Ars Technica — 28/01/2026

Apparently, it happens even to the best of us — even seasoned professionals with over 24 years of IT experience and a 'deep understanding of both the complexities and practical realities of infrastructure security!' Jokes aside, this incident is fascinating: it exposes elite-level lapses in AI tool governance despite regulatory warnings, underscoring the enduring risks to data sovereignty when sensitive information is fed into public AI chatbots.

Politico — 27/01/2026

The volatile start to 2026 has shaken the foundation of global digital trust. Digital sovereignty has always been a running theme in the background of European conversations around tech, but this year, it is likely to be front and center, as governments and businesses scramble to seek digital solutions that provide reliable data security and privacy protection for its citizens, clients, and users, regardless of the geopolitical drama of the week. Virkunnen’s specific calling out of chips is somewhat surprising, given how far away Europe is from chip autonomy, but developing more control over selected parts of the semiconductor value chain could be a feasible strategic move.

Rest of World — 21/01/2026

This article highlights a crucial reality: basic connectivity must exist before any digital transformation can take place. With only 38% of the population online, Africa's digital divide represents both a massive challenge and an opportunity. It is fascinating to observe the competition between space-based solutions (Starlink, Amazon Leo) and submarine cables (Meta's 2Africa, Google's Equiano). Notably absent: China. Given Beijing's substantial infrastructure investments across Africa, their absence from this connectivity race is worthy of monitoring for its potential geopolitical implications.

WIRED — 15/01/2026

Researchers at KU Leuven disclosed flaws in Google’s Fast Pair Bluetooth protocol that let attackers within Bluetooth range silently pair with seventeen different models of headphones or speakers made by ten different vendors, including Sony, Xiaomi, and even Google itself. This set of vulnerabilities enables cheap, practical hijacking, eavesdropping, and tracking of millions of earbuds and speakers—even of non-Android users, and exposes weak ownership/authentication, failed certification checks, and slow, uneven patching for IoT devices.

Schneier on Security — 09/01/2026

The inclusion of copyrighted materials in LLMs' training data has been a hot-button issue from the get-go. In the beginning, Big Tech's reassurances that their models' inner workings prevented such material to be stored, let alone accessible, were convincing enough. But new research is painting a different picture, landing the companies in hot legal waters. This article traces the history of related court cases in the U.S. and puts them into context of the latest research on the matter.