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The European Union is quietly moving toward restricting how its governments use American cloud platforms to handle sensitive data. The proposal reflects a growing unease in Brussels about digital sovereignty — the idea that critical government information shouldn't flow through infrastructure controlled by foreign corporations, however reliable those companies may seem today.
That tension between trust and control connects to a broader question making the rounds on Hacker News this week — whether consciousness itself has a so-called hard problem at all. A piece in Noema Magazine argues the framing is philosophically confused from the start, suggesting what feels like an unsolvable mystery may simply be a question we've been asking badly for decades.
And on a note that stretches credulity considerably further, a device called the MicroSparc is making headlines with claims it draws usable power directly from the quantum vacuum — essentially, energy from nothing. The inventor has ties to warp drive research, which tells you something. Physicists are skeptical, and the evidence so far is thin. But people keep building things that shouldn't work, and occasionally one of them does.
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