US Military defense contractors who unilaterally supported the trump candidacy: well, fuck.

Your $400 hammer has arrived.

They did. It might hold up.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/can-trump-pull-us-out-nato-2026-04-01/

He’s said it so many times, from the first indignity. I mean “administration”. He’s a complete idiot and a puppet of Putin. Of course he wants to exit it.

For its part, Apple has denied the claims, saying in a statement to The Wall Street Journal, “We have never heard of PRISM. We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers.”

ok

I think that’s too generous. As if they didn’t think about this.

It also uses your credentials to do so and doesn’t ask any permissions for any of it including whatever else it wants to do outside the browser sandbox where it lives. Anthropic can easily remedy the situation but they didn’t set it up that way. And the question is why.

Not calling it spyware is like not calling McDonald’s “food”. While technically true, it’s just how it works.

I don’t think it’s actually doing anything nefarious yet. fwiw.

FUCK!!

And he would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids!

Should never have gotten close to a contract. Whoever greenlit it was either a complete idiot or heavily bribed.

It’s the biggest company in the world. (Well, unless GPUs are here to stay).

He’s done pretty good.

Faster!

Sounds cool. And also like an attack vector.

Oh god, i know thats not possible and here come the startups to pitch it.

Wow. That’s super sad.

Goddamn microsoft. Get it together.

Very good. My TL;DR take:

The American and German approach of letting incumbents build monopolies, allowing wasteful overbuild, and refusing to regulate natural monopolies is often called a ‘free market.’

But it’s not free. And it’s not a market.

True capitalism requires competition. But infrastructure is a natural monopoly. If you treat it like a regular consumer product, you don’t get competition. You get waste, or you get a monopoly.

The Swiss model understands this. They built the infrastructure once, as a shared, neutral asset, and then let the market compete on the services that run over it.

That’s not anti-capitalist. It’s actually better capitalism. It directs competition to where it adds value, not to where it destroys it.

The free market doesn’t mean letting powerful incumbents do whatever they want. It means creating the conditions where genuine competition can thrive.

While I agree in principle, the user must understand that all web searches (in general, not just in this case) are going to be tracked unless explicit steps are taken.

Spotlight searching the web is stupid, though.

If you leave it on by default, yeah.

Go through your settings, people. One-by-one.

NYT reports on Iranian NYT

The people don’t read no more. Plus click click click click click $$$$