EU watchdog eyes whether the search giant juiced its models with other people’s graft

Brussels has fired up a fresh antitrust probe into Google after worries that the outfit has been gobbling up uploaded content from places such as YouTube to bulk out its artificial intelligence tools.

It turns out it could not compete after all

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple is watching its App Store wheeze along after losing about half its growth momentum since July. 

Commission watchdogs want tougher rules on ‘high-risk vendors’

The European Commission is weighing up plans to turn its 2020 guidance on high-risk telecom vendors into binding law, a move that could effectively force EU nations to phase out Huawei and ZTE kit from their mobile and fixed-line networks.

Brussels caves to Big Tech pressure and Washington’s tantrums

The European Commission is proposing to water down its much-hyped artificial intelligence legislation after sustained whinging from Big Tech and the looming threat of a Trump-shaped tantrum from across the Atlantic.

Charges fanboys for EU environmental policy

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has decided that Europeans don’t deserve a charger with their shiny new 14-inch MacBook Pro sporting the M5 chip and will have to pay extra.

Top investor says reliance on SpaceX a ‘huge risk’ to Europe’s defence and sovereignty

One of Europe’s leading tech backers has sounded the alarm over the continent’s growing dependence on Elon Musk’s SpaceX, warning that trusting the world’s richest attention seeker with Europe’s launch and satellite infrastructure is a disaster waiting to happen.

AI strategy aims to cut ties with US and Chinese tech

Brussels is preparing to throw itself into the artificial intelligence race with a plan to reduce its reliance on foreign companies and promote homegrown platforms instead.

Watchdogs fear unfair after-market squeeze could sting customers

The European Commission is investigating SAP, the maker of expensive management software, which no one can be really sure what it does.  Watchdogs are interested in how the outfit flogs maintenance and support for on-premises software.

Eurocrats want to kill off those annoying banners

The EU finally seems to have twigged that its infamous cookie law turned the internet into a pop-up purgatory and now wants to bin it.

Job’s Mob tells Brussels to bin Big Tech law or else

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple has demanded Brussels scrap the Digital Markets Act, claiming the rules are costing it money and ruining the fun for its fanboys.