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Weekly Backlog Week 37/2026

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 07:57:34 +0000

🧠Editorial

100 billion dollars for an AI company. 18 million euros less for the IT of a capital city. Priorities are indeed a fascinating thing.

While Anthropic is preparing for a record-breaking IPO, the data leak in Berlin vividly demonstrates what happens when the expectations and reality of digital infrastructure diverge.

This raises questions that will likely occupy us for some time: Who actually owns our most sensitive data? How should AI be sensibly regulated? And how do we orchestrate its growing demand for computing power?

Weekly Backlog Week 36/2026

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 08:15:14 +0000

🧠Editorial:

Sometimes you only realize how dependent you are when something fails. Or is sold. Or suddenly someone else wants access to your data.

That’s exactly what this issue of my Weekly Backlog is about.

The USA wants access to European police data. Billions of images from Pokémon Go become training material for AI years later. An Exchange outage reminds companies how much of their communication relies on a single provider. And AWS acquires the company behind DuckDB – while the code remains Open Source.

Weekly Backlog Week 35/2026

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:21:42 +0000

📰 Tech News:

German Companies Fear Their US Dependency

German companies increasingly view their reliance on US technology as a risk. However, many do not take any action.

This is shown by a recent ifo survey reported by heise. 88 percent of the companies surveyed use digital products from the US. 31 percent consider their dependency to be significant. Particularly noteworthy: about one in five companies considers their own dependency risky but still does not plan any countermeasures.

Weekly Backlog Week 34/2026

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:41:57 +0000

🧠Editorial:

40 minutes. That’s apparently how long it took for a compromised access to turn into a supply chain attack affecting thousands of organizations. Meanwhile, in Europe, we’re still debating how much digital sovereignty is actually embedded in an infrastructure that can hardly function without US tech.

At first glance, these seem like two different stories. But they’re not. Ultimately, it’s about dependencies—on platforms, manufacturers, supply chains, and decisions made outside one’s own sphere of influence.

Weekly Backlog Week 33/2026

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:00:33 +0000

🧠Editorial:

This week in the Weekly Backlog: OpenAI prefers to wait for better market conditions, Bavaria continues to transfer millions to Microsoft despite open-source enthusiasm, and European companies suddenly discover their love for ‘America First’—as long as their factory happens to be in Tennessee.

Additionally: AI systems with surprisingly loose relationships to foreign networks, critical vulnerabilities at TP-Link, and the question of whether Europe’s digital sovereignty is more than just a pretty buzzword.

Weekly Backlog Week 31/2026

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:59:32 +0000

🧠 Editorial

This edition primarily focuses on digital sovereignty—from both a technical and political perspective.

I particularly recommend the guest article by Nish Sribavan, who explains why the real issue with the German government’s Microsoft expenses isn’t the cost, but the lack of exit capability. Also worth checking out is the LinkedIn Post of the Week by Klaus Wiedenmann, who shares his experiences with kDrive by Infomaniak as an alternative to OneDrive.

Weekly Backlog Week 30/2026

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 07:49:07 +0000

📰Tech-News:

The First Documented AI Agent Hack is Here

Hugging Face operates the world’s largest directory for open-source AI models. Millions of developers and companies use the platform daily.

The company has now disclosed an unusual security incident: For the first time, an attack has been documented that, according to Hugging Face, was entirely conducted by an autonomous AI agent system. The agent exploited vulnerabilities in data processing, gained access to internal systems, collected credentials, and independently navigated through multiple clusters.

Weekly Backlog Week 29/2026

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:04:27 +0000

🧠 Editorial

This week had it all: open databases, open GitHub repositories, open questions about data protection – and a surprisingly large number of organizations suddenly discovering that digital dependencies might not be such a good idea after all.

If you want to know why Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Swiss Army, and Max Schrems are all telling the same story, you’re in the right place.

Let’s get started.

