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Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine
- sschueller 4mo agohttps://archive.ph/lXw7j https://archive.ph/lXw7j
- catlikesshrimp 4mo agoIf Cannot resolve archive.ph host Access the .is domain https://archive.is/lXw7j https://archive.is/lXw7j internet archive cannot resolve either
- tremon 4mo agoarchive.ph works fine for me. Resolves to 168.222.241.49 archive.ph 2a09:b280:fe00:5a:d197:eab6:9aa0:f22 archive.ph
- buildsjets 4mo agoFind a better network service provider, you are being censored by yours.
- cluckindan 4mo agoPlease don’t use these sites, they alter archived content and use visitor browsers as a ddos botnet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidan...
- themafia 4mo agoThen I'd have to ask of publishers please don't use subscription oriented paywalls. I'd be happy to pay for an article here and there. I do not want to understand your subscription model, compare benefits between "tiers" of subscriptions, or think about how to cancel when I eventually realize I'm not getting the value I hoped for. This is the price of that dark pattern. These sites wouldn't exist if they acted like publishers instead of retailers.
- reaperducer 4mo agoMost digital subscriptions to large news organizations are in the order of $5 - $10/month. If you can't afford 16¢ a day, then you have bigger problems. If you don't want to pay monthly because you find it inconvenient, well boo hoo. Just do without. The world, and its journalists, don't owe you anything. I find the exercise of buying a car to be tedious. That doesn't justify me just driving one off the lot without paying.
- eqvinox 4mo agoExcept it's not one subscription, it's a subscription to whatever today's post links to. It sums up. Same reason Netflix had massively reduced video piracy, and that piracy being back nowadays.
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- reaperducer 4mo agothey alter archived content and use visitor browsers as a ddos botnet. Interesting. I'm surprised I didn't notice it on HN. From Wikipedia: In January 2026, archive.today added code into its website in order to perform a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against a blog.[2] This code uses the computers of visitors of the site to repeatedly send requests to the blog, with the goal of overwhelming the blog's ability to handle legitimate traffic. The code is still present as of 5 June 2026, but has been modified to reduce the frequency of malicious calls. [3] On June 12, at least two users reported their requests were redirected to tehrantimes.com. Some common ad blockers, such as uBlock Origin, are currently stopping these malicious requests. It was later discovered that archive.today tampered with archived web pages.[4] It was also later discovered that this was not the first DDoS attack Archive.today has performed.
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- mistrial9 4mo ago> officials in Denmark and the Netherlands have similarly expressed a desire to uncouple from the US-based software group oh that is clever writing
- tokai 4mo agoI wonder which Danish official they are talking about. Lots of voices against it, but not from officials. The danish state is going full steam ahead. Just yesterday the Greenlandic police was integrated with Grotham from Palantir.
- griffoa 4mo ago[dead]
- grugagag 4mo agoIs that for real? After all the Trump wanting to take over Greenland stint? I I should not be surprised if Iran would integrate with Palantir as well.
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- petre 4mo agoMaybe being Danish they're cautious and want to test it on polar bears first, you know, before widespread adoption.
- holistio 4mo agoAnyone who has read The Lord of The Rings has exactly zero reasons to trust Palantir.
- DoktorDelta 4mo agoCrazy that there's a weapons company called Anduril as well
- nickff 4mo agoWhy? Naming a weapons company after Aragorn's sword makes sense. "The Daily Beast" on the other hand is a rather cynical name...
- aldebaran1 4mo agoAnduril as a 'tech' weapons company is ironic. In the books, it is Saruman, with his "mind of metal and gears" who is the scientist and engineer. The sword Anduril powerful not because of technology but because of the craftsmanship of its make and the valor of its wielder.
- psd1 4mo ago"Techne", I've read, had a meaning of "craft". It referred to ceramics and weaving before, say, the antikythera device. If attic greek had the word "technologist", then a sword maker would be one
- scns 4mo agoCreative people seem to be rather pacifistic. Warmongers seem less so, they have to "borrow" from the creative ones.
- goldenarm 4mo agoAnduril is quite a positive name, it is a broken sword reforged later to save humankind. Quite a metaphor about western reindustrialization.
- tremon 4mo ago> “We welcome that the Zurich Commercial Court confirmed our right to publish a counterstatement” Well that certainly is one way to spin having 22 of your 23 counterstatement requests dismissed by the court.
- saghm 4mo agoTheir right to publish multiple counterstatements is left unsettled by current law
- zzzeek 4mo ago> Palantir, whose software is widely used by US defence and intelligence agencies, has faced growing scrutiny in parts of Europe as governments reassess their dependence on American technology companies. I think it's great. Europe and other regions will be building out their own tech stacks, decreasing global dependence on big US players like AWS and Palantir, creating lots more jobs for programmers and much broader ecosystems for doing things.
- inigyou 4mo agoNo evidence for this. Europe talks a big game and consistently fails to deliver.
- snowpid 4mo agoMistral and stackit begs to differ
- throwaway27448 4mo agoI think you just demonstrated the point hah. I am rooting for the EU though, even if growing pains are inevitable.
- Yokohiii 4mo agoWait europe doesn't want to buy spy tech that spies on europe? Shocking.
