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Google says it will sign EU’s AI code of practice

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2025-12-23 02:57:03

Google has confirmed it will sign the European Union’s general purpose AI code of practice, a voluntary framework that aims to help AI developers implement processes and systems to comply with the bloc’s AI Act. Notably, Meta earlier this month said it would not sign the code, calling the EU’s implementation of its AI legislation “overreach,” and stating that Europe was “heading down the wrong path on AI.” Google’s commitment comes days before rules for providers of “general-purpose AI models

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Big Tech split? Google to sign EU’s AI guidelines despite Meta snub

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-12-23 09:33:31

Google on Wednesday said it will sign the European Union's guidelines on artificial intelligence, which Meta previously rebuffed due to concerns they could stifle innovation. In a blog post, Google said it planned to sign the code in the hope that it would promote European citizens' access to advanced new AI tools, as they become available. Google's endorsement comes after Meta recently said it would refuse to sign the code over concerns that it could constrain European AI innovation. "Prompt

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Original Tesla Founder Is Sad That Musk Made a ‘Truck That Looks Like a Dumpster’

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-24 02:10:33

Unbeknownst to much of the public, Elon Musk did not actually start Tesla. Indeed, Musk was actually the company’s 4th CEO when he initially joined the company way back in 2008. While Musk can be credited with substantially transforming the firm and its offerings, its original co-founders, Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, launched Tesla in 2003. Musk and those original executives have had their tussles over the years. In fact, tensions between Musk and Eberhard led to a 2009 lawsuit and set

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Spotify drops 11% for worst day in two years on weak guidance

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-12-24 06:52:09

The company expects revenues to reach 4.2 billion euros, compared to a 4.47 billion euro estimate from StreetAccount. Spotify said the forecast accounts for a 490-basis-point headwind due to foreign exchange rates. Spotify said higher personnel, marketing and professional services costs and 115 million euros worth of what it called social charges contributed to the results. The Swedish platform's revenues rose 10% from about 3.81 billion euros in the year-ago period. The company posted a net l

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Trump claims Europe won’t make Big Tech pay ISPs; EU says it still might

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-24 05:52:40

The White House said yesterday that the European Union agreed to scrap a controversial proposal to make online platforms pay for telecom companies' broadband network upgrades and expansions. But European officials have not confirmed the White House claim, and a European Commission spokesperson said the issue must go through the legislative process. A White House fact sheet on President Trump's trade deal with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen contains a brief reference to Europ

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Spotify CEO Ek says he's 'unhappy' with ads business as stock falls 10% on weak guidance

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-12-24 16:05:24

The company expects revenues to reach 4.2 billion euros, compared to a 4.47 billion euro estimate from StreetAccount. Spotify said the forecast accounts for a 490-basis-point headwind due to foreign exchange rates. Spotify said that higher personnel, marketing and professional services costs and 115 million euros worth of what it called social charges contributed to the results. The Swedish platform's revenues rose 10% from about 3.81 billion euros in the year-ago period. The company posted a

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This founder left Silicon Valley to challenge US defense supremacy from Athens, and investors are paying attention

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-12-24 21:05:34

In the summer of 2021, Dimitrios Kottas made a move that would be unfathomable to most Silicon Valley engineers: after leaving his coveted position as an engineering manager at Apple’s Special Projects Group, he packed up his life in California and moved back to Athens to start a defense company. Three and a half years later, his startup, Delian Alliance Industries, has set up solar-powered surveillance towers that monitor some of Greece’s borders around the clock and detect wildfires on remote

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Spotify CEO Ek says he's 'unhappy' with ads business as stock falls 11% on weak guidance

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-12-25 06:50:46

Spotify shares dropped more than 11% Tuesday after the music streaming service fell short of Wall Street's expectations and posted weak guidance for the current quarter. Shares headed for their worst session since July 2023. Here's how the company did versus LSEG estimates: Loss: Loss of .42 euros vs earnings of 1.90 euros per share expected Loss of .42 euros vs earnings of 1.90 euros per share expected Revenue: 4.19 billion euros vs. 4.26 billion expected The Swedish platform's revenues ro

