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Europe's artificial intelligence ambitions are running into a hard structural reality. Despite being one of the world's largest markets for AI datacenter infrastructure, EU-headquartered companies capture just six percent of the bloc's semiconductor market and seven percent of servers. The continent is building on somebody else's foundation, and that dependency is becoming impossible to ignore.
Shifting to a story that touches anyone running a decentralized code repository — Radicle has disclosed two critical vulnerabilities in its wire protocol that expose private repository data in plain text and allow attackers to impersonate nodes entirely. The fixes require migrating to a new protocol called Iroh, which breaks backward compatibility. If you're running a Radicle node on clearnet, the advice is simple: stop immediately.
And from the fields to the frontier — robot dogs, once associated with high-security installations like the White House, are now finding a second life on farms. Beyond simple surveillance, these machines are taking on a broader range of agricultural tasks, raising real questions about automation's role in rural economies and what that means for the people who work that land.
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