mastodon.socialTo be fair, if you costed out hardware 9 months ago, you probably couldn't account for changes to technology prices influenced by a) AI companies b) US policies. The price of RAM alone will force adjustments.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/16/ukgov_expan…
@stiefkind@mastodon.social»Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.«
What could possibly go wrong. Trust me, I'm an engineer. 🤦
Full story over at @…:
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHochul Caves to Big Tech on AI Safety Bill (David Dayen/American Prospect)
https://prospect.org/2025/12/11/hochul-caves-big-tech-ai-safety-bill-new-york/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p117#a251211p117
@cdarwin@c.imAs the Pentagon, particularly the Army, cozies up to Silicon Valley
four big tech executives with no military background, were directly commissioned to be lieutenant colonels, in the Army
-- and they will not recuse themselves from business dealings with the Department of Defense.
Earlier this month, the Army announced Detachment 201,
the name being a reference to HTTP code,
for the newly commissioned executives
from Palantir, Meta and OpenAI.
The ne…
@nelson@tech.lgbtOnce again impressed by WiThings. Just bought a new Body Comp scale and it's a lovely new product experience. Their software quality is excellent. Just a great experience.
(And a big raspberry to InBody: did not like their comparable product.)
@frankel@mastodon.top @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAustralia begins consultations with publishers and platforms on its News Bargaining Incentive, requiring Big Tech to pay local publishers or face new taxes (April Ossington/Channel News)
https://www.channelnews.com.au/australia-m
@alecsargent@social.linux.pizzaMade a post on how I got here in this Linux and FOSS journey. Big thank you to all the community.
#foss
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAfter Big Tech implemented a blackout on political advertising in the EU following a new law, the European Commission says it is in talks with Big Tech (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-political-ad-rules-google-meta-microsoft-big-tec…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRegulating Big Tech is like regulating a malignant tumour. You don’t regulate a malignant tumour. You cut it out, with enough of a surgical margin to ensure you get every last putrid bit to avoid regrowth.
(This is moot, of course, as we’re not even regulating Big Tech, we’re feeding it with subsidies, government contracts, and access to national healthcare and other sensitive data while the folks who should be regulating them eye their next lucrative gig beyond the revolving doors of …
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgDuk op the Danish privacy focused and free of big tech event announcement platform is looking for volunteers to help refresh its UX 👇
https://dukop.dk/en/news/42/
@hakona@im.alstadheim.no
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@dhuyvetter@mastodon.socialI am so glad I am no longer working in the tech industry. It was kinda fun in the "princes of labor" era, but with all the layoffs and mow the AI race to the bottom I can’t imagine it being a good environment.
Big Tech joins the race to build the world's heaviest airplane
by @…
@mapcar@mastodon.sdf.orgThe Vergecast of October 31. («God will be declared by a panel of experts») has a bit funny and very good discussion of the bizarre joint press release between Microsoft and OpenAI and the insanity of the panel that is to verify if AGI has been achieved or not.
A choice quote about the problems of finding people to put on such a panel:
“A bunch of the world's best drunks have verified that you made whiskey is not a thing that you can do.”
@chpietsch@fedifreu.deIm @… von morgen erscheint ein schöner Artikel über die #BigBrotherAwards #bba25, der im Gegensatz zu anderen Medienberichten nicht…
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialBig tech is laying off user researchers in droves, because it believes that coercing its customers is more profitable than silly things like "making good products people want to buy."
But now the FAFO pendulum is coming around, with Amazon's $2.5B dark pattern settlement and #a11y lawsuits galore.
#UX
@ingo@social.stuetzle.ccBig Tech and finance companies are telling H-1B employees to get to the US in under 24 hours https://www.businessinsider.com/big-tech-employees-h-1b-visa-travel-return-trump-eo-2025-9
@markhburton@mstdn.socialA transatlantic warning. If #NigelTheStockbroker , No Cartoons Jenrick or BadEnoch came to power, this is a taste of what to expect.
"Google removed certain apps used to report sightings of ICE [migration paramilitaries] officials, and “then they immediately turned around and approved an app that helps the government unconstitutionally target an actual vulnerable group."…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioSure would be cool if one of the big tech companies would give the Internet Archive money to make a full-text searchable index of the Wayback Machine.
@brichapman@mastodon.socialTropical islands are turning their biggest challenge into their greatest strength.
Vulnerable to climate change and dependent on expensive fossil fuels, island nations are proving that carbon neutrality by 2050 is economically viable. Solar PV is leading the charge, with innovative Solar-to-X tech converting sunshine into e-fuels and e-chemicals to power hard-to-decarbonize sectors.
