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Europe Indecisive Whether It Wants to be Richer or Safer
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Europe Indecisive Whether It Wants to be Richer or Safer

How Mainstream Social Media Grew An Unlikely Contract Killer In the quiet, residential suburbs of Sweden, the digital life of an ordinary 15-year-old girl appeared indistinguishable from that of her peers. Her public-facing profiles featured the standard architecture of teenage internet culture: short lip-sync videos, viral dance trends, and filtered selfies.
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How Mainstream Social Media Grew An Unlikely Contract Killer
Europe Now Wants to Abandon Palantir But Can't European governments are increasingly vocal about digital independence. But in fact they remain dependent on a U.S. firm that is already built into the most sensitive European workflows, from policing and intelligence to health care and defense.
8-09-2026, 10:36
Europe Now Wants to Abandon Palantir But Can't
Europe Still Treating Symptoms, Not the System Hybrid threats have long since ceased to be a set of individual attacks. They work as a single mechanism that exploits the weaknesses of the European information environment itself.
7-09-2026, 14:23
Europe Still Treating Symptoms, Not the System
The Silicon Soil, How Data And Automation Are Driving European Agtech Sales For generations, the rhythm of European farming was dictated by the sky, the seasons, and the physical strain of manual labour. Today, a new element is reshaping the fields of the continent: data.
7-09-2026, 11:48
The Silicon Soil, How Data And Automation Are Driving European Agtech Sales
A Quiet Mutation, Inside Europe’s Network Of Tactical Radicalisation In a dimly lit apartment in suburban Germany, a 17-year-old sits before a glowing monitor. He is not browsing traditional extremist forums or reading manifestos. Instead...
7-09-2026, 09:08
A Quiet Mutation, Inside Europe’s Network Of Tactical Radicalisation
From Cyber Attacks to Disinformation How Can Germany Stay Secure but Democratic?
6-09-2026, 13:35
From Cyber Attacks to Disinformation
Europe Seeks Digital Sovereignty Through Partnerships that Are Almost Non-Existent The European Union is trying to turn its digital policy from a set of fragmented initiatives into an instrument of geopolitical influence.
30-08-2026, 12:43
Europe Seeks Digital Sovereignty Through Partnerships that Are Almost Non-Existent
We Are Poor Because We Are Morons From promises of effortless riches to Bitcoin’s trillion-dollar swings, financial markets turn uncertain. It then reveals the extraordinary concentration of global wealth and asks who truly benefits when markets rise or collapse.
26-08-2026, 16:23
We Are Poor Because We Are Morons
The European Commission’s Drive to Maximize Revenue by Fining Tech Giants Erodes Europe’s Competitiveness The opportunities for the European Union to cooperate with U.S. tech giants in order to grow its own tech leaders are being destroyed by European bureaucrats who want to take in as much money as possible.
22-08-2026, 12:16
The European Commission’s Drive to Maximize Revenue by Fining Tech Giants Erodes Europe’s Competitiveness
Shortage of Data to Complement Shortage of AI Computing Power and Electricity in Europe The European legislators want tech companies to seek prior consent before they can use data to train their artificial intelligence models.
21-08-2026, 12:26
Shortage of Data to Complement Shortage of AI Computing Power and Electricity in Europe
Europe Again Risks Inventing a Future and Giving It Away to China Janka Oertel argues that biomanufacturing will become a key technology behind the next industrial revolution.
11-08-2026, 16:35
Europe Again Risks Inventing a Future and Giving It Away to China
Europe Needs a Common New Approach to Critical Minerals It may take decades to implement
30-07-2026, 10:03
Europe Needs a Common New Approach to Critical Minerals
Europe Seeking a Morally Sound Way to Enter a Race It’s Already Losing Sir David Omand, a former high-ranking British intelligence officer reflects on whether autonomous weapon systems can be equipped with a moral judgment capability
29-07-2026, 18:11
Europe Seeking a Morally Sound Way to Enter a Race It’s Already Losing
Technology vs. World Order What Should Governments Do As AI Advances Every Day
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Technology vs. World Order