📰Tech-News:

First Schleswig-Holstein, then Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

It’s nice to see that the next federal state is finally taking its task seriously and starting to use European alternatives to US hyperscalers.

Weekly Backlog Week 28/2026

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:58:44 +0000

🧠Editorial:

This week, it becomes clearer than ever that digital sovereignty is no longer an abstract debate. While a US Supreme Court ruling once again questions the stability of transatlantic data agreements and highlights European companies’ dependency on US clouds, concrete alternatives are emerging.

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is turning to Nextcloud and European AI, Ubuntu is strengthening ARM64 as an equal platform, and German research institutions are developing an open RISC-V security chip. The direction is clear: Europe is beginning to not only discuss technological dependencies but to reduce them step by step.

Weekly Backlog Week 27/2026

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:59:02 +0000

🧠 Editorial

This week is about much more than just Cloud and AI: The EU is targeting AWS and Azure, Palantir is once again sparking discussions, and the USA is making it clear that technological supremacy has long been a part of geopolitics. We also take a look at Open Source as a beacon of hope for Europe’s digital future and, as usual, gather exciting short news and recommendations.

Weekly Backlog Week 26/2026

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:21:38 +0000

🧠 Editorial

While outside the asphalt is slowly turning into lava, the tech industry is once again discussing the truly important questions: How sovereign is Europe’s cloud? Do we need our own hyperscalers? And why is everything getting more expensive – including computing power?

This issue certainly has enough material for the next coffee break. It covers cloud dependencies, German alternatives, rising prices, and the realization that “we’ll deal with it later” is rarely a reliable infrastructure strategy.

Weekly Backlog Week 25/2026

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:30:21 +0000

🧠 Editorial

This week, I repeatedly asked myself whether we in IT are actually solving problems or just swapping the names of the problems.

In the past, it was Vendor Lock-in, Shadow IT, and insecure plugins. Today, they are called AI assistants, digital sovereignty, and supply chain attacks. The result is astonishingly similar.

We look at a critical Copilot vulnerability, the major sovereignty debate surrounding Anthropic and US technology, Volkswagen’s European cloud plans, and a WordPress hack that shows why trust is sometimes the biggest vulnerability.

Weekly Backlog Week 24/2026

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:21:51 +0000

🧠 Editorial

The best time to think about digital sovereignty was ten years ago. The second best is after the next Microsoft audit.

Bavaria suddenly wants to become more independent from Microsoft.

Microsoft wants to know when you’re in the office.

Trump wants to get involved with OpenAI.

The wallet is coming - maybe?!

And all of Europe is discussing digital sovereignty, while half of the public administration probably couldn’t even make coffee without American cloud services.

Weekly Backlog Week 23/2026

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:04:29 +0000

🧠 Editorial

Welcome to the Weekly Backlog Week 23/2026.

This week had a remarkably clear theme: Control.

Control over data. Control over infrastructure. Control over standards. And the uncomfortable realization that while many organizations talk about digital sovereignty, they still view their key dependencies as inevitable.

Microsoft is under pressure over OOXML, the Netherlands is discussing data access by US authorities, Kubernetes is saying goodbye to one of its most well-known projects, and a new supply chain worm impressively shows that attackers are no longer targeting servers—but the processes behind them.

Weekly Backlog Week 22/2026

Tue, 26 May 2026 07:42:23 +0000

🧠 Editorial

This week, Europe’s tech debate feels like a reality check after ten years of cloud marketing.

While the Netherlands suddenly treats American access to state infrastructure as a security issue, SCHUFA seriously sells its AWS migration as “digital sovereignty.” Apparently, having “European” in the product name is enough for everyone to act as if the CLOUD Act was just a bad rumor.

Meanwhile, California realizes that Open Source doesn’t work like Big Tech. Kubernetes publicly declares that some security vulnerabilities will never fully disappear. And suddenly, it’s about something that has long been suppressed in IT: technical reality.

