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Donald Trump signed into law this month a measure that 👉 prohibits anyone based in China and "other adversarial countries" from accessing the Pentagon’s cloud computing systems.
The ban, which is tucked inside the $900 billion defense policy law,
was enacted in response to a ProPublica investigation this year that exposed how Microsoft used China-based engineers to service the
Defense Department’s computer systems for nearly a decade
— a practice that left s…

Trump Signs Defense Bill Prohibiting China-Based Engineers in Pentagon IT Work
The measure, which emerged in response to a ProPublica investigation, bars Microsoft engineers in China and other adversarial countries from servicing sensitive Pentagon cloud computing systems.

"Send It Away, or Put It On Display? How librarians and research computing staff can collaborate across language barriers"
#RDM

for those who can't be bothered with the bogus age limit thing, check it out at: https://skyview.social/?url=https:%2F/bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ragtjsm2j2vknwkz3zp4oxrd/post/3mbcvjmqdtk…

Sources: ByteDance plans to spend about $14B on Nvidia's AI chips in 2026, an increase of about 18% from 2025 (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3338191/bytedance-pour-u…

Exclusive | ByteDance to pour US$14 billion into Nvidia chips in 2026 as AI demand surges
Chinese unicorn’s computing needs have climbed across its portfolio of popular apps, cloud unit Volcano Engine and large language models.

I am mixed on this one...
On one hand I can see the risk of having Chinese people in China work on (which means "have access to", and often "have privileged access to") US DoD systems.
However, I don't see the other half of the issue - What do do about people who are not in China (perhaps in the US, even US citizens) who are, or have been induced, to use their access to promote the interests of a foreign power?
Given that under Cheato the US is dumbi…

Trump Signs Defense Bill Prohibiting China-Based Engineers in Pentagon IT Work
The measure, which emerged in response to a ProPublica investigation, bars Microsoft engineers in China and other adversarial countries from servicing sensitive Pentagon cloud computing systems.

Whoever thought it would be a good idea to rely on a handful of companies from a single country to maintain the UK’s digital infrastructure?
Well, the government for one.
https://www.computing.co.uk/feature/2026/why-cloud-first-has-…

Why cloud-first has meant sovereignty last – and how to fix it
Whoever thought it would be a good idea to rely on a handful of companies from a single country to maintain the UK’s digital infrastructure?

Laut #Handelsblatt setzen 82 % der Unternehmen auf kostenpflichtige Cloud-Services – oft aus reiner Bequemlichkeit. Die Abhängigkeit wächst, die Datensouveränität schrumpft. Man kauft Komfort, bezahlt aber mit Kontrolle. Cloud-first klingt smart – bis die Rechnung wirklich kommt.
#CloudComputing

»Souveränität in der Cloud:
Digitale Souveränität bedeutet für Unternehmen und Behörden Verfügungsgewalt über Daten, Kontrolle über Infrastruktur und Vorhersehbarkeit gegenüber rechtlichen Eingriffen.«
Kein neues Thema und mMn noch den wenigsten bewusst. Klar die Umstellung kann aufwändiger so wie teuerer sein und doch hatten sich die meisten aus Bequemlichkeit such nicht darum gekümmert.
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Souveränität in der Cloud
Digitale Souveränität bedeutet Verfügungsgewalt über Daten, Kontrolle über Infrastruktur und Vorhersehbarkeit gegenüber rechtlichen Eingriffen.

That‘s a lot of money for a company which looses money each time a customer uses their product …
#OpenAI Needs At Least $207 Billion By 2030 Just To Keep Losing Money, HSBC Estimates - Slashdot

Even as much of the internet is inaccessible right now, Metacurity appears unaffected. So check out today's issue for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--CISA says it will rebuild with more staff in 2026 to rectify cuts in 2025,
--Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service was hit with 15.7 Tbps DDoS attack,
--Russian telecom Protei was hacked and site defaced,
--Companies warn of inflexibility if UK bans ransom payments,
--A cr…

CISA says it will rebuild with more staff in 2026 to redress cuts in 2025
Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service was hit with 15.7 Tbps DDoS attack, Russian telecom Protei was hacked and site defaced, Companies warn of inflexibility if UK bans ransom payments, A crew of companies reject efforts to weaken encryption, 460k FTSE compromised credentials found, much more

Microsoft Q2 gaming revenue fell 9% YoY, including a 32% drop in Xbox hardware revenue and a 5% decline in Xbox content and services, which includes Game Pass (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/869493/microsoft-q2-…

Microsoft reports strong cloud earnings in Q2 as gaming declines
Microsoft’s More Personal Computing division was the only business unit to post a revenue decline this quarter.

