‘Going to the cloud’: renting servers, or integration of deeply proprietary services? “both options go by the same name, and orgs often slide from the first into the second without realizing the fundamental difference, until it’s too late” @ccs.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Cloud drift: how hyperscaler cloud computing shapes internet governance

When the Foundation for Internet Domain Registration in the Netherlands (SIDN) announced plans to migrate to Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2024, it sparked intense political debate about critical in...

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This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

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People would rather have an Amazon warehouse in their backyard than a data center | TechCrunch

A new poll shows that the debate over data centers is far from settled.

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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says it attacked Oracle's data center in Dubai on Thursday, according to state media. Dubai's media office denied this claim. An Amazon data center was targeted in Bahrain.

IRGC claims to have attacked Dubai Oracle data center, US fighter jets at Jordan | The Jerusalem Post

Additional attacks on Thursday included attacks on a US diplomatic facility near Baghdad Airport and an Amazon cloud computing center in Bahrain.

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My car has depression (check engine light is on).

WIRED@wired.com · 4mo ago

Researchers at the company found representations inside of Claude that perform functions similar to human feelings.

Last minute: the European Commission has confirmed new talks with the US following attacks on EU tech rules. As pressure mounts, Big Tech is gaining even more influence. Civil society is still not in the room

Agree with @anildash.com here, was just saying earlier how the volume of cheers for Anthropic deciding not to help build Terminator or the Panopticon shows just how low the bar is set for American tech firms. www.anildash.com/2026/02/27/a...

A Cookie for Dario? — Anthropic and selling death - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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As a professional military strategist, I just wanted to make sure everyone has a full understanding of the American strategy in Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter

This weekend we’re coordinating days of action with campaigners and local communities across the country, to oppose Big Tech's unchecked expansion of hyperscale data centres in the UK. Join an action near you: www.globalactionplan.org.uk/stop-dirty-data-centres

Sources: Amazon's AI tools caused at least two AWS outages, including a 13-hour disruption in December after its Kiro AI deleted and recreated an environment (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

"After the rapid growth of data centers triggered pushback from politicians, utilities and local residents over the pressures they place on the grid, tech companies are now building their own fleet of private power plants, mostly fueled by natural gas."

Silicon Valley is building a shadow power grid for data centers across the U.S.

Tech companies are building data centers with their own private power plants, a risky bet that will increase carbon emissions and other pollution.

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World of journalism is still overwhelmingly white/ without migration background. They just don't feel it, when Rubio essentially tells us in Europe: you deport all the brown people and we can be friends again.

dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London@ccs.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Rubio's #Munich speech was met with a 'sigh of relief' in Europe: grateful for reassurance of partnership. THIS IS BAFFLING when you examine the white Christian nationalist undertones of his speech See here for the full speech: www.state.gov/releases/202...

Rubio's #Munich speech was met with a 'sigh of relief' in Europe: grateful for reassurance of partnership. THIS IS BAFFLING when you examine the white Christian nationalist undertones of his speech See here for the full speech: www.state.gov/releases/202...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference - United States Department of State

SECRETARY RUBIO:  Thank you very much.  We gather here today as members of a historic alliance, an alliance that saved and changed the world.  When this conference began in 1963, it was in a nation – ...

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📰 New preprint! By @ferraribraun.bsky.social and @ccs.bsky.social, highlighting the hidden influences of European news media's reliance on the cloud infrastructures of Big Tech. For news work, autonomy is decreasing, while vulnerabilities are increasing. Read here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

"Across Europe, news media companies increasingly depend on cloud services run by a handful of powerful tech actors. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google provide the digital infrastructure that underpins the functioning of newsrooms" By @ccs.bsky.social for @article19.bsky.social

Europe: Time to address cloud infrastructure monopolies - ARTICLE 19

Big tech offer digital infrastructure that underpins the functioning of newsrooms: data storage, content and management tools, audience analytics, AI.

