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Europe has spent more than two billion euros building sovereign cloud infrastructure designed to shield its data from American legal reach. France alone has nearly twelve hundred technical requirements under its SecNumCloud framework. But here is the uncomfortable truth — almost all of that infrastructure still runs on American processors, leaving the sovereignty argument looking more like a policy document than a genuine escape hatch.
Across the Atlantic, a software engineer has pulled off something genuinely strange and impressive — pairing an M five Max MacBook Pro with an RTX fifty ninety in an external GPU dock, then running a Linux virtual machine and a translation layer called FEX just to play Cyberpunk twenty seventy seven at over one hundred frames per second. It works, but the sheer number of workarounds involved tells you everything about how fragmented the PC gaming ecosystem still is.
And in cybercrime news, a pair of twins learned an expensive lesson about operational security — they forgot to turn off a Microsoft Teams recording during what appears to have been incriminating activity. It is a reminder that the tools designed to make remote collaboration easier can just as easily become the most reliable witness in the room.
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