AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty EU-only ops, German subsidiaries, and a pinky promise your data won't end up in Uncle Sam's hands PaaS + IaaS15 Jan 2026 | 72
Eurail passengers taken for a ride as data breach spills passports, bank details Travel biz tells customers to change passwords beyond its own services Cyber-crime14 Jan 2026 | 17
Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech Call for Evidence casts FOSS as a way to break US dependence Software11 Jan 2026 | 82
EU won't scrap tech regs just because Washington dislikes them US trade body threatens software and services market access unless European approach changes Legal05 Jan 2026 | 33
Europe gets serious about cutting digital umbilical cord with Uncle Sam's big tech Feature Public bodies migrate in the bloc as hyperscalers claim sovereignty PaaS + IaaS22 Dec 2025 | 114
China's Ink Dragon hides out in European government networks Misconfigured servers are in, 0-days out Research16 Dec 2025 | 13
UK to Europe: The time to counter Russia's information war machine is now Foreign secretary set to address senior diplomats later today Security09 Dec 2025 | 109
193 cybercrims arrested, accused of plotting 'violence-as-a-service' Minors groomed to kill and intimidate victims Cyber-crime08 Dec 2025 | 5
Canada ups its European Space Agency bet 10x with $376M Massive jump in spending shows the Great White North isn’t betting everything on NASA Science19 Nov 2025 | 16
Europe joins US as exascale superpower after Jupiter clinches Top500 run SC25 EuroHPC's biggest iron still has more to give with Universal Cluster expansion expected to come online next year SC2517 Nov 2025 | 3
Europe's IT spend to surge 11% as cloud sovereignty fever takes hold AI, cybersecurity, and geopolitical jitters forecast to push market to $1.4T next year On-Prem14 Nov 2025 | 3
Rhadamanthys malware admin rattled as cops seize a thousand-plus servers Operation Endgame also takes down Elysium and VenomRAT infrastructure Cyber-crime13 Nov 2025 | 2
Cybercrooks getting violent more often to secure big payouts in Europe France-based victims hit especially hard, while UK named most-targeted country generally Cyber-crime04 Nov 2025 | 7
EU sovereignty plan accused of helping US cloud giants Brussels' framework muddies the waters and could hand advantage to foreign hyperscalers, says trade body PaaS + IaaS27 Oct 2025 | 11
Give Europe some space! 3 companies join forces to reach for the stars Airbus, Leonardo and Thales seek to 'strengthen Europe’s strategic autonomy in space' Science23 Oct 2025 | 6
EU member states pile pressure on Brussels for Chips Act rethink Semicon Coalition presses European Commission for stronger funding, strategy, and skills drive Systems29 Sep 2025 | 8
Dutch teen duo arrested over alleged 'Wi-Fi sniffing' for Russia Infosec In Brief PLUS: Interpol recoups $439M from crims; CISA criticizes Feds security; FIFA World Cup nets dodgy domain deluge Security29 Sep 2025 | 6
Microsoft agrees to 11th hour Win 10 end of life concessions Updated Consumer org forces Redmond to expunge list of requirements for free ESU in Euro Economic Area, just need a Microsoft account OSes26 Sep 2025 | 88
Just using open source software isn't radical any more. Europe needs to dig deeper Feature Companies must realize they can be more than pure consumers, and public sector ought to go beyond 'promotion' OSes26 Sep 2025 | 20
Brussels faces privacy crossroads over encryption backdoors Over 600 security boffins say planned surveillance crosses the line Security11 Sep 2025 | 56
Europe’s Jupiter supercomputer hits exascale threshold at inauguration video It won't be fully functional for a while, though SC2505 Sep 2025 | 11
SAP splashes €20B on Euro sovereign cloud push German giant takes aim at US hyperscaler dominance as some EU customers fret amid Trump 2.0 rhetoric PaaS + IaaS04 Sep 2025 | 13
Europe's AI crackdown starts this week and Big Tech isn't happy Users and developers struggle to comply as situation evolves AI + ML30 Jul 2025 | 27
Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty Updated Under oath in French Senate, exec says it would be compelled – however unlikely – to pass local customer info to US admin PaaS + IaaS25 Jul 2025 | 100
X tells the French police 'non' to its request for algorithmic data Claims it's all a witch hunt by local lawmakers Legal21 Jul 2025 | 13
EU tries to explain how to do AI without breaking the law A new code aims to make it easy to figure out AI + ML10 Jul 2025 | 8
Europe's exascale dreams inch closer as SiPearl finally tapes out Rhea1 chip Design sent to TSMC as startup wraps €130M funding round and targets 2026 silicon Systems09 Jul 2025 | 14
Financial 'stretch' for UK to join Europe's Starlink rival, says minister Possibility of joining IRIS² remote as Britain grapples with fiscal squeeze Networks05 Jul 2025 | 131
EU businesses want a pause on AI regulations so they can cope with unregulated Big Tech players Mistral fears continental companies may not get time to escape 'distant, behemoth corporations' AI + ML04 Jul 2025 | 42
Won’t somebody think of the European children? Meta and Google put up their hands to help on the same day Zuck backs a ‘digital majority age’ and Google open sources tech that might enforce it Public Sector04 Jul 2025 | 17
Tariffs and trade turmoil driving up cost and build times for datacenters World War Fee Biz needs AI infra for training ever larger models, but something's gotta give On-Prem03 Jul 2025 | 7
