An alliance of European firms launched a Microsoft 365 alternative on 9 June. Source, build pipeline and container registry all live on Microsoft.
Read more →Parliament made Qwant its default search. Qwant's index runs partly on Bing. Both facts matter. How to evaluate your own default-stack.
Read more →The EU's Cloud and AI Development Act will classify cloud providers by 2027. What your IT roadmap should already assume about CADA Tier 3.
Read more →Microsoft handed Dutch DSA enforcers' unredacted names to a US House subcommittee. No CLOUD Act order — and that is the part that should worry you most.
Read more →Wildberger told Politico BMDS will veto IT projects above 500,000 euros. Three thresholds your next federal project has to navigate.
Read more →Germany added 'digital sovereignty' as award criterion to §58 VgV on 1 July 2026. What you have to write into your next tender for the clause to do work.
Read more →Schwarz Digits launched ES³ as Europe's sovereignty test. The same company runs StackIT, the cloud that gets to take the test. What this means for procurement.
Read more →Within six days of the DINUM directive, the European tech press converged on a single frame. The convergence is fast. Some of what it leaves out is large.
Read more →France ordered every ministry to file a sovereignty exit plan by autumn. What you write into that file decides your ministry's IT trajectory for ten years.
Read more →Three forces are turning digital sovereignty from policy debate into IT planning reality: legal exposure, cost dependency, and procurement mandates.
Read more →Germany bans Microsoft Office formats across all government levels. Only ODF and PDF allowed from 2027. What this means for 5.4 million public employees.
Read more →Payments, cloud, identity, communications — every region on Earth is digitally dependent, but the dependencies differ. A survey by continent.
Read more →From Iran to Russia to the first US company on a supply chain risk list: how the US wields technology as leverage and what European businesses must know.
Read more →A French judge lands on a US sanctions list and loses all payment access in Europe. The infrastructure that failed him is what European businesses run on.
Read more →Anthropic weakens its AI safety commitments under government pressure. Why this shift concerns anyone relying on AI technology.
Read more →The Pentagon invokes a 1950 war-production law to compel access to AI technology. Why the Anthropic case concerns every US-based technology company.
Read more →Germany's Deutschland-Stack faces criticism from the Open Source Business Alliance for allowing proprietary software under a sovereignty label. What it means.
Read more →Open-source spreadsheet Grist joins France's sovereign Suite Numérique, reaching 20,000 monthly active users across 15 ministries and all prefectures.
Read more →A bug in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat let the AI summarise emails marked 'confidential' — bypassing Data Loss Prevention policies for weeks.
Read more →From 'Sign in with Google' to the EU Digital Identity Wallet: who authenticates 450 million EU citizens, and what the Dutch DigiD case reveals.
Read more →Digital independence is a risk strategy, not a religion. Where sovereignty becomes counterproductive — and a framework for what to control vs. rent.
Read more →openDesk, LaSuite, Tchap, Nextcloud: European governments are building open-source alternatives to Microsoft 365. Some are working. An honest assessment.
Read more →European cloud providers are cheaper, legally safer, and perfectly capable. So why do 70% of European workloads still run on US hyperscalers?
Read more →Mistral's rise, Aleph Alpha's pivot, DeepSeek's shock — and the question of who controls the AI models becoming critical infrastructure.
Read more →What RSS is, why it remains the best way to follow blogs without algorithms or tracking, and which RSS readers are available for every operating system.
Read more →Munich, Schleswig-Holstein, the French Gendarmerie, the Italian military: four approaches to public-sector digital sovereignty and their lessons.
Read more →From Merz's Munich speech to the Macron summit to the EU Parliament vote: Europe has recognised its tech dependency. Will words become action?
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