Big Tech and the US Government are putting the EU under pressure to weaken its digital policies. I think that's an excellent reason to hold the line and for US states like California to consider similar regulations. #AI #regulations #tradewar

Microsoft's play on Digital Sovereignty is nothing but smoke and mirrors. The US Cloud Act can compel Microsoft to exfiltrate data at any point or install backdoors to facilitate such action. Only open-source guarantees freedom. #digitalsovereignty #opensource

While many Web Hosters are becoming big tech resellers, Ionos and Nextcloud just released an alternative to GSuite and M365. It's built entirely on open-source software and is even cheaper than most of its competitors. #opensource #office

Free Software Friday! LLMs come with their own specific set of cybersecurity risks. Garak can help you scan for these vulnerabilities and harden your models against prompt injection, data extraction, and other risks. #opensource #AI #freesoftwarefriday #cybersecurity

Moving Co-pilot's processing to local datacenters is nothing but an empty promise. First of all, verification is not possible with proprietary software. Second, Microsoft is still bound by the US Cloud Act and might have to exfiltrate the data #digitalsovereignty #opensource

Digital sovereignty and open-source adoption are global projects. For example, Kenia has just unveiled its new government office on open-source. #DigitalSovereignty #opensource

Everyone knows the answer to the valuation questions for Big AI companies. Yet, saying them out loud would immediately burst the bubble and thus the CEO's pay packages. #AI #bubble

Open source powers digital sovereignty worldwide! 🌍 Boost transparency, cut costs, and enhance security with open-source solutions. Discover why the ICC and others are making the switch. #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #TechForGood #Innovation #Cybersecurity

504 plans and IEPs are personalized learning plans that outline how teachers and schools support students with special needs. Yet, it seems that educators are using AI shortcuts to create the plans. #AI #education #specialneeds

Let's be real, the only problem Amazon has with perplexity shopping on Amazon on a user's behalf is that it isn't their browser, but one built by someone else. #AI #browser #amazon

Canada is building the illusion of a sovereign cloud. The US tech companies, and thus the US Cloud Act, continue to control the data of the Canadian Government and its citizens. #digitalsovereignty #cloud

Digital sovereignty means more than data center locations. It’s about true control over our digital lives. Open source & transparency empower us to own our data, avoid vendor lock-in, and shape a tech future aligned with our values. Control your data or risk losing it. #DigitalSovereignty

When I was at the prime gaming age, it was a technological challenge to get anything but the handful of open-source games to run on Linux. Now, SteamOS is nearing a 5% adoption rate, and the Windows 10 sunset might help it surpass that mark. #linux #gaming

It seems that OpenAI's approach to strategic partnerships is the same one it uses for generating revenue. Chaos and Backstabbing. What is the chance that this deal leads to the same pain as their partnership with Microsoft? #AI #openAI #businessstrategy

AI-powered attacks are evolving fast, but so should our defenses. Traditional training isn’t enough anymore. We need adaptive security training to beat sophisticated threats. Learn how to future-proof your team’s resilience. #Cybersecurity #AI #SecurityTraining

Halloween is over! Let's leave Zombie Accounts behind as well. www.korte.co/otuw #Cybersecurity #idm

Alphabet is raising money to make its own core product obsolete. So far, they have little to show for except making their search and marketing products worse and a collection of diverse nazi images. #AI #capital

The EU's new digital sovereignty scorecard will make it harder for US Companies to compete on the market. Let's hope that the US takes that as a hint to rethink its global espionage initiative. Yet, the chances are low. #digitalsovereignty #espionage

AI indeed risks us turning our world into a copy of Wall-E, where few of us think, and our planet is covered in layers of garbage. The only problem is that we are likely unable to build the giant spaceship. #AI #problems

Take one quick Action for Cybersecurity today: Review which cloud services own your data and control your life. #quickwin #cybersecurity #dataprivacy

In a clean room, it is impossible to distinguish AI-generated music from human compositions. Yet, in the real world, the feelings we associate with the music create significantly different reactions. #AI #music

Why are we trying to build humanoid robots? Most of us want something to iron and fold our laundry, not a bunch of avatars turning city centers into caricatures of the metaverse. #robots

Quest of the day: find a barely working app and make it worse by adding crypto and AI. The Winner: Elon Musk with X Chat

It's strange how many once-in-a-decade stock opportunities people have pitched me lately or written about online. Maybe I'm getting so old that I don't remember the decades that have passed in the last 7 days. #AI #stocks

It's strange how the convenience of things like our bookmarks or passwords keeps us tied to devices and software, even if we know we should have long abandoned them. Thankfully, there are open-source tools that can migrate you to better alternatives. #opensource #convenience

First AWS, then Azure. This week has truly shown the fragility of the centralized, hyper-connected cloud. It's especially fascinating, given that most of the old underlying tech was designed to survive a nuclear war. #outage #opensource #digitalsovereignty