Weekly Backlog Week 21/2026

Mon, 18 May 2026 08:07:52 +0000

🧠 Editorial

I increasingly feel that Europe confuses digital sovereignty with infrastructure folklore.

US clouds suddenly become “sovereign” as soon as a German data center is set up and a Telekom logo is placed next to it — while the technology, platform control, and dependencies remain exactly the same.

That the Google/Telekom model apparently found no customers does not surprise me at all.

Because the crucial question is not where data resides. The crucial question is who controls the platform on which processes, automation, and business logic run.

Weekly Backlog Week 20/2026

Fri, 08 May 2026 06:25:15 +0000

🧠Editorial

Europe has been discussing digital sovereignty for about as long as companies have been “briefly testing” Kubernetes clusters in production.

Yet much of the current debate still feels like an infrastructure remake of “We have no alternative”.

This week makes that particularly clear.

The new lobby map reveals how deeply Big Tech is now embedded in political and economic networks. Anyone talking about Cloud , AI, or platform regulation in Berlin is almost inevitably speaking in an environment shaped by the very corporations whose power they aim to limit.

Weekly Backlog Week 19/2026

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:42:21 +0000

🧠Editorial

The Tech World is Writing Its Own Rules

The German Armed Forces reject Palantir because software is no longer just software. Microsoft begins embedding AI visibly into commit histories, quietly altering one of the most important conventions of open source. Europe is once again discussing digital taxes, despite being deeply entrenched in the very platforms it seeks to limit.

And while all this is happening, a Linux vulnerability quietly reveals how fragile many of our security assumptions have become beneath the surface.

Weekly Backlog Week 18/2026

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:35:00 +0000

🧠 Editorial

This issue can also be read as follows: Software is no longer just a tool – it is power infrastructure.

While Palantir openly articulates how states should function in the future, Germany debates how long IP addresses should be stored – consistently underestimating the technical reality. At the same time, attempts are made to bring order with the Germany-Stack, but they stumble over precisely the questions that are better left unasked.

Weekly Backlog Week 17/2026

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:00:31 +0000

🧠 Editorial

This week clearly shows where things are tipping:

We talk about digital sovereignty – and simultaneously realize how deeply we are still entangled in dependencies. Whether it’s messengers, cloud, or infrastructure: control is lacking exactly where it would be critical.

The Vercel hack, new governmental messengers, discussions about “sovereign” cloud, and Big Tech’s influence on EU regulations are not isolated incidents. It’s a pattern.

We have outsourced infrastructure – and with it, a piece of decision-making capability.

Weekly Backlog Week 16/2026

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:11:37 +0000

🧠 Editorial

This week, tech feels less like progress and more like a dose of reality.

The same pattern everywhere: Things that were “good enough” for a long time suddenly become real problems. Dependencies that were ignored become political. Security that was postponed becomes urgent. And tools that just worked reveal themselves as quite complex power factors.

France is trying to operationally free itself from precisely such dependencies. Kubernetes consciously takes away convenience to enforce more control. LinkedIn is under scrutiny, not just as a platform but potentially as a market observer. And AI? It simply elevates the whole security topic to a new level.

Weekly Backlog Week 15/2026

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:10:40 +0000

🧠Editorial

Europe is negotiating with the USA again over Big Tech regulation.

Not public, not officially decisive – but close enough to touch the processes that should actually be independent.

At the same time, we are trying to finally turn “digital sovereignty” into something measurable. With criteria, scores, and the hope that a political buzzword will eventually become a solid basis for decision-making.

The timing is… interesting.

Because while new spheres of influence are emerging politically, it is only becoming clear operationally how intangible all this has been so far. We discuss independence – and often don’t even have a clear answer to how dependent we actually are.

Weekly Backlog Week 14/2026

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:11:10 +0000

Editorial

This week feels like a reality check for multiple narratives at once.

AI is suddenly not just innovation, but a cost issue. Digital sovereignty is not just a strategy, but a contradiction within one’s own operations. And Open Source is not an ideology, but a question of convenience.

