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• 18.20.2025 - David Uzondu: Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch ever" (neowin.com)
  Windows 10 died a few days ago, leaving users with three options: stick with the OS, upgrade to Windows 11, or switch to an entirely different platform like macOS or GNU/Linux. But months before Microsoft dropped support for the OS, Linux-focused companies were already campaigning to poach Microsoft customers and convert them into Linux users.

• 14.10.2025 - Bobby Borisov: The Only Thing Stopping You from Switching to Linux Is Your Mindset (æinuxiac.com)
  Switching to Linux is less about technical hurdles and more about adjusting your mindset. Here's why.

• 10.10.2025 - Austria finds Microsoft 'illegally' tracked students: privacy campaign group (france24.com)
  Austria's data protection authority has determined that Microsoft "illegally" tracked students using its education software and must grant them access to their data, a privacy campaign group said Friday.

• 30.09.2025 - Kommuner mangler alternative strategier til Big Tech-løsninger (hk.dk)
  Kun seks kommuner arbejder konkret på en exitplan for, hvordan man vil frigøre sig fra de store amerikanske it-løsninger.

• 28.09.2025 - Tim Berners-Lee: Why I gave the world wide web away for free (theguardian.com)
  My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for

• 26.09.2025 - Just using open source software isn't radical any more. Europe needs to dig deeper (theregister.com)
  Companies must realize they can be more than pure consumers, and public sector ought to go beyond 'promotion'

• 18.09.2025 - Gyana Swain: OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws (computerworld.com)
  In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits.

• 16.09.2025 - Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates (theregister.com)
  Nothing says ‘circular economy’ like Microsoft stranding 400 million PCs on International E-waste Day

• 16.06.2025 - ANALYSE: Derfor holder Hummelgaards udsagn om kryptering ikke (dr.dk)
  Justitsminister Peter Hummelgaard (S) hævder, at man kan lave undtagelser i kryptering, og at Apple og Meta kan, men nægter at hjælpe med at fjerne overgrebsmateriale med børn. Begge udsagn modsiges af både eksperter og virksomhederne selv – og rejser spørgsmål om, hvorvidt regeringen forstår det, den vil lovgive om.

• 15.09.2025 - IT-Politisk Forening: Hummelgaards udsagn om chatkontrols muligheder kan være stærkt vildledende (altinget.dk)
  Peter Hummelgaard kalder kritikken af chatkontrol for myter og misforståelser – men debatten handler om vidtgående påbud, mulig permanent scanning og farvel til sikker kommunikation, skriver [formand for IT-Politisk Forening] Jesper Lund.

• 14.09.2025 - Signal president Meredith Whittaker: ‘In technology, it’s way too easy for marketing to replace substance. That’s what’s happened with Telegram’ (elpais.com)
  The app best known for respecting privacy looks to grow, despite anti-privacy efforts.

• 12.09.2025 - Hummelgaard vil åbne en bagdør til vores telefoner – og vil ikke sige, hvor grænsen går (dr.dk)
  CSA-forordningen, der vil give myndighederne adgang til alle europæeres telefoner, bliver af kritikere kaldt "chatkontrol".

• 18.08.2025 - MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing (fortune.com)
  Companies are betting on AI—yet nearly all enterprise pilots are stuck at the starting line. The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025, a new report published by MIT’s NANDA initiative, reveals that while generative AI holds promise for enterprises, most initiatives to drive rapid revenue growth are falling flat.

• 14.08.2025 - Wired - Palantir: The Most Mysterious Company in Silicon Valley (radioprogram, Wired - play.prx.org)
  Palantir Technologies is arguably one of the most notorious American corporations. Cofounded by tech billionaire Peter Thiel, the company has worked with ICE, the US Department of Defense, the Israeli military and sparked numerous protests in multiple countries. But what do they actually do?
  Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it.

