"But there's one post-American system that's easy to imagine. The project to rip out all the cloud connected, backdoored, untrustworthy black boxes that power our institutions, our medical implants, our vehicles and our tractors; and replace it with collectively maintained, open, free, trustworthy, auditable code."
#CoryDoctorow, 2026
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition
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France will replace US’s Teams and Zoom for ‘sovereign control’.
France will replace the American platforms Microsoft Teams and Zoom with its own domestically developed video conferencing platform Visio, which will be used in all government departments by 2027, the country announced on Monday.
#France #DigitalSovereignty #Visio #Microsoft #Zoom #Teams #Gmail #Slack #Cloudcomputing #Tech #Europe
Vanavond vindt in de Tweede Kamer een rondetafelgesprek plaats over de voorgenomen overname van Solvinity door het Amerikaanse Kyndryl. Solvinity beheert kritieke IT voor onder meer DigiD en het Ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid, waaronder het OM. De zorgen over digitale autonomie zijn niet nieuw.
Al jaren waarschuwt BIT, samen met veel andere partijen uit de internetsector, voor de risico’s van afhankelijkheid van Amerikaanse hyperscalers. Recente ontwikkelingen laten zien dat deze waarschuwingen realiteit zijn geworden.
Lees via onderstaande link ons volledige blog met de mondelinge bijdrage van BIT aan het gesprek met Tweede Kamerleden, waarin we uiteenzetten dat Europese cloud- en IT-diensten al lang beschikbaar zijn, en welke keuzes nu nodig zijn.
France will replace US’s Teams and Zoom for ‘sovereign control’.
France will replace the American platforms Microsoft Teams and Zoom with its own domestically developed video conferencing platform Visio, which will be used in all government departments by 2027, the country announced on Monday.
#France #DigitalSovereignty #Visio #Microsoft #Zoom #Teams #Gmail #Slack #Cloudcomputing #Tech #Europe
Vanavond vindt in de Tweede Kamer een rondetafelgesprek plaats over de voorgenomen overname van Solvinity door het Amerikaanse Kyndryl. Solvinity beheert kritieke IT voor onder meer DigiD en het Ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid, waaronder het OM. De zorgen over digitale autonomie zijn niet nieuw.
Al jaren waarschuwt BIT, samen met veel andere partijen uit de internetsector, voor de risico’s van afhankelijkheid van Amerikaanse hyperscalers. Recente ontwikkelingen laten zien dat deze waarschuwingen realiteit zijn geworden.
Lees via onderstaande link ons volledige blog met de mondelinge bijdrage van BIT aan het gesprek met Tweede Kamerleden, waarin we uiteenzetten dat Europese cloud- en IT-diensten al lang beschikbaar zijn, en welke keuzes nu nodig zijn.
See the carbon impact of your cloud as you code
https://dashboard.infracost.io/
#HackerNews #carbonimpact #cloudcomputing #coding #sustainability #infracost
Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/opening-the-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/
#HackerNews #AWS #European #Sovereign #Cloud #CloudComputing #Sovereignty #TechNews #AWSInnovation #Europe
Architecture for Disposable Systems
https://tuananh.net/2026/01/15/architecture-for-disposable-systems/
#HackerNews #Architecture #Disposable #Systems #TechInnovation #CloudComputing #SystemDesign
So I have long suspected Big Tech to be "reactionary wolves in visionary sheep's clothing"...ever since Larry Ellison declared "the network is the computer" and my assessment was basically that he was trying to bring back pre-1975 mainframe and minicomputer timeshare systems to reestablish the Old Computing Hegemony, but I didn't really talk about that much because even mildly suggesting this in the late 1990s make me sound like a paranoid crank.
Anyways in 2026 you have to be completely deluded to think anything else. Big Tech has been on a decades long mission with #CloudComputing to kill personal computing and reestablish the old order of a small number of Big Tech companies having complete control of the world's IT, and the #GenAI grift is part of their efforts to ensure people remain captive users who can only afford to rent "dumb terminals" (ie. "Smart" phones and tablets) to access and use their information.
This is NOT inevitable and it is NOT normal and it is NOT progress.
So I have long suspected Big Tech to be "reactionary wolves in visionary sheep's clothing"...ever since Larry Ellison declared "the network is the computer" and my assessment was basically that he was trying to bring back pre-1975 mainframe and minicomputer timeshare systems to reestablish the Old Computing Hegemony, but I didn't really talk about that much because even mildly suggesting this in the late 1990s make me sound like a paranoid crank.
Anyways in 2026 you have to be completely deluded to think anything else. Big Tech has been on a decades long mission with #CloudComputing to kill personal computing and reestablish the old order of a small number of Big Tech companies having complete control of the world's IT, and the #GenAI grift is part of their efforts to ensure people remain captive users who can only afford to rent "dumb terminals" (ie. "Smart" phones and tablets) to access and use their information.
This is NOT inevitable and it is NOT normal and it is NOT progress.
The Data Center Boom Is Concentrated in the U.S.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-center-growth
#HackerNews #DataCenterBoom #USeconomy #TechGrowth #CloudComputing #Infrastructure
Is Northern Virginia Still the Least Reliable AWS Region?
https://statusgator.com/blog/aws-least-reliable-region-in-2025/
#HackerNews #NorthernVirginia #AWS #Reliability #CloudComputing #StatusGator #TechNews
Gutachten: US-Behörden haben weitreichenden Zugriff auf europäische Cloud-Daten
Eine Analyse für das Innenministerium beleuchtet die Reichweite US-amerikanischer Gesetze. Demnach sind auch in der EU gespeicherte Daten nicht sicher.
#CloudComputing #Datenschutz #DigitaleSouveränität #DSGVO #EU #Netzpolitik #news
Jahresrückblick der Störungen: Die größten Online-Ausfälle 2025
Ein Blick auf das Jahr 2025 zeigt, welche Online-Dienste die weitreichendsten Ausfälle in Europa verzeichneten – von Gaming-Plattformen bis zu Cloud-Anbietern.
#CloudComputing #Spiele #Internet #IT #SocialMedia #Technik #news
Virtualizing Nvidia HGX B200 GPUs with Open Source
https://www.ubicloud.com/blog/virtualizing-nvidia-hgx-b200-gpus-with-open-source
#HackerNews #Virtualization #Nvidia #GPUs #OpenSource #CloudComputing #Technology
heise+ | Kubernetes-Cluster von Ingress Nginx zu Traefik migrieren
Das Kubernetes-Projekt wickelt Ingress Nginx zum März ab. Administratoren müssen ihre Cluster jetzt zukunftsfähig machen. Wir zeigen den Wechsel zu Traefik.
#CloudComputing #CloudNativeComputing #Ingress #IT #Kubernetes #Netzwerke #news