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com @carlos@perceptiveconstructs.com
@fgraver@hcommons.socialOh, FFS. And here I thought EU leaders might have grown a spine. Guess I was wrong. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/07/european-commission-ai-artificial-intelligence-act…
@fluchtkapsel@nerdculture.deFor a few years now I have the impression that Big Tech companies resemble more and more something like ecosystem states but without any functional judicial system. And that horrifies me. Their terms of service which should be their constitutions seem more like a dictatorial permission slip with the ability to denaturalize and disown people.
https:…
@villavelius@mastodon.onlineThey probably don't realise it (yet), but the problem American big tech companies have in Europe is that they are American. The fiscal and regulatory thumb screws ate tightening, and the flight from Microsoft, X, Facebook, LinkedIn, Amazon, etc seems to accelerate, albeit not fast enough.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDealogic: 51 US tech IPOs raised $16.8B in 2025, driven by AI and crypto, above the past three-year average but far below 2021's 127 IPOs raising $74.4B (Valida Pau/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-crypto-companies-dominat…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social @cdarwin@c.imAt a time when the majority of Americans distrust big tech
and believe artificial intelligence will harm society,
Silicon Valley has built its own network of alternative media
where CEOs, founders and investors
are the unchallenged and beloved stars.
What was once the province of a few fawning podcasters
has grown into a fully fledged ecosystem of publications and shows
supported by some of the tech industry’s most powerful.
@nohillside@smnn.chDass Google/Meta/Apple Angebote lieber einstellen als sich mit neuen Regeln auseinanderzusetzen ist ja nicht wirklich neu …
Backlash as new EU political ad rules kick in https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-political-ad-rules-google-meta-microsoft…
@newsie@darktundra.xyzPower Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants https://www.404media.co/power-companies-are-using-ai-to-build-nuclear-power-plants/
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.deDie Zeit berichtet vom #Luddite Meetup in Brooklyn – auf den Punkt, und auf die Barrikaden.
Ein good read, als Gift-Artikel: https://www.zeit.d…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comKeep hitting US Big Tech with fines, Europe's Greens tell von der Leyen (Max Griera/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/keep-hitting-us-big-tech-fines-europe-greens-tell-ursula-von-der-leyen/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p28#a251207p28
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialhttps://www.theargumentmag.com/p/treat-big-tech-like-big-tobacco
I expected to hate this take but actually I think it's great. Curation should be speech, not hosting. Plan accordingly.
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialWelcome to the Hotel California, aber mit Daten: Bei Big Tech einchecken? Kein Problem. Auschecken? Viel Glück. Europas Antwort: Digitale Souveränität – offene Standards, grüne Rechenzentren und der Euro-Stack. Damit wir selbst bestimmen, wann wir gehen. | @netzpolitik@chaos.social: Jenseits von Big Tech: #DigitaleSouveränität als Schlüssel für Nachhaltigkeit und Demokrati…
@boris@cosocial.ca@… great meeting you at #IETF124
I shared Cyd with you https://cyd.social/ and yes, wo…
@chiraag@mastodon.online
@nic@geno.socialDie Ungeduld, das Effizienzversprechen und die eigene Bequemlichkeit führen uns immer wieder auf Irrwege. Bin immer wieder erstaunt, wie groß Widerstände für Veränderung im Digitalen sind - weg von Big-Tech-Monopolisten, die mittlerweile Politik nicht nur beeinflussen sonden ganze Demokratien stürzen.
Und das zeigt mir einmal mehr, dass uns eine Kultur im Umgang mit Digitalem nahezu gänzlich fehlt, bzw. wir hier nahezu verblendet eine Kutlur akzeptieren, die wir andernorts nicht dulden …
@kubikpixel@chaos.social»Quantenphysik und KI — Warum neue Technologien magisch wirken - und das #BigTech in die Hände spielt:
Während bei einem Kartentrick jeder den Zauber entlarven will, begegnen wir neuer #Technologie gerne mit ehrfürchtigem Staunen. Der Grund hat etwas mit einer ganz rudimentären Angst zu tun, mein…
@T3chD0g@social.linux.pizza
@pbloem@sigmoid.socialThis has allowed me to make clear something that's been at the back of my mind. Something that is at the heart of so much blind stupidity in big tech.
It's the assumption that we will change one thing and all else will be the same.
