Author: Łukasz Nowak

The EU awarded EUR 180 million in sovereign cloud contracts to four European provider consortia and introduced the SEAL framework, which for the first time defines cloud sovereignty through measurable levels rather than political principles.

Vercel confirmed unauthorized access to its internal systems on April 19, 2026, while a threat actor claiming affiliation with ShinyHunters posted on BreachForums offering to sell the alleged dataset including GitHub tokens, NPM tokens, API keys, and source code for $2 million.

HostPapa acquired Tailor Made Servers, a Dallas dedicated server provider operating since 2003, adding its customer base to the ColoCrossing brand as part of an acquisition run that has included 17 deals since 2020.

Flippa celebrated the six-figure sale of the Essential Plugin portfolio; eight months later the buyer activated a backdoor across 20,000+ WordPress sites using Googlebot cloaking and a C2 routed through an Ethereum smart contract.

WP Engine's survey of 214 agencies finds the AI gap between leaders and laggards is already three times wide on client services, while one in six agencies says their clients are not asking for AI at all.

Cloudflare's 11% drop on April 9 was the opening move; Fastly fell 18% and Akamai 12% in the session that followed.

The WTO's 28-year moratorium on customs duties for digital transmissions lapsed on March 30 after MC14 in Yaoundé ended without a deal.

PrestaShop opened a formal French layoff process on April 10, eight weeks after Cyber_Folks completed its €53.7 million acquisition of the platform.

Cloudflare fell 11% on April 9 as Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents threatened the infrastructure layer Cloudflare spent two years building.

Virginia Democrats are deadlocked over their $1.6 billion data center tax exemption, with a budget-blocking special session set for April 23.