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I was looking into the digital euro today and it also plays a big role in EU #TechSovereignty
Quite cool actually!
October 30, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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The reform of European procurement rules is underway. We are working to turn Europe’s technological sovereignty ambitions into everyday procurement practice.

Find out what this means for Free Software:
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#FreeSoftware #PublicCode #TechSovereignty #OpenSource #Procurement
Public Procurement Act: Europe needs control over its digital infrastructure - FSFE
The process to update European procurement rules has started. With the proposal for the Public Procurement Act, it is now up to the EU’s co-legislators to ...
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October 29, 2026 at 9:46 AM
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The EU asked Canada to promise never to require computing facilities "certified or approved" in its own territory. Brussels published that text. Personal data gets a carve-out. Autonomy does not.

https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/eu-canada-text-certified-facilities.html #TechSovereignty
The EU Asked Canada to Promise It Would Never Require Locally Certified Computers. Europe Spent This Year Writing Exactly That Requirement.
Negotiators announced political conclusion of an EU-Canada digital trade agreement on 30 October and said nothing about data protection. The legal text the EU tabled has been on a Commission web page all along, and Article 5 of it would prohibit either side from requiring the use of computing facili
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November 2, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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Hunting Rogue AI Agents

40m for a unit to chase rogue AI agents. No host department, no period, no definition of rogue.

https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/forty-million-for-rogue-agents.html #TechSovereignty
Britain Just Put 40 Million Pounds Behind Hunting Rogue AI Agents. The Budget Will Not Say Where the Unit Sits, Who Runs It, or What Counts as Rogue.
Budget 2026 creates a National Agentic Security Unit with 40 million pounds to detect, investigate and respond to rogue agentic systems. It is the first time a British government has funded AI agents going wrong as an operational incident class. The Chancellor did not mention it, no department is na
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October 29, 2026 at 5:58 AM
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Amazon cut its European Sovereign Cloud off from the rest of Amazon on 24 October. The result landed nine days later. 830 words, four vendor quotes, no duration, no numbers.

https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/aws-exercise-eight-hundred-words.html #TechSovereignty
Amazon Cut Its European Cloud Off From the Rest of Amazon and Says Nothing Broke. The Published Proof Is Eight Hundred Words, Four Vendor Quotes and No Numbers.
Nine days after disconnecting its European Sovereign Cloud from the AWS Global Network backbone, Amazon has reported the outcome. The report says the exercise was a success and that customers can take it to their regulators, and it does not name either of the two European assessment frameworks the e
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November 2, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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From April 2027 every French contracting authority must accept bids through a state portal. The impact sheet claims 165m euros a year, promises to cut that by 30 per cent, then prints it in full.

https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/passe-marche-thirty-per-cent.html #TechSovereignty
France Says a State Tendering Portal Will Save 165 Million Euros a Year. Its Own Impact Sheet Promised to Cut That Estimate by 30 Per Cent and Then Printed the Full Figure.
Two French drafts filed in Brussels on 19 October would oblige every contracting authority to accept bids through a state-run service called Passe Marché, and oblige the private platforms that run French procurement to carry it. The impact sheet claims a saving of 165 million euros a year, says it w
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November 2, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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When vital communications can be throttled or weaponized based on external political pressures, independence is lost. Europe and nations worldwide must build sovereign, secure, and reliable satellite networks. #TechSovereignty #Satellite #Geopolitics #StrategicAutonomy
October 25, 2026 at 2:01 AM
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Four Amendments, None of Them the Fix

Four government tidy-ups on the last Lords paper before Monday. None starred, so nothing moved. Clause 66 is still broken.

https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/four-fixes-not-the-broken-one.html #TechSovereignty
Four Amendments Made the Final Paper Before the Cyber Bill Leaves the Lords. The Clause That Points at the Wrong Subsections Is Not One of Them.
The marshalled list for Monday''s third reading went up on Friday evening. It carries four amendments, all of them government drafting tidy-ups, and the paper''s own star marks show that nothing was added or altered on the last working day before the House rises on this bill.
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October 31, 2026 at 5:59 AM
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Brussels Signed It Off in Seven Days

38 EU rules skipped the three month standstill this year. 31 were about drugs. The only digital one was Poland's power rules for telecoms buildings.

https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/seven-days-and-no-standstill.html #TechSovereignty
Poland Rewrote the Power Rules for Its Telecoms Buildings and Skipped the Three-Month Wait. Brussels Signed It Off in Seven Days.
Thirty-eight draft rules invoked the emergency procedure in the EU''s technical regulation system this year, and thirty-one of them are about narcotics, psychoactive substances or medicine export bans. One is about the electricity supply to telecommunications buildings, and its justification cites s
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October 30, 2026 at 5:58 AM
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The West thought it would command innovation while China handled assembly. They were wrong. From BYD to DeepSeek, Beijing now dictates the tech race. My full breakdown on Medium. #Geopolitics #TechSovereignty #SupplyChain #AI #GlobalEconomy

