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Interesting to see y-combinator, an incubator for early-stage startups, supporting an EU directive. They say that the European Digital Markets Act actually allows smaller companies to grow, by limiting what the behemoths of the market are allowed to do. Who would’ve thought that at least one of the regulations gets supported by the US Startup (…)

I find China’s attempt to treat data as a formal business asset quite interesting, especially given the massive amount of data the country generates. Companies seem reluctant to adopt this policy though, with only 283 out of 60 million companies participating. But it is still early days, and the months and years to come will (…)

Nobody would seriously argue that a chat bot can replace school counselors in helping pupils taking their first steps on their career paths. However, in the face of a shortage of counselors, aren’t chat bots better than no guidance at all? I like this article for its nuanced discussion of young people relying on specialized (…)

Undersea telecommunication cables are an invisible but integral part of the central nervous system of our digital society. With digitalization encroaching on ever more parts of our day-to-day lives, we become ever more dependent on telecommunication infrastructure. All the more worrying is the string of ‘incidents’ involving the undersea cables in recent years, many of (…)

With physical media, no one can reach into your home and remove what you bought from your shelf.’ Not only can Amazon delete books remotely, the shift towards cloud-based storage for e-books means that copies can be modified by Amazon and publishers at will. With the rapid pace of change in the political environment, it (…)

Bien que la tech du Silicon Valley se plaint toujours de la régulation, je pense que l’état actuel des choses est bien en leur faveur. Laisser ces réseaux dicter la narration, qui est suivie par la plus grande partie de la population, a déjà passablement érodé la confiance dans les organisation étatiques. Vu que les (…)

‘Quantum computing applications may become practical within the next 5 years’, according to recent claims by Microsoft and Google, both of which released statements within days of each other. The fact that these two rival tech giants made the same prediction at the same time lends credibility to the statement, especially given the ongoing global (…)

UBS has completed a proof-of-concept (PoC) for its ‘UBS Key4 Gold’ offering on the Ethereum layer-2 network, zkSync. I liked UBS’s step-by-step progress toward adopting blockchain technologies. Initially, the company implemented its private blockchain network, leveraging the inherent traceability of blockchain. Now, with this PoC, UBS is seeking scalability by deploying its ‘UBS Key4 Gold’ (…)

Interesting work from OpenAI, who are testing how good their models are at convincing people to change their minds. Currently, they’re running the tests only internally on pre-selected human testers. But who knows where this will eventually be used, and whether in the open or hidden? For that matter, what about the LLM-generated messages Meta (…)

I never get tired of yet another story about hacking into connected cars. This time it’s Subaru! Their ‘STARLINK’ system (nothing to do with the satellites) allowed anybody to start, stop, lock, or unlock a car from a distance (among other things). Funny side note: the author, a security researcher, bought the car for his (…)

We’ve been having a lot of discussion about the ‘Swiss Government Cloud,’ which is effectively hosted in the USA and China. The EU has the same setup, but someone – likely in the Trump administration – is now attempting to put holes in it by removing parts of the privacy guarantees its remote cloud has. (…)