Tesla gets FSD Supervised approved in the Netherlands — here’s what it means
Tesla gets FSD Supervised approved in the Netherlands — here’s what it means

The Dutch vehicle authority RDW has granted Tesla a type approval for its “Full Self-Driving” Supervised system in the Netherlands, marking the first European country to officially approve the driver-assist technology.

The approval, which falls unde…

France orders all government ministries to ditch Windows for Linux in digital sovereignty push
France orders all government ministries to ditch Windows for Linux in digital sovereignty push

In short: France’s Interministerial Digital Directorate (DINUM) announced on 8 April 2026 that it is migrating its own workstations from Windows to Linux and has ordered every government ministry to formalise a plan to eliminate extra-European digital …

Volkswagen’s MOIA and Uber begin testing self-driving ID. Buzz minibuses in Los Angeles
Volkswagen’s MOIA and Uber begin testing self-driving ID. Buzz minibuses in Los Angeles

In short: Volkswagen’s autonomous mobility subsidiary MOIA America and Uber have begun on-road testing in Los Angeles with roughly 10 autonomous ID. Buzz vehicles, the opening phase of a deployment that is scheduled to offer commercial rides with human…

TikTok is spending €1B on a second Finnish data centre
TikTok is spending €1B on a second Finnish data centre

The new facility in Lahti is part of TikTok’s €12 billion Project Clover data sovereignty push for European users. Finland’s defence ministry approved the first data centre investment in 2024 without informing elected politicians. A former minister pub…

Greece will ban under-15s from social media from 2027, and wants the EU to follow
Greece will ban under-15s from social media from 2027, and wants the EU to follow

PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced the ban in a TikTok video on Wednesday. It takes effect on 1 January 2027. Enforcement will rely on a state-mandated app on every device. Around 80% of Greeks support the measure, according to a February poll. Greece ha…

Paladin acquires ICT in €60M push to dominate European ITAD
Paladin acquires ICT in €60M push to dominate European ITAD

In short: Paladin EnviroTech has acquired ICT, Ireland’s first R2v3-certified ITAD provider, completing a $70 million, nine-month acquisition spree that now spans the U.S., Netherlands, and Ireland, positioning the company to handle the growing wave of…

Xiaomi poaches Tesla’s delivery operations manager in Europe ahead of 2027 launch
Xiaomi poaches Tesla’s delivery operations manager in Europe ahead of 2027 launch

Xiaomi has hired Dieter Lorenz, Tesla’s Senior Manager of Delivery Operations for Central Europe, as its new Head of Delivery & Logistics Europe. The move signals that Xiaomi is aggressively building an operations infrastructure on the ground in Eu…

The Xiaomi 17 Ultra has some impressive add-ons that make snapping photos really fun

The Xiaomi 17 Ultra gives you a ton of options to play around with images, including preset filters and hardware add-ons.

Netflix owes Italian subscribers up to €500 after court rules its price hikes were illegal
Netflix owes Italian subscribers up to €500 after court rules its price hikes were illegal

In short: The Court of Rome has ruled that Netflix’s repeated price increases between 2017 and 2024 violated Italian consumer law and EU Directive 93/13/EEC on unfair contract terms. The ruling voids the relevant contract clauses, orders current prices…

Hackers breached the European Commission by poisoning the security tool it used to protect itself
Hackers breached the European Commission by poisoning the security tool it used to protect itself

CERT-EU has attributed a major data breach at the European Commission to cybercrime group TeamPCP, which exploited a supply chain attack on the open-source security tool Trivy to steal 92 GB of compressed data from the Commission’s AWS infrastructure. …