Technology

Israeli spyware giant NSO Group ordered to pay nearly $170M to WhatsApp for hacking accounts
The ruling is a major win for privacy advocates and those pushing back against NSO Group’s controversial Pegasus software.

Brussels eyes hitting €100B of US goods with tariffs

Trump’s trade war threatens €549B of EU goods, Brussels warns

EU sails past deadline to tame AI models amid vocal US opposition

EU countries soften push to stop Chinese tech buyouts

Trump’s movie tariff threat puzzles Europe

Von der Leyen, Macron knock Trump’s war on universities as ‘gigantic miscalculation’
Europe needs to up its space game to fend off Musk, Russia and China
The continent needs to focus on cheaper satellites to stay in the space race, NATO’s Admiral Pierre Vandier tells POLITICO.
Why TikTok ruling sparks trouble for EU-China relations
The US has similar concerns over how Chinese authorities can access data from the popular app.
TikTok hit with €530M fine after illegally sending users’ data to China
Video-sharing app had for years claimed it did not store European personal data on servers in China.
France wants EU parcels levy to stem flood of cheap Chinese fast fashion imports
France fears U.S. President Donald Trump’s China tariffs will flood Europe with cheap goods via small parcels.
Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves
The right-wing billionaire’s platform has recently lost about 10 percent of its European user base.
Microsoft would push back against Trump order to suspend European cloud operations
Company to change contracts amid concerns that services will get tangled in US-EU fight.
EU views break from US as ‘unrealistic’ amid global tech race
A draft strategy obtained by POLITICO points to the difficulty of unwinding years of American technological dominance.
Points for kills: How Ukraine is using video game incentives to slay more Russians
Ukraine has created a macabre points scheme based on video games to boost the effectiveness of its soldiers.
‘This is a hostile and political act’: White House slams Amazon amid tariff standoff
Amazon is reportedly considering listing how much tariffs are adding to the price of items.
Privacy officials’ travel to home countries sets off EU alarm bells
Privacy regulator’s secretary general traveled on the EU’s dime to Spain, his home country, far more often than to other countries.
Why did the lights go out in Spain and Portugal?
And what does it mean for Europe, its power grids and its electricity?
Europe has risky reliance on China for low-tech chips, auditors warn
Brussels is far from meeting its targets to reshore microchips manufacturing.
French researchers to Macron: Take care of us before wooing Americans
Plans to attract U.S. researchers to France were quickly criticized by members of the research community.
Merz announces first German Cabinet choices
Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting hands key ministries to CDU veterans and business figures, setting the tone for a more conservative, security-focused government.
EU governments consider appeasing Trump on global minimum tax
Capitals fear retaliation from the U.S. and are considering changing the rules to grant American companies an exemption from a crucial provision of the global tax deal.
Trump talks tariffs. The EU talks free trade with the rest of the world.
With the United States throwing up the highest trade barriers in a century, Ursula von der Leyen’s European Commission is on a mission to do trade deals with everyone else.
Hungary on EU watchlist over surveillance at Pride
Budapest has opened the door to using AI facial recognition to identify LGBTQ+ protestors.
Europe faces ‘decisive moment’ in energy security battle, von der Leyen warns
Without action, twin threats of Russian sabotage and high prices will batter the bloc, the Commission President said.
After EU fines, Big Tech wants Trump to swoop in
Two big penalties overseas could be just what the industry needed to get the White House’s attention. Will Trump now try to roll back European tech rules?
European Commission blacklists groups lobbying for Huawei
EU executive won’t meet with lobby groups “acting on Huawei’s behalf” following bribery scandal.
Apple’s EU fight is transatlantic tension in a nutshell
The tech giant was hit by another European fine. It’s just the latest chapter in the battle over digital regulation ― and maybe a whole lot more.
Time was right for US Big Tech penalties, EU competition chief says
The European Commission has been accused of dragging its feet to avoid inflaming Donald Trump’s trade war.
The EU has fined Meta and Apple. What happened to X?
As digital enforcement kicks in, a high-profile investigation into Elon Musk’s X is still open.
Socialists urge EU tech chief to deliver results in blockbuster US tech probes
European Commissioner Henna Virkkunen is facing growing pressure to wrap up investigations into TikTok, Meta and X.