Exclusive: Meta is installing new tracking software on US-based employees' computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes to train its AI models, the company told staffers in internal memos seen by Reuters reut.rs/4cnvKdX

Exclusive: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data

Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture ​mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes for use in training its ‌artificial-intelligence models, part of a broad ...

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Just to recap: Russia is currently helping Iranian forces try to kill US troops. In response, Trump is… lifting sanctions on Russia and threatening to pull out of NATO, which are the #1 and #2 items on Putin’s wishlist

Trump on NATO: "We would have always been there for them. But now, based on their actions, I guess we don't have to be."

Noch ein Grund für 🇪🇺

Kajo Wasserhövel@wasserhoevel.de · 5mo ago

Wer sich in die Abhängigkeit von diesem Typen und seiner Technologie bringt hat nicht mehr alle Murmeln beieinander.

Der @cem_oezdemir legt bei seiner Rede heute erneut ein Niveau an den Tag, das man in der deutschen Politik lange vermisst hat.

„KI ist sowas von gekommen, um zu bleiben. (…) Ich fürchte nur, wir machen uns kein Bild davon, was das für die organisierte und gesellschaftlich anerkannte Produktion von Wahrheit heißt. Mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit: nichts Gutes.“ Habe über KI geschrieben. Sicher nicht das letzte Mal:

Was wir über die Welt wissen, wissen wir nicht von MechaHitler

Man kann künstlicher Intelligenz nicht vertrauen.

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The Trump administration is interfering in European politics by campaigning for Orbán. Orbán is both pro-Russia and pro-China

Joni Askola@joniaskola.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Pathetic and traitorous

Donald Trump's Greenland ambitions have taught the EU an important lesson: strategic autonomy must be accelerated to stop a haemorrhaging of sovereignty. bit.ly/4qe2YjL

Trump's Davos speech backed off escalation in Greenland. That will not prevent an EU rush for strategic autonomy

The Greenland episode taught important lessons: strategic autonomy must be accelerated to stop a haemorrhage of sovereignty; And the Anti-Coercion Instrument can be a powerful weapon in a new geopolitical era.

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Kyiv. Morning after a massive russian attack. The district where we live is mostly without heating or electricity. According to the mayor, 1,170 residential high-rise buildings in Kyiv are without heat (we still have a minimal one, but no power). -19 °C outside. This is genocide.

While some in Europe still wonder whether Trump's US would honour Art. 5 of the NATO treaty, he is arguably breaking Art. 2 with little regard by employing conflict in international economic policy to blackmail allies:

There are going to be limits to what you can make other countries do by threatening to tax your own citizen's purchases of their products. I believe handing over entire territories falls well beyond those limits. 🤷‍♂️

The city administration of Copenhagen will no longer be posting on X.

Københavns Kommune dropper X | Nyheder | DR

Københavns Kommune er nu helt ude af det sociale medie X.

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🔥🇪🇺 “Europeans enjoy more free time than Americans, a higher life expectancy and lower levels of inequality – all with roughly comparable productivity. Whichever way you look at it, this is a significantly superior economic performance.”

Decline, what decline? The myth of dying Europe

There is a widespread view that, by comparison with the USA, Europe is in economic and social decline. But, Zucman argues, it's not true

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In an opinion piece for Euronews, Dr Alexander Wolf, Head of Germany's Hanns-Seidel-Foundation's capital office, explains why the time for naivety is over and which three illusions we have to say goodbye to in Europe.

Europe doesn't need wishes, it needs a survival strategy

In an opinion piece for Euronews, Dr Alexander Wolf, Head of Germany's Hanns-Seidel-Foundation's capital office, explains why the time for naivety is over and which three illusions we have to say goodbye to in Europe.

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It’s interesting how the risk awareness that dependence on US systems - be it in digital services, defence, or payment methods - has been internalised fairly quickly in Europe. National Bank of Sweden chief says Sweden is too dependent on MasterCard and Visa and needs non-American alternatives

Riksbankschef Erik Thedéen: Sverige för beroende av amerikanska kreditkortsföretag - Ekot

Riksbankschef Erik Thedéen anser att Sveriges betalsystem är för beroende av amerikanska kreditkortsföretag som Mastercard och Visa.I nuläget tycker Erik ...

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La France dénonce avec la plus grande fermeté la restriction de visa prise par les Etats-Unis à l'encontre de Thierry Breton, ancien ministre et Commissaire européen, et quatre autres personnalités européennes. 1/3

Der Trump-Effekt.

Adopted on this day 70 years ago by the Council of Europe, the European Flag became the #EU emblem in 1985.

A whopping 65% of Germans say Germany is acting too cautiously in asserting its interests towards the United States.

Now hearing that TikTok will have a much more positive outcome from their Feb. 2024 investigation by the Commission announced tomorrow, in part because they engaged with the Commission's process. Not great for the Trump admin's narrative of this being about censorship ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Commission opens formal proceedings against TikTok under the Digital Services Act

The European Commission has opened formal proceedings to assess whether TikTok may have breached the Digital Services Act (DSA) in areas linked to the protection of minors, advertising transparency, d...

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Kate Klonick@klonick.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨 I am hearing from multiple sources that the EU Commission is announcing its first DSA fine tomorrow against X on ad transparency, blue check & dark pattern, and researcher access to data. The fine is in the "100s of millions of Euros." Elon about to get big mad.

Good to see that civil society is moving 🇪🇺, bringing corporations, artist and people together europanova.eu/wp-content/u...

Heute ist der siebte Tag! steady.page/de/nminkmar/...

Ich finde das exzellent und bin froh, dass es in Deutschland noch eine Partei der rechten Mitte gibt, in der dieses (von entscheidenden Leuten) verstanden wird. Dafür verdient Friedrich Merz, bei aller Kritik, Unterstützung.

Heute ist der siebte Tag! steady.page/de/nminkmar/...

Der kommende Wandel

Jugendbewegungen/Harris 107 Days/Reykjavik 112/Cookyourlife-Challenge/Veggie Blieskastel Ich habe die Einheitsfeiern des 3. Oktober in Saarbrücken nur – siehe Foto- aus…

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Canada, take note

Alberto Alemanno@alemanno.bsky.social · 10mo ago

“We were VERY naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and are not interested in survival of our democracies” French President Emmanuel Macron Check minute 19 lnkd.in/eXkJHnPN #EUCO #euro

#Eiffel Tower to honour 72 women scholars to ensure #gender parity insiderpaper.com/eiffel-tower...

Eiffel Tower to honour 72 women scholars to ensure gender parity

Gustave Eiffel, who designed France's world-famous monument, had the names of 72 scholars inscribed on the base of the tower in golden letters. All of

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Nearly a million people marched against Brexit. Not front page news. 50 people gather outside a hotel. National news for weeks. "Fears of mass unrest", media says.

💯 „Trade policy is not merely a means to alter the functioning of the US economy. It is a political strategy to place Trump's allies in positions of power.“ Really good article by @alexandrageese.bsky.social

Europe Cannot Wait to Fight Trump’s Assault on Democracy | TechPolicy.Press

Trump’s goal, aligned with the interests of some US tech companies, is to push for regime change in Europe, writes MEP Alexandra Geese.

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Russia to crack down on what it deems 'extremist' content

Russia to crack down on what it deems 'extremist' content – DW – 07/25/2025

In a fresh move to restrict free speech, Russia's parliament has approved legislation punishing those who browse what the state deems as "extremist" online content. How will this affect users?

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