Hacker News with Generative AI: Europe

Hackers could attack Europes energy grid [video] (dw.com)
Cyber criminals are able to access solar power installations and throw entire electricity grids into chaos. DW talked to some well-minded hackers about the threat and what consumers can do to avoid it.

Cybersecurity, Energy, Europe, Hacking

6 points by HanchoPan 11 hours ago | 0 comments

European Alternatives for Popular Services (european-alternatives.eu)
European alternatives for popular services

Europe, Technology, Privacy, Open Source, Alternatives

43 points by Tomte 1 day ago | 41 comments

Heat pump sales in Europe fall 23% to pre-Ukraine war levels (theguardian.com)
Heat pump sales fell 23% in Europe last year, industry data shows, reverting to the level they were at before the war in Ukraine and slowing the shift away from gas-burning boilers.

Energy, Europe, Climate Change, Economics, Industry

5 points by adrian_mrd 1 day ago | 4 comments

Life expectancy growth stalls across Europe as England sees sharpest decline (theguardian.com)
Life expectancy improvement is stalling across Europe with England experiencing the biggest slowdown. Experts are blaming this on an alarming mix of poor diet, mass inactivity and soaring obesity.

Health, Europe, England, Demographics, Social Trends

34 points by pseudolus 2 days ago | 47 comments

Water chlorination levels in US and EU likely increase cancer risk (pressreader.com)

Health, Cancer, Water Treatment, Public Health, Europe

13 points by oliverchan2024 2 days ago | 1 comments

European Leaders Meet in Paris as U.S. Pushes Ahead with Ukraine Plan (nytimes.com)
The leaders of many of Europe’s biggest countries came to Paris on Monday in an effort to forge a strategy for their own security, as President Trump’s envoys prepared for talks with Russia over ending the war in Ukraine without them.

Politics, International Relations, Ukraine, Europe, Russia

11 points by mooreds 3 days ago | 8 comments

Why don't Europeans buy more American cars? (bbc.com)
Donald Trump is threatening to introduce big tariffs on EU car imports, unhappy that Europeans don't buy more American vehicles. But why are US cars, with the notable exception of Tesla, not more popular in Europe?

Auto Industry, International Trade, Europe, United States

7 points by impish9208 5 days ago | 8 comments

European Parliament urges lawmakers to use encrypted messages after China hacks (politico.eu)
The European Parliament has asked lawmakers, parliamentary assistants and staff to use Signal, an end-to-end-encrypted messaging app, as an instant messaging tool for work-related communications, according to an internal email seen by POLITICO.

Cybersecurity, Europe, Government, Messaging Apps

4 points by nickslaughter02 6 days ago | 1 comments

Europe's Ailing Defense Industry Faces a Reckoning as Russia Threat Looms (bloomberg.com)

Europe, Defense Industry, Russia, Geopolitics, War

7 points by petethomas 6 days ago | 0 comments

Civil War Comes to the West (2023) (militarystrategymagazine.com)
Europe is a garden. We have built a garden. Everything works. It is the best combination of political freedom, economic prosperity and social cohesion that the humankind has been able to build—the three things together … Most of the rest of the world is a jungle…[i]

Civil War, Politics, History, Europe, World Affairs

15 points by jbboehr 8 days ago | 13 comments

EU to mobilize 200B Euros to invest in AI (euronews.com)
Europe will mobilise €200bn euro for investment in artificial intelligence, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced at the AI Action Summit in Paris today.

Artificial Intelligence, Europe, Investment, Technology

49 points by FinnLobsien 8 days ago | 144 comments

Tesla sales dropped 60% in Germany (electrek.co)
Tesla’s sales have dropped nearly 60% in January in Germany compared to the same period last year. The same thing is happening throughout Europe.

