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Europe's quiet technological divorce from American platforms is accelerating. Wired has mapped out dozens of governments and companies across the continent actively migrating away from US Big Tech — driven by a combination of data sovereignty concerns, political tension, and a growing appetite for homegrown alternatives. It is less a sudden break than a long, deliberate uncoupling.
Shifting from geopolitics to the battlefield, a new essay making rounds in defense circles argues that autonomous command systems have a thinking problem, not a speed problem. The piece contends that the real gap in modern kill chains is decision validity — whether a system is asking the right questions before acting — rather than how fast it can execute. It is a distinction that carries enormous stakes as militaries lean further into AI-assisted warfare.
And on the more human side of tech failure, The Register's weekly confessional column introduces us to a consultant named Evan, who accidentally deleted a significant volume of client data — and then, rather than coming clean, quietly logged it as a bug report. The story is equal parts cautionary tale and workplace comedy, a reminder that how we handle our mistakes often matters more than the mistakes themselves.
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