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• Why don’t we leave the internet platforms we dislike?

  08-12-2023 14:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  The internet is filled with sites and services we loathe yet it seems, to paraphrase Brokeback Mountain, we just don’t know how to quit them. Consider the evidence: Facebook was widely reviled after its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, yet it still has over 3 billion monthly active users. Since Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter there has been huge public outcry about his actions and decisions, but the platform remains relevant. And, most recently, Bandcamp was bought by Songtr
  
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• EU declares aim to become ‘quantum valley’ of the world

  08-12-2023 12:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  Q-day (the day when quantum computers will successfully actually break the internet) may be some time away yet. However, that does not mean that companies — and states — shouldn’t hop on the qubit bandwagon now so as not to be left behind in the race for a technology that could potentially alter how we think about life, the Universe, and well… everything.  Spurred on by a discourse that more and more revolves around the concept of “digital sovereignty,”
  
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