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Europe's executives need to skill up to solve our total US cloud dependency

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/ft-on-european-cloud/

Published: January 10, 2026 10:08

Europe is experiencing a crisis of digital autonomy. Our dependence on US big tech has been growing for decades and is now nearly total, at a time when worries about our former ally are no longer theoretical. Might we, like the International Criminal Court…

AWS and Microsoft are selling much more than cloud services

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/aws-and-microsoft-are-selling-much-more-than-cloud/

Published: January 7, 2026 12:00

Ten, twenty years ago customers over at large corporations would often ask me what hardware they’d need to run my software. As software developers, we’d tend to be rather blasé about such questions: “whatever you have lying around!”. If pressed, we’d say…

Unsigned char std::basic_string<> in C++

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/unsigned-char-std-string-cpp/

Published: January 3, 2026 22:00

Brief post on a somewhat vexing and irritating C++ problem I ran into some time ago. I hope that this page will help other people deal with this problem more quickly than I did. I’ve long used std::basic_string<uint8_t>, an unsigned char string, for…

The European Cloud Situation at the end of 2025

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-european-cloud-2025/

Published: December 23, 2025 10:20

As the year draws to an end now is a good time to review where we are with Europe’s cloud situation, and what has been achieved. One thing is certain, a lot has happened, and also quite a lot has become clearer. tl;dr: Great strides have been made in 2025,…

Cloud Overview

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cloud-overview/

Published: December 23, 2025 10:10

Over the past few years I’ve written a lot about the cloud, and what it means for Europe. Here I want to pull the various articles together into a coherent story. Note, nothing of what follows is in any way novel or original. While the facts presented in…

Nationaal Agentschap Baanbrekende Innovatie, in EU of niet?

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/nadi-nabi-in-europa-of-niet/

Published: December 19, 2025 10:00

Ik ben eigenlijk op vakantie, maar toch een korte blogpost. Het is (in)formatietijd, en er worden plannen gemaakt. Eerder dit jaar kwam het ministerie van Economische Zaken met het idee een Nationaal Agentschap Disruptieve Innovatie op te richten, zoals…

Keynote opening Digital Commons EDIC: Moving beyond the Digital Uncommons

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/keynote-opening-digital-commons-edic-eu/

Published: December 14, 2025 10:00

Last Thursday, 11th of December, saw the launch of the new Digital Commons European Digital Infrastructure Consortium. In attendance were delegations from the launching member states (and the observers). Also present were the many forefathers (and mothers)…

Makelaarstaal over onze belastinggeheimen

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/makelaarstaal-over-onze-belastinggeheimen/

Published: December 2, 2025 09:03

Je vraagt de makelaar of je nieuwe droomhuis last heeft van lekkage, en hij vertelt je dat de dakkapel niet lekt. Alle alarmbellen moeten nu afgaan - want waarom krijg ik zo’n specifiek antwoord op deze vraag? Lekt het ergens anders wel? De belastingdienst…

TU Delft lecture: Security of Science

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/tu-delft-security-of-science/

Published: December 1, 2025 10:35

This is a mostly verbatim transcript of my lecture at the TU Delft VvTP Physics symposium “Security of Science” held on the 20th of November. Audio version (scroll along the page to see the associated slides): Thank you so much for being here tonight. It’s…

Hello Europe, Joe Biden is gone

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/hello-europe-joe-biden-is-gone/

Published: November 28, 2025 16:30

Last Friday I attended a useful conference organized by Microsoft. It lived up very well to its title: “Justice, Security and Fundamental Rights: Dialogue on EU Law Enforcement Policies” Many thanks are due to various proofreaders who improved this article…

Het Nerdvote Effect

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/het-nerdvote-effect/

Published: November 4, 2025 09:30

tl;dr: Barbara Kathmann (GroenLinks-PvdA, 32) zal met voorkeursstemmen herkozen worden als kamerlid. Kwam dit door de NerdVote.nl campagne? Of kwam het door het mooie initiatief Stem op een Vrouw? Hier enige analyse, met als conclusie dat het lijkt dat…