In this case, we will fire lots and lots of employees all over the world and we will make lots of profit. We're smart enough to make the AI, and we're dumb enough to think that there will only be one consequence. 1/n
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialFinally, I am no longer relying on OneDrive for offsite backup. Over the course of this year, I have significantly reduced my reliance on big-tech services. 💪
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org"for the rest of us who don’t have the technical knowledge and time to follow his accomplishments, his advice is to “Never use your primary WiFi network for IoT devices” and to “Treat them as strangers in your home.” "
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/manufacturer-issues-remote-kill-command-to-nuke-smart-vacuum-after-engineer-blocks-it-from-collecting-data-user-revives-it-with-custom-hardware-and-python-scripts-to-run-offline
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInvestment in subsea cable projects is expected to reach $13B between 2025 and 2027, almost 2x the amount invested between 2022 and 2024, driven by AI buildout (Magdalena Petrova/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/08/big-tech-ai-underwater-cables.html
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at outlets in Belgium and France that are prioritizing independence from Big Tech and opting for open source or in-house software (Owen Huchon/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/editorial-independence-means-technologic…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUS investors are boosting Chinese AI-related tech stocks and adding cash to ETFs tracking China's tech sector, as US lawmakers push for tighter capital curbs (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/u-s-i…
@dhuyvetter@mastodon.socialBig Tech is neoliberalism's wet dream!
There's one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech: The path
to a post-American internet
by @…
https://
@cdarwin@c.im @aral@mastodon.ar.al @Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI raised concerns about anti-competitive conduct by "entrenched companies" in a September EU meeting; source: OpenAI targeted Google, Microsoft, and Apple (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@servelan@newsie.socialRead the Memos Sent to Big Tech Staff About Trump's H-1B Changes - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/read-memos-sent-big-tech-trump-h-1b-changes-2025-9
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTreat Big Tech like Big Tobacco (Joel Wertheimer/The Argument)
https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/treat-big-tech-like-big-tobacco
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p15#a251021p15
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioMy big gripe with "AI" is that a big reason why it's sold as the second coming of Jesus is that most tech people fundamentally do not understand how it actually works.
Their reasoning goes something like, "It works sort of ok for code generation, and programming is the hardest possible thing in the world to do, every other human endeavor is trivial compared to writing code, therefore it must excel at anything else!".
So it ends up being pushed due to a mixture of ignorance and hubris; and especially being stuffed into things it should never be used for (usually when users don't have a say which software they need to use for work).
The finbros are happily along for the ride because they just need something that can be hyped to pump and dump.
@cdarwin@c.imScaling up AI requires staggering amounts of power and water
— especially when considering that many areas are already dealing with strained grids or drought conditions.
Even when optimized, a single hyperscale facility can draw as muchpower as a mid-sized city
and millions of gallons of water annually.
Professor Romany Webb, deputy director of Columbia University's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, explained the challenge:
"Data centers are incred…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBig Tech's EU lobbying hit €151M in 2025, up from €113M in 2023 and €97M in 2021; between January and June 2025, Big Tech had 146 meetings with EU officials (Corporate Europe Observatory)
https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/big-tech-lobby-budgets-hit-re…
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social„Trumpsche Gesetzgebungspraktiken“: Max Schrems kritisiert Grundrechte-Kahlschlag
Max Schrems liest Brüssel die Leviten: Statt „Goldstandard“ sieht er im neuen Kommissionsvorschlag einen „extremsten Angriff auf die Privatsphäre“. Die DSGVO droht dank pseudonymisierter Daten und KI-Freifahrtschein ihr Wesen zu verlieren – zur Freude von Big Tech. #netzpolitik.org
@aral@mastodon.ar.alHow could this happen in a country that *checks notes* has made itself entirely beholden to US Big Tech and Big Pharma?
#Ireland
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgAnother excellent thread from @… I especially agree with this bit:
"The EU needs to get the *hell* off US tech infrastructure. Under Trump, Big Tech and the US government have stopped even pretending that American tech companies are independent of the US government. We know (from China) that Apple will happily backdoor its cloud servers to assuage authoritarian governments"
Not easy for even a motivated person to achieve without a lot of help though. Yet.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115271300104707706
pluralistic@mamot.fr - Apple has threatened to stop selling iPhones and other devices in the European Union (home to over 500,000,000 affluent consumers) if the bloc doesn't rescind the Digital Markets Act, a democratically accountable anti-monopoly law that bans Apple from blocking third parties from offering services to iPhone owners:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/25/apple-calls-for-changes-to-anti-monopoly-laws-and-says-it-may-stop-shipping-to-the-eu
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@cdarwin@c.imEven before Microsoft Azure had a global failure this week,
Austria's Ministry of Economy had taken a decisive step toward digital sovereignty.
The Ministry is migrating 1,200 employees to a Nextcloud-based cloud and collaboration platform hosted on Austrian-based infrastructure
It's the latest move in a European trend to shift away from Big Tech.
