European publishers ask EU and UK regulators to stop Meta’s AI terms
European publishers ask EU and UK regulators to stop Meta’s AI terms

Europe’s biggest news publishers are asking regulators in the EU and UK to stop Meta from introducing new business terms that they fear could allow the company to copy content from their websites for use in AI products. The changes are due to take effe…

Palantir says it cannot switch off NATO’s Maven AI system
Palantir says it cannot switch off NATO’s Maven AI system

Palantir says neither it nor the US government can remotely shut down Maven, its AI-powered battlefield system used by NATO’s top military command. The assurance comes as European countries question how much control they have over US-made defence techn…

German court calls Google’s aerial imagery ‘spying’, Google will appeal
German court calls Google’s aerial imagery ‘spying’, Google will appeal

A German court has told Google it cannot keep showing people’s homes from above without their permission. The Frankfurt Regional Court ruled on Tuesday that the aerial and satellite views on Google Earth and Google Maps break Germany’s strict privacy l…

European governments pull websites offline over two critical PHP flaws
European governments pull websites offline over two critical PHP flaws

Government, hospital and university websites across Europe went dark on Wednesday. Operators pulled them offline to guard against two critical flaws in PHP, the programming language that runs a large share of the web. They judged a few hours of downtim…

ChatGPT ads reach 89 countries as OpenAI passes 100,000 advertisers
ChatGPT ads reach 89 countries as OpenAI passes 100,000 advertisers

OpenAI is bringing ads in ChatGPT to 26 more countries, taking the total to 89. More than 100,000 advertisers have now run campaigns on the platform, the company said. It launched ChatGPT ads just over eight months ago. OpenAI announced the expansion i…

Orange outage cuts mobile calls and data for customers across France
Orange outage cuts mobile calls and data for customers across France

Orange, the largest telecoms operator in France, lost much of its mobile network on Wednesday. From about 11:20 CEST, customers nationwide could not make calls, send texts or use mobile data, and by early afternoon the company had not named a cause. An…

EU opens Digital Services Act investigation into Booking.com over scams
EU opens Digital Services Act investigation into Booking.com over scams

The European Commission has opened an investigation into Booking.com over concerns that the platform is not doing enough to protect users from fake listings and phishing scams. Announced Wednesday, the probe will examine whether the travel booking site…

Nvidia says European partners are adopting DSX to cut AI factory water use
Nvidia says European partners are adopting DSX to cut AI factory water use

European infrastructure companies are building AI data centres on Nvidia DSX, Nvidia said on Wednesday at its GTC Berlin conference. The chipmaker says the blueprint can cut cooling water use to almost zero. The news came a day after Germany signed an …

Protesters heckle Huang in Berlin over Nvidia chips in Russian drones
Protesters heckle Huang in Berlin over Nvidia chips in Russian drones

Protesters interrupted Jensen Huang’s keynote at Nvidia’s GTC Berlin conference on Wednesday, asking what the company is doing about Nvidia chips reported in Russian drones. Security staff led them out, and Nvidia’s chief executive carried on with his …

EU cybersecurity team says unpatched PHP sites may need to go offline
EU cybersecurity team says unpatched PHP sites may need to go offline

Organisations that cannot quickly patch two critical flaws in PHP should consider taking their websites offline, the EU’s cybersecurity response team has warned. PHP powers a large share of the web. The PHP project will release fixes at 14:00 UTC on We…