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🚨 PAPER OUT 🚨 The first paper of my PhD just got published as a pre-print. Co-authored with @ccs.bsky.social, it looks at the ways in which cloud infrastructures are changing the business operations of European news media companies. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Another day, another outage — instead of rehashing why our reliance on a handful of big tech companies for our access to literately EvErYThINg is bad — I’m going to point you to the last three times I had to do that over the past 4 weeks, which led to a great convo with @dexdigi.bsky.social

ARTICLE 19@article19.bsky.social · 9mo ago

In the latest episode of kill switch @ccs.bsky.social and @dexdigi.bsky.social discuss the recent AWS outage: what it tells us about the state of our internet, what the concentration of power in cloud means for democracy + what can we do to address it open.spotify.com/episode/1cjn...

🚨 Brussels, today 🚨Ursula! Stand up for Europe – not for Trump’s tech bros! As the EU unveils its “Digital Omnibus” today, we're rolling out billboards calling on @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu to stop bending to US and Big Tech pressure and enforce our digital laws #StandUpUrsula✊

@article19.bsky.social is in Berlin for two digital sovereignty summit events: We're speaking at the main summit & participating in the cloud roundtable organized by KAS - @FOTI -@openmarkets.bsky.social Are you also here too for sovereignty summit? Come say hallo- gutentag!

TODAY: ARTICLE 19’s Corinne Cath speaks about our shared digital future at the European Digital Sovereignty Summit. Digital commons initiatives can only deliver if Europe breaks Big Tech’s stranglehold – and civil society will play a vital role. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/comm...

🕷️Creepy AI crawlers are haunting the internet🕷️ This Halloween, Tanu I and @ccs.bsky.social ocial explain how AI crawlers are ruining the internet for all of us. Read this season’s real horror story in @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/creepy-ai-cr...

Creepy AI Crawlers Are Turning the Internet into a Haunted House | TechPolicy.Press

The question is no longer whether AI crawlers are disrupting the internet, but what we can do about it, write Tanu I and Corinne Cath.

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n the Netherlands, its election day. Because of the #Microsoft outage, however, parts of the train system are down, leaving thousands of citizens unable to plan their travel, buy tickets, or determine whether they could return to their hometowns in time for polls to close.

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 10mo ago

PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.

Happy Internet Archive Day! Join us tonight—online or IRL—for The Web We’ve Built! If you visit the Archive in person, grab a free copy of Sir Tim Berners-Lee's new book THIS IS FOR EVERYONE from our BIG Free Library! 🎟️ ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/22/h... #Wayback1T

Playing off the egos of tech giants, Sam Altman’s dealmaking blitz has tied Silicon Valley’s massive fortunes to his own startup.

How Sam Altman Tied Tech’s Biggest Players to OpenAI

The CEO’s dealmaking blitz has convinced Silicon Valley’s giants to tether their fates to his company, essentially making it too big to fail

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Canada is waking up to the risks of relying on US tech giants for digital infrastructure, writes Canadian SHIELD Institute researcher and Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project fellow Emily Osborne. As Canada pursues a sovereign cloud, clarity and control—not marketing—should guide the path to independence.

What Does a “Sovereign Cloud” Really Mean? | TechPolicy.Press

Emily Osborne discusses approaches to building a "sovereign cloud" for Canada.

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Today's AWS outage, which affected a range of websites and applications—from Signal to Fortnite to key UK government services—reveals the dangers of relying on a handful of Big Tech firms, write Article 19's Corinne Cath and Don Le. These are not glitches; they are democratic failures, they say.

Amazon Cloud Outage Reveals Democratic Deficit in Relying on Big Tech | TechPolicy.Press

The AWS outage demonstrates the need for a fundamental shift in how we think about digital infrastructure, write Corinne Cath and Don Le.

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Could not doom-scroll earlier today? Yeah, me neither bc of our dangerous reliance on hyperscaler clouds #AWS us-east-1 outage took down #Signal and chunks of the internet. The culprit was too many critical operations crammed into a single AWS data center cluster in Northern Virginia.

‘Free speech for me, not for thee’: how Trump’s censorship blitz is splitting the right

‘Free speech for me, not for thee’: how Trump’s censorship blitz is splitting the right

After Charlie Kirk’s killing, the US president has unleashed an assault on free speech. Some conservatives are questioning his razor sharp U-turn

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