In short: The beautiful concepts meet operational reality.

🚨 The Tech News of the Week

The End of OpenAI?

OpenAI has shut down its video AI “Sora” without warning.

Weekly Backlog Week 13/2026

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:45:45 +0000

🧠 Editorial

This week feels a bit like an infrastructure reality check.

While Germany suddenly wants to build data centers on an industrial scale, Europe continues to debate what “sovereignty” actually means – and the USA casually shows us how quickly security standards can soften when dependencies become too large.

Spoiler: It’s all the same problem.

Just from three perspectives.

📰Tech-News:

German Government Plans Massive Expansion of Data Centers by 2030

Germany wants to massively expand data centers: AI capacities are to quadruple by 2030, and traditional infrastructure is to at least double.

Weekly Backlog Week 12/2026

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:55:30 +0000

Sovereign Washing, AI Investigations, and the Illusion of Control

🧠 Editorial

This week in the backlog: AWS delivers certificates instead of answers, Germany discusses AI investigations, and Europe once again realizes that it has everything—except consistency.

Additionally, perhaps the most important insight: Digital sovereignty rarely fails due to technology. Almost always due to decisions.

🚨 The Tech News of the Week

AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Certified Sovereign—or Sovereignly Certified?

AWS has given its European Sovereign Cloud a new coat of paint—not with new features, but with audit reports and certificates. SOC 2 Type 1, a C5-Type-1 attestation from BSI, and no less than seven ISO certifications are meant to show that they are serious about European sovereignty. According to AWS, 69 services are already available under this setup, operated by EU personnel, organizationally separated, and with data retention within the EU.

Weekly Backlog Week 11/2026

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:03:02 +0000

🧠 Editorial

Schleswig-Holstein. The real North. is kicking Microsoft out of administration. Nextcloud suddenly becomes a serious workplace tool in the c’t practical test. The Schwarz Group is building a European cloud with hyperscaler ambitions. Meanwhile, Europe is discussing developing its own social platforms.

The exciting part: The discussion is shifting.

For a long time, the sovereignty debate focused mainly on one question: Are there even alternatives to the big platforms?

Weekly Backlog Week 10/2026

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:49:27 +0000

🧠 Editorial: Cloud is political. Period.

This issue focuses on a topic often wrapped in technical jargon: digital sovereignty.

But this week has clearly shown that it’s not just a whitepaper term.

Microsoft opens a “Sovereignty” studio in Munich – yet remains a US corporation under US jurisdiction.
Two AWS data centers in the UAE are hit by drones – Availability Zones don’t protect against geopolitics.
The German government plans a central citizen app – the crucial question is: on what infrastructure?
Schools in Saxony-Anhalt demonstrate that Linux works in everyday life.
A hosting provider has been running its own servers in Germany for years – without hyperscalers in the background.

This is not a cultural battle of “USA vs. Europe.” It’s about control, legal jurisdictions, dependencies, and physical reality.

Weekly Backlog Week 09/2026

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:51:00 +0000

🧠 Editorial: The Week of Sovereignty Simulations

This week had it all: operating systems wanting to take screenshots of everything. Management platforms without clear architecture. Municipalities with their own sovereignty scores. Corporations swapping US cloud for US cloud—and calling it “independence.”

And in between, a European telco alliance quietly building exactly what others have been discussing in panels for years.

Digital sovereignty is a question of power. And it is decided not in PowerPoints, but in architecture diagrams, procurement policies, and pricing models.

Weekly Backlog Week 8/2026

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:20:33 +0000

🧠 Editorial

If you’ve noticed: The Weekly Backlog looks a bit different. Now even more personal, colorful, louder, and with much more recognition value. Content-wise, everything remains the same: Cloud, power, security, open source, politics. Just served fresher.

And that’s necessary.

Because this week had a guiding theme that runs through almost all the reports: Digital infrastructure is power. Not metaphorically. Not academically. But very concretely – economically, security-politically, geopolitically.

