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Today’s Tech Spot Roundup
Mozilla says Microsoft is using Copilot and Edge to tighten its grip on Windows
In a recent statement, Mozilla argued that Microsoft’s design choices – particularly those that link the Windows experience tightly to Edge and Copilot – undermine genuine user control. When Microsoft embeds features that favor its own browser and AI tools, it removes opportunities for competing software to be used at…
Gmail encryption goes mobile, but email itself remains the weak link
A few months after introducing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to Gmail’s web platform, Google is doing the same to mobile apps. The company recently confirmed that Android and iOS users can now safely encrypt their email-based conversations, although they will still need to be part of an organization paying for the…
France starts moving government systems from Windows to Linux
Linuxiac reports that France’s Inter-ministerial Digital Directorate (DINUM) has revealed a roadmap for shifting the country’s government systems away from non-European software. This includes switching from Windows to Linux and adopting various European-developed apps.
xAI sues Colorado over AI law, calling it a threat to free speech
The company frames the dispute not as a question of safety or bias mitigation, but as a First Amendment issue over who controls the information that large-scale AI systems generate.
End of today’s Tech Spot roundup.
