Christina Egelund

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Denmark ends pilot to replace Microsoft Office with open-source Collabora

Says the pilot was stopped under the previous minister; no plans to resume

Denmark's 38-employee test of Collabora is over, but the accounts of why still conflict. The ministry says the spring 2026 election call interrupted the pilot before a planned evaluation, while Collabora says a June ministry merger left the trial without a home before assessment and that its engineers fixed the problems testers raised.

Updated Nov 2

Denmark data breach exposes personal data of millions of citizens

Force in Play

Overseeing the government's response to the breach

An anonymous suspected hacker told Danish newspaper Politiken that the program used to steal 8.7 million CPR numbers was written by artificial intelligence. The program, containing more than 40,000 characters, was reviewed by two experts who concluded the code was AI-generated, Politiken reported.

Updated Oct 18