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October 25, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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Germany Filed It. The Dutch Filed Nothing

All 49 German and 32 Dutch single-market filings for 2026, read. Germany is certifying critical network components. No Dutch filing goes near a network.

https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/germany-filed-it-the-dutch-did-not.html #TechSovereignty
Germany Has Told Brussels It Will Certify the Critical Parts of Its Phone Network. The Dutch Filed Thirty-Two Rules This Year and Not One of Them Went Near a Network.
Every member state has to tell the European Commission before it imposes a new technical rule, and then wait three months. Germany used that system on 29 September to notify a security catalogue that certifies critical network components. The Dutch notification file for 2026 contains hydrogen, green
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October 31, 2026 at 5:59 AM
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Nobody Would Say What It Cost

Meta, X and TikTok told the High Court the cost was extraordinary. None would say what it was. The court used Ofcom's own phrase: information asymmetry.

https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/nobody-would-say-how-much.html #TechSovereignty
Three of the World''s Largest Platforms Told the High Court Ofcom''s Data Demand Was Extraordinary. Not One of Them Would Tell the Court What It Cost.
Meta, WhatsApp, X and TikTok asked the High Court to quash Ofcom''s information notices as disproportionate. The court granted permission on that ground, heard it, and threw it out because the evidence of burden was never quantified. The phrase the judges reached for was information asymmetry, and i
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October 31, 2026 at 5:59 AM
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Five Bills Named, Not the Cyber One

166 Budget pages, 154 million pounds for cyber defence, five other bills named by title, and zero mentions of the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill.

https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/five-bills-not-this-one.html #TechSovereignty
The Budget Names Five Bills by Title and Puts £154 Million Into Cyber Defence. It Never Once Mentions the Cyber Bill.
Across 166 pages the Autumn Budget names the Energy Independence Bill, a strengthened Water Bill, the Nuclear Regulation Bill, the Financial Services and Markets Bill and a Regulating for Growth Bill. It does not name the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, which reaches its final Lords stage on Mon
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October 30, 2026 at 5:58 AM
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Catalonia is buying a 397m euro sovereign cloud over eight years. The tender gives 51 of 100 points to price, never defines sovereign, and declares the contract open under the WTO procurement agreement.

https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/fifty-one-points-for-price.html #TechSovereignty
Catalonia Is Buying a 397 Million Euro Sovereign Cloud. Its Tender Gives 51 Points Out of 100 to Price and Never Says What Sovereign Means.
The Generalitat de Catalunya put a framework agreement for a sovereign public cloud region out to tender in July, worth 397 million euros over eight years. The notice uses the word sovereign five times, every one of them inside the repeated project title, and declares the contract open to every sign
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October 28, 2026 at 6:01 AM
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Three Were Repaired Without a Vote

A peer said the clause had typos. It passed anyway. Three of the four broken cross-references then vanished in the reprint, with no amendment and no vote.

https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/fixed-without-a-vote.html #TechSovereignty
The Lords Voted a Clause Into the Cyber Bill With Four Broken Cross-References. Three Were Quietly Repaired Without Anybody Voting Again.
The Lords paper for Monday''s third reading went up last night. The government has tabled four amendments, one of them changing a single word, and not one of them touches the defective clause it lost a division over. It did not need to: three of the four errors had already disappeared in the reprint
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October 30, 2026 at 5:58 AM
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Announced Four Days Before

Over 700m for AI. The Treasury's own release four days earlier listed 621m of it.

https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/already-announced-four-days-before.html #TechSovereignty
The Budget Put Over 700 Million Pounds Behind British AI. The Chancellor Had Already Announced 621 Million of It the Previous Saturday.
HM Treasury trailed its AI package on 24 October with ten cash lines adding up to about 621 million pounds. The Budget four days later claims over 700 million. Line by line, roughly 150 million of it is new, one 138 million pound commitment is openly drawn from existing budgets, and the same scheme
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October 29, 2026 at 5:58 AM
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Never Mentions Where Data Goes

Five tests in the new Data Centre Covenant. Jurisdiction, residency, ownership and foreign appear zero times.

https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/never-mentions-where-data-goes.html #TechSovereignty
The Chancellor Promised Britain''s Most Sensitive Data Would Stay Under British Control. The Covenant He Published That Afternoon Never Mentions Where Data Goes.
John Healey told the Commons that the new Data Centre Covenant exists so that NHS and Armed Forces data stays in Britain. The document HM Treasury published the same afternoon sets five tests, and not one of them is about where data sits, who owns the operator, or which government can compel disclos
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October 29, 2026 at 5:57 AM
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Little More Than a Post Box

HM Treasury: broad definitions have let companies with little more than a UK post box count as UK firms.

