EU Stories

EU Opens Probe of TikTok Lite, Citing Concerns About Addictive Design 25
EU: Meta Cannot Rely On 'Pay Or Okay' 108
Porn Sites Face Strict EU Rules, Commission Says 36
AltStore PAL Alternative App Marketplace Launches On iPhone In EU 11
Meta To Close Threads In Turkey To Comply With Injunction 7
EU's New Tech Laws Are Working; Small Browsers Gain Market Share 36
EU Launches Probes Into Apple, Meta, Google Under New Digital Competition Law 20
EU's Vestager Warns About Apple, Meta Fees, Disparaging Rival Products 28
Europe Turns To the Falcon 9 To Launch Its Navigation Satellites 93
European Lawmakers Approve Landmark AI Legislation 29
Europe Lifts Sanctions On Yandex Cofounder Arkady Volozh 44
Apple To Allow iOS App Downloads Direct From Websites in the EU 30
EU's Use of Microsoft 365 Found To Breach Data Protection Rules 46
Apple Will Cut Off Third-Party App Store Updates If Your iPhone Leaves the EU For a Month 88
EU Looking Into Apple's Decision To Kill Epic Games' Developer Account 64
Apple is Working To Make It Easier To Switch From iPhone To Android Because of the EU 40
Carmakers Must Bring Back Physical Buttons, Says Europe 177
European Commission Confirms Apple's Anti-Competitive Behavior Is Illegal and Harms Consumers 87
French Court Issues Damages Award For Violation of GPL 52
Spotify, Epic Games, and Others Argue Apple's App Store Changes Do Not Comply With DMA 47
European Parliament Bans Amazon From Its Premises 102
EU Lawmakers Back Draft Rules on Patents for Connected Cars, Telecom Equipment 3
Apple's Decision To Drop iPhone Web Apps Comes Under Scrutiny in the EU 94
EU Opens Formal Investigation Into TikTok Over Possible Online Content Breaches 18
EU to Fine Apple $500M+ for Stifling Music Competitors Like Spotify 117
Apple Unbanned Epic So It Can Make an iOS Games Store In the EU 14
EU Expands Digital Crackdown on Toxic Content, Dodgy Goods To All Online Platforms 53
Apple Confirms iOS 17.4 Removes Home Screen Web Apps In the EU 136
Backdoors That Let Cops Decrypt Messages Violate Human Rights, EU Court Says 30
Apple's iMessage Avoids EU's Digital Markets Act Regulation 39
EU Proposes Criminalizing AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse and Deepfakes 101
The EU Proposes Slashing Pollution 90 Percent by 2040 95
EU Right To Repair: Sellers Will Be Liable For a Year After Products Are Fixed 55
Apple Says EU Represents 7% of Global App Store Revenue 67
OpenAI's ChatGPT Breaches Privacy Rules, Says Italian Watchdog 6
London Accused of Wrongly Fining Hundreds of Thousands of EU Drivers 91
Apple Faces 'Strong Action' If App Store Changes Fall Short, EU's Breton Says 65
Shameless Insult, Malicious Compliance, Junk Fees, Extortion Regime: Industry Reacts To Apple's Proposed Changes Over Digital Markets Act 255
Apple Plans New Fees and Restrictions for Downloads Outside App Store 140
Meta Now Lets EU Users Unlink Their Facebook, Messenger and Instagram Accounts 13
Apple Offers To Open Mobile Payments To Third Parties Amid EU Antitrust Case 16
Music Streaming Platforms Must Pay Artists More, Says EU 58
Google To Tweak Search Results To Comply With EU Tech Rules 20
Python Software Foundation Says EU's 'Cyber Resilience Act' Includes Wins for Open Source 18
EU Competition Chief Defends AI Act After Macron's Attack 10
EU Targets Pornhub, XVideos, Stripchat Under New Content Rules 79
European Union Lawmakers Agree To New Rules That Bolster Gig Worker Rights 43
Apple Set to Be Hit by EU Antitrust Order in App Store Fight With Spotify 13
Huawei To Start Building First European Factory In France 35