It's fascinating that, a bit over a year ago, CrowdStrike brought down almost 9 million Windows computers due to shoddy engineering practices. Yet, today they are still trusted in AI and Cybersecurity. #cybersecurity #outage

For the Last 6 days, I've been trying a startup app that "uses AI to heal ailments through the power of focus and positive reinforcement." After trying it to fix my receding hairline, I'm now utterly convinced of the idea. They will be able to find enough idiots to pay $4.99/month for it. #AI

LLM Verification is nice, yet a bit pointless unless you know the training data. Right now, it's like guarding your drink from someone adding something, while not seeing what the bartender and dishwasher actually do. #LLM #verification

It certainly looks like Big Tech has a gambling problem. "Just one more GPU, and we will reach the big GenAI breakthrough!" Yet, none of these moonshots can answer how this breakthrough will actually help humanity (or at the very least win customers) #AI #gambling

You have to admire the confidence of the cybercriminals to release the HikvisionExploiter as open-source. They put their name on the line on the assumption that most users will never update their IoT cameras. Unfortunately, it is likely a safe bet. #cybersecurity #iot

Free Software Friday! Running a spooky Halloween party might require you to control your lights using professional tools. QLC+ is an open-source DMX controller software that can take your party lights to the next level. #opensource #dmx #freesoftwarefriday

Looks like the folks at Microsoft were upset about all the free press AWS was getting for their latest outage. Seriously, how bad is the change and configuration management in these cloud companies that a simple issue can escalate so widely? #azure #outage

Open-Office perfectly illustrates that beloved open source apps don't have to die as long as there is enough backing to keep the software going. The other two examples show that commercial open-source software can fail to build communities. #opensource

There is little doubt that Google wants to make alternative app stores less convenient on Android. After all, there is little reason to add the developer verification otherwise. Apart from the fee, of course. #android #opensource

The International Criminal Court is ending its dependency on Big Tech cloud solution by adopting the open-source solution OpenDesk. Univention is part of this process. It is a critical step to insulate international organizations from political pressure. #opensource

🎃 Ghosts aren't the only ones haunting your network... Zombie accounts, forgotten logins left behind by former users, can open doors for cybercriminals. www.korte.co/2025/10... #CyberSecurity #OpenSource #IAM #CyberAwareness #DigitalSovereignty

If you had asked me which agencies are at the forefront of US Cybersecurity efforts, the EPA would not have come to mind. Yet their resources and tools, while a bit old-school, are good. #cybersecurity

Austria's Federal Ministry of Economy, Energy, and Tourism has begun the process of kicking Microsoft out. It's an interesting case study because they go through a hybrid process, first migrating their internal processes. #nextcloud #digitalsovereignty

So far, AI has chiefly reshaped the businesses that build it. Everyone else is still wondering when the promised wonders are coming. Plus, Satya Nadella is required to be the biggest AI salesman; after all, he has to keep the stock price and his income up. #AI

I've read an interesting proposition this week: Holding AI companies legally responsible when users create deepfakes using AI. #AI #deepfake

The Python Foundation has rejected a $1.5m US government grant due to the idiotic, murky anti-DEI language in it. It seems nothing will stand in the way of the administration's war on woke. Neither cybersecurity, nor national security, nor common sense #opensource #grant #dei

If someone is looking for me, I have an essential work-related meeting. Don't look for me in the garage near the 3D printer, printing an open-source X-Wing Drone. #drone #xwing #opensource

Let's hope the biggest AI market correction comes in the job market. All these massive "AI" layoffs will leave many companies in the dust once they realize their AI initiatives are far less productive than hoped. #AI #layoffs

An employee at Jaguar Land Rover answered the phone August 31st. One conversation. £1.9B in damages, 5,000 organizations affected. This wasn't sophisticated malware—it was social engineering. AI voice cloning just weaponized this at scale... 🧵 davidnowak.me/when-your-vo...

A solid strategy makes the difference between throwing money at AI and reaping its benefits. www.korte.co/utm9 #AI #investments #strategy #board

Will AI outpace cybersecurity? It will be an interesting question. The biggest problem from my perspective is that personalized attacks become incredibly cheap. Yet, no automated solution will be able to defend against them. #AI #cybersecurity

Australia is suing Microsoft for hiding AI less subscriptions. Because, of course, they need to hide that you can get Microsoft 365 without Copilot. Otherwise, no one would buy into their pointless AI. #AI #business

The strange thing about Microsoft and OpenAI is how little strategic value Microsoft seems to extract from the partnership. Whether it is chatbots or browsers, efforts are duplicated and uncoordinated. Given the mountains of cash they handed over... #AI #business

Done right, AI frees us to focus on uniquely human strengths: leadership, creativity, and connection. AI shouldn't replace humanity. It should allow us to focus on the most valuable moments, which are still the human ones. #AI #humanity