A cloud market characterised by openness, interoperability, and fairness has to be the aspiration for Europe, but we are currently far from that. I fear policymakers may feel that efforts to tackle cloud switching through the Data Act and contestability in digital markets through the Digital Markets Act (DMA) may have already set us … Read more
Tennessee state lawmakers introduced a bill to allow school districts and law enforcement agencies to deny enrollment to illegal migrant students. S.B. 836 states that a law enforcement agency or public charter school “may enroll, or refuse to enroll, a student who is unlawfully present in the United States.” Republican Sen. Bo Watson, who sponsored … Read more
“This is a very important day in your lives,” President Donald Trump told crypto executives at the White House on March 7. Trump was presiding over the first ever Crypto Summit, in which he and other cabinet officials gathered some of the biggest names in crypto to reemphasize the President’s support for the industry and … Read more
Liv McMahon Technology reporter Getty Images Google says it is working to fix an issue which has left many Chromecast users unable to watch content on their televisions for a second day. The tech giant says it has sold more than 100m of these devices worldwide across various generations, with the issues specifically impacting the … Read more
(To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and decisionmakers, click here.) IBM was one of the giants of 20th-century computing. It helped design the modern PC, and created the first AI to defeat a human champion in the game of chess. But when you think of AI, IBM might not be … Read more
Human rights group Liberty has said the UK government’s proposed Crime and Policing Bill will transform the country’s driving licence database into a de-facto facial recognition database, enabling police to access the biometric information of millions of people who have never committed a crime. Introduced to Parliament on 25 February 2025, the Home Office-sponsored … Read more
Using a Windows PC with an Arm-based Snapdragon processor in it feels a lot like using a regular-old Intel or AMD PC these days, thanks to the work developers have put in to get their apps running natively on Arm chips and the work Microsoft has done on Windows’ Prism technology for translating x86 apps … Read more
Belgian police have raided several locations in the country as part of an investigation into corruption within the European Parliament. Prosecutors said the alleged corruption was “under the guise of commercial lobbying”, and that several people had been detained for questioning. According to officials, an address in Portugal was also searched by local police, while … Read more
A federal judge on Saturday ordered the Trump administration to cease use of an obscure wartime law to deport Venezuelans without a hearing, saying that any planes that had departed the United States with immigrants under the law needed to return. As of early Sunday morning, it was unclear whether any such planes had departed … Read more
