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The irony is that the #semiconductorindustry became a miracle of #globalcooperation, and now every #government wants its own miracle behind a tariff wall. You can subsidize a factory, but you can’t simply photocopy decades of expertise, suppliers and trust. Apparently #interdependence was fine until politicians noticed it. https://www.techradar.com/pro/quote-of-the-day-by-tsmc-founder-morris-chang-globalization-is-almost-dead-and-free-trade-is-almost-dead-a-post-mortem-on-the-tech-supply-chain-breakdown?Opinionated.EU #techopinion #tech #opinion #tsmc #globalization #freetrade

#Europe doesn’t need to win the competition for the world’s most expensive #chatbot. It needs to stop handing its #industrial #knowledge, #data and #infrastructure to whoever owns that chatbot. #SpecializedAI is a sensible strategy, but #sovereignty means owning the tools too, not just renting smarter ones. https://www.techradar.com/pro/how-europe-can-compete-with-the-us-and-china-on-ai?Opinionated.EU #techopinion #tech #opinion

Funny how the #AIboom is supposedly about replacing #workers, yet the entire industry still depends on people keeping the #chipfactories running. Executives get record profits, shareholders get soaring valuations, and the people making it possible have to strike for a fair share. Perhaps the real disruption is workers discovering their leverage. https://restofworld.org/2026/taiwan-labor-strike-ai-profits/?Opinionated.EU #techopinion #tech #opinion

Spending $447 million to #influence an #election and then deleting the posts when it goes badly is quite a business model. Apparently you can buy a #socialnetwork, an enormous megaphone and plenty of political access, but you still can’t buy the #electorate. The delete button must be getting more use than Grok. https://futurism.com/future-society/elon-musk-election-backfire-loses-billions?Opinionated.EU #techopinion #tech #opinion #elonmusk

Turns out people aren’t thrilled about paying higher #electricitybills so billionaires can build enormous #serverfarms next door. The industry spent years calling every objection irrational fear of progress. Apparently voters have discovered a more effective feedback form: the ballot. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/voters-midterm-elections-data-center-ballot-america?Opinionated.EU #techopinion #tech #opinion #datacenters

For a man who keeps talking about colonizing Mars, #ElonMusk seems remarkably surprised that you can’t permanently colonize a #state’s #politics. Spending hundreds of millions on campaigns didn’t come with a warranty, and moving #SpaceX again won’t change how #voting works. https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/11/elon-musk-moved-spacex-to-red-texas-now-its-blue-what-happens-next/?Opinionated.EU #techopinion #tech #opinion #texas #bluewave

Apparently 38 of 44 measures #restricting #datacenters passed because #voters were thinking about Trump, not the enormous data centers in their towns. Amazing how an industry selling pattern recognition suddenly becomes so bad at recognizing one when it’s inconvenient. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/11/big-tech-claims-voters-ai-backlash-is-anti-trump-not-anti-tech/?Opinionated.EU #techopinion #tech #opinion #bigtech

It’s almost impressive to lose 61% of your stock value while your founder is literally #president. Apparently even running the country isn’t enough to make a #socialnetwork profitable when its entire #businessmodel is one man shouting into a room full of people who already agree with him. https://futurism.com/future-society/truth-social-stock-crashes-maga-defeat?Opinionated.EU #techopinion #tech #opinion #trump #truthsocial

Imagine spending nearly half a billion #dollars trying to buy an #election, only to discover #voters still get a say. He moved to #Texas to escape #California politics and ended up facing the same thing he was running from: #accountability. That’s a remarkably expensive geography lesson. https://futurism.com/future-society/elon-musk-trouble-humiliating-defeat-midterms?Opinionated.EU #techopinion #tech #opinion #elonmusk #spacex #tesla

For an #industry obsessed with #riskmodels, betting everything on #Trump’s popularity was quite a choice. Especially while telling ordinary people to accept higher #powerbills and endless #datacenters. Turns out the electorate wasn’t as easy to disrupt as the CEOs hoped. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/tech-companies-danger-trump?Opinionated.EU #techopinion #tech #opinion #bigtech

#Meta spent years demonstrating what happens when you trust it with personal data. Now it wants your email, password vault and bank login too. Calling that an #AIassistant doesn’t make it less absurd. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/former-meta-exec-shreds-muse-ai-agent?Opinionated.EU #techopinion #tech #opinion #muse #aiagent

So the plan is to call #datacentees »compute campuses« and hope everyone forgets about the #electricitybills. I suppose »campus« sounds nicer than »#industrialfacility that wants your #water and #power.« Shame the utility company doesn’t accept branding exercises as payment. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/nov/03/datacentres-are-deeply-unpopular-so-the-geniuses-at-openai-are-rebranding-them?Opinionated.EU #techopinion #tech #opinion #OpenAI #datacentre #computecampus

#Google certified the #TVboxes, the manufacturer installed a #backdoor, and 1.3 million customers got an involuntary #sidehustle as residential proxies. Now the #botnet is disconnected, but the #malware remains and Play Protect is still disabled. Apparently »certified« just means the box passed inspection before it started #spying. https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/11/google-dismantles-botnet-secretly-running-on-1-3-million-android-tv-boxes/?Opinionated.EU #techopinion #tech #opinion

#Anthropic says Smart Reports shouldn't be used to evaluate #employees, then lets management attach names to their #Claude #sessions. Apparently #workplace #surveillance becomes ethical if you put a disclaimer on it. The real innovation here is outsourcing #micromanagement to the machine. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-claude-surveillance-ai-chats-reports?Opinionated.EU #techopinion #tech #opinion