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IONOS advertises on theregister.com for itself, Dataport and the now discontinued dPhoenixSuite. Still a nice call for more digital sovereignty. IONOS writes in »Why digital sovereignty is key public sector transformation« for theregister.com If administrative IT infrastructure comes under the control of other countries or depends on opaque technology stacks, then sovereignty is nothing more than a facade. Only when both the infrastructure and IT operations remain fully under European control can public institutions guarantee genuine digital sovereignty. ...

Pedro Tavares writes in ‘Writing Code Was Never The Bottleneck’ for ordep.dev Tools like Claude can speed up initial implementation. Still, the result is often more code flowing through systems and more pressure on the people responsible for reviewing, integrating, and maintaining it. This becomes especially clear when: It’s unclear whether the author fully understands what they submitted. The generated code introduces unfamiliar patterns or breaks established conventions. Edge cases and unintended side effects aren’t obvious. We end up in a situation where code is easier to produce but harder to verify, which doesn’t necessarily make teams move faster overall. ...

Although Randy Bias’s article, titled “Avoiding a Geopolitical Open Source Apocalypse”, is a bit dated — it was published in October 2024 — it remains relevant. The piece appears on thenewstack.io and provides useful food for thought about cooperation between East and West for a shared, secure open-source ecosystem. Some think that open source software is generally more secure, but is it? Open source software mainly made in the West has well-documented security issues of its own, due in part to its heavy reliance on overworked and volunteer maintainers. Securing open source software requires time, energy and diligence. Unfortunately, many projects are very thinly resourced and lack the expertise required to look for security risks diligently. ...