France

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

Indonesia imposes 10% digital services tax

To boost the post-pandemic tax base

Legal18 May 2020 | 18

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

World's oldest human was a 122-year-old French smoker after all

Researchers debunk tax-fraud imposter theory

Bootnotes16 Sep 2019 | 38

Satellites with lasers and machine guns coming! China's new plans? Trump's Space Force? Nope, the French

After all, what could possibly go wrong, apart from everything?

Science30 Jul 2019 | 138

We have the best trade wars: US investigating French tech tax plan over fears it unfairly targets American biz

How dare they. There are shareholders to consider

Legal12 Jul 2019 | 46

French internet cops issue terrorist takedown for… Grateful Dead recordings?

Internet Archive perplexed and annoyed over idiotic demands

Legal12 Apr 2019 | 100

Apple solemnly agrees to pay France $570m in back taxes, turns to camera, gives us a wink

Think we may just get away with this one, eh mes amies?

On-Prem05 Feb 2019 | 36

Black hats are great for language diversity, says Eugene Kaspersky

FIC2019 Also reckons Russian hackers go quiet over the Christmas holidays

Security23 Jan 2019 | 8

En garde! 'Cyber-war has begun' – and France will hack first, its defence sec declares

FIC2019 Parly-vous cyber-security? No plan to surrender, military bug bounty coming

Security22 Jan 2019 | 33

France next up behind Britain, Netherlands to pummel Uber with €400k fine over 2016 breach

Dara and pals told to hand over yet another cash wodge for hack it spent $100k covering up

Security20 Dec 2018 | 21

Bonne année, Google, Facebook! France to tax tech giants from 1 Jan

Nation becomes the latest to go it alone as EU talks stall

Legal18 Dec 2018 | 18

French president Macron insists new regulations needed to protect us all from Facebook's claws

While announcing new pilot project with antisocial network

Legal12 Nov 2018 | 17

Insects with farts that smell like coriander assist in covering up Paris's aroma d'urine

Sightings of Asian stink bug in French capital spike

Bootnotes19 Oct 2018 | 31

EU court: No, expat Frenchman can't trademark France.com

Judgment is latest blow against US citizen over travel agency's disputed domain

On-Prem26 Jun 2018 | 21

US citizen sues France over France-dot-com brouhaha

French-born man says country took his 24-yr-old domain name

Legal30 Apr 2018 | 50

France building encrypted messaging app for politicians

Yes, this is the same France that wants not-backdoors for the rest of us

Legal17 Apr 2018 | 53

France wants you to put lights and beacons on your drone

Nice idea, mes amis, but what about those bent on aerial mischief?

Science16 Apr 2018 | 29

Apple store besieged by protesters in Paris 'die-in' over tax avoidance

Furious Francs flay fruit-phone flinger for financial finagling in false fatality fracas

On-Prem10 Apr 2018 | 54

Screw everything! French swingers campsite up for sale, owners 'tired'

Voulez-vous acheter le hotspot pour le shagging en plein air?

Bootnotes09 Mar 2018 | 106

France gives les citoyens the right to cock up official paperwork

Forgot your tax return, mon ami? Pas de problem!

Legal24 Jan 2018 | 29

France to lend Brexit Britain sore souvenir of Norman yoke – the Bayeux Tapestry

Prez Macron expected to agree loan when he meets PM

Bootnotes17 Jan 2018 | 67

Frenchman comes eye to eye with horror toilet python

'I could very well have been bitten in a sensitive place, if you know what I mean'

Bootnotes16 Jan 2018 | 46