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The Netherlands just told a US tech company 'thanks but no thanks' and honestly Europe is having a momentTech

The Netherlands just told a US tech company 'thanks but no thanks' and honestly Europe is having a moment

The Dutch government has blocked a US company from acquiring the cloud provider that hosts its national digital ID service - and it's the latest sign that Europe is very serious about untangling itself from American tech infrastructure.

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Amazon's AWS went down because a data center got too hot, and yes, the internet noticedTech

Amazon's AWS went down because a data center got too hot, and yes, the internet noticed

Amazon confirmed a 'thermal event' caused a power loss at a Virginia data center, triggering a May 2026 AWS outage - proving once again that the cloud is just someone else's very hot computer.

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