After power returned to southwest Berlin, Mayor Kai Wegner is facing pressure over taking a tennis break during the first hours of what turned out to be the longest blackout in the German capital's po...
German forecasters are warning of disruptive snow and ice in the north, and across most of the country overnight. Meanwhile, Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner is facing criticism for playing tennis amid power o...
Chinese leader Xi Jinping lauded his country's AI advancements in 2025. Yan Yan/Xinhua via Getty Images China's Xi Jinping lauded his country's AI wins in 2025 in his New Year's address from Beijing. ...
From PRISM to AI, mass surveillance has only grown more powerful. Bruce Schneier warns the post-Snowden world may be entering an even darker phase....
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I built this as a personal open-source project to explore how EU AI Act requirements can be translated into concrete, inspectable technical checks. The core idea is local-first compliance: – risk clas...
Donald Trump's desire to acquire Greenland has raised questions about the US's commitment to NATO. The US maintains a major military presence in Germany — a vital part of its post-World War II nationa...
They are beautiful, eloquent — and do not exist. AI-generated girls from the 'Prawilne_Polki' profile called for Polexit and preached right-wing views. The TikTok account has been deleted, but disinfo...
Across the country, new laws dealing with artificial intelligence, healthcare, the climate, and a variety of other areas are set to take effect as 2026 begins....
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Beijing has condemned Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te’s New Year’s Day speech, in which he vowed to boost the island’s defences, as full of “lies, falsehoods, hostility and malice” and an attemp...
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2025 saw the US-China rivalry weaponize every layer of the technology stack—from minerals to models to military doctrine....
Doubling down on fossil fuels threatens to leave the US floundering in the AI race with China...
Chinese AI advances and the effects of Donald Trump’s trade war have boosted markets outside the US...
Beijing’s top office overseeing Hong Kong affairs said on New Year’s Day that the city’s administration had lived up to expectations, stressing its effective response to the deadly Tai Po fire demonst...
Company confident ‘last details’ of deal with White House to resume AI chip exports will be finalised soon...
Japan is seeking to bolster its defense capabilities in the face of "the most severe" security environment since the end of World War II....
It comes just weeks after White House crypto and AI czar David Sacks said the CLARITY Act was set for a Senate markup in January....
The US attack on Venezuela is part of a long history of military interventions and political influence by the US in Latin America. Here are five such examples since World War II....