- scottyah 4mo agoSome people in Europe don't want new sources of data coming in outside of their control.
- x3ro 4mo agoSadly german law enforcement is definitely on the Palantir train.. https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-expands-use-of-palantir-surveillance-software/a-73497117 https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-expands-use-of-palantir-...
- pandoro 4mo agoSwitzerland is not part of the European union (nor a member of the European Economic Area) but your point still stands
- abc123abc123 4mo agoOP did not say EU, he said europe. Switzerland is part of europe.
- pandoro 4mo agoYou're right that's my mistake, I misread OP's comment
- baobabKoodaa 4mo agoFine. Thiel will just fund a Hulk Hogan lawsuit against the Swiss magazine, then.
- timoth3y 4mo agoPalantir is clearly a mind-boggling on-the-nose, but terrible name to those familiar with the book. The Palantiri consistently provided their users technically accurate intelligence that lead to disastrous strategic decisions. Denethor committed suicide out of despair, after a palantir showed him the black fleet approaching, but he did not know that it was actually Aragorn who had captured the fleet and was coming with reinforcements. We don't know specifically how the palantir deceived Saruman, but it's pretty clear it was one of the key factors in his corruption and downfall. And even Sauron himself was misled in this way! The palantir showed him, correctly, that a hobbit and Aragorn were at Helm's Deep, and he concluded that Aragorn had the ring. So he prematurely moved his armies out of Mordor and left the plains and Mt Doom unguarded, which permitted the destruction of the ring. I honestly can't think of a worse name for a company that provides intel for strategic decision making.
- WhatIsDukkha 4mo agoSaruman was already rotted by lust for the ring when he began to use the Palantir and then came into the presence of a dominating and corrupting will. So yeah... plenty of real world versions of that.
- usrnm 4mo agoDo you have a citation for that? I read the books a long time ago, but I was sure that he was corrupted through the palantir
- AndrewKemendo 4mo agoAs though the ego of Peter Thiel has any grounding in reality or ironic metaphor
- antonvs 4mo agoI can think of a worse name: Peter Thiel. Oh wait I'm confused. That's a better name for this.
- BLKNSLVR 4mo agoI've pointed this out before, but there's an interview clip of Alex Karp saying that Trump won the election in a landslide[0]. If you look at the actual numbers, no one, with any idea of mathematics or statistics or even just basic analysis skills, would call Trump's election victory a landslide. It calls into question the fundamental raisin d'etre of Palantir. It makes Palantir look like a pure propaganda tool. Therefore, also entirely useless for strategic decision making. Interesting analysis of Palantir and Alex Karp: Part 1, Palantir: https://youtu.be/PpEg0XIeFtA https://youtu.be/PpEg0XIeFtA Part 2, Alex Karp: https://youtu.be/6YWFDhOps6I https://youtu.be/6YWFDhOps6I [0]https://youtu.be/6YWFDhOps6I&t=1119s https://youtu.be/6YWFDhOps6I&t=1119s
- mentalgear 4mo agoTo all investigative Journalists: Thank you for your hard work, and for being an inspiration and beacon of hope in these dark techno-feudalistic times.
- LightBug1 4mo agoGood point. Thank you.
- reaperducer 4mo agoThank you for your hard work, and for being an inspiration and beacon of hope in these dark techno-feudalistic times. The best way to thank them is to pay them for the work they do. Donate to a journalism collective. Subscribe to a newspaper or magazine. Some even have gift shops, so just buy some swag. (Do not send pizza, unsolicited food always goes straight into the trash.) "Information wants to be free [as in beer]" is great for t-shirts, but leads to societal downfall. Journalism is absolutely one of those things in life where you get what you pay for.
- dyauspitr 4mo agoGet this cancer out of Europe.
- grugagag 4mo agoWe don't want this cancer in the US or anywhere else in the world either. Maybe they belong on some libertarian floating islands or Mars or something.
- irsagent 4mo agoHere are the series of articles that the Swiss investigative magazine, Republik + WAV, published and Palantir looked to silence: https://www.republik.ch/dossier/die-republik-vs-palantir https://www.republik.ch/dossier/die-republik-vs-palantir
- ebbi 4mo ago"Protecting privacy and upholding liberal democratic values have been central to Palantir's identity and mission since our founding in 2003." - Palantir lol
- charlysl 4mo agoStreisand effect?
- REPLicated2 4mo agoAnecdote: When I was looking for a job in 2014, they were present at a student job fair in Zurich. Barely knowing that company, I started off the conversation with "hey, you are creating all these intelligence tools for governments, right?". The representative somehow started rambling incoherently about what wonderful work they do for NGOs and non-profits. Without acknowledging that their main customers are the intelligence community and law enforcement. Or telling me anything concrete their software is supposed to achieve. Color me not surprised. Needless to say, I applied for a supposedly much lower-paying job where I actually knew what the work was about.
- LightBug1 4mo agoExcellent. Although, while I enjoy watching them lose. I don't appreciate the waste of time.
- baden-1927 4mo agoOntological systemd-report: 130 mn series-B funding to floating data center startup. [1]: https://www.republik.ch/2026/06/13/palantir-gegen-die-republik-das-urteil https://www.republik.ch/2026/06/13/palantir-gegen-die-republ...