European governments and agencies want to control sensitive data.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFrench President Emmanuel Macron criticizes the EU for being too slow to act on probes into Big Tech companies, attributing the delay to US pressure against DSA (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-afraid-of-tackling-us-big-tech-em…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google are managing the strain of AI's increased energy demand with their promises of net-zero carbon emissions (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20
@cdarwin@c.imFlying drones used during the Ukraine war have changed land battle tactics for ever.
Now the same thing appears to be happening under the sea.
Navies around the world are racing to add autonomous submarines.
https://www.theguardian.com…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn investor group and AI developer Voltai plan to use AI to design, build, and run a 3GW data center in South Korea, set to cost up to $35B and open in 2028 (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/a-…
@cdarwin@c.imIreland has been every bit as important in exporting US Big Tech around the world as the US has been.
But Ireland has another key export, one that is confined to the European Union.
Because every tax haven must be a crime haven,
and because Big Tech's favorite crime is illegal surveillance,
Ireland has exported American tech spying to the whole European Union.
-- @…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFrench lawmakers vote to raise France's digital services tax on US tech giants to 6%, up from 3%; the French government opposes the move, fearing US retaliation (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/french-lawmakers-progress-tax…
@cdarwin@c.imTech Billionaire investor Marc Andreessen has long criticized the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
— calling it an impediment to fintech and crypto companies. 
Andreessen’s investment firm (Andreessen Horowitz aka A16Z) backed many fintech/crypto players that were under CFPB scrutiny,
Under the Trump administration, the CFPB’s enforcement efforts were sharply scaled back:
investigations suspended,
consumer-protection rule-makings shelved,
and …
@Techmeme@techhub.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta expands its facial recognition tools to combat Facebook accounts impersonating public figures in Europe and South Korea, and plans an Instagram expansion (Andre Revilla/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/meta-is-
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of Aaron Greenspan, who has spent years on a crusade to expose what he believes are financial problems at Tesla and at big tech companies (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/busines
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow rising unemployment in computer-related fields in the US, where foreign nationals make up ~20% of 2.3M software devs, pushed the H-1B issue to the forefront (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/bu…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn interview with California state Senator Scott Wiener on his new AI safety bill SB 53, the bill's scope, his focus on AI safety bills, AI PACs, and more (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/23/scott-wiener-on-his-fi…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFinancial stress from AI infrastructure spending, overhiring, and recession fears, rather than AI adoption, is likely driving layoffs in the tech sector (Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91435192/chatgpt-llm-openai-jobs-amazon
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAt a three-day Intel event in Arizona, executives repeatedly asserted that 18A is the most advanced chip production tech developed and deployed in the US (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBig Tech's AI data center plans, which are set to need an estimated 44GW of additional capacity by 2028, face a power crunch that could deflate the AI "bubble" (Financial Times)
https://ig.ft.com/ai-power/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIn their latest earnings reports, Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon have announced plans to increase their AI spending in 2026 to a combined $400B (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/b…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with NYC mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani on social media, tech leaders, Trump, fame, Apple's and Google's "wrong decision" to remove ICEBlock, and more (Katie Drummond/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-zohran-mamd…
@Techmeme@techhub.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft, Meta, and sources say, Google will not publish diversity reports and data this year; Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia released diversity data this year (Paresh Dave/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-microsoft-and-meta-have-s…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUsers of ByteDance's agentic AI phone Nubia M153 report that its Doubao assistant is blocked or limited by Tencent's WeChat, Alibaba's Taobao, and other apps (Cissy Zhou/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn
@Techmeme@techhub.socialEU member states agree a position on draft child protection legislation without forcing Big Tech to find and remove CSAM; states now negotiate with EU lawmakers (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/soc
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMemos: Amazon, which employs the most H-1B holders at 14K , and Microsoft advise H-1B staff to avoid travel and return to the US before 12:01am ET on Sept. 21 (Yun Li/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/20/trump-h-1b-visa-tech-foreign-governments.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFilings: Meta spent the most on US lobbying in Q3, spending $5.8M, followed by Amazon, Google, Apple; Anthropic, Nvidia, and a16z hit $1M for the first time (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/21/tech-lobbying-insights-q3
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn overview of macro tech trends for 2026, as "AI eats the world": bubbles, the AI platform shift, Big Tech FOMO, capex, Nvidia, US power backlogs, and more (Benedict Evans)
https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA draft shows the European Commission plans to propose a simplification package on Nov. 19 to pause parts of its AI laws amid pressure from Big Tech and the US (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/af6c6dbe-ce63-47cc-8923-8bce4007f6e1
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources and docs: after Marc Andreessen donated $5M to Trump's 2024 campaign, most CFPB probes have stalled, including three into Andreessen-backed companies (Jake Pearson/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cfpb-marc-andreessen-silicon-vall…
