Imec: Strong cooperation between EU and US needed
Europe and the United States absolutely must continue to cooperate on chip technology, Imec CEO Luc Van den hove believes. A lack of good cooperation would be very inefficient.
The top man of the Flemish chip research centre made this statement in response to a joint visit of American ministers ... Read more
Frontline Ventures invests $200 million in B2B software companies
Frontline Ventures is putting $200 million of capital into two investment funds. This aims to spur European and U.S. business growth.
Frontline Ventures' mission is to help B2B software companies grow globally. Primarily, growth to the U.S. and within Europe are aspired to. The growth should pr... Read more
AI Act: Europe is blind to the law’s innovation problems
For Europe, the AI Act is all about gaining trust. Companies and residents of the EU must be assured that available AI tools do not pose a risk to privacy, for example. The EU says it has perfectly reconciled this goal with the ability to innovate. This can be seen in the milder rules that st... Read more
European cloud players complain about Microsoft privileging Azure
Microsoft is allegedly making Azure disproportionately attractive to customers. CISPE supports this claim by comparing the costs Microsoft charges on Azure to the substantially higher prices to run Windows and Office outside its own cloud service.
CISPE (Cloud Infrastructure Providers in Europe)... Read more
Big Tech tries to make developers and users pay for DMA costs
At midnight, gatekeepers should be in place for the Digital Markets Act (DMA). It already turns out the legislation is not yet perfect, or at least not being implemented perfectly. Big Tech is cunningly trying to get out from under the rules. What goes wrong?
The DMA already proofs it is not a s... Read more
Google makes changes for businesses and developers to comply with DMA
Google outlines the changes it is making to comply with the Digital Markets Act. Due to the changes, businesses generate less web traffic on their pages, while developers can offer alternative payment systems to app users.
Google, as "gatekeeper," must comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA).... Read more
FBI and European authorities neutralize MooBot: spying platform for Russia
The FBI worked with several partners to disrupt a malicious botnet. The Center for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB) supported the action in part. They shared some more information about defusing MooBot, which was linked to Russian intelligence.
In January of this year, the U.S. Department of Justice... Read more
LLM for Europe: Mistral AI puts Europe on the AI map
A French AI start-up signed partnerships with AWS and Microsoft this week. Will Europe have its own OpenAI? Primarily, Microsoft's interest in this start-up is important to answer that question. After all, this company before worked exclusively with OpenAI.
Mistral AI was already praised by Eur... Read more
IBM: Cloud use makes Europe biggest target of hackers in 2023
Recent research by IBM Security X-Force finds that Europe faced the most cyber attacks in 2023. High cloud adoption that increases the attack surface is the main reason.
The annual IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2024 shows that Europe suffered the most cyber attacks of any world region in... Read more
How do you prepare for the DSA or DMA, if it applies to you?
The EU is trying to make the online environment safer with a package of new measures. This concerns the DMA and the DSA. The rules are completely different, we explain the details.
The Digital Services Act package already passed the European Parliament in 2022. This package, in turn, came from a... Read more