• 07.08.2025 - Anders Kjærulff: Mens vi taler ‘alderkontrol’ er EU i gang med totalovervågning af alle dine beskeder – igen! (mingarage.net)
  Herhjemme er debatten om alderskontrol ifht. børn og porno i fuld gang – jeg har selv deltaget en del steder – og skrevet en meget lang artikel om emmet. Men i virkeligheden foregår der noget endnu mere mørkt lige bag ved denne debat – nemlig CHATKONTROL. Chatkontrol er EU-kommisionens stædige forsøg på at komme ind og ‘scanne’ alle vores beskeder før de bliver krypterede

• 04.08.2025 - Henrik Kramselund: Vi vil have åbne standarder og fleksibilitet, kald det bare fri konkurrence hvis du er kapitalist (linkedin.com)
  Der sker løbende et skred mod lukkede systemer, walled gardens, låste løsninger - og det er ikke kun fordi det offentlige uden omtanke låser os fast til eksempelvis bigtech. Se eksempelvis MitID og andre apps der kræver Google Play på Android telefoner, og derved holder andre mere åbne Android varianter udenfor. Der snakkes om at der kun laves løsninger til det mest populære, udbredte eller lignende. Der tales om sikkerhed, og det bruges som jernhandske til at banke kritikere på plads. Det er jo nemt at lave en kravspec som sætter et krav som kun kan opfyldes ved brug af eksempelvis Google Play. Jeg vil varmt anbefale at læse de mange opslag omkring disse emner, specielt nu hvor Caroline Stage Olsen vil samle alting i en ny app, som omtrent er verdens dårligste ide.

• 01.08.2025 - Tested: Microsoft Recall can still capture credit cards and passwords, a treasure trove for crooks (theregister.com)
  Microsoft Recall, the AI app that takes screenshots of what you do on your PC so you can search for it later, has a filter that's supposed to prevent it from screenshotting sensitive info like credit card numbers. But a The Register test shows that it still fails in many cases, creating a potential treasure trove for thieves.

• 26.07.2025 - Steven Asarch: Trump is the first AI slop president. That's not good for democracy (msnbc.com)
  The White House has become a superspreader of AI-generated videos.

• 25.07.2025 - EFF: Zero Knowledge Proofs Alone Are Not a Digital ID Solution to Protecting User Privacy eff.org)
  The digital ID systems currently being introduced potentially solve some problems like identity fraud for business and government services, but leave the holder of the digital ID vulnerable to the needs of the companies collecting such information. State and federal embrace of digital ID is based on claims of faster access, fraud prevention, and convenience. But with digital ID being proposed as a means of online verification, it is just as likely to block claims of public assistance and other services as facilitate them. That’s why legal protections are as important as the digital IDs themselves. To add to this, in places that lack comprehensive data privacy legislation, verifiers are not heavily restricted in what they can and can’t ask the holder. In response, some privacy mechanisms have been suggested and few have been made mandatory, such as the promise that a feature called Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) will easily solve the privacy aspects of sharing ID attributes.

• 25.07.2025 - David Gerard: 16% of employees pretend to use AI at work to please their boss (pivot-to-ai.com)
  Tech recruiters Howdy surveyed 1,047 full-time professionals who say they use AI. 30% of survey subjects said they were managers. 75% of subjects were expected to use AI at work. 22% felt pressured to use AI when it was not appropriate. So 16% of subjects just say they used the AI when they didn’t! People feel they would be putting their job at risk if they pushed back on AI directives.

• 24.07.2025 - Bert Hubert: Europe's Self Inflicted Cloud Crisis (berthub.eu)
  If moving vital/crucial functionality to the US cloud, ponder how to explain yourself if your hospital/population register/prison stops working if the US government throws a fit.

• 23.07.2025 - Copilot Vision on Windows 11 sends data to Microsoft servers (theregister.com)
  Copilot Vision is an extension of Microsoft's divisive Recall, a feature initially sort of exclusive to the Copilot+ systems with a neural co-processor of sufficient computational power. Like Recall, which was pulled due to serious security failings and subject to a lengthy delay before its eventual relaunch, Copilot Vision is designed to analyze everything you do on your computer.
  It does this, when enabled, by capturing constant screenshots and feeding them to an optical character recognition system and a large language model for analysis – but where Recall works locally, Copilot Vision sends the data off to Microsoft servers.

