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Sovereignty is moving from buzzword to buying criterion. The European Commission’s proposed Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA) would set assurance levels for the cloud and AI services public authorities buy, defining where data should live and who can access it. Parts of it could reach private entities too.

GitLab submitted its own comment on CADA because we share the goal of strengthening Europe’s digital sovereignty and security. We believe this important work should prioritize customer control, portability, interoperability, provider diversity, and risk-based safeguards. You can also view GitLab's submission on the European Commission's Have Your Say portal.

But regulation is only one lever. Many vendor conversations still don’t address sovereignty with enough depth. If this is a priority for your organization, here are ten questions I’d put to any software vendor, GitLab included. Use them as a simple assessment to confirm if a vendor takes sovereignty seriously:

10 questions to ask your vendors

1. Which layers of the stack do you operate yourself?

This question gets at ownership and accountability. A cloud provider and a software vendor control different risks, and a good vendor can help its customers appropriately distinguish between the controls it operates from those it inherits from the infrastructure beneath it.

2. Can I choose where and how the software runs?

Look for a vendor that offers flexibility around how you handle your data and architecture. Sovereignty needs to vary by workload, and the architecture should be able to meet your requirements. For example, self-managed deployments let you run software on your own infrastructure, whether on-premises, in a private cloud, or in a hybrid setup, so your data stays within boundaries you define.

3. Can I choose the AI models I use, and change them later?

Frontier models change fast, and your vendor should not lock you to one. Look for platforms that are model agnostic and draw on a diverse set of models and hosts. That gives your business the flexibility to use the best model for each use case as new ones are released. Open-weight models can often run in your own environment while offering strong price-performance.

4. Does my data train anyone’s model?

Data is valuable for training AI models, so ask for an official written policy around model training and request it includes sub-processors too. Consider it a great sign if the vendor can confidently point to resources that affirm they do not train generative AI models on your data and restrict AI model sub-processors from using both model inputs and outputs for training.

5. What data leaves my region, and why?

Personal data of identifiable users remains subject to regional regulations, like GDPR, regardless of its origin. However, some data and operational signals need to cross boundaries to keep service secure and available. The right vendor offers local hosting and can otherwise explain what types of data cross borders and justify why.

6. Who can reach my data, and from where?

Ask which roles can reach your infrastructure and customer data, from which regions, and under what safeguards. A vendor that offers deployment options with customer-managed encryption keys and private network connectivity adds further control over that access.

7. How do you handle data and risk classifications?

Ask how the vendor classifies different data and what governance mechanisms and incident response activities are in place to handle policy violations and security incidents. A clear classification approach also feeds data protection impact assessments.

8. Which independent audits cover the service I am buying?

Attestations such as SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001 let a vendor prove its own layer separately from the infrastructure provider’s assessment. Check that the report scope covers the application you will actually use.

9. Can you match controls to the sensitivity of each workload?

Regulated industries require finer-grain policy controls. Ask whether the vendor lets you set the level of assurance workload by workload. This approach helps your team tune controls to the sensitivity of its function and data so you have speed with control.

10. What does leaving your ecosystem look like?

Portability and interoperability are sovereignty features. Ask how the platform connects to the other tools and models you use and how you would export your projects and history. The format of data exports is important; exports often yield datasets that are complex, poorly structured, or intentionally obfuscated, making them difficult to process without technical restructuring. A vendor confident in its product welcomes easy exports and open integrations.

Sovereignty helps organizations embrace flexibility

No vendor will give perfect answers on all ten of these questions, and requirements will continue to evolve, but the architecture you choose should be poised to absorb changes resiliently.

Teams get the most from AI when they can decide what their organization controls and how. That’s why GitLab believes customers should be able to choose which models they use and where they run. Take these ten questions into your next vendor conversation and see which vendors take sovereignty as seriously as you do.

If you’d like to see how GitLab measures up (we do!), review how we handle customer data and infrastructure in our AI Transparency Center.