Threads Adds Hashtags Ahead of EU Launch 11
Europe Reaches a Deal On the World's First Comprehensive AI Rules 36
EU Mulls Expansion of Geo-Blocking 'Bans' To Video Streaming Platforms 44
EU, Chinese, French Regulators Seeking Info on Graphic Cards, Nvidia Says 44
File-Sharing Giant Uloz Bans File-Sharing Citing EU's Digital Services Act 12
EU Allows Use of Controversial Weedkiller Glyphosate for 10 More Years 43
The EU Will Finally Free Windows Users From Bing 67
EU Agrees Law To Curb Methane Emissions From Fossil Fuel Industry 34
'Provisional Agreement' Reached on eID, a 'Digital Identity for All Europeans' 194
Apple Says It 'Expects To Make' App Store Policy Changes Due To EU DMA 72
England To Diverge From EU Water Monitoring Standards 55
Privacy Advocate Challenges YouTube's Ad Blocking Detection Scripts Under EU Law 85
Amazon Discloses 181 Million Users In EU In First Store Transparency Report 4
EU To Crack Down Further on Microplastics After Glitter Ban 49
EU Will Do 'as Much as Possible' To Drive Out Fossil Fuels, Climate Chief Says 71
Should New Tech Rules Apply To Microsoft's Bing, Apple's iMessage, EU Asks 38
Germany Will Keep Keep Its Coal Power Plants on Standby For Another Winter 189
Alibaba Accused of 'Possible Espionage' At European Hub 38
Google Agrees To Reform Its Data Terms After German Antitrust Intervention 4
HMD Global Starts Manufacturing In Europe With the 'Made In Hungary' Nokia Phone 32
European Telecom Groups Ask Brussels To Make Big Tech Pay More For Networks 60
Norway Wants Facebook Behavioral Advertising Banned Across Europe 8
EU's Breton Tells Apple CEO To Open Its Ecosystem To Rivals 91
European Commission Hits Intel With New Fine Over Antitrust Findings 13
TikTok Fined $370 Million Over Handling of Children's Data in Europe 16
Microsoft Facing Formal EU Complaint Over Teams Video App 19
Europe's Economic Outlook Worsens as High Prices Plague Consumer Spending 105
Cheating in Tennis: How Cellphone Records Revealed a Massive Match-Fixing Ring 37
Facebook Is Getting Rid of the News Tab In the UK, France and Germany 21
EU Prepares To Push For 'Global Phase-Out' of Fossil Fuels at COP28, Draft Document Shows 207
Scientists Finally Know Why Germany's Wild Boar Are Surprisingly Radioactive 54
Does Nuclear Get In the Way of Renewable? France and Germany Disagree. 236
Microsoft To Unbundle Teams From Office, Seeks To Avert EU Antitrust Fine 21
EU Fossil Fuel Burning for Electricity Fell To Lowest on Record in 2023, Data Shows 38
New EU Climate Change Rules Anger Bloc's Farmers 181
The EU's Digital Services Act Goes Into Effect Today 34
Cheese-Makers Track Their Parmesans By Embedding Edible, Blockchain-Enabled Microchips 187
Meta To Seek User Consent for Targeted Ads in the EU 39
Hugging Face, GitHub and More Unite To Defend Open Source in EU AI Legislation 19
EU Opens Antitrust Probe Into Microsoft Over Teams Bundling 54
EU Passes Law To Blanket Highways With Fast EV Chargers by End of 2025 98
EU Enacts $48 Billion Chips Act in Bid To Boost Production 21
EU's AI Lobbying Blitz Gets Lukewarm Response in Asia 5
Meta Faces a $100,000 Daily Fine If It Doesn't Fix Privacy Issues In Norway 26
If VanMoof eBikes Locks You Out of Your Own Bike, a Rival Company's App Could Help 64
It's Official: Smartphones Will Need To Have Replaceable Batteries By 2027 283
Amazon Claims It Isn't a 'Very Large Online Platform' To Evade EU Rules 48
EU To Drop Ban of Hazardous Chemicals After Industry Pressure 74
Big Tech Can Transfer Europeans' Data To US In Win For Facebook and Google 23