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Spotify CEO Ek says he's 'unhappy' with ads business as stock falls 9% on weak guidance

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-12-25 11:54:42

The company expects revenues to reach 4.2 billion euros, compared to a 4.47 billion euro estimate from StreetAccount. Spotify said the forecast accounts for a 490-basis-point headwind due to foreign exchange rates. Spotify said that higher personnel, marketing and professional services costs and 115 million euros worth of what it called social charges contributed to the results. The Swedish platform's revenues rose 10% from about 3.81 billion euros in the year-ago period. The company posted a

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Spotify CEO Ek says he's 'unhappy' with ads business as stock falls 8% on weak guidance

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-12-25 16:44:25

Spotify shares dropped more than 8% before the bell Tuesday after the music streaming service fell short of Wall Street's expectations and posted weak guidance for the current quarter. Here's how the company did versus LSEG estimates: Loss: Loss of .42 euros vs earnings of 1.90 euros per share expected Loss of .42 euros vs earnings of 1.90 euros per share expected Revenue: 4.19 billion euros vs. 4.26 billion expected The Swedish platform's revenues rose 10% from about 3.81 billion euros in t

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Spotify stock falls 7% on revenue miss, lackluster guidance

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-12-25 21:30:53

Spotify shares dropped more than 7% before the bell Tuesday after the music streaming service fell short of Wall Street's expectations and posted weak guidance for the current quarter. Here's how the company did versus LSEG estimates: Loss: Loss of .42 euros vs earnings of 1.90 euros per share expected Loss of .42 euros vs earnings of 1.90 euros per share expected Revenue: 4.19 billion euros vs. 4.26 billion expected The Swedish platform's revenues rose 10% from about 3.81 billion euros in t

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Anker is no longer selling 3D Printers

news.ycombinator.com Sean Hollister 2025-12-21 16:19:26

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. In March, charging giant Anker announced it would spin out its 3D printer business into an “independent sub-brand,” stating that the new EufyMake would “continue to provide comprehensive customer service and support” for its original 3D printers the AnkerMake M5 and M5C. Now, the 3D printing community is wondering whether that was all a eu

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This founder left Silicon Valley to challenge U.S. defense supremacy from Athens, and investors are paying attention

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-12-25 21:05:34

In the summer of 2021, Dimitrious Kottas made a move that would be unfathomable to most Silicon Valley engineers: after leaving his coveted position at Apple’s Special Projects Group, he packed up his life in California and moved back to Athens to start a defense company. Three and a half years later, his startup, Delian Alliance Industries, has set up solar-powered surveillance towers that monitor some of Greece’s borders around the clock and detect wildfires on remote islands, along with a pi

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Spotify stock falls on revenue miss, lackluster guidance

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-12-26 08:30:26

Spotify shares dropped about 4% Tuesday after the music streaming platform fell short of Wall Street's expectations and posted weak guidance for the current quarter. Here's how the company did versus LSEG estimates: Loss: Loss of .42 euros vs earnings of 1.90 euros per share expected Loss of .42 euros vs earnings of 1.90 euros per share expected Revenue: 4.19 billion euros vs. 4.26 billion expected The Sweden-based music platform's revenues rose 10% from about 3.81 billion euros in the year-

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A Life-Size Naboo Starfighter Will Be Among the Highlights of George Lucas’ New Museum

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-12-26 16:00:33

To close out San Diego Comic-Con with a bang, George Lucas made his first appearance at the long-running pop culture fest alongside filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and award-winning Lucasfilm designer Doug Chiang. But the panel topic wasn’t a new Star Wars project; it was the importance of keeping art accessible to the public, especially during unprecedented times, at the Lucas Museum opening next year in Los Angeles. Fanboys, fret not, though—during a quick sizzle reel of featured works, eagle-ey

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Smithsonian Air and Space opens halls for “milestone” and “future” artifacts

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-27 21:54:35

The National Air and Space Museum welcomed the public into five more of its renovated galleries on Monday, including two showcasing spaceflight artifacts. The new exhibitions shine modern light on returning displays and restore the museum's almost 50-year-old legacy of adding objects that made history but have yet to become historical. Visitors can again enter through the "Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall," which has been closed for the past three years and has on display some of the museum's m