Family of four, two close friends and nanny also died in crash as pilot identified as 55-year-old Jeff Gregory

Family members on Monday identified a young Florida pilot as one of nine victims of a plane crash in Palm Beach county that occurred during a heavy thunderstorm.

Nathalia Filgueiras, 20, was co-pilot of the private Learjet 60 en route from Austin-Bergstrom international airport in Texas to North Eleuthera airport in the Bahamas on Sunday when it suddenly plummeted out of the sky, killing all onboard, her mother told the New York Times.

Family of four, two close friends and nanny also died in crash as pilot identified as 55-year-old Jeff Gregory

Family members on Monday identified a young Florida pilot as one of nine victims of a plane crash in Palm Beach county that occurred during a heavy thunderstorm.

Nathalia Filgueiras, 20, was co-pilot of the private Learjet 60 en route from Austin-Bergstrom international airport in Texas to North Eleuthera airport in the Bahamas on Sunday when it suddenly plummeted out of the sky, killing all onboard, her mother told the New York Times.

Critics decry ‘Air Miles Andy’ after plane that took off from Stansted diverted to collect prime minister and wife

A government-chartered plane taking Andy Burnham to a Commonwealth summit in the Caribbean made a stop-off in Manchester to collect him, Downing Street has said.

The decision, which will have been more financially and environmentally costly than if the prime minister had travelled to London, leaves him open to accusations of hypocrisy after Labour repeatedly criticised Rishi Sunak for his use of private planes and helicopters for domestic travel when he was the prime minister.

Social network and Digital Freedom Project, led by NSW state MP John Ruddick, seek to overturn ban on grounds of implied freedom of political communication

Australia’s world-leading under-16s social media ban will face its first major legal challenge on Tuesday, as Reddit and an advocacy group headed by a libertarian politician seek to overturn the law in the high court.

Nearly 11 months ago, 10 platforms – Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Kick, X, Twitch and Threads – were required to deactivate or suspend the accounts of users they determined to be aged under 16 years.

Exclusive: Shoalhaven council says Wall of Tears installation by Phil Buehler posed risk to staff, visitors and tenants

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A New South Wales local council has refused to show a world-renowned artwork about children killed in Gaza after asking organisers to investigate hiring “armed guards” to counter the risk of “community conflict” over the mural.

The organisers, Shoalhaven Friends of Palestine, were aiming to show the Wall of Tears installation by American artist Phil Buehler at the Shoalhaven Regional Gallery in Nowra on Tuesday, following the work being exhibited around Australia, including on the front lawns of Parliament House in Canberra in September.

Growing disdain for gambling and animal cruelty concerns drive sliding interest in race that once ‘stopped the nation’

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A record number of Australians are turning their backs on the Melbourne Cup, with more than two-thirds surveyed saying they have low or zero interest in the annual horse race.

Support for the Melbourne Cup has been sliding consistently for a number of years, but the Guardian Essential poll found just 9% of Australians said they had high interest in the race now – nearly half the proportion in 2025.

Возможно, вы думаете, что космическое пространство совершенно пустое. Однако эта кажущаяся пустота содержит едва заметный туман из водорода и других нейтральных атомов. В 2020 году космический аппарат НАСА New Horizons, уже миновавший орбиту Плутона, измерил показатель, позволяющий оценить количество окружающего его водорода. В пространстве между звёздами нашей Галактики, межзвёздной среде, New Horizons обнаружил около 130 атомов водорода на литр пространства.

Этот водород вместе с некоторым количеством гелия и других молекул в основном остался со времён Большого взрыва. Его запасы постоянно пополняются благодаря различным космическим явлениям, например звёздам, которые при рождении выбрасывают струи газа и пыли, а умирая, сбрасывают свои внешние оболочки.

Поскольку межзвёздная среда чрезвычайно разрежена и изменяется очень медленно, на протяжении последних пятидесяти лет астрономы практически не уделяли внимания её деталям, рассматривая её как неподвижный фон для более зрелищных событий во Вселенной.