Amazon's iRobot Roomba Acquisition Under Formal EU Investigation 20
EU and Japan Look To Partner On AI and Chips 7
European Companies Claim the EU's AI Act Could 'Jeopardise Technological Sovereignty' 15
The EU Wants To Crack Down on Rogue Efforts To Alter the Atmosphere 85
US Vendor Accused of Violating GDPR By Reputation-Scoring EU Citizens 28
Adobe's $20 Billion Figma Acquisition Likely To Face EU Investigation 22
Consumer Group Calls On EU To Urgently Investigate 'The Risks of Generative AI' 35
EU To Air Ideas on Guarding Prized Technology 22
EU Votes To Bring Back Replaceable Phone Batteries 218
EU Votes To Ban AI In Biometric Surveillance, Require Disclosure From AI Systems 34
Google Faces EU Break-Up Order Over Anti-Competitive Adtech Practices 51
Europeans Take a Major Step Toward Regulating AI 25
Google To Get Hit With EU Antitrust Charges for Ad Tech Abuses 14
EU Approves $8.7 Billion of State Aid for Tech Innovation Projects 14
AI Generated Content Should Be Labelled, EU Commissioner Jourova Says 45
Meta Offers To Limit Use of Ad Data To Address UK Competition Concerns 11
EU, US To Seek Stopgap Standards for AI, EU Tech Chief Says 8
Meta Fined Record $1.3 Billion in EU Over US Data Transfers 84
Anti-Piracy Program Accused of Violating Citizens' Fundamental Rights In France 10
EU States Approve World's First Comprehensive Crypto Rules 32
Microsoft Cloud Service Under Scrutiny From EU Antitrust Arm 10
EU Approves Microsoft's Deal To Buy Activision Blizzard 47
EU Crypto Tax Plans Include NFTs, Foreign Companies, Draft Text Shows 12
EU Plans Black Sea Internet Cable To Reduce Reliance on Russia 71
Google Bard Isn't Available in Any European Union Countries and Canada 20
'EU's Cyber Resilience Act Contains a Poison Pill for Open Source Developers' 86
EU Lawmakers Want More Talks To Strengthen Proposed US Data Transfer Pact 7
EU Lawmakers' Committees Agree Tougher Draft AI Rules 2
Google Accused of Breaking European Privacy Law By Hoarding Personal Data of Potential Job Candidates 24
EU Lawyers Say Plan To Scan Private Messages For Child Abuse May Be Unlawful 68
EU Warns Apple About Limiting Speeds of Uncertified USB-C Cables for iPhones 81
EU Urged To Protect Grassroots AI Research or Risk Losing Out To US 16
Microsoft Offers To Charge for Teams To Address EU Antitrust Concerns 16
ASML, Europe's Most Valuable Tech Firm, Is at the Heart of the US-China Chip War 49
EU Sets Out Patent Rules for Smart Technology To Limit Lawsuits 8
Apple Discloses App Store Metrics in Europe 27
EU Names 19 Large Tech Platforms That Must Follow Europe's New Internet Rules 75
EU Takes On United States, Asia With Chip Subsidy Plan 25
German Government Rejects Bavaria's Offer to Reopen Its Closed Nuclear Plant 219
After 18 Years, Europe's Largest Nuclear Reactor Starts Regular Output 129
Solar Projects in North Africa + Undersea Cables = Green Energy for Europe? 121
Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Closes Its Final Three Plants 241
Python Foundation Raises Concerns Over EU's Proposed Cybersecurity Rules 40
European Parliament Prepares Tough Measures Over Use of AI 17
EU Says Broadcom's Proposed VMware Deal Could Restrict Competition 10
These Angry Dutch Farmers Really Hate Microsoft Over Data Centers 97
Meta Wants EU Users To Apply For Permission To Opt Out of Data Collection 27
EU Countries Approve 2035 Phaseout of CO2-Emitting Cars 113
Germany Urges Loophole for EU Ban on Fossil-Fuel Cars: Synthetic Carbon-Captured Fuels 324
How Greenland Solved the Daylight Saving Time Debate 104
