My first book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and The War On Democracy," will publish on August 18.

It tells the true story of how a small cult of venture capitalists embraced a grim prophecy in which technology will destroy the United States in the 21st century.

And they worked to make it true, pushing their ideas all the way into the core of the Trump regime.

My book is being published in the USA, UK/Commonwealth, Italy and Poland.

We’ve awarded a €180M tender for sovereign cloud to four European providers.

This enables EU institutions, bodies, offices & agencies (Union entities) to procure sovereign cloud services.

Scaling the use of EU cloud is key to strengthening Europe’s digital sovereignty.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_833

#France Launches Government #Linux Desktop Plan as #WindowsExit Begins

France is transitioning government desktops to Linux, with each ministry required to formalize its implementation plan by autumn 2026.

🇫🇷 🐧 💪

#UnplugTrump #UnplugBigtech #DigitalSovereignty #LeavingMicrosoft #GoFrance

https://linuxiac.com/france-launches-government-linux-desktop-plan-as-windows-exit-begins/

Anthropic's Claude Code's full source code leaked. Claude is seen by many to be the best coding LLM on the market with Anthropic proudly stating that Claude Code itself is mostly written by the LLM.

Now this sounds good as long as nobody can see the code which is quite the trash fire. Detecting "code sentiment" via regular expressions, variable and functions names containing prompt parts trying to influence the bot, a completely intransparent mess of a control flow that makes actual maintenance and debugging functionally impossible and the prompts ... of the prompts. All the begging and pleading to the chatbot not to do this or not to do that or please to do this.

It is fascinating but it is as far away from actual engineering as drunkenly pissing your name in the snow. Dunno what you call the people prompting software at Anthropic but "engineer" is not it.

Now it is fun to look at the currently hyped product striped bare and showing its pathetic quality but that is the future of software if we let those companies continue to undermine every good practice software engineering has tried establishing.

The software we have to use will be bad, insecure, unmaintainable, expensive with nobody having the skills or resources to build something better. As I wrote a few months ago: LLM based software production is equivalent to saying that fast fashion should be the only way to produce clothing. A tragic degeneration of the quality of the artefacts we rely on build for maximum profit on the backs of people in countries from the global majority.

• Claude code source "leaks" in a mapfile
• people immediately use the code laundering machines to code launder the code laundering frontend
• now many dubious open source-ish knockoffs in python and rust being derived directly from the source

What's anthropic going to do, sue them? Insist in court that LLM recreating copyrighted code is a violation of copyright???

would love to see more culture framed as follows:

"ai sucks. it makes gentle people sad, and rich people more powerful. here's something else to feel good about instead."

i want so much of that right now.

The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. How it works:

https://www.404media.co/this-app-warns-you-if-someone-is-wearing-smart-glasses-nearby/