U.S. customs searched a record number of electronic devices last year | CBC News United States customs officers conducted a record number of searches of electronic devices last year of people travelling to the U.S., and a recent update to its directives adds new devices such as sm...

Don't want your devices searched when traveling? Go to Canada, not the US.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
#Canada #US #privacy #electronics #electronicsearches #traveling

Wikipedia inks AI deals with Microsoft, Meta and Perplexity as it marks 25th birthday Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written by volunteers, is embracing artificial intelligence to mark its 25th anniversary.

Sounds like a great idea if it helps fund operations, right?
apnews.com/article/wiki...
#Wikipedia #funding #AI #LLM #Sustainability #Infrastructure #Operations #Chatbots

So cool! #Canada #space #aerospace #SpacePortNovaScotia #NovaScotia

beststartup.ca/spaceport-no...

This is why I'm not verified on LinkedIn.
thelocalstack.eu/posts/linked...
#privacy #LinkedIn #GDPR #EU #Europe
#surveillance #identity #persona #CloudAct #biometrics

Open source registries underfunded as security costs rise fosdem 2026: Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money

#OpenSource #fosdem #security #infosec #cybersecurity #malware #supplychain #sbom

Bell and SAP Canada agree to build sovereign cloud service The companies signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a Canadian-isolated cloud solution aimed at securing sensitive information

I don't see how this can provide actual sovereignty if SAP isn't a Canadian company. What am I missing?
#Sovereignty #SAP #Canada #gccloud #cloud #cloudcomputing #cloudact #tech

#Europe #EU #cloudact #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #Microsoft #USA #tech

Y Combinator reverses decision, will invest in Canadian-domiciled startups again | BetaKit Famed accelerator had removed Canada from its deal terms, spurring Canadian tech backlash.

#ycombinator #startups #startup #Canada #vc #investors

Classic yet alarming: the federal govt just posted in the Canada Gazette a proposal to fundamentally change drug regulation as we know it.

Here's the link to the Gazette: gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/202...

Aren't these measures a good thing?
#disinformation #misinformation #trump #eu #Europe #hate #freespeech #bigtech #socialmedia #dma #dsa #sanctions #fines

North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location A barely perceptible keystroke delay was the smoking gun that led to the uncovering of a malign imposter.

#Amazon #fraud #security #NorthKorea #infiltration #remotework

Australia's social media ban for under-16s takes effect in world first Australia banned under-16s from the likes of Facebook and TikTok on Wednesday, in a world-first move that will be closely monitored by other countries considering similar measures to offset the harms…

This is higher than I expected: "86% of Australians aged eight to 15 used social media"
www.france24.com/en/asia-paci...
#socialmedia #australia #ban #children #mentalhealth

Critical RSC Bugs in React and Next.js Allow Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Critical RSC flaws in React and Next.js enable unauthenticated remote code execution; users should update to patched versions now.

#nextjs #security #vulnerability #infosec #cve #react #cybersecurity #cve #rsc #js #Javascript

Could US sanctions suspend your work data? 🤔

Microsoft withdrew ICC prosecutor email access following US sanctions. Data on US hyperscalers is subject to US policy, not local law

This is a critical Digital Sovereignty challenge - youtu.be/K9tvhCF6xyA

#DigitalSovereignty

Tailscale, already one of Canada’s fastest growing tech companies, is gaining speed Tailscale has quickly become the VPN tech provider of choice for AI companies and vast cash reserves could help it grow even faster

I didn't realize that Tailscale is Canadian!
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... (non-paywalled version: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/0ac1a36...)
#canada #tech #startups #tailscale #vpn #wireguard

Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues Cloudflare's Status Page - Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues.

Cloudflare is down, so don't be surprised if a lot of your Internet services aren't working. (Many sites use them for caching, bot blocking, etc.) www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8g...
#cloudflare #outage #internet #global

International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software

www.euractiv.com/news/interna...
#OpenSource #Europe #Microsoft #tech #Sovereignty #ICC

The Reality of Open Source: More Puppies, Less Beer To vet open source software, evaluating the business model, funding and governance behind projects you depend on is essential for business continuity.

#OpenSource #licensing #Kubernetes #helm #businesscontinuity #criticalthinking

Introducing Docs in Proton Drive – Collaborative document editing that’s actually private | Proton Create docs and collaborate in real time on documents knowing they are end-to-end encrypted.

I'm surprised that nobody mentioned Proton Docs yet! proton.me/blog/docs-pr...

Canada’s FinTech industry enters new era as Bank of Canada taps first payment service providers | BetaKit Wealthsimple and Koho are among the Canadian FinTech firms tapped as registered payment service providers by the Bank of Canada this week.

The government is finally starting to support alternative banking. Ready to move away from the Big 5?
#Canada #fintech #banking #openbanking #challengerbanks #government

AWS Outage: Billions Lost, Multi-Cloud Is Wall Street’s Solution A cloud failure could cost Wall Street billions. A multi-cloud solution may be the only way to future-proof critical functions.

While I agree with the strategic pillars here, in this particular case, wasn't the problem specific to a particular data centre/region?

If customers had used multi-data-centre/ region availability for their AWS services, wouldn't that have avoided the issue?
#aws #redundancy #cloudcomputing #iaas

Would you use the new ChatGPT browser, or would you be worried about the privacy implications?
chatgpt.com/atlas/
#Ai #browsers #openai #privacy #chatgpt #macos

Europe's plan to ditch US tech giants is built on open source - and it's gaining steam One topic dominated the recent 2025 OpenInfra Summit Europe, and it wasn't AI.

Where is Canada in all this?
www.zdnet.com/article/euro...
#Europe #Sovereignty #Canada #OpenInfra #OpenSource #US #EU #GCDigital

Canada wants to detangle its data from U.S. tech giants. Can it be done? In the middle of a tense trade war, Canadian tech companies and policy-makers carve a path for data sovereignty

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/tec...
#canada #Sovereignty #cloudcomputing #gcdigital

OpenAI no longer forced to save deleted chats—but some users still affected Court ends controversial order forcing OpenAI to save deleted ChatGPT logs.

Still, I wouldn't share anything with chatbots that I wouldn't want public.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
#ai #chatbots #chatgpt #openai

Redis warns of critical flaw impacting thousands of instances The Redis security team has released patches for a maximum severity vulnerability that could allow attackers to gain remote code execution on thousands of vulnerable instances.

www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
#redis #vulnerability #cve #cloudsecurity

Exclusive: Bug in India's income tax portal exposed taxpayers’ sensitive data TechCrunch verified that the security bug in the Indian Income Tax Department's e-Filing portal exposed taxpayers' data to other users. The security researchers who found the flaw say the data leak…

techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/s...
#security #India #government #informationdisclosure #idol #taxes

Salesforce says it won’t pay extortion demand in 1 billion records breach Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters gave Salesforce until Friday to pay or else.

arstechnica.com/security/202...
#cybersecurity #infosec #extortion #ransomware #Salesforce

What's wrong with Vercel? I've never used them, so I'm curious.

NPM Supply-chain attack via maintainer account takeover
www.drupal.org/psa-2025-09-17
#npm #supplychainsecurity #psa #infosec #cybersecurity #worm #malware #js #Javascript #security #drupal