• 21.07.2025 - Dataetisk Råd: Digital suverænitet er absolut nødvendigt. Her er tre skridt på vejen til at opnå det (information.dk)
  Tiden er inde til at tage vores digital suverænitet alvorligt. Kun hvis vi handler nu, kan vi sikre, at fremtidens digitale infrastruktur bygger på vores værdier og bliver en samfundsstyrke i stedet for en samfundsrisiko.

• 11.07.2025 - David Gerard: AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower (pivot-to-ai.com)
  The developers predicted they’d go 24% faster with AI. After they’d done the work, the developers said they’d done it 20% faster. But they’d actually been slowed down by 19%. They thought they were faster, they were actually slower.

• 09.07.2025 - Noor Al-Sibai: Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes (futurism.com)
  Companies that rushed to replace human labor with AI are now shelling out to get human workers to fix the technology's screwups.

• 09.07.2025 - Meet the German local government showing Microsoft the red card (raconteur.net)
  The federal state of Schleswig-Holstein is ditching US big tech and working to build an entirely open-source, digitally sovereign ecosystem. Much of the world is watching

• 27.06.2025 - Steven Vaughan-Nichols: This city is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for OnlyOffice and Linux - here's why (zdnet.com)
  A leading economic hub is replacing Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and OnlyOffice (Lyon)

• 14.06.2025 - Udsyn: Europas digitale stavnsbånd (radioprogram, dr.dk)
  Vores digitale infrastruktur er ejet af private, amerikanske techselskaber. Prisen for denne deponering er ikke blot de millioner, som vores kommuner hvert år betaler til Microsoft, eller at private selskaber ejer vores data. Det er heller ikke den håbløshed og kolossale politiske forandring, de sociale medier har skabt, eller at nogle få techmilliardærer er blevet så rige, at de ejer mere end hele europæiske stater i privat formue. Nej, prisen er langt højere: Prisen er en næsten total magtesløshed, der omfatter alle områder af vores liv - både privat, socialt og politisk. Uden at vi lagde mærke til det, har vi underkastet os, som ingen før har underkastet sig i historien.
  Udsyn taler med Mikkel Flyverbom, professor ved CBS, om hvordan det egentlig er sket - og om der findes en vej ud af vores selvpåførte stavnsbånd.

• 13.06.2025 - Morten Kjærsgaard: Vi må begynde med hvorfor, hvis vi skal frigøre os fra amerikansk big tech (itwatch.dk)
  Vi bliver nødt til at frigøre os fra amerikansk big tech. Hvis vi skal finde svaret på, hvordan vi gør det, må vi begynde med, hvorfor vi er endt her, skriver Morgen Kjærsgaard fra Magenta.

• 10.06.2025 - Sådan skal Danmark sikre digital suverænitet – IT-Branchens anbefalinger (itb.dk)
  Hvordan kan Danmark sammen med resten af Europa styrke sin digitale autonomi og gøre sig mindre afhængig af ikke-europæisk teknologi?

• 02.06.2025 - TV2 Østjylland: Kommuner vil af med tech-giganter: - En monopollignende tilstand (tv2ostjylland.dk)
  Kommuner og andre offentlige instanser er alt for afhængige af de store tech-virksomheders løsninger. Det skal der gøres op med, lyder det fra flere sider.

• 02.06.2025 - Trump får danske kommuner til at droppe Microsoft som udbyder (berlingske.dk)
  Økonomi og Donald Trump har motiveret Københavns Kommune og Aarhus Kommune til at droppe Microsoft.

• 01.06.2025 - Mike Hill: Publishing a book from the GNOME desktop (blogs.fnome.org)
  Fedora’s TeX Live stack, Emacs (with AUCTeX and the memoir class), Evince, and the Citations flatpak, all on a GNOME desktop. The cover of the first book was done professionally by a friend. For the second book (first and second editions) I’ve used the GNU Image Manipulation Program.

