Weeknotes 2026.32

Sometimes I wonder what people are thinking. This week someone hit a motorbike on our parking lot and then drove off without saying anything. The parking lot is under CCTV surveillance, so it was easy to identify the car owner.

I guess it would have been easier to say something and only some people would have known what happened. Now everyone knows what happened.

This week was quite intense. We got a surprise from our human resources department and had to deal with some bad news.

The announcement that Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse was probably the biggest surprise of the week in the database field. I am really curious to see what Andy will bring to ClickHouse.

Legal troubles ahead?

The European Data Protection Board wants to clarify what effects the recent ruling by the US Supreme Court has on the European-American data transfer agreements.

EU data protectionists: Clarify impact of US ruling on data transfer agreement

Mistral

Mistral announced a new specialized model: Shieldstral. And wired has a written about a window of opportunity for Mistral with their focus on small open-weight models.

• Introducing Shieldstral.
• Mistral Is in the Right Place at the Right Time

Timeline of the OpenAI attack

Simon Willison has w writeup about the Timeline of the OpenAI attack against Hugging Face.

Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

Data breach ticker

• Police National Legal Database confirms data theft after dark web leak
• Amgen says cloud data breach exposed patient health, proprietary info
• Hackers steal 31,000 records identifying people behind Liechtenstein companies, foundations
• Polish convenience store chain Żabka hacked through third-party account
• Dutch retailer De Bijenkorf warns customer data may be exposed after cyber incident
• Levi Strauss & Co. says hackers stole corporate data in cyberattack
• Swiss government SharePoint breach compromised 200 accounts
• Metabase SQLi zero-day exploited in customer data-theft attacks