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AI email and the GDPR, what to check before you buy
One question decides most of it: which company holds the body of your email, in which country, and under which contract.
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AI email and the GDPR, what to check before you buy
One question decides most of it: which company holds the body of your email, in which country, and under which contract.
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N-able took its hosted RMM platform offline over published zero-days
N-able shut down hosted N-central on 9 November 2026 after a researcher published more than 30 claimed zero-days, and shipped a hotfix covering seven critical CVEs two days later.
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Outlook.com bounced legitimate business mail for two weeks
Microsoft confirmed on 10 November 2026 that a spam rule update wrongly blocked legitimate email to Outlook.com, Hotmail and Live addresses, and said it was fixed a day later.
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The best POS systems for Luxembourg in 2026
LUXPOS takes first place on Luxembourg VAT handling, filing output and staff languages, while Square is the better deal and is not sold here at all.
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All articlesENISA scores EU cyber resilience at 71.53 as the CRA clock runs down
ENISA's biennial State of Cybersecurity in the Union report, published 10 November 2026, scores the EU at 71.53 out of 100 while Cyber Resilience Act product obligations arrive on 11 December 2027.
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Railway says stolen AI keys ran up 740,000 dollars in charges
Railway's full incident report of 10 November 2026 says an attacker escaped its build isolation in October, took AI provider keys from 1,852 users and generated an estimated 740,000 dollars of fraudulent AI usage.
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The best project management software for small teams in 2026
Linear wins on price and a free plan with no member cap, Jira is free for ten people, and Asana's free plan is capped at two users.
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The best WMS for small warehouses in Europe in 2026
Odoo Inventory is the best warehouse system for a small European warehouse in 2026, because it is the only one that passes all five of our European tests: EU hosting, multi-currency, European carriers, floor mechanics and a published euro price.
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The best Salonkee alternatives for Luxembourg and Belgium
Seven alternatives ranked for a Luxembourg or Belgian salon, starting with what Salonkee genuinely does better than all of them.
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The best AI coding tools in 2026
Claude Code wins on surface breadth, Codex wins on EU data residency, and the two biggest names in this category changed owner in 2026.
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SumUp, the quiet European giant: how the card reader became a till
SumUp sells cheap hardware and free till software and earns on the card, charging 2,75 percent in Luxembourg unless the merchant pays 29 euro a month to drop to 1,29 percent, which is the whole business model in one line.
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Zoho and the suite strategy: how bundling prices out point solutions
Zoho is a privately held company that has never taken outside investment, sells more than fifty applications for a single per-employee fee, and prices several of its point products per organisation rather than per user, which is what makes single-product competitors hard to sustain.
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Salonkee and the Benelux booking market: who owns it and how it earns
Salonkee is a Luxembourg joint-stock company, RCS B207855, backed by a 28 million euro Series B led by PeakSpan Capital, and it is the only one of the regional booking platforms that publishes no marketplace commission at all.
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Mistral AI and the European software stack: what depending on it means
Mistral is a Paris company now valued at more than 21 billion euro that sells European inference regions, open-weight models and an enterprise platform, and the sovereignty it offers is narrower and more conditional than the word suggests.
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Block and Square in Europe: which countries it actually serves
Square is owned by Block, Inc., a Delaware company listed in New York under the symbol XYZ, and in Europe it accepts card payments in only four countries: the United Kingdom, Ireland, France and Spain.
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Odoo open source model: what the free edition really leaves out
Odoo gives away a genuinely usable Community edition under an open source licence, then keeps accounting, payroll, Studio, the mobile apps and version upgrades in the paid Enterprise edition, which is where the business actually is.
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How Fresha actually makes money from your salon
Fresha earns from card processing, metered messages, paid add-ons and, since the free plan ended, a per-seat subscription, and its UK accounts show the company is still being funded to get to break-even.
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