Technology

Sep 28, 2026

No social media under 13: the Commission's Kids Act arrives today

Ursula von der Leyen has put a number on the age of digital majority. The Kids Act, presented in Strasbourg on Thursday, bars under-13s from social media, keeps 13-to-14-year-olds on supervised accounts, and threatens platforms with fines of up to 6 per cent of global sales.

Technology

Sep 28, 2026

Macron's space summit sells 'European preference' to a room Berlin skipped

France and the Commission used the International Space Summit in Paris to pitch a Europe-first space industry, contracts worth around EUR 20bn and a merger of the space units of Airbus, Thales and Leonardo. Germany, Italy and Spain sent no leader, and Washington told US firms to stay away.

Technology

Sep 28, 2026

Meta's $18bn US settlement hands Brussels its strongest DSA hand yet

Meta has agreed to two-hour limits, night curfews and audited age checks for US teenagers. The Commission says it expects the same in Europe, and the DSA cases already open against Meta and TikTok mean it can ask.

Technology

Sep 28, 2026

Brussels pulls ChatGPT into the DSA — as a search engine

The Commission designated ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox under the Digital Services Act on Monday. The legal box it had to put OpenAI's chatbot in — very large online search engine — says a lot about how little the rulebook anticipated it.

Technology

Sep 28, 2026

Europe's telecoms overhaul answers fewer than half of Draghi's asks

EPIC scored the Digital Networks Act against the twenty telecoms recommendations it is meant to deliver. Nine align, seven partly, four not at all — and that was before Parliament and Council began amending it.

Technology

Sep 28, 2026

Europe Commits to Its Own Sky: IRIS² Grows to 348 Satellites

The Commission has signed the agreement that takes IRIS² from design to construction, adding a 66-satellite defence layer and a 60% capacity uplift. The bill lands in the next EU budget, and the build may rest on a Belgian start-up.