Millions of 'Extremely' Polluting Cars Still on Europe's Roads, Says Report 48
Europe's Right-To-Repair Law Asks Hardware Makers For Fixes For Up To 10 Years 110
Amazon Tax Structure Like Something Out of a Bond Movie, EU Says 175
Samsung Develops Workaround For EU's 8K TV Ban 126
WhatsApp Agrees To Be More Transparent on Policy Changes, EU Says 5
Netflix Fights Attempt To Make Streaming Firms Pay For ISP Network Upgrades 38
Microsoft's Licensing Offer Likely To Satisfy EU on Activision 10
China Says EU TikTok Ban Will Harm Business Confidence 43
EU Narrows Apple Case To Curbs on Apps Flagging Cheaper Deal 12
EU Officials Ban TikTok From Employees' Phones 18
EU Eyes Big Tech as it Seeks Feedback on Who Should Pay Network Costs 56
Brussels Sets Out To Fix the GDPR 64
Adobe's $20 Billion Figma Deal Faces EU Antitrust Probe 13
Influence Networks In Russia Misled European Users, TikTok Says 121
Chip Suppliers Warn on EU Plan To Bar 'Forever Chemicals' 64
After Cracking Another 'Secure' Messaging App, European Police Arrest 42 38
GitHub CEO On Why Open Source Developers Should Be Exempt From the EU's AI Act 28
EU Lawmakers Launch Tips Hotline To Catch Big Tech's 'Shady' Lobbying 6
Wind and Solar Were EU's Top Electricity Source In 2022 For First Time Ever 57
EU Weighs Proposal To Charge Data-Heavy Streamers for Telecom Upgrades 62
US and EU To Launch First-Of-Its-Kind AI Agreement 13
EU's Proposed CE Mark for Software Could Have Dire Impact on Open Source 104
Google Commits To Give Consumers Clearer and More Accurate Information To Comply With EU Rules 9
Microsoft Set To Face EU Antitrust Probe Over Video Calls 26
EU's Breton To TikTok CEO: Comply With New Digital Rules Or Face Ban 20
Spotify Joins Media Firms To Urge EU Action Against Apple's 'Unfair' Practices 35
Microsoft Faces EU Antitrust Warning Over Activision Deal 12
France Fines Apple for Illegally Harvesting iPhone Owners' Data for Ads 15
Meta's New Year Kicks Off With Over $410 Million in Fresh EU Privacy Fines 21
'Easily' Replaceable Batteries May Soon Be Required By EU Law 192
EU Opens Antitrust Probe Into Broadcom's $61 Billion VMware Bid 8
Amazon To Make Big Business Changes in EU Settlement 15
EU Agrees To the World's Largest Carbon Border Tax 97
Meta Hit With EU Antitrust Charges Over Marketplace Service 32
Power Line Bringing Wind Energy to the EU Planned That Crosses a 730-Mile Sea 72
EU Advances Its Data-Flow Deal After US Makes Surveillance Changes 24
Microsoft Seeks To Settle EU Antitrust Concerns Over Teams 12
WSJ: Europe, US Need Grand Bargain on Chips and EVs to Counter China 61
Google Must Delete Search Results About You If They're Fake, EU Court Rules 46
EU Sets December 28, 2024, Deadline For All New Phones To Use USB-C for Wired Charging 113
EU To Make Crypto Companies Report Tax Details To Authorities 26
Meta's Behavioral Ads Will Finally Face GDPR Privacy Reckoning In January 8
Amazon Agrees Final Deal To Close EU Antitrust Probes 6
EU Hosted 24-Hour Party In Its $400,000 Metaverse. Very Few People Turned Up. 88
'Germans Have Seen the Future, and It's a Heat Pump' 203
Google Takes Fight To Topple Record Fine Over Android To EU's Top Court 35
EU Unveils Plans To Cut Europe's Plastic and Packaging Waste 29
Microsoft Likely To Offer EU Concessions Soon in Activision Deal 9
'How Washington Chased Huawei Out of Europe' 102
EU Allows Smartphones During Flights 68
EU Countries Back Billion-Euro Chip Plan Ahead of Talks With Lawmakers 34
EU Confirms Multiple Ongoing Investigations Into TikTok Data Practices 7
