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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60644394

Dutch informatics and intelligence expert Bert Hubert explains why European governments are urgently trying to get away from the American clouds and how they do it fastest. The article is in German. Here are few excerpts translated by me using Firefox Translation.

What is happening in the EU, is that the politicians are finally waking up. They should have done this five years ago.

The Dutch Cybersecurity Center NCSC has conducted an in-depth investigation of Microsoft. In an official evaluation, it has recorded mutatis mutandis: "The USA can at any time access the European data storage. But we don't think they will do that." Of course, that has always been pure wishful thinking. [...] It remains subject to American surveillance laws.

The data transfer agreement will be cancelled soon. Either the EU Commission is pulling back the adequacy decision, which presupposes that the US is a country with an adequate level of data protection [...] or the European Court of Justice will declare it invalid.

The whole of Europe should be alarmed. We have become a digital colony of Google, Amazon and Microsoft. [...] Our officials are putting European security and independence at risk just so that they can continue to use Microsoft Outlook! That sounds idiotic, but that's how I experience administrations.

We must finally redeem the many European open source programmers. [...] At some point we stopped believing that we can write good software. Now Europe only offers SAP software as an export hit, that's it. But if we invest billions somewhere, it's in European software development.

cross-posted from: https://metawire.eu/post/5871

The UK hopes to limit the impact of President Trump's tariffs in an economic agreement with the US.

Publish Date: 07.04.2025, 17:24

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/31748423

cross-posted from: https://metawire.eu/post/6086

Das Innenministerium hat auf Recherchen der ZDF-Sendung "Terra X History" reagiert. Die Hinweise nehme man "sehr ernst", hieß es. Sicherheitskreise äußerten sich skeptisch.

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 07.04.2025, 18:13 Kategorien: Recherche zu Russland-Bezug

cross-posted from: https://metawire.eu/post/6106

Seit Januar sitzt der Signa-Gründer René Benko in Untersuchungshaft. Ein Gericht sieht weiterhin Tatbegehungsgefahr. Die Ermittlungen im Zusammenhang mit der Insolvenz sind noch nicht abgeschlossen.

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 07.04.2025, 18:36

cross-posted from: https://metawire.eu/post/6106

Seit Januar sitzt der Signa-Gründer René Benko in Untersuchungshaft. Ein Gericht sieht weiterhin Tatbegehungsgefahr. Die Ermittlungen im Zusammenhang mit der Insolvenz sind noch nicht abgeschlossen.

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 07.04.2025, 18:36

cross-posted from: https://metawire.eu/post/5791

Whether you’re navigating bureaucracy, fixing a leaky tap, or giving directions in Vienna, sich auskennen is the perfect way to say you know what you’re doing.

Publish Date: 07.04.2025, 16:42

cross-posted from: https://metawire.eu/post/5625

Die US-Zölle sorgen weltweit für Verwerfungen. Nun erklärt EU-Kommissionspräsidentin von der Leyen, sie habe Trump mehrfach die Aufhebung von Zöllen auf Industriegüter angeboten. Eine »angemessene Reaktion« blieb demnach aus.

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 07.04.2025, 15:28 Kategorien: Wirtschaft

cross-posted from: https://metawire.eu/post/5961

Deutsche Sicherheitsbehörden gehen derzeit Hinweisen nach, wonach Personen in Russland vorab über geplante Anschläge Bescheid wussten oder diese gar gezielt gesteuert haben könnten

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 07.04.2025, 17:32

cross-posted from: https://metawire.eu/post/5948

Since January 2024, Wikimedia has seen a 50 percent increase in Wikipedia’s bandwidth usage. However, this enormous increase is not due to human users suddenly reading Wikipedia articles or watching videos but to AI crawlers that automatically scrape content to train AI models. This creates new challenges for the foundation. The sudden increase in traffic […]

Creator: Coen van Eenbergen Publish Date: 07.04.2025, 17:28 Categories: Infrastructure, AI, AI crawlers, Artificial Intelligence, bandwidth, content scraping, Wikimedia, Wikipedia