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#Microsoft faces growing unrest over role in #Israel’s war on #Gaza: ‘Close to a tipping point’ - theguardian.com/technology/202 "Turmoil spreads at company over Israel’s extensive use of its #AI and #cloudcomputing services in Gaza war" so keep pushing, people...

The Guardian · Microsoft faces growing unrest over role in Israel’s war on Gaza: ‘Close to a tipping point’By Timothy Pratt

I saw today that my CoCalc (cocalc.com/) license was about to renew. I've been meaning to move to a more #SelfHosting or #P2P paradigm, so this was good timing for me to cancel. I left this message when doing so:

"I want to support Sage, and I like using CoCalc, but I don't want to put money towards a service that supports Microsoft, Amazon, or OpenAI in any way. I didn't care so much about this before, and I even log in to CoCalc with a GitHub account, but I'm tired of having my work scraped for profit by people who donate to fascists who are destroying my nation. I would consider returning if all ties to these corporations were cut and cloud computing services came from responsible companies, perhaps in the EU."

I'm pretty sure I already have backups of everything I want from GitHub, so I can be done with them too. I should have quit when Microsoft first arrived. My plan is to switch to Radicle (radicle.xyz/) rather than another centralized service. I'll be sure to post about how that goes.

cocalc.comCollaborative Calculation and Data ScienceCoCalc landing pages and documentation
#Sage#math#SageMath

Proton Drive Update: Performance-Optimierung auf dem Mac
Die Schweizer Entwickler:innen von Proton Drive implementieren neue Funktionen und versprechen deutliche Geschwindigkeitsverbesserungen für Desktop-Systeme.

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apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/prot
#News #Services #ARMSupport #CloudStorage #CloudComputing #Datensynchronisation #EndezuEndeVerschlsselung #MacOS20 #OfflineModus #ProtonDrive #SchweizerDatenschutz #WindowsUpdate

"On March 18, politicians in the Netherlands House of Representatives passed eight motions asking the government to reduce reliance on US tech companies and move to European alternatives. Days before, more than 100 organizations signed an open letter to European officials calling for the continent to become “more technologically independent” and saying the status quo creates “security and reliability risks.”

Two European-based cloud service companies, Exoscale and Elastx, tell WIRED they have seen an uptick in potential customers looking to abandon US cloud providers over the last two weeks—with some already starting to make the jump. Multiple technology advisers say they are having widespread discussions about what it would take to uproot services, data, and systems.

“We have more demand from across Europe,” says Mathias Nöbauer, the CEO of Swiss-based hosting provider Exoscale, adding there has been an increase in new customers seeking to move away from cloud giants. “Some customers were very explicit,” Nöbauer says. “Especially customers from Denmark being very explicit that they want to move away from US hyperscalers because of the US administration and what they said about Greenland.”"

wired.com/story/trump-us-cloud

WIRED · Trump’s Aggression Sours Europe on US Cloud GiantsBy Matt Burgess
#USA#Trump#EU

Google Cloud stellt A4 VMs im Preview vor: Ausgestattet mit NVIDIA Blackwell B200 GPUs, bieten die neuen Systeme eine 2,25x höhere Rechenleistung und verbesserte HBM-Kapazitäten. Ideal für moderne KI-Workloads, inklusive Modelltraining und Inferenz. Integration in Google Kubernetes Engine & Vertex AI ermöglicht skalierbare KI-Projekte mit flexiblen Verbrauchsmodellen. #AI #CloudComputing #NVIDIA