Однако это почти пустое пространство устроено сложнее, чем кажется.

За последние несколько лет астрофизики существенно изменили наши представления о межзвёздной среде. Используя недавно созданные карты, охватывающие тысячи световых лет нашей Галактики, они обнаружили, что она вовсе не является таким спокойным и неизменным фоном, каким её считали исследователи. Напротив, значительная часть межзвёздной среды, по‑видимому, неустойчива. Этот вывод прямо противоречит ведущим теоретическим моделям, описанным в учебниках. Неожиданное открытие может помочь найти ответ на давно остающийся нерешённым вопрос о скорости звездообразования.

I thought the explanation I’d given about black holes was family-friendly. But, after what she had said, I had to rethink my examples

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In the first year of my science degree, I was fortunate to land a job as an astronomy guide at the Sydney Observatory. In my role, I would lead tour groups of about 20 people. We’d look at stars and planets through telescopes. If the skies were filled from horizon to horizon with clouds, we’d explore more of the universe through a 3D theatre. And to peer beyond what our telescopes could see, we’d pile inside the cosy planetarium, seeing what the light pollution of Sydney and clouds would often obstruct from our view.

My favourite object to show in the planetarium was the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image. Before revealing the image, I’d explain how the Hubble space telescope had stared at a piece of sky the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length for 11 days, collecting enough light to look into the farthest corners of the universe. Then I’d zoom in on that tiny piece of sky, revealing the gorgeous image. At least one person would audibly gasp at the reveal.

Young voters have many of the same concerns as the larger voting cohort, even if many are not registered to vote

The 2026 US midterms are approaching against a backdrop of growing political uncertainty, with young voters increasingly mobilizing around concerns about the country’s future.

Although nearly 50 million Americans aged 18 to 29 are eligible to vote in the midterms, almost half remain either unregistered or civically disengaged, according to US Census Bureau data.

vm5277 — это универсальный инструментарий для embedded-разработки, который связывает мир высокоуровневого ООП (язык j8b с Java-подобным синтаксисом) с нативной компиляцией под 8-битные микроконтроллеры (AVR, PIC, STM8).

Сегодня я разберу, как в vm5277 устроена прошивка МК по одному (или двум) проводам, почему я заменил стандартные механизмы собственным бутлоадером и что это даёт на практике.
Это решение упрощает прошивку, коммуникацию с программой и отладку, реализуя бесшовное взаимодействие с микроконтроллером на всём цикле разработки.

Discover how JetBrains products are recognized for enterprise leadership, developer experience, and ease of adoption, and why this matters for engineering teams looking to improve productivity and scale with confidence.

In fall 2026, JetBrains earned 180 G2 badges across multiple award categories, including Enterprise Leadership, Best Usability, Best Relationship, Easiest Setup, and Easiest Admin. 

These awards are based on verified reviews from people who use JetBrains products every day. For engineering leaders and organizations evaluating development tools, this independent recognition highlights JetBrains’ commitment to the developer experience, team productivity, and supporting engineering teams at scale.

Spanning Enterprise, Mid-Market, and Small Business categories, the recognition goes beyond product leadership to cover usability, support, administration, setup, customer relationships, and how well products meet users’ requirements.

To engineering leaders, that matters because individual usability is just one factor when evaluating a development tool. Setup, administration, and the operational effort required to support multiple users are also key considerations.

JetBrains IDEs receiving badges included:

More of the stack covered without more vendors

Most engineering teams already run multiple languages and stacks. That usually means multiple vendors, each with its own security review, contract, and support relationship.

The JetBrains ecosystem changes that math. Ten IDEs cover every major language, and five of them hold a G2 Leader badge for Fall 2026.

Three more IDEs, two extensions, an issue tracker, and a decompiler received other G2 recognition this cycle. So did Kotlin, the language we built for modern application development. With this kind of breadth and depth of validated quality from a single source, keeping a short vendor list becomes an advantage – not a compromise.