• 22.05.2025 - Ude af Outlook, ustoppelig Netanyahu og PET i salen (radioprogram, dr.dk)
  Microsoft udelukker Trumpfjende fra mailtjenesten Outlook. Skal vi være nervøse herhjemme?

• 21.05.2025 - David Heinemeier Hansson: Når Microsoft adlyder Trumps ordrer, ringer alle alarmklokker. Vi skal ud af de amerikanske skyer nu (altinget.dk)
  Trump har med et pennestrøg fået Microsoft til at lukke for kritisk digital infrastruktur i Haag. Det samme kan ske, hvis den næste ordre er rettet mod danske politikere, embedsmænd eller forretningsfolk, der ikke behager herren. Derfor skal vi ud af de amerikanske skyer og have digital suverænitet, og det kan ikke gå hurtigt nok, skriver David Heinemeier Hansson.

• 20.05.2025 - Morten Kjærsgaard: Big tech eller open source? Endelig ser det ud til at der er politisk vilje til at gøre det rigtige (computerworld.dk)
  Når man længe har kæmpet for, at spørgsmålene overhovedet skulle blive stillet, og i al beskedenhed har nogle bud, er det fristende at svare.

• 19.05.2025 - Criminal Court: Microsoft's email block a wake-up call for digital sovereignty (heise.de)
  Microsoft blocked the email account of Chief Prosecutor of the International Court of Justice after Trump's sanctions. Critics: “We urgently need alternatives.”

• 19.05.2025 - Matthew Gault: Telegram Gave Authorities Data on More than 20,000 Users (404media.co)
  According to its newest transparency report, Telegram complied with more than 5,000 requests from authorities in the first three months of 2025.
  Telegram gave authorities the data on 22,777 of its users in the first three months of 2025, according to a GitHub that reposts Telegram’s transparency reports.That number is a massive jump from the same period in 2024, which saw Telegram turn over data on only 5,826 of its users to authorities. From January 1 to March 31, Telegram sent over the data of 1,664 users in the U.S.
  Telegram is a popular social network and messaging app that’s also a hub of criminal activity. Some people use the site to stay connected with friends and relatives and some people use it to spread deepfake scams, promote gambling, and sell guns.
  CEO Pavel Durov long promoted the social network as a safe space for free speech and resisted cooperation with national governments. That changed last year when authorities in France arrested him after Telegram refused to turn over data related to a child abuse investigation.

• 18.05.2025 - Bert Hubert: What we in the open world are messing up in trying to compete with big tech (berthub.eu)
  Whatever you’re building, you have NO margin to get away with being uglier/harder/more difficult than big tech Just as women and minorities, tragically, have to be three times as good to be taken seriously, the same goes for alternatives to overly dominant platforms. We get no leeway. At the first “your stuff is weird, why is it like this,” you’ve lost almost everyone.

• 09.05.2025 - Dansk IT: Vi er slet ikke klar til at håndtere dilemmaerne og de etiske udfordringer ved AI i sundhedsvæsenet (altinget.dk)
  AI kan styrke vores pressede sundhedsvæsen betragteligt, men der mangler en seriøs debat om de etiske retningslinjer. Derfor må politikerne tage stilling til de muligheder og de risici som teknologien indebærer, før vi kan udrulle den på landets hospitaler, skriver Troels Andersen, formand for Dansk IT's sundhedsudvalg.

• 09.05.2025 - Kan man droppe de amerikanske tech-giganter? Vores venner syd for grænsen gør lige nu forsøget (dr.dk)
  I Danmark vil politikerne gøre os mindre afhængige af tech-giganternes software. I Slesvig-Holsten er de allerede i fuld gang.

• 07.05.2025 - Europæiske alternativer til tech-giganternes tjenester (dm.dk)
  Ønsker du at bruge europæiske alternativer til tech-giganterne? DM Digi har samlet en oversigt, der bygger på EU’s liste over europæiske alternativer.

