… The company has previously fired back at the EU’s criticisms of its Search product, telling Reuters in May that changes it made in an attempt to achieve DMA compliance “represent the biggest downgrade in the product’s history, creating a second-rate experience for Europeans to the benefit of a f… …
… Inés Alberico, campaign manager at Right to Repair Europe, thinks that’s unlikely to happen often though. “While there is always a possibility that some brands could attempt to limit certain repairability features to EU models,” she said, “in practice, manufacturers usually prefer global product de… …
… Following mounting pressure , European officials have recommended the bloc drop its 2035 ban on new gas cars, instead aiming for a 90 percent reduction in emissions from new vehicles, leaving room for a few hybrids to still hit the market. The change will still have to pass the EU parliament. …
… The European Union is currently debating a revision to the AI Act, and though the EU countries and the European Parliament were unable to reach an agreement in the most recent negotiations, whatever does end up coming out of that legislation will have a direct impact on how frontier AI models are d… …
… Dominic Preston Dec 15, 2025 De minimis, EU style. Europe wants to tax the flood of cheap packages from Chinese retailers like Shein and Temu, just like Trump did . …
… Europe’s privacy watchdog has opened yet another investigation into the millions of sexualized images, some of children , produced and shared on the platform last month. It joins the EU’s DSA effort already underway, whatever France is doing , and a few more in the UK . …
… But according to emails seen by Reuters, EU regulators are in no rush to give the green light. …
… Germany and Norway are still in the EU. There’s Swiss law, there’s German law, then there’s EU law. And the EU law is also getting increasingly intense about what they can scan and what they can’t scan. …
… It feels like we can play a lot of economic games and a lot of policy games, but when we start firing bullets, everything changes in very dramatic ways that are hard to deescalate. …
… He also notes that Meari has yet to fulfill its GDPR obligations to notify EU citizens about the breach. I wish I could say I’ve described every facepalm-worthy thing Azdoufal discovered about Meari’s practices, but you can find more in his full security writeup. …