More AI, less switching

In the daily development grind, IDEs now coexist with an ever-growing array of AI tools and workflows. The IDEs that earn their keep are the ones that stay reliable, understand the codebase, and hold up during AI-generated code reviews.

That same reliability carries over to how teams adopt AI. JetBrains products are built to integrate with new models, agents, and bring-your-own-key setups, not work around them. Adding AI capabilities shouldn’t mean giving up tools your team already trusts.

If your organization is weighing how to give developers this kind of flexibility – without losing visibility into cost, security, or governance – see what JetBrains for Business offers at jetbrains.com/business.

• Midfielder praises his side’s grit and determination

• Szoboszlai says there are fine margins between sides

Declan Rice says Arsenal are ready for more grinding wins as he hailed the 1-0 success at Liverpool on Sunday as the performance of champions. The midfielder set up Kai Havertz for the only goal on 16 minutes but his defensive work was arguably more impressive; his physicality and reading of the game.

Liverpool were unhappy at the non-award of a penalty for a Jürrien Timber shirt-pull on Alexander Isak in the 21st minute and it was a day when the Kop fumed about Arsenal’s streetwise tactics, especially how they won free-kicks – albeit their own players were also guilty of going down too easily at times. The Arsenal goalkeeper, David Raya, was booked for time-wasting in the 92nd minute as his team closed out the victory.

Many treatments are now extending lives but the measure of progress should not end with a scan or a survival curve

Two decades ago, a dear friend called me in a trembling voice. Was there hope for his young nephew, whose cancer had spread to the brain? Sadly, “no”, I said. But today, for such patients, there are options that were unimaginable back then.

Recently, researchers at the European Society For Medical Oncology presented the latest chapter results from a randomised controlled trial of a bespoke cancer vaccine for patients with high-risk melanoma. The trial involved 1,137 patients whose melanoma had been surgically removed but remained at high recurrence risk. They received either pembrolizumab, an established immunotherapy, or pembrolizumab combined with an experimental mRNA vaccine, designed to help the immune system recognise and attack targets unique to the patient’s tumour.

Before her Australian tour, the Grammy-winner talks about her marriage to Nelly, fans rushing the stage and her secret skill

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Your debut album, Ashanti, turns 25 next year and you’re in the process of re-recording it. How do you feel about that album now?

We are re-recording it so I will own my masters. Sonically, it will be a lot clearer. It was 25 years ago so it’ll sound a little more new, obviously, but with the same classic vibe. I’m very excited. What I’ve learned is that I’m just really grateful to have written records that stand the test of time. Foolish is turning 25! That I can still go to an arena and hold the mic in the air and hear everyone sing those lyrics is a beautiful feeling. And a blessing.

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Mayaya, once-remote, has become a hub for Chinese companies. But critics accuse them of exploitation and illegal exports

The pork belly hits the oil with a sizzle, and a rich aroma of soy sauce and caramelising sugar fills the kitchen. Zhang Changchun, a middle-aged man from China’s Heilongjiang province, is cooking dinner for his friends on a warm evening in Mayaya, a small town in the Bolivian Amazon.

“Bolivia is my happy place,” he says in Mandarin as he adds the dish to a table overflowing with pork trotters, duck wings and braised sábalo fish. In this small restaurant, a group of half a dozen Chinese men gathers most nights to eat, drink and play mahjong.

Patient with chest pains rescued by Cleveland EMS after driver of private ambulance gets lost and leaves

An ambulance driver in Ohio abandoned a patient they were taking to hospital after getting lost and decided to call an Uber and go home.

The bizarre incident played out in Cleveland last week when the patient was being transported to the Cleveland Clinic with chest pain. According to the local broadcaster KWTX: “The ambulance driver got lost, told her he was done driving for the day, and called an Uber.”

Former paratrooper Karl Bushby arrives back in Hull and becomes first person to walk continuously across planet

After a 28-year odyssey spanning 29 countries, 36,000 miles, facing down polar bears, kidnappers and a spell in Russian custody, Karl Bushby was finally back in the arms of his longsuffering mother, Angela.

