Skip to main content

EU cloud gang wins Microsoft concessions, but fair software licensing group brands them 'stalling tactic'

2 weeks 5 days ago
Pay-as-you-go model, privacy protections agreed – but critics say it just buys 'Microsoft more time to lock in customers'

Updated  A trade group of European cloud providers has claimed a small victory in bringing lower prices and more flexibility in deploying Microsoft software on their infrastructure, though the Coalition for Fair Software Licensing has blasted it as a "stalling tactic" by the software giant.…

Lindsay Clark

Coldplay kiss-cam flap proves we’re already our own surveillance state

2 weeks 5 days ago
And we’re the ones building it

Comment  A tech executive's alleged affair exposed on a stadium jumbotron is ripe fodder for the gossip rags, but it exhibits something else: proof that we need not wait for an AI-fueled dystopian surveillance state to descend on us - we're perfectly able and willing to surveil ourselves.…

Brandon Vigliarolo