Weekly Backlog Week 7/2026

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:32:56 +0000

Editorial:

This week has shown one thing above all: Digital sovereignty is not a strategy paper, but everyday work.

Politically, there is much talk of unity—in Saarland, in the federal government, in Europe. Practically, people often stick to what is “proven.” At the same time, examples like Bavaria with Visavid or the Opendesk pilots show: Technically, the transition is already possible. It is rarely a lack of software, almost always a lack of consistency.

Weekly Backlog Week 6/2026

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 10:34:58 +0000

Regulation becomes code, Open Source becomes infrastructure, Sovereignty becomes… marketing?

🧠 Editorial

2026 is often marketed as a transition year. Transition to what remains mostly unclear. In practice, 2026 is more the year when excuses no longer work. Regulation no longer comes as a PDF but as a feature requirement. Security is no longer an IT issue but a boardroom matter. And digital sovereignty? Continues to be preached – while new dependencies are being cemented in parallel.

Weekly Backlog Week 5/2026

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 09:40:36 +0000

🧠 Editorial

This week marks a shift. Away from the question of whether digital dependencies are problematic, towards the question of how long Europe can afford them. Whether in Strasbourg, Bern, or Berlin: It is becoming clear everywhere that Cloud, software, and digital infrastructure are no longer neutral tools, but instruments of power. Those who control them set the rules. Those who use them live with the consequences.

The good news: The problem is no longer discussed solely on a technical level. The bad news: The consequences are greater than many have been willing to admit.

Weekly Backlog Week 4/2026

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:22:06 +0000

🧠 Editorial

This week feels like a reality check for everyone who thought digital sovereignty was just a grant program with a pretty cover. Cloud is power politics. Software is foreign policy. And dependency is not an operational accident, but a strategic decision. While hyperscalers rebrand ‘sovereignty,’ presidents threaten tariffs, and CEOs openly talk about killing, one thing is clear: Europe’s comfort zone is over. Welcome to the year when tech becomes definitively geopolitical.

Weekly Backlog Week 3/2026

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 08:57:54 +0000

🧠 Editorial

Digital sovereignty is often invoked as long as it remains abstract. As a target image. As a vision. As a strategy paper. However, as soon as it demands concrete decisions—different providers, different contracts, different responsibilities—it becomes uncomfortable. This week, it becomes very clear who truly means sovereignty and who merely manages it.

Studies, reports, and real projects paint a consistent picture: The dependencies are known, the alternatives exist, the knowledge is available. What is missing is consistency. And the willingness to trade short-term convenience for long-term control.

Weekly Backlog Week 2/2026

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 13:16:41 +0000

Editorial: Patching is not a Nice-to-have

Week 2 feels like a déjà vu on repeat. Critical security vulnerabilities, political dependencies, cloud lock-ins – all known, all documented, yet everything continues as before. While conferences on digital sovereignty are held, productive systems remain unpatched online. While reliance is placed on “proven platforms,” prices and dependencies rise. And while authorities often point to responsibility, it surprisingly often ends exactly at their own jurisdiction.

Weekly Backlog Week 53/2025

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 04:51:55 +0000

🧠 Editorial – New Year’s Eve with Residual Logfiles

December 31, 2025. While many tech year-in-reviews pretend everything was a feature release, these last days of the year deliver an uncomfortably clear message: We don’t have a knowledge problem. We have an execution problem.

Whether it’s the Chaos Communication Congress, domain chaos at the federal level, or the Germany Stack – analyses, warnings, and alternatives are laid out openly everywhere. Yet digital sovereignty remains a political footnote, an organizational pilot project, and technically often a fig leaf on proprietary platforms.

Weekly Backlog Week 52/2025

Wed, 24 Dec 2025 05:39:34 +0000

Editorial

Christmas Eve is traditionally the moment when you convince yourself that nothing critical will happen this year. The pagers are silent, the deployment windows are closed, and somewhere a “fix after the holidays” is hastily noted in a ticket.

