France

Ransomware attack linked to museum break-in and theft of golden exhibits

Infosec in brief PLUS: Luxury brands under fire; FBI warns crims are spoofing it again; ICE buys phone cracking software

Security22 Sep 2025 | 2

French datacenter biz signs 12-year nuclear pact with EDF

Data4 to secure 40 MW of atomic juice as part of long-term low-carbon strategy

On-Prem08 Sep 2025 | 6

France fines Google, SHEIN for undercooked cookie policies that led to crummy privacy

Web giant and Chinese e-tailer whacked for dropping trackers without permission

Legal04 Sep 2025 | 17

Total recall: Mistral AI's Le Chat can now remember your conversations

A host of plugins also make it a better business tool

AI + ML02 Sep 2025 | 2

News from a possible future: ‘Rampant jellyfish cause AI outage by taking datacenter offline'

Don’t laugh, a French nuclear power plant just shut down for a while after invertebrates overwhelmed its intakes

Cloud Infrastructure Month12 Aug 2025 | 49

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

GPS on the fritz? Britain and France plot a backup plan

Cross-Channel pact aims to bolster navigation and timing tech as satellite signals face growing jamming threats

Networks14 Jul 2025 | 70

French cops cuff Russian pro basketball player on ransomware charges

'He's useless with computers and can't even install an application' says lawyer

Cyber-crime11 Jul 2025 | 15

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

French cybercrime police arrest five suspected BreachForums admins

Twentysomethings claimed to be linked to spate of high-profile cybercrimes

Cyber-crime25 Jun 2025 |

Japan set to join the re-usable rocket club after Honda sticks a landing

France announced its own effort to build re-usable engines on the same day

Science18 Jun 2025 | 31

French state formally bids €410M for Atos' slimmed-down HPC assets

Vision AI won't be part of sale but strategic supercomputers will

HPC02 Jun 2025 | 4

Good luck to Atos' 7th CEO and its latest biz transformation

We suspect Philippe Salle will need it, not to mention staff and customers

On-Prem16 May 2025 | 16

Infosec guru Schneier worries corp AI will manipulate us

RSAC Can we turn to govt, academic models instead?

AI + ML06 May 2025 | 15

France offers US scientists a safe haven from Trump's war on woke

Aix-Marseille University rolls out welcome mat for American researchers facing funding cuts

Offbeat14 Mar 2025 | 338

France tops China’s tokamak record with 22-minute plasma containment run

Nice number, but also not much more than a nice advance

Science20 Feb 2025 | 49

France, UAE to drop €50B on AI mega-datacenter. Still nowhere near America’s $500B bet

Oh look, a mini Stargate, how quaint

On-Prem08 Feb 2025 | 46

AI revoir, Lucie: France's answer to ChatGPT paused after faux pas overdrive

Slew of embarrassing answers sends open source chatterbox back for more schooling

AI + ML29 Jan 2025 | 69

French state waves up to €625M for Atos's Advanced Computing assets

Another offer IT services giant possibly can't refuse

HPC25 Nov 2024 | 5

French govt finance panel mulls nationalizing Atos

Protecting IT projects for military and other bits of the public sector

Public Sector05 Nov 2024 | 19

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