That’s right folks, 40% of PE deals between 2018 and 2022 were for software companies, the very same time venture capital fund returns got worse. Venture and private equity has piled into an industry it believed was taking off just as it started to slow down.

The AI bubble is just part of the wider collapse of the software industry’s growth cycle.

This is The Hater’s Guide To The SaaSpocalypse, or “Software As An Albatross.”

All of these entities are acting based on a misplaced belief that the world will cater to them, and that nothing will ever change. While there might be different levels of cynicism — people that know there’re subsidies but assume they’ll be fine once they arrive, or people like Sam Altman that are already rich and don’t give a shit — I think everybody in the AI industry has deluded themselves into believing they have the mandate of Heaven.

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Tracking how close reality is to Mike Judge's 2006 prophecy using the IDIOCRACY PROXIMITY INDEX

the French Gendarmarie have been using Linux on 10,000 desktops since 2008.

Frankreichs Verwaltung soll weg von Windows und US-Tools: Die Regierung legt einen konkreten Fahrplan für digitale Souveränität vor.

Am Institut für Information Security forschen derzeit rund 80 Personen in vier Forschungsbereichen, darunter IT-Sicherheit, Kryptografie, sichere Anwendungen, Systemdesigns und die Sicherheit von und durch künstliche Intelligenz (KI). Geleitet wird das Institut von Stefan Mangard: „Wir haben in diesem Gebäude acht Forschungsgruppen. Diese beschäftigen sich beispielsweise mit Kryptografie. Da geht es darum, Daten zu verschlüsseln. Dann gibt es auch Bereiche, wo es darum geht, sichere Systeme wie Handys oder Computer zu bauen.“

“Workslop” is a term that defines bad, “AI” generated work product that someone produces to fulfill their work duties on a surface level that their coworkers will have to clean up: I generate a bunch of code that kinda works and someone else realizes that it’s a hot mess when trying to run it and has to clean up the mess. In that example I would have produced workslop (but might have been very efficient!).

The experience of workslop (whether it’s real or mostly perceived as I showed in my short story) directly erodes social connection, erodes trust in one another and in the end erodes solidarity. Because why would you stand with a person who does not do their job and offloads their work on you?

A.I. is helping attackers in other ways. Some have used chatbots to draft phishing emails and ransom notes, cybersecurity experts said. Others have used A.I. to parse large quantities of stolen data and determine what information might be valuable. Without help from A.I., attackers could sometimes break into computer networks within minutes, Mr. deSouza said, but with the help of A.I., breaches can take just seconds.

Some hackers specialize in breaking into systems and then selling off their access to other attackers. Those handoffs used to take as much as eight hours, as hackers negotiated the sales and passed along the compromised entry points, Mr. deSouza said. Now that process has accelerated to about 20 seconds, he said, with hackers sometimes using A.I. agents to speed up the process.

The Tech Sovereignty Catalogue is a cornerstone initiative that maps Europe's digital capabilities across cloud, connectivity, cybersecurity, data, and AI. It connects innovative European companies with decision-makers, showcases market-ready sovereign solutions, and accelerates collaboration. Part of a coordinated effort to build Europe's sovereign technological stack, the Catalogue turns ambition into action—one trusted solution at a time.

The Document Foundation expelled over 30 LibreOffice core developers from membership this week—including seven of the project’s top 10 all-time committers. The ejected developers, all employed by Collabora Productivity, contribute approximately 80% of LibreOffice’s codebase. TDF cited vague “legal disputes” and conflict-of-interest bylaws but provided no specifics. Collabora responded by announcing plans to fork the project.

In der letzten Woche wurde bekannt, dass ein Konsortium (Nextcloud, Ionos und weitere) unter dem Namen Euro-Office das lettische ONLYOFFICE forkt. Darauf reagierte die ONLYOFFICE-Firma Ascensio System SIA am 30. März 2026 mit einem Blogpost, in dem Euro-Office ein Bruch der Lizenzbedingungen vorgeworfen wird. ONLYOFFICE steht unter der AGPL v3 Lizenz, die durch weitere Klauseln ergänzt wurde, was zulässig ist. Doch gerade um diese Zusätze dreht es sich bei den Streitigkeiten.

Beim zweiten Fall sind sich die Document Foundation (TDF) und das Unternehmen Collabora Productivity in die Haare geraten. Dabei geht es im Wesentlichen um meritokratisches Hierarchie-Geplänkel, wie es in FLOSS-Projekten häufig vorkommt:

Wer bezahlt, bestimmt.
Wer das Produkt baut, bestimmt.

