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Maximilian Henning schreibt in »Quartet of EU countries to cooperate on building sovereign digital infrastructure« für euractiv.com Today both France and Germany, along with the Netherlands and Italy, signed founding papers for a European Digital Infrastructure Consortium for Digital Commons – which they said will focus on publicly developed and publicly usable digital programmes. The signature alone is not enough. The consortium still needs to be established. ...

Matthew Prince writes in »Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!« for cloudflare.com That changes today, July 1, what we’re calling Content Independence Day. Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world’s leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for their content. That content is the fuel that powers AI engines, and so it’s only fair that content creators are compensated directly for it. ...

Pedro Tavares writes in ‘Writing Code Was Never The Bottleneck’ for ordep.dev Tools like Claude can speed up initial implementation. Still, the result is often more code flowing through systems and more pressure on the people responsible for reviewing, integrating, and maintaining it. This becomes especially clear when: It’s unclear whether the author fully understands what they submitted. The generated code introduces unfamiliar patterns or breaks established conventions. Edge cases and unintended side effects aren’t obvious. We end up in a situation where code is easier to produce but harder to verify, which doesn’t necessarily make teams move faster overall. ...

The European Commission wants to gradually shift its cloud services from Microsoft Azure to European providers like OVH Cloud to bolster its digital sovereignty. Details are in the article, unfortunately behind a paywall. Commission eyes ditching Microsoft Azure for France’s OVHcloud over digital sovereignty fears The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...

Sophie Gilbert’s book Girl on Girl vividly shows how 2000s pop culture shaped girls and young women — with sexualized advertising, reality TV, and an ideal of womanhood that confuses power with attractiveness. The New Yorker piece makes clear why this era still reverberates today. Smart, angry, and full of aha moments. Must-read: “[What Did the Pop Culture of the Two-Thousands Do to Millennial Women?](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/16/girl-on-girl-sophie-gilbert-book-review „What Did the Pop Culture of the Two-Thousands Do to Millennial Women?“)” by Dayna Tortorici. ...