Classic yet alarming: the federal govt just posted in the Canada Gazette a proposal to fundamentally change drug regulation as we know it. Here's the link to the Gazette: gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/202...

Aren't these measures a good thing? #disinformation #misinformation #trump #eu #Europe #hate #freespeech #bigtech #socialmedia #dma #dsa #sanctions #fines

#Amazon #fraud #security #NorthKorea #infiltration #remotework

This is higher than I expected: "86% of Australians aged eight to 15 used social media" www.france24.com/en/asia-paci... #socialmedia #australia #ban #children #mentalhealth

#nextjs #security #vulnerability #infosec #cve #react #cybersecurity #cve #rsc #js #Javascript

Could US sanctions suspend your work data? 🤔 Microsoft withdrew ICC prosecutor email access following US sanctions. Data on US hyperscalers is subject to US policy, not local law This is a critical Digital Sovereignty challenge - youtu.be/K9tvhCF6xyA #DigitalSovereignty

I didn't realize that Tailscale is Canadian! www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... (non-paywalled version: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/0ac1a36...) #canada #tech #startups #tailscale #vpn #wireguard

Cloudflare is down, so don't be surprised if a lot of your Internet services aren't working. (Many sites use them for caching, bot blocking, etc.) www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8g... #cloudflare #outage #internet #global

www.euractiv.com/news/interna... #OpenSource #Europe #Microsoft #tech #Sovereignty #ICC

#OpenSource #licensing #Kubernetes #helm #businesscontinuity #criticalthinking

The government is finally starting to support alternative banking. Ready to move away from the Big 5? #Canada #fintech #banking #openbanking #challengerbanks #government

While I agree with the strategic pillars here, in this particular case, wasn't the problem specific to a particular data centre/region? If customers had used multi-data-centre/ region availability for their AWS services, wouldn't that have avoided the issue? #aws #redundancy #cloudcomputing #iaas

Would you use the new ChatGPT browser, or would you be worried about the privacy implications? chatgpt.com/atlas/ #Ai #browsers #openai #privacy #chatgpt #macos

Where is Canada in all this? www.zdnet.com/article/euro... #Europe #Sovereignty #Canada #OpenInfra #OpenSource #US #EU #GCDigital

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/tec... #canada #Sovereignty #cloudcomputing #gcdigital

Still, I wouldn't share anything with chatbots that I wouldn't want public. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... #ai #chatbots #chatgpt #openai

www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit... #redis #vulnerability #cve #cloudsecurity

techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/s... #security #India #government #informationdisclosure #idol #taxes

arstechnica.com/security/202... #cybersecurity #infosec #extortion #ransomware #Salesforce

NPM Supply-chain attack via maintainer account takeover www.drupal.org/psa-2025-09-17 #npm #supplychainsecurity #psa #infosec #cybersecurity #worm #malware #js #Javascript #security #drupal

"My policy has always been to not do any serious open-source work without getting paid, which was essentially me telling requestors that they could either offer funding, or take over the module themselves." 💰 www.thedroptimes.com/interview/51... Pragmatic interview with @colan.pro 🗣️💼🔧

tailscale.com/blog/AI-endp... #mcp #ai #tailscale #llms #llm #ollama #infosec #cybersecurity #security #privacy #vpn

colan.pro/blog/compari... #Startups #Business #Finance #Operations #Security #Banking #Canada #Corporations #SMB #ForEx #ForeignExchange #FinTech #Accounting #Money #SaaS #Loop #Venn #EQBank @eqbankcanada.bsky.social @eqbankofficial.bsky.social @wealthsimple.bsky.social #Wealthsimple #Tangerine

Tech jobs were supposed to be the safe career route. What changed? www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... #technews #tech #techjobs #ai #computerscience #compsci

No, your devices aren't guaranteed to be waterproof www.theverge.com/news/762773/... #ip68 #phone #google #mobiletech #technews #warranty

Colan Schwartz @colan.pro‬ has spent 20+ years navigating open source—from Aegir and Pubkey Encrypt to Drubernetes and SaaS infra. In this TDT interview, he reflects on what worked, what didn’t, and what’s next. https://bit.ly/41axkd9 ##Drupal #OpenSource #DevOps #Kubernetes

