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More on Apple’s Trust-Eroding ‘F1 The Movie’ Wallet Ad by John Gruber. Like, what if you recently bought tickets to see another summer blockbuster movie? Using Apple Wallet? And then you got this ad? It’d be completely sensible to be spooked by that, and conclude that Apple Wallet is tracking you. Sending this ad is completely destructive to all the hard work other teams at Apple have done to make Apple Wallet actually private — and, more importantly, to get users to believe that it’s private. That Apple can be trusted in ways that other big tech companies cannot. (Another good example of what has become an widely held assumption: Personalizing advertising is something that untrustworthy companies do.)

China breaks more records with surge in solar and wind power by Amy Hawkins. Between January and May, China added 198 GW of solar and 46 GW of wind, enough to generate as much electricity as Indonesia or Turkey.

European Digital Sovereignty is an Industrial Project. Everyone Else Get Out of the Way. by Cristina Caffarra. And there’s only one possible direction of travel: build. Everything else is a distraction. Honestly, friends, this is not primarily about defending our democracy though sure, being less dependent helps. It’s not primarily about our European values though sure, privacy and freedom of speech are natural parts of our way of thinking. But I lose patience with this discourse (typically from civil society and think tanks) because what we need is single-minded focus on building, not piety and moralizing around this stuff. (The Eurostack is not a drop-in replacement for US-based Big Tech, but it doesn’t have to be. It just has to get to the point where the build (in Europe) risks are less than the buy (from a country that, any minute, you could be in a trade war or a data embargo with) risks. Another point in the Eurostack’s favor is that US-based incumbent vendors are steadily enshittifying and turning to crime, so by the time a Eurostack IT project finishes, the US-based alternative will be substantially worse than it was when the project began. (or maybe Google will go legit

I Fought in Ukraine and Here’s Why FPV Drones Kind of Suck by Jakub Jajcay. [T]he greatest obstacle to the successful use of these drones by far is the unreliability of the radio link between the operator and the drone. One of the reasons why hitting a target at ground level with precision is difficult is that when first-person view drones get close to the ground, due to obstacles, they start to lose their radio connection to the operator, often located up to 10 kilometers away. In some cases, drones cannot attack a target if it is simply on the wrong side of a tall building or hill because the building or hill blocks the line of sight between the drone and the operator. (Related: Generative AI’s crippling and widespread failure to induce robust models of the world by Gary Marcus, Ukraine’s Massive Drone Attack Was Powered by Open Source Software by Matthew Gault.)