UK govt office admits ability to negotiate billions curbed by vendor lock-in(theregister.com)

29 points by LinuxBender 2 years ago | 8 comments

Danish department determined to dump Microsoft(theregister.com)

34 points by taubek 1 year ago | 3 comments

Dutch Parliament: Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options(theregister.com)

249 points by rippeltippel 1 year ago | 159 comments

US vendor accused of violating GDPR by reputation-scoring EU citizens(theregister.com)

185 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 129 comments

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Backs KDE with €1.3M(theregister.com)

75 points by Lihh27 5 months ago | 7 comments

Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private(theregister.com)

286 points by defrost 1 month ago | 210 comments

Apple takes UK to court over 'backdoor' order(theregister.com)

594 points by latexr 1 year ago | 223 comments

The Register news article reporting Apple has filed a complaint with the UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal challenging a government order to break iCloud encryption.

Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+(techcrunch.com)

396 points by zacharyozer 2 months ago | 244 comments

A news report that Stripe will reportedly acquire AI model gateway startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion; the captured page shows a Bloomberg bot-check captcha.

Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service(theregister.com)

924 points by Brajeshwar 10 months ago | 542 comments

The Register article reporting that the Zig Software Foundation is moving from GitHub to Codeberg, citing GitHub's decline under Microsoft's AI focus and an unaddressed Actions bug.

Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier(politico.eu)

530 points by vrganj 5 months ago | 209 comments

Politico Europe news article reporting that the Netherlands blocked a US company's takeover of a vital Dutch digital supplier.

European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple(waag.org)

650 points by donohoe 3 months ago | 279 comments

Waag Futurelab article arguing that European digital ID wallets depend on Google and Apple device attestation services, reinforcing Big Tech power.

Security.txt file now mandatory for Dutch government websites(netherlands.postsen.com)

321 points by pseudotrash 3 years ago | 139 comments

News aggregator article reporting that a security.txt file is now mandatory for Dutch government websites.