Operating systems Against all odds, Apple has finally responded to a two-year-old Feedback Assistant ticket regarding the abysmal performance of the SMB protocol on Mac. According to the company, beta 2 of macOS 27 Golden Gate delivers a long-awaited fix for these chronic slowdowns and disconnections. This update is particularly crucial, as this latest release marks the definitive retirement of the AFP client, forcing all NAS users to fully transition to Microsoft’s protocol. It remains to be seen whether Apple’s promises hold up to real-world crash testing or if power users will still need to rely on makeshift configuration files.
Democracy Only a few years ago, a truck used to come down your street. You set the bin out the night before, and by morning it was empty. The service was delivered, paid for by the household waste collection tax, and written in black and white into the intercommunal budget. That truck is slowly fading from […]
Digital euro On June 23, 2026, by forty-three votes to fourteen with one abstention, the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs adopted its position on the digital euro. Its chair, French MEP Aurore Lalucq, hailed a “historic day” for the Union’s monetary sovereignty. The plenary vote will follow in early July, then comes the trilogue, […]
Artificial Intelligence Everyone now repeats that you should design loops instead of prompting your agents, and at its core that’s true: the loop is the real shift in AI. But these pitches consistently leave out two costs, the tokens that compound with every iteration and the heavier one, sovereignty, because the funnel always ends at a proprietary product to which you hand your keys, your data, and the power to act in your name. This article lays out plainly what a loop actually is, says when it’s a trap rather than a gain, and shows how to rebuild it entirely on your own, on your own infrastructure. Because the only question worth asking isn’t which product saves you the most time, but who owns the loop.
Digital sovereignty There is a humiliation so routine by now that we barely register it: failing, as humans, the very test meant to prove that we are human. We squint at a grid of traffic lights, hesitate over a sliver of crosswalk that spills into the next square, try again, and all the while the bots we […]
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This spring, a handsome poster made the rounds in Saint-Marcellin. It celebrated the municipal cemetery as a heritage site worth visiting, complete with a guided tour and a poetic theme devoted to the passions of the departed, all under the banner of the Printemps des cimetières, France’s national weekend of funerary-heritage discovery. The intention is […]
Artificial Intelligence On June 16, at its Compile conference, Cursor unveiled Origin, a Git forge designed no longer for humans but for the swarms of agents that push code around the clock. The press saw a GitHub competitor; the real story is the concentration that closes in when a single player brings together the compute, the model, the IDE, the forge, and your working data, a structural risk that would be identical with any other giant. Faced with this single point of control, self-hosting stops being a power user’s affectation and becomes a strategic position, provided you admit one thing: it will no longer be enough to store your repositories, you will have to run your own agent orchestrators or be sovereign but cripplingly slow. The real exit brick, then, is not just Git for the code, it is MCP for the agent, the pairing that lets an open editor restore the same power without handing everything to the dominant owner. My bet for the next three years: not a tipping point but a polarization, in which standardization remains our best way out.
Digital sovereignty There is a sound I have learned to hate. It is not the neighbor’s power drill on a Sunday morning, nor the shrill chime of an incoming email, nor even the synthetic voice of the GPS scolding me when I miss an exit on purpose. No. It is that soft little “bloop,” followed by a […]
Artificial Intelligence On June 12, SpaceX pulled off the largest IPO in history. Four days later it bought Cursor for $60 billion, then unveiled Origin, a Git forge built for agents. The press boiled it down to the purchase of an IDE and missed the point: one man is buying, layer by layer, the right to decide what counts as true, first in code, soon in knowledge itself. The real bottleneck is no longer producing code, it’s arbitrating what deserves to be merged, and for training agents that validation layer is worth more than all of GitHub’s public corpus combined. Yet there’s a crack in the narrative of inevitability: the keystone, Anthropic, is the one piece Musk cannot buy, even as he already supplies part of its oxygen. The real question is no longer to understand his plan, but to decide how much longer we keep renting him the future.
Hardware There is an irony here I find almost delicious, and it is the only delicious thing in this whole affair. The moment my phone becomes unreadable is precisely the one Apple has spent ten years selling me: bright sunlight. Bright sunlight, then. You pull out the device to read a map, frame a photo, glance […]