How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
Lectronz is a marketplace for open-source hardware makers and DIY electronics. Most of our sellers are not factories or well-funded start-ups. They are engineers, independent designers, and hardware enthusiasts working from spare rooms, garages, and tiny workshops. Some earn a living from their products. Some sell only a handful of boards each year. Others build […]
Show HN: Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?
A sourced model and short report on a single question: Can Europe stand up a sovereign frontier-class AI model now, by federating the public compute it already owns, while the gigawatt datacenters it is planning take years to connect to the grid? The answer the model gives is yes, as a stopgap. Europe already operates […]
Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Forgot about the processors
FEATURE Can digital sovereignty exist on American silicon? Europe is pouring more than €2 billion into sovereign cloud initiatives designed to reduce exposure to US legal reach. The EU’s IPCEI-CIS program funds infrastructure development. France qualifies operators under SecNumCloud, a framework with nearly 1,200 technical requirements promising “immunity from extraterritorial laws.” But most datacenters and […]
Europe asks if reviving nuclear is the answer to energy shocks
In 1990, Europe produced around a third of its electricity from nuclear power. That has now fallen to an average of 15%, leaving the continent “completely dependent on expensive and volatile imports” of fossil fuels, she said, putting Europe at a disadvantage compared with other regions of the world.
A $20 drug in Europe requires a prescription and $800 in the U.S.
A month’s supply of Miebo, Bausch & Lomb’s prescription dry eye drug, costs $800 or more in the U.S. before insurance. But the same drug — sold as EvoTears — has been available over-the-counter (OTC) in Europe since 2015 for about $20. I ordered it online from an overseas pharmacy for $32 including shipping, and […]
Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws
The EU folds under Big Tech’s pressure. The EU folds under Big Tech’s pressure. by Robert Hart and Dominic Preston Nov 19, 2025, 12:47 PM UTC After years of staring down the world’s biggest tech companies and setting the bar for tough regulation worldwide, Europe has blinked. Under intense pressure from industry and the US […]
Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks
A row is brewing in Europe over the 6 GHz part of the wireless spectrum, between those who believe it should be licensed for use by cellular networks and others that want it reserved for Wi-Fi. The Wi-Fi Alliance and the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) have published open letters addressed to “EU digital ministers,” expressing […]
Meta says it wont sign Europe AI agreement, calling it growth stunting overreach
In this article META Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Meta Platforms declined to sign the European Union’s artificial intelligence code of practice because it is an overreach that will “stunt” companies, according to global affairs chief Joel Kaplan. “Europe is heading down the wrong path on AI,” […]
Europe needs digital sovereignty – and Microsoft has just proven why
A quiet but deeply unsettling moment just shook the foundations of international justice, proving why Europe needs digital sovereignty – and most Europeans not too interested in tech likely missed it: The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), a court based in The Hague and central to Europe’s upholding of human rights, suddenly […]
Europe bets once again on RISC-V for supercomputing
A 38-strong group of tech players have founded a project with the snappy name Digital Autonomy with RISC-V in Europe, aka DARE, that aims to develop processor units to power the continent’s supercomputers and other high-performance machines. If you’re having deja vu, you’re not alone: Europe has been talking about and toying with using RISC-V […]