Weeknotes 2026.33

It was a quite intense week. I had to dig deep into the documentation of a project to figure out the data model. The interesting thing about it was the use of different terms for the same data.

According to a good old internet search, one term is more or less only used by our project website. That made me a little bit nervous. Was it the wrong term? At least according to the documentation, it is the correct term.

Next week I plan a "field trip" with our interns. They are eager to see what other departments of the company are doing.

This week the book about the Transcontinental Race arrived. I am already excited to dig into it.

Hepatitis C

Good news is coming out of England. According to a BBC report, England has great success in finding and treating patients with hepatitis C.

England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

A world of bots

Nick Gray wrote about his fight against bots. He writes that hs site has a ratio of 1:214; that means for every visitor 214 bots access his site.

99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots

Mistral

After mentioning Mistral already last week, some news worth mentioning appeared this week. Mistral announced that want to build 1 gigawatt of European compute and that they already have some companies that are willing to consume the computing power.

They also announced that they will host other open-weight models on their infrastructure, starting with Z.ai’s GLM-5.2.

• In-region inference, open models, and new European infrastructure for sovereign AI.
• Mistral AI wants to build 1 gigawatt of European compute by 2030 — and lock in customers now
• Mistral's big bet on Europe's AI infrastructure

Google

According to a report by Ryan Whitwam, Google Gemini is the fastest-growing Google product ever. But the question remains if the growth continues. Google lost many top AI engineers, and at the moment it seems that they are not able to compete with the pace of OpenAI or Anthropic.

Google announced that the new Pixel Watch 5 will be able to measure blood pressure and insulin resistance.

• Gemini becomes Google’s fastest-growing product ever as it hits 1B users
• Google's newest Pixel Watch feature can monitor your blood pressure and insulin resistance

Mozilla

A little oopsie by Mozilla. It seems like their signing key landed on GitHub.

Mozilla has revoked a cryptographic key used to sign Firefox and Thunderbird releases after discovering someone had accidentally committed an unencrypted copy of the private key to a GitHub repository.

Mozilla revokes Firefox signing key after unencrypted copy lands in GitHub

Data breach ticker

• Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack
• Hackers breached a small Polish energy plant via private APN last year
• Wesco confirms security incident after ExfilSquad claims data theft
• Cyberattack on logistics giant Ceva hits retailers and Steam customers across Europe
• Local governments in four states dealing with cyberattacks that have shut down services
• Trezor discloses data breach affecting nearly 14,000 customers
• France investigates tax authority breach after hacker claims 600,000 victims
• Shell investigates 'potential incident' after Clop data theft claims
• RingCentral data breach exposed info of 1.6 million accounts