Isn't this award limited to young mathematicians? Nothing to take away from their achievements but do older people not make contributions to the field?
My land line comes through the ISP fiber so when the power goes out everything stops. The cell tower has a backup generator to keep the service going for a while longer than the internet service.
"American tech companies are required to share data with the U.S. government due to the Cloud Act in force in that country." - the CLOUD Act. It's not clear if a subpoena or summons was issued as required by the act. . All I have seen is that the US "demanded" the data. The Dutch government probably didn't want to go up against the US government, or worse Microsoft.