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OpenAI's ChatGPT desktop app for macOS has introduced a feature called Computer History, which records your clicks and keystrokes to build a timeline of how you work. The system can suggest automations and even resume tasks you left unfinished. Crucially, it is opt-in rather than opt-out, and users can exclude specific apps and websites, though the question of where that data ultimately lives remains worth asking.
Shifting to policy, a new paper published through Zenodo argues that Europe's approach to AI sovereignty is dangerously shallow if it relies on cloud geography alone. Simply hosting data within EU borders, the authors contend, does not address who controls the underlying models, the training pipelines, or the governance frameworks that shape AI behavior. It is a structural argument, and a timely one.
And in a story that blurs the line between biology and technology, researchers studying microbial DNA beneath Antarctica have uncovered new clues about Blood Falls, the eerie iron-rich outflow that stains the Taylor Glacier red. The findings suggest ancient, isolated microbial communities are driving the chemistry, offering a window into how life persists in the most extreme conditions on Earth, and perhaps beyond it.
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