Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return(techcrunch.com)

242 points by Brajeshwar 6 months ago | 247 comments

Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive(techcrunch.com)

676 points by jrm-veris 6 months ago | 197 comments

TechCrunch brief reporting that thousands of rare concert recordings are being uploaded to the Internet Archive for public listening.

After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber(techcrunch.com)

107 points by gbourne1 5 months ago | 82 comments

Microsoft offers buyouts up to 7% of US employees(techcrunch.com)

22 points by darth_avocado 6 months ago | 19 comments

Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs(bloomberg.com)

765 points by Vaslo 6 months ago | 798 comments

News report that Meta told employees it will cut about 10% of its workforce, roughly 8,000 jobs, in a push for efficiency.

Copilot is 'for entertainment purposes only', per Microsoft's terms of use(techcrunch.com)

149 points by airstrike 6 months ago | 32 comments

France rejects backdoor mandate(eff.org)

905 points by hn_acker 1 year ago | 262 comments

EFF Deeplinks post reporting that France's National Assembly rejected a proposed mandate for encryption backdoors in messaging services.

Belgium legalises ethical hacking(law.kuleuven.be)

394 points by jruohonen 3 years ago | 57 comments

A KU Leuven CiTiP blog post discussing Belgium's new legal framework legalising ethical hacking and whether it threatens or helps cybersecurity.

France asked ISPs to prepare temporary DNS blocks for major social platforms(blast-info.fr)

98 points by noplay 1 day ago | 87 comments

Blast exclusive reporting that French PM Sébastien Lecornu asked Orange, SFR, Free and Bouygues to prepare blocking TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and X before the October 24 protest.

Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database(news.risky.biz)

677 points by speckx 3 months ago | 380 comments

Risky Bulletin security newsletter reporting a hacker wiped Romania's land registry database, plus news on Graykey, Hugging Face hack, and WordPress RCE.

France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk(xda-developers.com)

357 points by pabs3 6 months ago | 197 comments

XDA Developers article reporting that the French government is moving from Windows to Linux, citing dependence on US tech as a strategic risk.

France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins(numerique.gouv.fr)

746 points by embedding-shape 6 months ago | 358 comments

French government press release on accelerating digital sovereignty and reducing dependence on non-European tech, following an interministerial seminar.