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Europe Has Drafted Four Levels of "Sovereign". A Postcode Only Gets You Level 1.
The Cloud and AI Development Act proposes four assurance levels for cloud sovereignty. Keeping data on EU infrastructure is the floor, not the goal, and 90% of public sector workloads sit in the two levels European providers say should not carry the word at all.
GhostLock and the Case Against the Shared Kernel
A Linux kernel flaw that can turn an unprivileged local user into root shows why shared-kernel hosting and full virtualisation have very different security boundaries.
Two Config-Driven Outages, A Year Apart: CloudFront and 1.1.1.1
On 16 July an AWS CloudFront configuration failure broke VPC Origins for three and a half hours. Two days earlier, the first anniversary of Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 route withdrawal passed quietly. Neither was hardware. Both were the control plane.
314 MEPs Voted To Reject Chat Control. It Survived Anyway.
On 9 July a majority of MEPs voting rejected the reinstatement of voluntary message scanning, and fell 46 votes short of the absolute majority the procedure required. The amended text now sits with the Council, and voluntary CSAM scanning is on course to return until 2028.
Cloudflare Starts Charging AI Crawlers. What It Means If You Run Your Own Server.
On 1 July Cloudflare said Pay Per Crawl is becoming Pay Per Use, and that from 15 September ad-bearing pages will allow search crawlers by default while blocking training, agent and mixed-use ones. It is a significant moment for the economics of the web, and it only works if you are behind the right intermediary.
Everyone Blamed Cloudflare. It Was a Fibre Cut at Zayo.
On 22 June a fibre cut on Zayo's network in Eastern North America degraded X, Zoom, Google and Microsoft services at once. Cloudflare took the public blame and said plainly it wasn't theirs. The layer that actually failed is the one nobody diagrams.
Your "Redundant" Connectivity Probably Shares a Duct
Between 150 and 200 submarine cable faults are reported every year, and most cause no headline because spare capacity absorbed them. When it does not, whole regions drop. Path diversity is not an enterprise luxury.
Forrester Says You Cannot Fully Leave US Cloud in 2026. Here Is What You Can Do Instead.
Gartner finds 61% of Western European CIOs turning to local cloud, and Forrester says full migration is unrealistic this year. The gap between those two facts is where the practical work lives, and it is smaller than a migration.
Bots Are Now the Majority of Web Requests: Cloudflare Puts It at 57.5%
Cloudflare Radar data published on 3 June shows automated requests for web pages have passed human ones for the first time. If you run a server, you are already paying to serve robots.
European Sovereign Cloud IaaS Spending Is Up 83%, And "Sovereign" Is Doing a Lot of Work
Gartner puts global sovereign cloud IaaS at $80bn this year, with European spending up 83% year over year. Meanwhile CISPE is warning that a US company's EU sovereign region is still a US company. Both things are true.