Healthy European peatlands require specific temperature and water level parameters #Europe
Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month in a row.
Tesla 'has sustained brand and reputational damage in part due to CEO Elon Musk's incendiary rhetoric and political activity.'
That's politely put.
https://www.cnb…
London-based stock trading app Lightyear, which operates in 25 European countries, raised $23M led by NordicNinja, sources say at a $200M-$300M valuation (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/24/european-robinhood-rival-lightyear-raises-23-…
Zum 20. Geburtstag der #Vorratsdatenspeicherung im Jahr 2025 freut sich die EU-Kommission über Eure Meinung zur Idee, die #VDS für Internet-Provider zum Zweck der Strafverfolgung einzuführen.
Noch bis zum 30.6. mit SMS für die Authentifizierung, danach nur mit eID, per Facebook od…
Having Microsoft organise a European Sovereign Tech Fund is like having Anheuser-Busch be your AA sponsor.
#EuropeanSovereignTechFund #microsoft #corporateCapture
https://social.cwts.nl/@LudoWaltman/114552901400267842
Always publish an open preprint first, and then, if needed, submit to a journal. If the preprint is open anyway, it probably doesn't matter whether your chosen journal is open access (of any flavour) or subscription-…
Climate change remains the defining challenge of the coming decades. https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14397-European-Climate-Law-amendment_en
Amsterdam-based Finom, a neobank targeting SMBs, raised a €115M Series C led by AVP after raising €92.7M from General Catalyst in May (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/23/smb-focused-finom-closes-e115m-as-european-…
We do need a European Sovereign Tech Fund, yes.
What we don’t need is Microsoft – a trillion-dollar surveillance capitalist from the US that peddles proprietary technology and is helping Israel carry out its genocide of the Palestinian people as we speak – having anything whatsoever to do with it.
#microsoft
The only way Microsoft should be involved in a European Sovereign Tech Fund is if we fund it by taxing the living shit out of them.
But having them organise and influence it (and who gets funded by it), thereby de facto giving Microsoft EU taxpayer subsidies? Get the fuck out of here.
There are no words to describe how angry this attempt at corporate capture gets me when we’ve been working on sovereign tech in the EU for the past seven years with zero EU funding (not for lack of …