Digital sovereignty starts with ourselves.
Ever since Trump came to power, we’ve been screaming blue murder about the lack of digital sovereignty. And that’s not just because the US CLOUD Act ensures that every American […]
Interesting times in AI land
Google’s Gemini was already the superior model, which—and this is crucial—is trained not on NVIDIA GPUs but on Google’s own silicon. Now @Apple’s end-user market position is added to the […]
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 […]
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 […]