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This has been a strange year. While we like to talk about how fast technology moves, internet time, and all that, in reality the last major new idea in software architecture was microservices, which dates to roughly 2015. Before that, cloud computing itself took off in roughly 2010 (AWS was founded in 2006); and Agile […]
EU seeks AI independence as Austria proposes luring Anthropic to Europe
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- June 29, 2026
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Austria’s State Secretary for Digitalization, Alexander Pröll, is calling on the European Commission to explore bringing Anthropic to Europe. He’s responding to the U.S. ban on advanced AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic for foreign users. The initiative is likely unrealistic, though. And the alternative floating in the background, Chinese AI models, would just trade […]
Google’s anti-search-scraping lawsuit dismissed
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- July 24, 2026
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A court has dismissed Google’s case against SerpApi over that company’s scraping of search results to train AI models. The US District Court for the Northern District of California found that there was no indication that any copyright had been breached. Google announced in December that it was suing SerpApI for its alleged web scraping, […]
After 20 years in NZ, I feel like a tourist when I go home to the UK
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- August 9, 2026
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What happens when home is two places, more than 20 hours apart. It begins at Heathrow’s baggage reclaim. Everyone stands right up against the belt, a wall of shoulders and trolleys, so nobody can actually see their bag until it’s already squeaked past and you have to lunge across two strangers to grab the handle. […]