2025 does not adhere to this convention. Instead of a year-end review, Week 52 delivers a condensed lesson on what it was all about: Trust in infrastructure, power over rules, and the question of who really controls systems.

Weekly Backlog Week 51/2025

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:30:17 +0000

Editorial

Anyone who still claims this week that security, resilience, or digital sovereignty are mere implementation details hasn’t been paying attention. Or didn’t want to. The topics in this issue have nothing to do with zero-days or “highly complex attacks.” They are about valid credentials, deliberate political decisions, and structural convenience.

The common thread: Control is delegated—to tools, providers, processes, or simply to “later.” And later is surprisingly often exactly when things go wrong.

Weekly Backlog Week 50/2025

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 10:26:57 +0000

🧠 Editorial

There are weeks when tech not only makes headlines but causes tectonic shifts. Open Source is losing crucial pillars, hyperscalers are making their dependencies truly expensive for the first time, critical infrastructure repeatedly shows cracks – and while Europe is waking up to security policy, Washington openly uses technology as a geopolitical leverage. In short: The coming years will be less about tools and more about power dynamics.

Weekly Backlog Week 49/2025

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 09:22:54 +0000

Editorial

Europe has been discussing digital sovereignty for over a decade. One might assume that the debate is now conducted at a certain altitude: sober, realistic, strategic. Yet instead of a vision, we are witnessing a poor reboot of old discussions.

This week exemplifies where we stand:

ZenDiS patiently reiterates what sovereignty actually means.
Switzerland draws very clear conclusions.
GitLab reminds admins that security teams cannot rest.
And in the EU Parliament, some prefer to discuss keyboards over infrastructure.

Europe is not too late – but time is running out.

Weekly Backlog Week 48/2025

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 08:56:57 +0000

Editorial

This week, Europe once again loudly proclaimed ‘Digital Sovereignty!’—only to often do the opposite in practice. Austria delivers, Germany holds conferences, Bavaria capitulates to Microsoft, and the EU tries to simplify regulation while opening new gray areas in critical spots. Meanwhile, a U.S. sanctions case shows how quickly a European judge can be digitally disempowered. None of this is coincidental. It reflects the state of a region that preaches sovereignty but still fails to make decisive choices. It’s high time to clear the fog.

Weekly Backlog Week 47/2025

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 10:42:34 +0000

Weekly Backlog #47 — Digital Sovereignty? I have a few questions…

Editorial

Welcome to a week where Europe once again demonstrates how to 1) sell rights, 2) neglect infrastructure, 3) dilute laws, and 4) still believe in being digitally sovereign. Meanwhile: Kubernetes abandons a central component of its ecosystem, the German government suddenly discovers billions in the sofa, and Cloudflare decides to briefly shut down the internet.

In short: A classic week.

Weekly Backlog Week 46/2025

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 09:28:22 +0000

Editorial

Digital sovereignty used to be a tech topic. In 2025, it’s power politics: Whoever controls GPUs, clouds, and networks controls value creation. This week: Pinocchio PR in the Valley, Bavaria hands out loyalty points at Microsoft, the Louvre time travels with Windows 2000, and Munich declares AI training not a legal vacuum. Europe, find a plan, not a label.

The Tech News of the Week

Sam Altman, the Pinocchio of Silicon Valley

“A lie keeps growing and growing, until it’s as plain as the nose on your face.” What Disney once taught children is now an apt description of Sam Altman’s communication style.

Weekly Backlog Week 45/2025

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 14:58:39 +0000

🗞 Weekly Backlog – Week 45/2025

Europe discovers that digital independence is not an ideal but a maintenance issue.