The year of the European Union Linux desktop may finally arrive Opinion True digital sovereignty begins at the desktop OSes27 Jun 2025 | 127
French city of Lyon ditching Microsoft for open source office and collab tools Ingredients of future software salade Lyonnaise will include Linux, PostgreSQL, and OnlyOffice Public Sector26 Jun 2025 | 102
Teens used encrypted chats to recruit for 'violence as a service' murder ring, Europol says Skull emoji knife emoji moneybag emoji Offbeat21 Jun 2025 | 152
Microsoft brings 365 suite on-prem as part of sovereign cloud push Mostly aimed at Europe and its increasingly nervous users Software17 Jun 2025 | 41
SiPearl ships reference node design for Rhea1 high-spec Arm chip Server rig aimed at validating Europe's exascale-class silicon and software stacks SC2511 Jun 2025 | 1
Jupiter, Europe’s most powerful super, takes maiden flight - but misses exascale orbit ISC Full system expected to break the exaFLOP barrier - perhaps in time for SC25 this fall? European Supercomputing10 Jun 2025 | 1
European pols wave their hands about digital sovereignty with broad but vague plan One Dutch developer called it a 'nothingburger' Public Sector06 Jun 2025 | 18
AWS forms EU-based cloud unit as customers fret about Trump 2.0 Locally run, Euro-controlled, ‘legally independent,' and ready by the end of 2025 PaaS + IaaS03 Jun 2025 | 46
'Close to impossible' for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers Barriers stack up: Datacenter capacity, egress fees, platform skills, variety of cloud services. It won't happen, say analysts European Supercomputing22 May 2025 | 95
VMware price hikes? Between 800 and 1,500%, claim Euro customers Report slates end of perpetual licenses, death of monthly pay-as-you-go model, and 'punitive' changes by Broadcom PaaS + IaaS22 May 2025 | 54
Europe is Russian to sanction Putin's pals over 'hybrid' threats Names spies, web hosts, GPS jammers, fishing (not phishing) biz Public Sector22 May 2025 | 7
Google carves out cloudy safe spaces for nations nervous about America's reach From air-gapped bunkers to partner-run platforms, sovereignty is suddenly in vogue PaaS + IaaS21 May 2025 | 25
Europe plots escape hatch from enshittification of search Plus: How to make Google less unhelpful Software14 May 2025 | 93
X marks the drop for European users Xitter sheds EU users. Musk's Grok suggests 'misinformation, hate speech, and a perceived decline in content moderation' to blame Personal Tech01 May 2025 | 47
Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence Brad Smith commits org to facing off with US govt in court to protect them PaaS + IaaS30 Apr 2025 | 105
Google goes cold on Europe: Stops making smart thermostats for continental conditions And just-about bricks some of its older models everywhere Personal Tech28 Apr 2025 | 136
Russians lure European diplomats into malware trap with wine-tasting invite Vintage phishing varietal has improved with age Cyber-crime16 Apr 2025 | 14
EU gives staff 'burner phones, laptops' for US visits That would put America on the same level as China for espionage Security15 Apr 2025 | 128
EU may target US tech giants in tariff response World War Fee By putting services in scope, €18 trillion trade bloc looks to focus tech sector minds Public Sector07 Apr 2025 | 179
EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption! ProtectEU plan wants to have its cake and eat it too Security03 Apr 2025 | 149
EU OS drafts a locked-down Linux blueprint for Eurocrats Thoughtful and considered … even if it is based on an American distro OSes25 Mar 2025 | 62
Privacy warriors whip out GDPR after ChatGPT wrongly accuses dad of child murder Tough Euro rules on data accuracy apply to AI yammering, formal complaint to watchdog argues AI + ML20 Mar 2025 | 77
Euro semi firms push for 'Chips Act 2.0' to expand beyond manufacturing Industry leaders want broader strategy, citing supply chain gaps, investment needs, and global trade uncertainty Systems20 Mar 2025 | 12
Do you DARE? Europe bets once again on RISC-V for supercomputing sovereignty €240M found for three-year sprint to develop three chiplets for HPC, AI HPC07 Mar 2025 | 37
Euro cloud crew says we-won't-sue deal with Microsoft is 'off-track' Overseas pals urge US tech giant to 'rapidly' work on Azure Local project to make things right – sans licenses PaaS + IaaS11 Feb 2025 | 2
Gilmore Girls fans nabbed as Eurocops dismantle two major cybercrime forums Nulled and Cracked had a Lorelai-cal rise - until Operation Talent stepped in Security02 Feb 2025 | 2
Microsoft joins CISPE, the Euro cloud crew that tried to curb its licensing Exclusive From fighters to friends in six months, despite AWS voting against it PaaS + IaaS21 Jan 2025 | 10
Europe signs off on €10.6B IRIS² satellite broadband deal Service promised by 2030 for bloc's take on Starlink Networks16 Dec 2024 | 41
Eurocops take down 'secure' criminal chat system known as Matrix Updated They took the red pill Cyber-crime04 Dec 2024 | 44
Bluesky too opaque about user figures for Euro watchdogs Updated X rival also under fire for failing to designate legal representative Legal26 Nov 2024 | 82
European Cloud Competition Observatory created to keep an eye on software licensing Exclusive Initiative follows Microsoft settlement with CISPE consortium PaaS + IaaS20 Nov 2024 | 3