French govt finance panel mulls nationalizing Atos Protecting IT projects for military and other bits of the public sector Public Sector05 Nov 2024 | 20
Merde! Macron's bodyguards reveal his location by sharing Strava data It's not just the French president, Biden and Putin also reportedly trackable Security29 Oct 2024 | 24
Atos stumbles again as French government says 'non' to purchase of key assets Ailing IT services giant still in hot pursuit of agreement on Big Data & Security unit HPC07 Oct 2024 | 16
France charges Telegram CEO with multiple crimes Testing the idea that a platform boss can be responsible for the acts of others, or not helping to investigate them Legal30 Aug 2024 | 128
Brain Cipher claims attack on Olympic venue, promises 300 GB data leak French police reckon financial system targeted during Summer Games Cyber-crime29 Aug 2024 | 4
Telegram founder and CEO arrested in France Rumors swirl that lack of content moderation has angered authorities Personal Tech26 Aug 2024 | 194
French internet cables cut in act of sabotage that caused outages across country Axe attack comes just days after arsonists target rail network Networks29 Jul 2024 | 60
Mistral Large 2 leaps out as a leaner, meaner rival to GPT-4-class AI models It's not the size that matters, it's how you use it AI + ML25 Jul 2024 | 2
France poised to bring 'charges against Nvidia' Euro nation's monopoly gendarmes cheesed off with GPU giant's dominance AI + ML01 Jul 2024 | 19
Nokia to sell submarine network business to France in $375M deal Comms giant to dump undersea internet cable unit by early 2025 Networks27 Jun 2024 | 17
Atos in chaos as bailout talks unravel faster than you can say 'restructuring' Time for plan B (or will it be C?) HPC26 Jun 2024 | 12
Russia's cyber spies still threatening French national security, democracy Publishing right before a major election is apparently just a coincidence Cyber-crime20 Jun 2024 | 9
Atos gets a reprieve with restructure plan from Onepoint consortium Too bad shareholders, as this will mean pain for them... HPC11 Jun 2024 | 6
France willing to buy key Atos assets to keep them French Finance minister says government has interests in IT giant's 'sovereign activities' Security29 Apr 2024 | 8
French issue alerte rouge after local governments knocked offline by cyber attack Embarrassing, as its officials are in the US to discuss Olympics cyber threats Security12 Apr 2024 | 9
French lawmakers take a swing at cloud monopolies Action gathers steam in the EU, US and UK as anti-trust teams collate market feedback PaaS + IaaS02 Apr 2024 | 6
Why France this week fined Google €250M over web news Google pulls a few coins from the sofa and says whatever, just clarify who needs to be paid for what Personal Tech21 Mar 2024 | 11
Record breach of French government exposes up to 43 million people's data Zut alors! Department for registering and helping unemployed people broken into Cyber-crime14 Mar 2024 | 28
French government sites disrupted by très grande DDoS Russia and Sudan top the list of suspects Public Sector12 Mar 2024 | 7
Mon Dieu! Nearly half the French population have data nabbed in massive breach Infosec In Brief PLUS: Juniper's support portal leaks customer info; Canada moves to ban Flipper Zero; Critical vulns Security12 Feb 2024 | 19
French IT behemoth Atos facing calls for nationalization as it tries to restructure Politicians fear sale will place critical infrastructure in hands of foreign company On-Prem24 Oct 2023 | 13
French monopoly cops raid Nvidia office in cloud probe Updated AI accelerator maker suspected of potential anti-competitive tricks CxO28 Sep 2023 | 3
iPhone 12 deemed too hot to handle for France's radiation standards Watchdog worries over electromagnetic waves, Apple disagrees Personal Tech13 Sep 2023 | 38
Quirky QWERTY killed a password in Paris On Call Quelle tragédie – techie had to visit the city of lights twice to sort this one out Security30 Jun 2023 | 319
GlobalFoundries, STMicro snag €7.4B in EU money for French fab project Joint site to produce low-power chips Systems29 Apr 2023 | 1
Google Cloud slips over in Europe amid water leak, fire Paris-based europe-west9-a zone still MIA PaaS + IaaS26 Apr 2023 | 9
Parisians say au revoir to shared e-scooters 89% of citizens want them gone – at least among the 7.46% who showed up to vote Offbeat03 Apr 2023 | 56
France bans all recreational apps – including TikTok – from government devices Meanwhile the US contemplates drastic action Personal Tech27 Mar 2023 | 42
Ransomware scum launch wave of attacks on critical, but old, VMWare ESXi vuln You’ve had almost two years to patch and some of the software is EOL, now attackers déployer un rançongiciel Security06 Feb 2023 | 15
French lawmakers say oui to Olympic video surveillance, but non for faces Pas le visage, merci Personal Tech01 Feb 2023 | 16
Man wins court case against employer that fired him for not liking boozy, forced 'fun' culture You gotta fight... for your right... to not be an idiot Offbeat28 Nov 2022 | 155
France says non to Office 365 and Google Workspace in school Hey, teacher, leave those apps alone Software22 Nov 2022 | 81