Editorial

This week, digital sovereignty took center stage in multiple arenas—from administration to research and justice. While Microsoft’s DNS issues knocked out half the infrastructure, the Federal Ministry for Digital Affairs celebrated its TYPO3 success as a symbol of state emancipation. The DFG is pulling data from US clouds, the International Criminal Court is replacing Microsoft with OpenDesk, and the industry is calling ‘Stop the clock’ to buy time on the AI Act.

Weekly Backlog Week 44/2025

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 11:03:00 +0000

Editorial

Germany, your servers. In the same week that a small community in Baden-Württemberg digitally collapses and the federal login system goes offline, Europe debates “digital sovereignty”—while Microsoft simultaneously learns who is actually in the office and who is just pretending to be.

One might say: Welcome to the paradoxical republic. Between security gaps and surveillance features, between fax machines and cloud monopolies. This week shows once again: Digitalization is not an IT project. It’s a question of power.

Weekly Backlog 43/2025

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 08:15:45 +0000

“When Tenders Time Out and AWS Gets the Hiccups”

Editorial

This week demonstrated how interconnected the modern world is—technically, economically, and politically. A DDoS attack on the federal procurement portal halted public tenders, an attack on F5 opened a window into the engine room of global network security, and AWS once again showed that “Multi-AZ” is not a backup plan.

Additionally: Saarland loses its digital flagship to Munich.

The Tech News of the Week

DDoS Cripples Federal Procurement Portal

For several days, the central federal procurement portal—the heart of public tenders—was inaccessible. The cause: a large-scale DDoS attack by the pro-Russian hacker group Noname057(16), which has been conducting coordinated overload attacks on European authorities, banks, and media for years.

Weekly Backlog Week 42/2025

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 14:31:04 +0000

Editorial

This week was a fever dream. From Localmind to Aleph Alpha, from SonicWall to GitHub – the same pattern everywhere: big promises, thin architecture, and a deep misunderstanding of what control really means. If we continue to believe that security is created through marketing, and if US companies continue to believe that trust is a subscription model - then 2025 will be a year of disenchantment.

The Tech News of the Week

Localmind – How to Squander Trust in European AI

Heise reports on an incident so absurd it could almost be satire: The Austrian company Localmind, which markets itself as a “secure AI platform,” exposed its entire infrastructure - not through an attack, but through incompetence.

Weekly Backlog 41/2025

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:59:28 +0000

Weekly Backlog Week 41/2025

Digital Identity, Sovereign Administrations, and the Unbreakable Inertia of German Digitalization

Editorial

This week acts as a magnifying glass on everything going wrong in German digital policy—and in a few places, offers some hope.

While Bonify (a Schufa subsidiary!) demonstrates with a data breach that even identity services struggle to protect their own data, others are eager to launch a digital wallet for all of Germany. Meanwhile, Discord grapples with a breach via external service providers—and Saarland shows that administration with open-source AI and European data management can indeed work.

Weekly Backlog Week 40/2025

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 07:16:31 +0000

Sovereignty vs. Market Logic

🧠 Editorial

This week, a common theme is hard to miss: “Sovereignty” is being invoked everywhere. In the cloud, in AI, in networks. But as soon as you look closer, everything crumbles. Sometimes the German “state AI” is dependent on Azure. Sometimes Nvidia pumps 100 billion into OpenAI to secure its monopoly position. And sometimes Brussels is drafting a Digital Networks Act that aims to reorder the basic rules of the net. Uncertainties between fair-share demands and net neutrality dangers.

Weekly Backlog Week 39/2025

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 10:41:40 +0000

Linux Vs Windows

🧠 Editorial

Astronauts use Linux because you can’t open Windows in space – and honestly, sometimes I wish our interior ministries would take the same logic to heart. But we’ll get to that in a moment.

🚨 The Tech News of the Week

Lower Saxony Stops Palantir – Finally Someone with Backbone

Lower Saxony’s Interior Minister Daniela Behrens did the only right thing: she gave Palantir a clear rejection. Her statement “The system is, of course, a good system, but it is not manageable” hits the nail on the head.