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Europe is making its most ambitious play yet for technological independence. Gartner is warning that the EU's plans to triple datacenter capacity over the next five to seven years will add serious complexity for public sector buyers, layering in sovereign cloud mandates, homegrown AI, and microprocessor policy into what was already a complicated procurement landscape.
And while Europe wrestles with big structural questions, British neuroscientists delivered a quieter kind of bombshell this week. Appearing before a parliamentary committee investigating smartphones and children's mental health, three researchers essentially told MPs what they didn't want to hear — that widespread concern about phones rewiring young brains is not the same thing as evidence. A useful reminder that moral panic and peer-reviewed science are two very different things.
Closer to the developer community, a programmer shared a Rust port of switcheroo-control, a Linux tool for managing hybrid graphics on laptops. The original works fine — the author admits there was no pressing problem to solve. It's a small story, but an honest one, capturing something real about open source culture: sometimes you build a thing simply because you want to understand it better.
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