OVHCloud results show its November price hike will be a nice little earner CEO claims no pushback from customers Off-Prem27 Oct 2022 | 1
French court slashes Apple's €1.1b fine to pocket change Instead of a week of profits, mere days of net income for Cook Personal Tech07 Oct 2022 | 16
Another UK tech company bought out: Schneider Electric grabs rest of Aveva Analysis French industrial conglomerate pays $10.75b, but already owned lion's share of industrial software specialist Software22 Sep 2022 | 15
AI detects 20,000 hidden taxable swimming pools in France, netting €10m Aerial photo scanning tool to be expanded to catch out other unreported home improvements AI + ML30 Aug 2022 | 124
STMicroelectronics and GlobalFoundries to build wafer fab in France US and Swiss companies to receive 'significant' French investment On-Prem11 Jul 2022 | 8
Large Hadron Collider experiment reveals three exotic particles Tetraquarks and other discoveries as CERN revs up for Run 3 Science05 Jul 2022 | 78
France levels up local video game slang with list of French terms to replace foreign words Goodbye cloudy retro-gaming, bonjour ‘rétrojeu video en nuage’ Personal Tech31 May 2022 | 168
Google must pay €150 million fine to French Competition Authority, court orders 'Opaque and difficult' ad rules cost biz 20 hours of annual profit Personal Tech08 Apr 2022 | 12
In the spirit of open government, France dumps 9,067 repos online to show off its FOSS credentials Have a gander at la République's open-source inner workings Applications11 Nov 2021 | 4
Bepanted shovel-toting farmer wins privacy payout from France TV Updated Unwitting star of #Slipgate viral images awarded reduced damages, tempts Streisand effect Bootnotes16 Sep 2021 | 22
Google fined €500m for not paying French publishers after using their words on web If the Chocolate Factory doesn't play ball soon it'll be an extra €1m a day Personal Tech14 Jul 2021 | 40
Google ad biz shenanigans smacked down by French competition regulators Chocolate Factory competition-squashing tactics receive a firm 'Non' from Paris Legal08 Jun 2021 | 9
Infrastructure SNAFU results in French public being unable to contact emergency services Mobile provider Orange fingers 'technical issue' on a router Networks03 Jun 2021 | 13
Apple, forced to rate product repair potential in France, gives itself modest marks Never mind the glue and soldered RAM Personal Tech27 Feb 2021 | 96
US backs down from slapping import taxes on French goods over Macron's web giant tax Officials instead probe similar levies mulled by UK, India, Europe Legal08 Jan 2021 | 18
France fines Google, Amazon €135m total for slipping ad cookies into people's computers without permission We're sure these websites will find some way to rebound from this incredible punishment Personal Tech11 Dec 2020 | 37
When it comes to taxing tech giants, America is out, France is in, Canada and Indonesia are going their own way With Trump on the way out, 2021 is going to be digital levy a-go-go time SaaS02 Dec 2020 | 65
Frenchman who wanted to 'smash a guy's face in' fined €135 – despite correctly filling out paperwork stating why he left home during lockdown 'In his own way, he was trying to fulfil the letter of the law' says cop Bootnotes23 Nov 2020 | 35
It's handbags at dawn: America to hit France with 25% tariffs on luxuries over digital tax on US tech titans Bags, soap, cosmetics covered, Trump admin backs away from President’s threatened wine levy Personal Tech14 Jul 2020 | 65
Frenchman scores €50k compensation for suffering 'bore-out' at work after bosses gave him 'menial' tasks Funny? Only until you read what really happened here Bootnotes10 Jun 2020 | 84
French monopoly watchdog orders Google to talk payment terms with French publishers Copying article snippets could get costly, if web giant doesn't ditch them altogether Personal Tech10 Apr 2020 | 38
French pensioner ejected from fighter jet after accidentally grabbing bang seat* handle That's a retirement day present he won't forget Bootnotes09 Apr 2020 | 144
Cloud'n'server hosting giant OVH more like OMG: Data center hardware failure knocks out services in France Bad case of the Mondays SaaS30 Mar 2020 | 8
French watchdog to take €1.1bn bite out of Apple over 'anticompetitive' practices Respect mah Autorité. You too, Tech Data, and Ingram Micro Legal16 Mar 2020 | 7
Don't tell us to go Huawei, Chinese ambassadors tell UK and France Locking out network biz 'goes against the principles of a market economy and free trade', says diplomat Networks10 Feb 2020 | 32
Stiff upper lip time, Brits: After bullying France to drop its digital tax on Silicon Valley, Trump's coming for you next Macron suspends cyber levy plan after The Donald has a quiet word On-Prem23 Jan 2020 | 145
Fuming French monopoly watchdog is so incensed by Google's 'random' web ad rules, it's fining the US giant, er, <1% annual profit Payer cette petite amende, s'il vous plaît Personal Tech20 Dec 2019 | 38
Bon sang! French hospital contracts 6,000 PC-locking ransomware infection Good news? They're not paying the ransom Security21 Nov 2019 | 45
Belgian F-16 pilot rescued from power line after emergency ejection Two-seat jet crashed in France Security19 Sep 2019 | 42