Paris Overtakes London As Europe's Largest Stock Market 110
KFC Blames Semi-Automated Bot for Insensitive App Alert on Kristallnacht 129
Microsoft 'Irreparably Damaging' EU's Cloud Ecosystem, Industry Group Claims 17
Microsoft's $69 Billion Activision Deal Faces EU Probe 19
Spyware Is Running Amok in Europe, EU Lawmaker Warns 40
New EU Law Could Force Apple To Allow Other App Stores, Sideloading, and iMessage Interoperability 209
Europe's Telecoms Want High-Traffic Companies Like Netflix to Fund Infrastructure Upgrades 139
EU Reaches Deal To Ban Sale of New Combustion-Engine Cars By 2035 124
Google Filing Says EU's Antitrust Division is Investigating Play Store Practices 6
Europe Plans to Launch a Quantum Encryption Satellite for Ultrasecure Communications in 2024 32
French Court Slashes Apple Antitrust Fine in Blow to European Regulators 28
EU Wants To Know If Microsoft Will Block Rivals After Activision Deal 38
PlayStation Boss Jim Ryan 'Flew To Brussels' To Voice Concerns To EU Over Xbox's Activision Deal 22
Europe Braces For Mobile Network Blackouts 132
EU Proposes Rules Making It Easier To Sue Drone Makers, AI Systems 66
EU Telcos Call For Shared Network Costs 41
UN Chief Calls For Windfall Tax On Fossil Fuel Companies 212
Germany's Blanket Data Retention Law Is Illegal, EU Top Court Says 20
Google Suffers Setback in Court Fight to Topple Record EU Fine 19
Google Faces $25 Billion Legal Action In UK, EU 14
The EU's AI Act Could Have a Chilling Effect On Open Source Efforts 45
Germany Sticks To Nuclear Power Deadline But Leaves Loophole 192
Europe's Energy Crunch Squeezes World's Largest Particle Collider 138
The EU's AI Act Could Have a Chilling Effect on Open Source Efforts, Experts Warn 68
EU Wants Smartphones, Tablets To Be Repairable For At Least 5 Years 44
EU Proposes Tough Regulations on Smartphone Spare Part Availability 44
Microsoft EU Cloud Revisions Just So Happen To Exclude Google, Amazon 38
Microsoft Finalizes Plans To Fix Unfair Licensing in EU 8
A Decade After Fukushima Disaster, Foes of Nuclear Power Reconsider 257
Privacy Complaint Targets Google Over Unsolicited Ad Emails 20
Euro Falls Below Parity With the Dollar 140
The Problem of Nuclear Waste Disposal - and How Finland Solved It 146
Europe Is Seriously Considering a Major Investment In Space-Based Solar Power 166
Hidden 'Hunger Stones' Reveal Drought Warnings From the Past 120
Canada Plans Massive Wind-Powered Plant Producing Hydrogen for Germany 123
Is Germany Ready To Lean Back Into Nuclear Power? 392
Big Tech Should Share Europe Network Costs, France, Italy and Spain Say 81
EU Found Evidence Employee Phones Compromised With Spyware 12
Amazon To Increase Prime Membership Fee By Up To 43% In Europe 48
High Water Temperatures Compound Problems for France's Nuclear Power Operator 173
Google Will Let European Developers Use Their Own Billing Systems 19
SF Writer/Digital Art/NFT Pioneer Herbert W. Franke Dies at Age 95 20
EU Lawmakers Slam 'Radical Proposal' To Let ISPs Demand New Fees From Websites 42
Amazon Offers To Limit Use of Merchant Data in Bid To Settle EU Antitrust Probe 11
European Currency Close To Reaching Parity Against Dollar 120
Climate Change Goals Bring New Embrace of Nuclear Power (and Gas in EU) 189
EU Antitrust Regulators Probing Tech Group AOM's Video Licensing Policy 15
Europe Wants a High-Speed Rail Network To Replace Airplanes 82
EU Scraps 115 Grants For UK Scientists And Academics Amid Brexit Row 183
EU Lawmakers Pass Landmark Tech Rules, But Enforcement a Worry 31

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