The third path here -- beyond personal computers or renting them from the cloud -- is walkable mixed density co-op computing.
@paul-rony.bsky.social covers this in "From groups to individuals, micro-computing and us", @causalislands.com Berlin.
https://www.

To my mind the following article suggests that the present day "AI" approach is very wrong.
Why? Because biological RI (Real Intelligence) out performs CI (Computer Intelligence) by orders of magnitude on many dimensions: power required (perhaps 20 to 50 watts for the human brain), weight, size, cooling, and ability to innovate in new ways.
Our present digital computer approach to intelligence seems about as apt as trying to power passenger airplanes using onboard coal…

OpenAI Signs $38 Billion Cloud Computing Deal With Amazon
After signing agreements to use computing power from Nvidia, AMD and Oracle, OpenAI is partnering with the world’s largest cloud computing company.

SAP has listened to customers on cloud migration, but it could still be clearer on communicating the 'why', and it should use some apps as loss-leaders, says UK and Ireland SAP User Group chair Conor Riordan.
https://www.computing.co.uk/interview/2025

SAP should offer some apps for free, says user group head
SAP has listened to customers on cloud migration, but it could still be clearer on communicating the 'why', and it should use some apps as loss-leaders, says UK and Ireland SAP User Group chair Conor Riordan.

YouTube launches an option for US-based creators to receive payouts in PayPal's stablecoin, PYUSD (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/11/youtube-paypal-google-stablecoin-payouts-pyusd/

Exclusive: YouTube launches option for U.S. creators to receive stablecoin payouts through PayPal
Google, which owns YouTube, has already used PayPal’s stablecoin to receive payments from customers using its cloud computing service.

South Korea's KT Corp. launches a sovereign cloud for Korean enterprises built on Azure, with encrypted in-memory computing and strict local data governance (Jie Ye-eun/The Korea Herald)
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10614445

KT rolls out sovereign public cloud with Microsoft - The Korea Herald
KT Corp. on Wednesday announced the launch of its public cloud service, developed in partnership with Microsoft, in a strategic bid to bolster its foothold in K

#Kubernetes 1.35 Released with In-Place Pod Resize and AI-Optimized Scheduling
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/12/kubernetes-1-35/

»Akamai kauft WebAssembly-Spezialisten Fermyon:
Der Cloud- und Cybersecurity-Anbieter Akamai Technologies will mit der Akquisition des Serverless-Spezialisten Fermyon seine Edge-Computing-Strategie ausbauen. Im Fokus steht die WebAssembly-basierte Function-as-a-Service-Technologie.«
Schon länger ist WebAssembly (@…) im Aufwind, nun aber auch umf…

Akamai kauft WebAssembly-Spezialisten Fermyon
Akamai Technologies will mit der Akquisition des Serverless-Spezialisten Fermyon seine Edge-Computing-Strategie ausbauen.

One one side i'd rather have those large corporations spend their money in the economy instead of holding cash in the bank account of their billionnaire owners.
On the other hand, it's hard to think there is anything sustainable to the amount of money spent on AI right now.
Screenshot from Bloomberg this morning
#FAANG

Satya Nadella says Microsoft plans to spend $17.5B on AI and cloud computing in India over four years, its largest ever Asia investment, after meeting with Modi (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

YouTube launches an option for US-based creators to receive payouts in PayPal's stablecoin, PYUSD (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/11/youtube-paypal-google-stablecoin-payouts-pyusd/

Exclusive: YouTube launches option for U.S. creators to receive stablecoin payouts through PayPal
Google, which owns YouTube, has already used PayPal’s stablecoin to receive payments from customers using its cloud computing service.

Source: Google is in early talks to deepen its strategic investment in Anthropic that could value the AI company at more than $350B (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-deepen-investment-in-ai-anthropic-2025-11

Google is in early discussions to deepen its investment in Anthropic
Google is in early discussions to deepen its investment in Anthropic. The two companies announced a massive cloud computing deal in October.