• 03.05.2025 - 'Det er ikke øget overvågning', forsikrede minister - nu hagler kritikken ned over ham (dr.dk)
  Regeringen vil give efterretningstjeneste et super vidtgående værktøj, lyder advarslen.

• 03.05.2025 - "Milestone for digital sovereignty": 20 years of the Open Document Format (ODF) (heise.de)
  The Document Foundation celebrates the 20th anniversary of adoption of ODF as an OASIS standard. This promotes global digital independence and interoperability.

• 02.05.2025 - Helikopter: I skriver hele tiden og vil høre om den nye PET-lov. Så her kommer historien (zetland.dk)
  Lovforslag L 218 Regeringen har med justitsminister Peter Hummelgaard i front fremsat et forslag om en ny lov, der skal give Politiets Efterretningstjeneste “værktøjer, som er nødvendige for, at tjenesten effektivt kan varetage sine vigtige opgaver”, som det hedder i en pressemeddelelse. [...] I dag taler vi med Adam Diderichsen, der er lektor i efterretning ved Forsvarsakademiet. Han frygter, at den nye lov rent faktisk vil gøre det vanskeligere at bedrive efterretningsarbejde, og at den vil skabe en grundlæggende mistillid til myndighederne.

• 02.05.2025 - Schleswig-Holstein: Klares Bekenntnis zu Open Source (egovernment.de)
  Brauchen wir noch proprietäre Software in der öffentlichen Verwaltung?
  Schleswig-Holstein will zeigen, dass es auch anders geht, und hat sich als erstes deutsches Bundesland zu einer reinen Open-Source-Strategie bekannt – ein starkes Signal für die so oft geforderte digitale Souveränität. Dirk Schrödter, Chef der Staatskanzlei sowie Minister für ­Digitalisierung und Medienpolitik im Land Schleswig-Holstein, unterstreicht: „Für uns war klar: Digitale Souveränität ist kein theoretisches Konzept, sondern eine konkrete Handlungsaufforderung.“

• 25.04.2025 - Johan Linåker: Report: Software Reuse through Open Source Software in the Public Sector (linaker.se)
  In a recent report commissioned by the Danish Agency for Digital Government (Digitaliseringsstyrelsen), Sachiko Muto and I examined how software reuse through Open Source Software (OSS) can be supported and realized through public policy and related support actions.
  Specifically, we surveyed 16 globally dispersed and digitally mature countries in terms of their government policies, rationales, support mechanisms, means of promotion, and success stories related to software reuse focusing on OSS. Our analysis provides a comprehensive overview with individual case studies for each country, along with recommendations and actions for policy- and decisionmakers at national, regional, and local government levels, both in terms of designing policies, and support actions that can enable their implementation.

• 25.04.2025 - Minister frygter, at nogen kan slukke for software-adgangen. Derfor skal der findes europæiske alternativer til de amerikanske (dr.dk)
  Ny verdensorden og svækket europæisk konkurrenceevne gør, at der skal kunne findes alternativer til tech fra USA, siger digitaliseringsministeren - og glemmer lidt big tech-diskussionen.

• 24.04.2025 - Linuxvarianter og motivforskning (backlog.dk)
  Der er liv i diskussionen om big tech og alternativer til de systemer og den software, de fleste bruger til hverdag. Det store alternativ til Windows og MacOS er Linux. Men Linux er mange ting – den ene variant er forskellig fra den anden, og det gode for den ene bruger vil være ringe for den anden. Derfor er dagens indlæg om hvilke motiver, man har for et skift – og et par eksempler på ligheder og forskelle i forhold til hvad man bruger i forvejen.

• 18.04.2025 - If you use AI to write me that note, don’t expect me to read it (fastcompany.com)
  Whether it’s a private email or a public LinkedIn post, we need to admit that using AI to write is simply poor etiquette.

