2026 the year to become cyber resilient
As we step into the new year, the digital landscape demands more than just defense. A lock on the door is no longer enough. Let your essential business resolution for […]
ChatGPT is bullshit
What bothers me most about the debate is the use of the term hashtag #hallucineren in the context of LLMs. It was even voted (digital) word of the year in […]
Ghent University deserves better…
It seems so fun to have content written quickly with an AI hashtag #llm, but in the end, you are RESPONSIBLE for the meaning and nonsense you write. And we […]
Demand for university graduates at an all-time low
Well, what do you expect? If you insist on forcing everyone to obtain a higher education diploma, at all costs, partly without maintaining the corresponding level of education, then you […]
Darkspectre: The data leak in your browser
The holidays are always a good time for hackers to strike. While we’re sipping champagne, they’re working overtime. Research now shows that the Chinese hacker group DarkSpectre has been targeting […]
Is worse actually better?
If there’s one lesson I’ve learned, it’s that the technically superior solution rarely takes home the prize. Instead, the concept of “good enough”—and sometimes even “just good enough”—almost always wins. […]
After Cloudflare downtime…
After yesterday’s Cloudflare downtime, a provider of Belgian municipal websites is now experiencing problems. Several municipal websites, including those for Kasterlee, Beerse, Oostende, etc., are down (in total, my tests […]
Microsoft raises threshold for incoming email
The threshold for receiving and sending e-mail is increasing. This is because Microsoft is going to impose existing protocols such as Dmarc from its mail servers. ‘As a result, mails often end up in the spam filter faster. Or sometimes even get blocked earlier,’ says security specialist Jan Guldentops. What about this exactly? And do we already use these other protocols?
Can Europe still do without American Tech Giants? ‘The entire IT sector is in a drug dealer mode.’
The historical deterioration of transatlantic relations is also being felt in the digital economy. More and more European organizations are investigating whether they can become technologically independent from American suppliers. This is not simple. ‘We need not only European rules, but also a European vision.’