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Bulgaria's hacked database is now available on hacking forums
Half of the database, to be exact, the half the hacker released to local reporters over the last weekend.
Galileo GPS service is back, as Europe looks at what went wrong
Galileo Initial Services have now been restored, days after an equipment malfunction caused the outage.
Hacker steals data of millions of Bulgarians, emails it to local media
Source of the data breach appears to be the country's National Revenue Agency.
SK Telecom and Swisscom launch 5G roaming service
Koreans visiting Switzerland will be able to stay connected to 5G wireless networks.
Ban Huawei from core of 5G networks, government told
But there are no technical grounds for a full ban on Huawei equipment in the UK's 5G networks, according to a committee of MPs.
Communist museum, nightclub: Now Albania's notorious pyramid turns tech hub
Tirana's Pyramid building has had quite a journey since it was created to honor Albania's communist dictator.
EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in mysterious outage
EU's Galileo global navigation satellite system nears 100 hours of downtime.
Sweden and UK's surveillance programs on trial at the European Court of Human Rights
Last chance for Europe's top human rights court to rule against dragnet surveillance programs.
Microsoft Office 365: Banned in German schools over privacy fears
State of Hesse says student and teacher information could be "exposed" to US spy agencies.
France passes turnover-based tax Bill for tech giants despite US disapproval
Tech companies making €750 million globally and €25 million in France will have to pay 3% of total annual revenues in tax.
German banks are moving away from SMS one-time passcodes
New EU legislation might help kill SMS 2FA / 2SV / OTP.
Hackers breached Greece's top-level domain registrar
Sea Turtle group returns with new attacks; continues DNS hijacking spree.
Estonia's new e-residency security focus: 'You can't launder money with a digital ID'
Instead of the goal of gaining 10 million e-residents by 2025, Estonia is now focusing on security and usability.
Croatian government targeted by mysterious hackers
Government agencies targeted with never before seen malware payload — named SilentTrinity.
Mozilla: Want ad-free news on Firefox? That'll cost you $5 a month
Would you pay $5 to get news online without seeing ads, asks Mozilla.
Europol’s top hacking ring takedowns
European law enforcement has smashed everything from Dark Web marketplaces to ATM skimmer rings.
Photos: Retro computer games that Eastern Europe played as Iron Curtain fell
Video games gave Eastern Europeans an escape from the harsh realities of everyday life, yet few had the opportunity to play them.
Photos: Cold War ZX Spectrum clones spawned behind the Iron Curtain
Fitted inside telephone cases, or even toy organs, these Speccy replicas were less expensive but arguably more creative than the original Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
Photos: Inside Apple, Facebook, Google, IBM's frozen Nordic datacenters
The Nordic countries' low outside temperatures, cheap power, and stable economies are proving hard for tech giants to resist when it comes to siting new datacenters.
10 reasons why Romania's capital Bucharest is a great place to work in tech
With high salaries, low living costs, and warp-speed internet, Bucharest is an appealing destination for techies.
Photos: Inside vast abandoned mine set to be world's biggest data center
Norway's newest white-space data center has opened in a former mine. Lefdal Mine Datacenter could become the world's largest once of three of its five levels are filled.
Inside the Museum of Failure: Microsoft's Kin to Apple's Pippin, the world's greatest flops
Coke 2, Bic's 'she-pen', and Nokia's 'taco phone' N-gage probably shouldn't have been released, but they shouldn't be forgotten either.
Photos: How FC Barcelona uses football player data to win games
FC Barcelona is focusing on data analysis to give it an edge on the soccer field and at the bank.
Photos: This Microsoft-powered store uses Kinect, Azure to show you the future of shopping
If you want to take a walk round the shop of the future, a good place to start is a supermarket located in the Bicocca district of Milan, Italy. There, thanks to a blend of gaming technologies, IoT and cloud computing, you can seamlessly interact with the products that interest you and make better buying choices.
Take a peek inside 'Europe's most advanced datacenter'
Inside an 11-storey datacenter in the heart of London's Docklands.
Photos: The counter-drone system that's been shielding Obama
Sure, you can take down a drone wirelessly or even with a trained falcon. But wouldn't you rather use a massive Nerf gun that can shoot down the target by trapping it in a net?
Photos: Move over Google Earth, this 3D map shows our world in razor-sharp detail
Researchers have collected five years of imagery from a pair of satellites to create a 3D map of Earth that captures its mountains and valleys with unprecedented precision.
Photos: Zuckerberg offers glimpse inside Facebook's cavernous Arctic datacenter
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has shared a series of pictures from the social network's datacenter site up near the Arctic Circle in Sweden.
Photos: From facial recognition to connected toys, a trip inside the invisible big data revolution
This new exhibition at London's Science Museum looks to help people explore the "invisible revolution of big data" and inspire the data scientists of the future.
Photos: These tiny $17 lenses can turn your smartphone into a microscope
These images show what a smartphone can achieve as a microscope, using the 1.5mm-thick Blips lenses from Italian startup Smart Micro Optics.
The mysterious outage that knocked out EU's Galileo GPS services for a week
Galileo Initial Services have been restored, days after an equipment malfunction caused the outage.
German banks say "nein" to SMS one-time passcodes
New EU legislation might help kill SMS 2FA / 2SV / OTP.
France levies 3% turnover tax on world's largest tech companies
Tech companies making €750 million globally and €25 million in France will have to pay the new tax.
Wary of uncertainty, Huawei expands business in Eastern Europe
As the trade dispute goes on, Chinese tech giant Huawei is pushing on with efforts in regions like the Balkans.
A trustworthy AI initiative in the EU
Tonya Hall talks to Agustin Huerta, vice president of technology for the AI studio at Globant, to learn more about an ongoing initiative in the EU to work towards trustworthy AI.
Barcelona Supercomputing Center will host a 200 petaflop machine
Meet Europe's new supercomputer: MareNostrum 5 takes on global rivals for power. Read more: https://zd.net/2ILlpJQ
Facebook fact checkers working at full steam ahead of EU elections
More than 20 European fact-checking outlets are participating in Facebook's initiative.
WhatsApp bug opens door to spyware with just a phone call
WhatsApp patches a flaw that has been used to install spyware on Android and iPhone devices.
UK's tax authority forced to delete 5 million biometric records
'Biggest ever' deletion of biometric data by government comes after HMRC obtained data "unlawfully" according to privacy regulator.
From fake news to entrepreneurship: Macedonian startup works to change country's image
Macedonia's startup ecosystem is growing, tapping into the skills of its youth. Read more: https://zd.net/2YdAFoH
Digital health: Estonia first country to accept cross-border e-prescriptions
Finnish digital prescriptions are now valid in neighboring Estonia, thanks to an EU health data initiative.
Chrome on Android: Be aware of the disappearing URL bar
New 'Inception' attack shows why it's still important to display the URL bar on space-constrained mobile devices.
UK on Huawei: New engineering flaws found, old vulnerabilities haven't been fixed yet
Board that oversees Huawei security in the UK offers only 'limited assurance' that risk to national security can be mitigated.
Europe's new internet copyright rules target YouTube, Facebook and Google News
Europe wants copyright to work the same was online as offline. That could have a big impact on how news and other content is shared.
Ex-Soviet state Belarus becomes cryptocurrency powerhouse
Europe's last dictatorship wants to promote itself as a forward-thinking technology-powered nation.
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