Microsoft Admits: US Law Supersedes Canadian Sovereignty www.cyberincontext.ca/p/microsoft-... #Microsoft #us #USA #datasovereignty #canada #cloudact #uscloudact #France #EU #europe #dnd #caf #dataresidency

proton.me/blog/lumo-ai #lumo #Proton #zeroaccess #encryption #gdpr #europe #ai #chatbots #llms #opensource #compliance #technews #privacy

ethz.ch/en/news-and-... #llm #llms #opensource #ai #epfl #eth #multilingual #cscs #openlicense #transparency #alps

Tech leaders ready launch of Canadian social-media platform Gander to buck U.S. dominance #madeincanada #canada #socialmedia #datasovereignty #atprotocol #startup #startups #decentralized

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" futurism.com/commitment-j... #chatgpt #psychosis #psychology #ai #llm #llms #chatbots #mentalhealth #openai #delusions #psychiatry

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task www.media.mit.edu/publications... #chatgpt #llms #cognition #ai #llm #psychology #Brain #education #highered #research #Writing

From the If-it-sounds-American-it's-probably-Canadian department. #canada #tradewar #buylocal #byeamerica #byeamerican #tariffs #madeincanada

colan.pro/blog/droppin... #DevOps #OpenSource #Productivity #Drupal #Windows #DDEV #Docker @ddev.bsky.social

backupscale.com/posts/druber... #Drupal #Kubernetes #Terraform #Infrastructure #Automation #IaC #DevOps #CloudNative #Microservices #Networkpolicy #PaaS #SaaS #IaaS #Helm #OpenSource

arstechnica.com/security/202... #Apple #passkeys #authentication #infosec #cybersecurity #passwords #dataportability #fido #usability #ux

www.france24.com/en/live-news... #Microsoft #teams #Linux #opensource #Germany #datasovereignty #byeamerican #europe #softwarelicenses

www.theverge.com/news/686084/... #batteries #anker #powerbank #lithiumion #recall #fires

mashable.com/article/goog... #cloudcomputing #Google #Googlecloud #gcp #Cloudflare #down #internet #outage #servicedisruption

There already is a US-made mobile phone: puri.sm/products/lib... . It's more expensive though. Would you pay more? #mobilecommunications #tariffs #us #USA #Trump #manufacturing arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

IBM acquires HashiCorp for $6.4B, boosting hybrid cloud automation and... https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-02-27-ibm-completes-acquisition-of-hashicorp,-creates-comprehensive,-end-to-end-hybrid-cloud-platform #cloudcomputing #enterprisetechnology #mergers #infrastructureautomation #cybersecurity

What's a good (read less pricey) alternative to AWS S3 for storing my TrueNas backups offsite? I know there's the option of putting a backup NAS at a friend/family's place, but I'd rather pay than impose my backups on a friend's bandwidth. #selfhosted #backups #truenas

Is it just me, or is this a terrible argument? arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... #apple #walledgarden #anticompetitive #competition #appstore #payments #ecommerce

Until these tools learn how to properly trust sources, check them yourself, and ensure their trustworthiness before using them. arstechnica.com/security/202... #supplychainsecurity #supplychainattack #LLMs #factchecking #softwaresupplychain #ai #weboftrust #factchecking #digitalsignatures

Don't get locked into your cloud provider. All of the big ones have excessive fees for sending your data elsewhere. colan.pro/blog/hidden-... #CloudComputing #CloudCosts #DataManagement #CloudStrategy #ITBudget #egress #dataportability #bandwidthalliance @cloudflare.social #vendorlockin

www.microsoft.com/en-us/securi... #passkeys #authentication #passwordless #security #infosec #cybersecurity #microsoft

Coincidentally, I discussed some options in a recent article I wrote: colan.pro/blog/compari... arstechnica.com/information-... #datasovereignty #dataresidency #EU #europe #cloudcomputing #csp #cloud #k8s #Kubernetes #egress

If Google eventually does roll out end-to-end encryption, could it be a threat to services like @proton.me and @tutaprivacy.bsky.social ? www.theverge.com/news/640422/... #e2ee #secureemail #infosec #cybersecurity #email #securecommunications #google