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EU Commission approves Google’s acquisition of cloud-native security platform Wiz

Europe’s next-generation weather satellite, Meteosat Third Generation-Sounder (MTG-S), sends back first images @esa.int

🇪🇺 EUCO October 2025: Ukraine, defense, climate policies, housing crisis…

New day, another story about elections being upset by the impact of AI: deepfake video of Irish presidential candidate rocks the campaign.

pro.politico.eu/news/207018

‼️The EP has given its final green light to rules clarifying the cross-border enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation. #GDPR

EP work was led by rapporteur @marketkag.bsky.social

📄Read more: www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...

International Criminal Court: Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman declared guilty of 27 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Darfur, Sudan

NASA introduces its newest astronauts Six women and four men will undergo two years of training before becoming eligible for spaceflight.

For the first time, there were more women than men in the incoming astronaut class.

Europe's first deep-space optical communication link

The European Space Agency successfully established a transmission-reception optical link with NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment onboard its Psyche mission, located 265 million kilometres away. @esa.int

Arrivals at the 5% NATO summit in The Hague

Zorionak! @esa.int #50YearsOfESA

European Commission opens formal proceedings against Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX, and XVideos for suspected breaches of
DSA regarding protection of minors

Over 50 million Europeans will be asked to #vote this Sunday in #elections in #Poland, #Portugal & #Romania. What appeared on their screens recently?

🔍 Based on 1.551 articles by 33 orgs part of the EDMO #factchecking network, take a look at recent #disinformation dynamics in 🇵🇱🇵🇹🇷🇴&🇪🇺: loom.ly/fOQ68os

Europe Day

EU Commission refers Czechia, Spain, Cyprus, Poland and Portugal to the Court of Justice of the European Union due to lack of effective implementation of the Digital Services Act

Irish Data Protection Commission fines TikTok €530 million and orders corrective measures following Inquiry into transfers of EEA User Data to China

Huawei’s EU bribery scheme exposed: tens of thousands of euros allegedly paid to MEPs Lobbyists for Huawei are accused of having funneled tens of thousands of euros to members of the European Parliament who supported a letter in favour of the Chinese tech giant, according to a leaked d...

More revelations in #HuaweiGate: Lobbyists for the Chinese tech giant allegedly paid tens of thousands of euros to MEPs who signed a pro-Huawei letter. The scheme appears to have been endorsed by Huawei’s Chinese management in the EU, a leaked doc reveals. www.ftm.eu/articles/hua...

Goodbye Cortland, and Godspeed - Cortland Standard This is the last edition of the Cortland Standard you will ever read.   The family-owned newspaper will cease publication, a casualty of declining readership and increasing costs. It …

The Cortland Standard, 157 year-old family-owned daily in New York, is shutting down in part because of Trump’s 25% tariff on goods from Canada
www.cortlandstandard.com/stories/good...

The UK’s Online Safety Act is enforceable from today.

And the regulator, Ofcom, has started an “enforcement programme” focussed on cloud platforms hosting child sexual abuse material. Ofcom recomends platforms use perceptual hash matching

Interesting given ongoing Apple/UK encryption fight 👀

Record drop in children being born in the EU.
In 2023 3.67 million babies were born in the EU, a 5.4% decrease from the 3.88 million in 2022. This is the largest annual decline recorded since 1961. Eurostat

Paris : trafic des Eurostar interrompu depuis Bruxelles vers la Gare du Nord après la découverte d'une bombe de la Seconde Guerre mondiale

Defining moment for the EU: Europe of defense

Călin Georgescu claims concerning annulment of presidential election in Romania rejected by European Court of Human Righ

February 2025 #C3S Climate Bulletin: Third warmest February globally. Global average temperature was 0.63°C above 1991-2020 average. 1.59°C above pre-industrial levels highlights persistent warming trends.
Full Climate Bulletin: climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-...

Microsoft is retiring Skype in May. Skype
became one of the most successful European tech companies, founders Zennstrom 🇸🇪and Friis 🇩🇰 sold it to eBay in 2005 for $2.6 billion.

Practical guidelines for German elections digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/d...

Despite the talk about its huge potential, Ukraine isn’t known to hold any reserves of the main rare earths elements sought after by Trump

As EU official Banasevic worked on several key competition decisions related to Microsoft - his move to Microsoft as lobbyist is a clear conflict of interest

The Commission should never have given Banasevic permission and should now retroactively withdraw it

www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/case/en/6...

EU Commission and the European Board for Digital Services have endorsed the integration of the voluntary
Code of Practice on Disinformation into the DSA. X will continue to be out of the Code that aims to be more agile and be instrumental for benchmarking and risk mitigation.

Sanctioning the ICC threatens the Court’s independence and undermines the international criminal justice system as a whole.