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Temu users face a ‘high risk’ of finding illegal products, EU says

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-28 11:30:37

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Temu users in the European Union are at “high risk” of coming across illegal products while shopping on the platform, as reported earlier by The Financial Times. Preliminary findings from the European Commission’s investigation into the platform uncovered baby toys, small electronics, and other items on Temu considered counterfeit, unsafe, or “non-c

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EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-28 23:18:44

The following post was made on r/BuyFromEU, this seems relevant for all of us degooglers living in an EU country: The EU is currently developing a whitelabel app to perform privacy-preserving (at least in theory) age verification to be adopted and personalized in the coming months by member states. The app is open source and available here: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui. Problem is, the app is planning to include remote attestation feature to verify the

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The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League

news.ycombinator.com Agree Ahmed 2025-12-24 17:36:04

Today, we typically think of coalitions in the context of modern electoral politics. So it might be surprising that one of the greatest case studies in the history of coalitions is a community of medieval German merchants known as the Hansa. Starting as individual traveling traders, the Hansa built up coalitions for collective bargaining, collective action, and collective security. Through this process, they formed Northern Europe’s first ever long-distance trade network. Without corporate str

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The Rise and Fall of the Hanseatic League

news.ycombinator.com Agree Ahmed 2025-12-24 23:36:04

Today, we typically think of coalitions in the context of modern electoral politics. So it might be surprising that one of the greatest case studies in the history of coalitions is a community of medieval German merchants known as the Hansa. Starting as individual traveling traders, the Hansa built up coalitions for collective bargaining, collective action, and collective security. Through this process, they formed Northern Europe’s first ever long-distance trade network. Without corporate str

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60 Italian Mayors Want to Be the Unlikely Solution to Self-Driving Cars in Europe

wired.com Antonio Dini 2025-12-28 16:00:00

The future of self-driving cars in Italy it seems needs not only technology but also (possibly above all) political backing. The good news, then, is that more than 60 mayors in Italy have decided to take the field for the cars of the future. On July 14, in the hall of the MEET Digital Culture Center in Milan, Pierfrancesco Maran, a member of the European Parliament for the Italian Democratic Party, launched the Autonomous Driving: Italy in the Front Row initiative, which has backing from admini

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Anker is no longer selling 3D printers

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-12-29 21:34:17

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. In March, charging giant Anker announced it would spin out its 3D printer business into an “independent sub-brand,” stating that the new EufyMake would “continue to provide comprehensive customer service and support” for its original 3D printers the AnkerMake M5 and M5C. Now, the 3D printing community is wondering whether that was all a eu

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Meta will stop running political ads in the EU

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-30 06:22:33

Meta will stop allowing political advertising on its platforms in the European Union as of October 2025, blaming the EU’s new "unworkable" transparency rules for what it called a "difficult decision." In a statement released by the company on Friday, Meta said the EU’s incoming Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising (TTPA) regulations presented it with "significant operational challenges and legal uncertainties." As of early October, users on any of Meta’s platforms in the EU will

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Meta to stop selling political ads in the EU from October

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2025-12-30 21:24:43

In response to the European Union’s incoming regulation of political advertising, Meta said on Friday that it will stop selling and showing political ads in the EU from October. Calling the legislation’s requirements “unworkable,” the tech giant wrote in a blog post that the law, dubbed Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising (TTPA), introduces “significant, additional obligations to our processes and systems that create an untenable level of complexity and legal uncertainty for adv

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Should you buy a robot lawn mower with no boundary wire? My verdict after months of testing

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-12-31 14:15:13

ZDNET's key takeaways The Eufy E15 Robot Mower for yards up to 0.2 acres is normally $2,300, while the Eufy E18 covers up to 0.3 acres and costs $2,600, though both are currently on sale This robot mower uses visual recognition, AI algorithms, and 3D sensors to distinguish the boundaries of a lawn and avoid obstacles in real time While it's good for smaller yards, I'd recommend it for fenced-in, flat yards, as it can get stuck on uneven terrain. $1,499.99 at Amazon The Eufy E15 is currently 3

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This Ultra-Repairable Bluetooth Speaker Addresses the Ugliest Part of Consumer Tech

