Technological dependence on American software and cloud services : an assessment of the economic consequences in Europe - Cigref
https://www.cigref.fr/technological-dependence-on-american-software-and-…
from my link log —
A (nearly) perfect USB cable tester.
https://blog.literarily-starved.com/2026/02/technology-the-nearly-perfect-usb-cable-tester-does-exist/
saved 2026-02-02
The SpaceX-xAI merger further intermingles Musk's companies, creates the most valuable private company in the world, and provides a financial lifeline to xAI (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/technology/spacex-xai-deal.html
Reddit surpasses TikTok as the fourth most-visited social media service in the UK, likely driven by changes to Google's search algorithms and AI deals (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/03/re…
Google launches Gemma 4, its "most intelligent" open model family, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows, under an Apache 2.0 license (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemma-4/
Inside Elon Musk's bet to hook X users that turned Grok into a porn generator; sources say xAI's AI safety team was just two or three people for most of 2025 (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/02/elon-musk-grok-porn…
An unpublished draft of Changpeng Zhao's memoir, "Freedom of Money", details secret negotiations in 2023 that led to his imprisonment and a run-in with ICE (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/technology/cz-changpeng-zha…
A profile of Palmer Luckey and his startup Anduril, which has more than $6B in global contracts, had roughly $2B in revenue last year, and is valued at ~$31B (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/technol…