“Where have I been?” he joked as Angela sobbed into his chest with a mix of relief, pride and no doubt the odd sleepless night.

Defence barrister says earlier allegations about comedian’s sexual conduct ‘poisoned the wells’ of justice as trial continues

Russell Brand is not a “psychopath who rapes people and thinks it’s normal” and is respectful when women say no, a court has heard.

In his closing speech at Southwark crown court, Brand’s barrister, Ian Winter KC, questioned why Brand’s accusers had not fought back when they were allegedly raped, saying “not one of them resisted or screamed or even tried to leave”.

Inspired by the legendary Milan sides of his youth, the manager gave his side a lift with a tactical victory over Inter

Ruben Amorim had waited a lifetime for his first Milan derby. As a kid growing up in Lisbon, he supported two football teams. There was the local one, Benfica, whose games he attended so early in life that his father has recalled changing nappies in the stands of the old Estádio da Luz. And the other one that captivated him from overseas.

“I remember watching tapes of that Milan team with [Paolo] Maldini, [Franco] Baresi, [Ruud] Gullit, [Frank] Rijkaard, [Dejan] Savicevic,” Amorim told Portuguese newspaper Expresso back in 2017. “My childhood dreams were to play for Benfica and Milan. I’ve fulfilled one. Now I suppose I’ll have to become a coach for the other!”

Former paratrooper Karl Bushby arrives back in Hull and becomes first person to walk continuously across planet

After a 28-year odyssey spanning 29 countries, 36,000 miles, facing down polar bears, kidnappers and a spell in Russian custody, Karl Bushby was finally back in the arms of his longsuffering mother, Angela.

“Where have I been?” he joked as Angela sobbed into his chest with a mix of relief, pride and no doubt the odd sleepless night.

Defence barrister says earlier allegations about comedian’s sexual conduct ‘poisoned the wells’ of justice as trial continues

Russell Brand is not a “psychopath who rapes people and thinks it’s normal” and is respectful when women say no, a court has heard.

In his closing speech at Southwark crown court, Brand’s barrister, Ian Winter KC, questioned why Brand’s accusers had not fought back when they were allegedly raped, saying “not one of them resisted or screamed or even tried to leave”.

“Разработчики прокси-платформы Xray отозвали  (https://www.securitylab.ru/news/579534.php)предыдущий релиз и выпустили экстренное обновление v26.10.31 из-за критической уязвимости в ядре Linux. Ошибка позволяет злоумышленникам без пароля получить права суперпользователя на сервере через специально подготовленные сетевые запросы. Под особым ударом оказались сетевые приложения на языке Go, которые без ведома администраторов активировали уязвимый режим связи.”,  - сообщает https://securitylab.ru/. По их данным это происходит из-за специфического обновления языка Go версии 1.24, в которой сетевая библиотека автоматически подключает Multipath TCP. 

Как альтернативу для частного использования, предлагаем вам наше ядро, написанное на языке Rust, в котором полностью отсутствует данная уязвимость. На данный момент, а именно версия 0.1.6, имеет такие показатели:

Оценка story points с помощью нейросети кажется быстрым способом ускорить планирование спринта. Но достаточно одной фразы о том, сколько, по мнению тимлида, должна стоить задача, чтобы оценки двух LLM изменились примерно на 20%. В эксперименте на исторических задачах Jira разбираемся, как работает эффект якоря при покер‑планировании и почему близкая к командной сумма ещё не означает точной оценки.

Мы вывели на экран то, что на самом деле видит фазовый автофокус камеры: карту 12×16, где у каждой из 192 зон своя фаза и своя уверенность. Оказалось, что сенсор IMX708 ищет сдвиг только вдоль строки, и горизонтальные жалюзи для него всё равно что гладкая стена. Рассказываем, откуда берутся эти числа и как они превращаются в команду мотору линзы.