• 13.04.2025 - Genstart: Kan USA lukke skyen? (dr.dk)
  Amerikanerne kan trække stikket på det digitale Danmark. De ejer stort set alt og har fuld adgang til den sky, hvor alle vores billeder, beskeder og noter svæver rundt. Tech-journalist Louise Olifent tager os med på en rejse i den digitale infrastruktur sammen med østrigeren Max Schrems, der i årevis har kæmpet for europæisk beskyttelse mod amerikanske techgiganter - og som nu har fået langt flere til at lytte med alvor til hans ord. Genstart ser i dag på, hvad der kan ske, hvis vores digitale infrastruktur bliver kontrolleret af mennesker fra én nation.

• 31.03.2025 - Astrid Haug: Fra iPhone til Fairphone – her er fordele og ulemper (astridhaug.dk)
  Jeg har anskaffet mig en Fairphone, som er et hollandsk mærke. De har flere varianter, og jeg har valgt e/OS, som er Google-fri. Den er naturligvis også Apple-fri. Her vil jeg skitsere nogle af mine erfaringer med den. Til sidst vurderer jeg, om jeg vil anbefale den til andre.

• 26.03.2025 - Maximillian siger farvel til Facebook: Flere danskere vender ryggen til big tech (dr.dk)
  Efter præsidentvalget i USA melder eksperter om stigende interesse for alternative sociale medier og europæiske teknologi.

• 25.03.2025 - Irma-effekten og digitale diasporaer i forfald – om Diaspora* (backlog.dk)
  Diaspora var et højdepunkt engang. Nu lukker en af de store, gamle servere med, og det giver anledning til at tænke over, hvad vi har lært af projektet.

• 18.03.2025 - Libre News: Why I recommend against Bluesky (thelibre.news)
  Have you ever heard of the term federation-washing?

• 14.03.2025 - Linux or Landfill? End of Windows 10 Leaves PC Charities with Tough Choice (tomshardware.com)
  Many donateable PCs can’t run Windows 11. Should non-profits still be giving them away? Should they install Linux instead?

• 11.03.2025 - Element: Why the Swedish Armed Forces’ switch to Signal misses the mark (element.io)
  From a geopolitical standpoint, Signal is run from the US, using US cloud providers and backed by US government and philanthropist funding; all of which raise concerns over US influence and data sovereignty.

• 25.05.2025 - Bombshell Report Reveals How Much Money Elon Musk Got From Government
  Elon Musk is a greedy welfare billionaire.

• 23.02.2025 - Udtræk af Kindle-bøger med Calibre (backlog.dk)
  Da Amazon snart blokerer for muligheden for at downloade ebøger på Kindle-platformen, bliver det mere aktuelt at kunne gøre det og lave sin private backup. Denne korte vejledning løber processen igennem.

• 29.01.2025 - Carsten Boll: How to de-Google yourself (carstenboll.dk)
  Google is everywhere, mostly because they're good at what they do, and their services are mostly free. Well, I say free - but you know that you're the product, and they use surveillance and data mining to figure out how to sell you stuff, a practice called an assault on privacy by Amnesty International. And because they are so dominant - controlling more than 90% of all web searches - they have a lot of power. Too much power for a company which steals user data in violation of copyright laws, deletes incriminating evidence and lies to law enforcement, and spies on workers before illegally firing them.
  [...] Ok, so first things first - it's going to be difficult to completely de-google yourself, so temper your expectations. Many Google-services are so ingrained in our day-to-day that you will find yourself at a disadvantage if you go completely cold turkey. That said, you can do a lot!

• 03.09.2024 - AI worse than humans in every way at summarising information, government trial finds (crikey.com.au)
  A test of AI for Australia’s corporate regulator found that the technology might actually make more work for people, not less.

• 07.02.2024 - David Bøttcher: Berygtet konsulenthus vil ikke forklare vild påstand: ”Vi har desværre for meget på vores bord lige nu” (dm.dk)
  Det offentlige kan spare 104 milliarder kroner med kunstig intelligens, siger Boston Consulting Group. Men konsulenthuset vil ikke fortælle, hvordan man er nået frem til det beløb.