Tesla, Germany, Sales, Electric Vehicles, Europe

133 points by ZeljkoS 8 days ago | 219 comments

EU's AltStore Gets First Native iOS Pornography App (macrumors.com)
In the European Union, the Digital Markets Act allows developers to distribute iOS apps through alternate app stores.

iOS, App Stores, Europe, Pornography, Law

57 points by ilamont 9 days ago | 79 comments

EU launches initiative to mobilise €200B of investment in AI (europa.eu)

EU, Artificial Intelligence, Investment, Europe

34 points by N19PEDL2 9 days ago | 3 comments

France unveils 109B-euro AI investment (cnbc.com)

France, Artificial Intelligence, Government Funding, Investment, Europe

44 points by tolarianwiz 10 days ago | 16 comments

Europe has all it needs to thrive in AI, but won't allow it (thetimes.com)

Europe, Artificial Intelligence, Regulations, Technology, Economics

7 points by lareading 11 days ago | 0 comments

Europe 'not in the AI race today,' French President Macron says (cnn.com)

Europe, Artificial Intelligence, Politics, France

11 points by rntn 11 days ago | 3 comments

Moving Power Grids in a Weekend, the Baltic States Make the Switch (hackaday.com)
A significant event in the world of high-power electrical engineering is under way this weekend, as the three Baltic states, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, disconnect their common power grid from the Russian system, and hook it up to the European one.

Energy, International Relations, Technology, Europe

22 points by sorenjan 11 days ago | 1 comments

Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian power systems synchronised with Europe (elering.ee)
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have successfully synchronised their electricity systems with the Continental Europe Synchronous Area on 9 February 2025 at 2:05 PM.

Energy, Europe, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

73 points by miki123211 11 days ago | 24 comments

Baltic nations disconnect from Russian power grid (abc.net.au)
Three Baltic nations have disconnected their electricity systems from Russia's power grid as part of a plan designed to further integrate with the European Union and boost security.

Politics, Energy, Russia, Europe, International Relations

7 points by jhealy 12 days ago | 1 comments

Baltics count days to syncing with European electric grid (lrt.lt)
On February 9, the Baltic states will synchronise their electricity grids with continental Europe and disconnect from the Moscow-centred zone.

Baltics, Energy, Europe, Politics, International Relations

7 points by praseodym 12 days ago | 2 comments

Prosecutors probe Russian role in buying software for EU border system (ft.com)

Politics, Cybersecurity, Europe, Russia

4 points by rbanffy 13 days ago | 1 comments

Estonia to disconnect from the Russian-run electricity network on Saturday (elering.ee)
Estonia and the other Baltic States will disconnect from the Russian-run electricity network on Saturday and connect to the Continental European Synchronous Area on Sunday.

Estonia, Russia, Energy, Europe

100 points by sohkamyung 13 days ago | 77 comments

Ancient-DNA study identifies originators of Indo-European language family (hms.harvard.edu)
A pair of landmark studies has genetically identified the originators of the massive Indo-European family of 400-plus languages.

Genetics, Linguistics, History, Archaeology, Europe

211 points by jimmytucson 14 days ago | 174 comments

Mistral releases its AI assistant on iOS and Android (techcrunch.com)
Mistral, the company sometimes considered Europe’s great hope for AI, is releasing several updates to its AI assistant, Le Chat. In addition to a major web interface upgrade, the company is releasing a mobile app on iOS and Android.

Mobile Apps, AI, Europe, Mistral, Le Chat

11 points by marban 14 days ago | 6 comments

OpenEuroLLM, an 'open, compliant, diverse' series of foundation models (slator.com)
On February 3, 2025, the OpenEuroLLM project officially announced its launch as an AI collaborative that brings together 20 organizations, including 11 universities, five private companies, and four High Performance Computing (HPC) centers in the EU.

Open Source, Artificial Intelligence, Europe, Research

13 points by Capstanlqc 14 days ago | 14 comments

Tesla's sales plummet across Europe (ft.com)
Tesla’s sales plummet across Europe

Tesla, Europe, Automotive Industry, Sales, Business

41 points by mirzap 14 days ago | 44 comments

Tesla sales plummet in the UK, France, and Germany (arstechnica.com)
Tesla sales in Europe have driven off the dockside and into the water.

Tesla, Automotive Industry, Europe, Sales, Business

218 points by rbanffy 15 days ago | 219 comments

Europe has the worst imaginable idea to counter SpaceX's launch dominance (arstechnica.com)
It is not difficult to understand the unease on the European continent about the rise of SpaceX and its controversial founder, Elon Musk.

Space Exploration, Europe, SpaceX, Elon Musk

6 points by pitwin 15 days ago | 2 comments

European Alternatives for Popular Services (european-alternatives.eu)
European alternatives for popular services

Europe, Technology, Privacy, Open Source, Alternatives

13 points by dgudkov 16 days ago | 1 comments