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-12-31 12:00:49

Right to repair is a big deal lately, and there are plenty of new products that prove it. One of the best examples in the tech world is Framework, which has grown immensely by centering modularity and repairability in the ethos of its laptops and new mini desktop PC. And like any gadget trend worth its weight in lithium-ion, other hardware companies are taking note and hopping on the repairability bandwagon. I’m elated to say that this headwind of modularity has now been extended to the world of

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Open Source Maintenance Fee

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-01 09:29:35

User story As a WiX maintainer, the Open Source Maintenance Fee provides funding for ongoing maintenance tasks that would ensure the long-term sustainability of the WiX Toolset. Proposal Open Source Maintenance Fee Introduction To ensure the long-term sustainability of this project, we are introducing an Open Source Maintenance Fee. This fee is required to be paid by all consumers of the WiX Toolset project who generate revenue. You can pay via GitHub Sponsors. We plan to enforce the mainte

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WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-02 03:29:35

User story As a WiX maintainer, the Open Source Maintenance Fee provides funding for ongoing maintenance tasks that would ensure the long-term sustainability of the WiX Toolset. Proposal Open Source Maintenance Fee Introduction To ensure the long-term sustainability of this project, we are introducing an Open Source Maintenance Fee. This fee is required to be paid by all consumers of the WiX Toolset project who generate revenue. You can pay via GitHub Sponsors. We plan to enforce the mainte

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We Need a European Sovereign Tech Fund

news.ycombinator.com Felix Reda 2026-01-02 11:40:23

Open source software is open digital infrastructure that our economies and societies rely on. Nevertheless, open source maintenance continues to be underfunded, especially when compared to physical infrastructure like roads or bridges. So we ask: how can the public sector better support open source maintenance? As part of our efforts to support developers, GitHub’s developer policy team has commissioned a study from Open Forum Europe, Fraunhofer ISI and the European University Institute that ex

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Rocket Lab Has Some Genuine Competition for SpaceX, but It Can’t Reach the Launchpad

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2026-01-02 11:05:38

California-based startup Rocket Lab is looking to compete with industry leader SpaceX with its upcoming launch vehicle, Neutron. But before it can debut its reusable rocket later this year, the company has to figure out a way to transport Neutron’s components to the southern tip of Wallops Island in Virginia. Rocket Lab is awaiting approval to dredge a permanent channel to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Wallops Island, a spaceport surrounded by shallow waters and scarce infrastru

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Google says it will sign EU’s AI code of practice

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Original Tesla Founder Is Sad That Musk Made a ‘Truck That Looks Like a Dumpster’

Spotify drops 11% for worst day in two years on weak guidance

Trump claims Europe won’t make Big Tech pay ISPs; EU says it still might

Spotify CEO Ek says he's 'unhappy' with ads business as stock falls 10% on weak guidance

This founder left Silicon Valley to challenge US defense supremacy from Athens, and investors are paying attention

Spotify CEO Ek says he's 'unhappy' with ads business as stock falls 11% on weak guidance

Spotify CEO Ek says he's 'unhappy' with ads business as stock falls 9% on weak guidance

Spotify CEO Ek says he's 'unhappy' with ads business as stock falls 8% on weak guidance

Spotify stock falls 7% on revenue miss, lackluster guidance

Anker is no longer selling 3D Printers

This founder left Silicon Valley to challenge U.S. defense supremacy from Athens, and investors are paying attention

Spotify stock falls on revenue miss, lackluster guidance

A Life-Size Naboo Starfighter Will Be Among the Highlights of George Lucas’ New Museum

Smithsonian Air and Space opens halls for “milestone” and “future” artifacts

Temu users face a ‘high risk’ of finding illegal products, EU says

EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google

The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League

The Rise and Fall of the Hanseatic League

60 Italian Mayors Want to Be the Unlikely Solution to Self-Driving Cars in Europe

Anker is no longer selling 3D printers

Meta will stop running political ads in the EU

Meta to stop selling political ads in the EU from October

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This Ultra-Repairable Bluetooth Speaker Addresses the Ugliest Part of Consumer Tech

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WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee

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