https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/little-more-than-a-post-box.html #TechSovereignty
The Treasury Has Admitted Whitehall Counts a Post Box as a British Company. It Has Given Itself Until January to Write a Definition That Does Not.
Buried in the procurement section of Budget 2026 is a sentence no British government has previously put in writing: for too long, broad definitions have allowed companies with little more than a UK post box to be classed as a UK firm. A new definition of a UK supplier is promised by January 2027. Ev
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October 29, 2026 at 5:58 AM
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The Lords agreed 103 amendments to the cyber bill on Monday night. The minister had tabled 101 of them. The only two that were not hers had to be carried on a division against the government.

https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/the-minister-wrote-a-hundred-and-one.html #TechSovereignty
The Lords Agreed 103 Amendments to the Cyber Bill on Monday Night. The Minister Had Written 101 of Them.
Parliament''s amendment database has finally caught up with Monday''s report stage, and the full sweep is now readable. Of 167 amendments on the marshalled list, 103 were agreed, and 101 of those were tabled by the government minister in charge of the bill.
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October 28, 2026 at 6:01 AM
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Amazon's honeypots logged a PHP2Shell exploit attempt on 17 October, four days before the bug was public. The NCSC said patch or switch it off. 32 government services went dark.

https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/four-days-before-the-advisory.html #TechSovereignty
Someone Was Already Attacking the PHP Flaw Four Days Before the World Was Told It Existed. Britain''s Alert Still Lists Two of the Three Bugs.
Amazon found an exploitation attempt against the PHP2Shell vulnerability in its honeypot network on 17 October, four days before anyone outside the embargo was supposed to know the bug existed. The NCSC told UK organisations to patch or take systems offline, and 32 government services went dark.
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October 28, 2026 at 6:01 AM
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Spain notified Brussels about wet wipes, balloons and Canary Island cochineal this year. All 39 are in the database. The data centre decree is not, and notifying it starts a three month standstill.

https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/wet-wipes-yes-data-centres-no.html #TechSovereignty
Spain Told Brussels About Wet Wipes, Balloons and Canary Island Cochineal. It Has Not Told Brussels About the Data Centre Decree.
Spain sent its data centre royal decree to the Council of State on 26 October, the last signature it needs before cabinet. A sweep of the European Commission''s technical regulations database finds 39 Spanish notifications in 2026 and not one of them is this decree, which matters because notifying i
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October 28, 2026 at 6:01 AM
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The Lords beat the government twice on the cyber bill, twelve minutes apart. 163 agreed 202 to 155, 164 agreed 194 to 155. Parliament's own API still says the House has not considered either.

https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/beaten-twice-in-twelve-minutes.html #TechSovereignty
The Government Lost Two Votes in Twelve Minutes on Its Own Cyber Bill. Parliament''s Own Database Still Says the House Has Not Considered the Amendments.
At 19:30 on Monday the Lords wrote a rolling review of the whole cyber regime into the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill. At 19:42 they added a statutory register of hostile foreign powers. Fourteen hours later the Bills API still records both as unconsidered.
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October 27, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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Two peers made publishing the National Cyber Action Plan the price of commencing the Act. The minister offered the word shortly, and nobody moved the amendments. GOV.UK lists 15 documents. None is the plan.

https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/settled-for-shortly.html #TechSovereignty
Two Peers Made Publishing Britain''s National Cyber Plan the Price of Commencing the Entire Act. When the Clause Was Called, Nobody Moved It.
Amendments 161 and 166 would have stopped the Cyber Security and Resilience Act coming into force until the National Cyber Action Plan was published and Parliament had been given 28 days to read it. The minister offered the word shortly. The amendments were not moved, and an hour later the same fron
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October 27, 2026 at 6:01 AM
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The Treasury announced 120 million pounds for the AI Security Institute and gave no period. A peer told the Lords what the institute's director had told him that day: four years. So 30 million a year.

https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/never-said-over-how-long.html #TechSovereignty
The Chancellor Gave Britain''s AI Testing Body a Hundred and Twenty Million Pounds and Never Said Over How Long. A Peer Put Four Years on the Record Two Days Later.
The Treasury release of 24 October puts a period on the £23 million for the AI Economics Institute and on the £10 million a year for jobs research. The biggest security number in the package, £120 million for the AI Security Institute, is given with no period at all. On Monday a crossbench peer told
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October 27, 2026 at 6:01 AM
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Ten Conservative peers backed their own colleague's frontier AI reporting clause at 18:29. At 19:30, 129 of them backed a crossbench amendment instead. Same chamber, same evening.

https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/ten-then-one-hundred-and-twenty-nine.html #TechSovereignty
Ten Conservative Peers Backed Their Own Colleague''s AI Reporting Clause. An Hour Later a Hundred and Twenty Nine of Them Walked Through the Lobby for Somebody Else''s Amendment.
Baroness Harding told the Lords that when both front benches are against you on tech regulation, you are probably in the right place. The division list proves she was right about the arithmetic. Her party gave her ten votes at 18:29 and gave a crossbench peer a hundred and twenty nine at 19:30.
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October 27, 2026 at 6:00 AM