Reports suggest Iranian missiles may have hit AWS data centre clusters in UAE & Bahrain, disrupting critical services. When governments, banks & critical services concentrate their data in a handful of foreign-owned clouds, those server farms become geopolitical pressure points.
The Gulf is now a hotspot for US & China hyperscale cloud infrastructure. That’s also where your “sovereign” data physically sits when the missiles fly‼️
When psychiatrists start asking patients about their AI chatbot use on intake forms, algorithmic echo chambers and AI-induced cognitive distortions cease to be mere ethics debates.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-chatbot-psychosis-link-1abf9d57?reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The Spanish High Court has ruled in favor of @civio and is forcing the Spanish Government to give access to the source code of BOSCO, the application that decides who receives social subsidies and who doesn't, after demanding it since 2018, and after facing numerous legal setbacks
La sentencia, que crea jurisprudencia, considera que el uso de aplicaciones en la toma de decisiones públicas debe ir acompañada de transparencia que permita su fiscalización. Rechaza que la seguridad nacional o la propiedad intelectual puedan limitar de forma absoluta este “derecho constitucional”.
Proud that @fsfe volunteer @nicolef went through this whole process with #sumup about the #GNU #GPL.
Nicole’s efforts show that individuals can have outsized positive impacts on #softwarefreedom, and many little steps like Nicole’s, when taken together, can amount to a large enough movement to further develop the #FreeSoftware movement in a positive direction.
https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20250820-01.en.html
Thanks also to @conservancy and @LaF0rge for all the work they do / did on this.
Proton claims their “Lumo” to be a fully open source AI chatbot.
Luckily, there is @dingemansemark ’s European Open Source AI Index that makes clear that Lumo is in fact “the least open 'open' model” that they have seen so far.
Proton released an "AI" (Lumo) that they market as open source. About that... with zero openness features checked it is the least open "open" model ever to arrive in the European OS AI index
Compare Lumo, Deepseek and OLMo: https://osai-index.eu/compare?models=OLMo,deepseek-v3,lumo
Until Proton tells us more about the base LLM and other aspects of this system, it is officially the least open LLM that is marketed as "open source"
Jan Wildeboer 😷
Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
Oakland Privacy
Matthias Kirschner
Iris van Rooij 💭
Mark Dingemanse