A reactionary counterrevolution is being waged in the European Commission – the permanent bureaucracy that executes Europe's laws and regulations. Within the EC, an ascendant faction has announced plans for a "dialogue" with representatives from the Trump regime to let them direct the enforcement of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA), Europe's landmark 2024 anti-Big Tech regulations

The U.S. Congress Judiciary Committee is pushing technology companies to provide access to all communications with European Commission officials that relate to the enforcement of EU digital rules, in letters sent Monday.

The letters cite comments from a senior EU official first reported by POLITICO that communications included messages set to auto-delete.

In letters addressed to 10 companies including Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, TikTok and X, the chairman of the committee, Ohio Republican Jim Jordan, said that the companies are required “to preserve and produce relevant communications, including these auto-deleting messages, with foreign censors” under subpoenas issued in February.

Viele Menschen müssen derzeit ihre ID-Austria-Registrierung verlängern. Sie läuft nämlich nach fünf Jahren ab. Das machen sich Betrüger jetzt zunutze: Laut Landeskriminalamt sind betrügerische SMS im Umlauf, die zur Aktualisierung auffordern. Täter beschaffen sich darüber Zugriff zu Bankkonten. In zwei Fällen entstand ein Schaden im fünfstelligen Bereich.

Während die Digitalisierung im Digital Health Innovation Forum als Mittel für bessere Versorgung gefeiert wird, fehlt es in der Praxis oft an Daten und Mut.

Those Austrians who are concerned about their personal data they provide for the purpose of age verification leaking are overreacting. There is no reason to worry.

That's because a subsidiary of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (#ORF) already leaked every single Austrian's birthdate a few years ago, so your data is already out there. The Austrian data protection agency stated that that company "did everything right“, and there were no repercussions.

Persona beruft sich auf das EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF), den Nachfolger des Privacy Shield. Das DPF basiert allerdings auf der US-Executive Order 14086, einer präsidialen Anordnung, die jeder künftige Präsident per Federstrich ändern kann. Es handelt sich nicht um ein Gesetz. Die Datenschutzorganisation noyb hat das DPF bereits angefochten. Zudem wurden Anfang 2025 drei von fünf Mitgliedern des US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (der Aufsichtsbehörde für die DPF-Zusicherungen) abberufen, sodass das Gremium seit fast einem Jahr nicht mehr beschlussfähig war.

Der Europäische Datenschutzausschuss (EDPB) hat in seinem Überprüfungsbericht von November 2024 eine Neubewertung innerhalb von drei Jahren empfohlen. Das Europäische Parlament hatte bereits 2023 davor gewarnt, dass das DPF keine wesentliche Gleichwertigkeit herstelle.

Für europäische Nutzer bedeutet das: Der Schutzrahmen, unter dem ihre biometrischen Daten angeblich sicher sein sollen, steht auf fragilen Fundamenten.

Diese Person hatte keine Ahnung, was sie gebaut hatte oder welche Konsequenzen das haben könnte. Die Daten lagen nicht nur offen da: sie wurden auf einem US-Server ohne Auftragsverarbeitungsvertrag unverschlüsselt gespeichert, Sprachaufnahmen wurden an grosse US-amerikanische AI-Unternehmen gesendet, und ich wurde nie darüber informiert. So geht man nicht mit medizinischen Patientendaten um.

October 2025: Sam Altman flies to Seoul and signs simultaneous deals with Samsung and SK Hynix for 900,000 DRAM wafers per month. That's 40% of global supply. Neither company knew the other was signing a near-identical commitment at the same time.

Those deals were letters of intent. Non-binding. No RAM actually changed hands. But the market treated them as gospel. Contract DRAM prices jumped 171%. A 64GB DDR5 kit went from $190 to $700 in three months.

December 2025: Micron kills Crucial, its 29-year-old consumer memory brand, to reallocate every wafer to AI and enterprise customers. The company explicitly said it was exiting consumer memory to "improve supply and support for our larger, strategic customers in faster-growing segments." Translation: the AI demand signal was so loud that selling RAM to PC builders stopped making financial sense.

March 2026: Google publishes TurboQuant, a compression algorithm that reduces AI memory requirements by 6x with zero accuracy loss. Cloudflare's CEO called it "Google's DeepSeek." The entire thesis that AI would consume infinite memory forever just got a six-month expiration date on it.

Same month: OpenAI and Oracle cancel the Abilene Stargate expansion. The $500 billion data center vision that justified the RAM deals couldn't survive its own financing terms. Bloomberg attributed the collapse partly to OpenAI's "often-changing demand forecasting."

MU is now down ~33% from its post-earnings high. Revenue up 196% year over year, EPS up 682%, and the stock is in freefall because the company restructured its entire business around a demand signal that came from non-binding letters and is now being compressed out of existence by a research paper.

Micron bet the consumer division on Sam Altman's signature. The signature was worth exactly what the paper said: nothing binding.