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For years Germany kept its distance from selling Eurofighters to Turkey; in the end it gave its approval. The decision points to a pragmatic turn in a European security balance changed by the Russia–Ukraine war.
Tesla has presented a humanoid robot for housework. Robots will make life easier, but they also confront us with questions of responsibility, waste, ethics and the environment for which we need to be prepared.
On 17 September 2024, Hezbollah’s pagers exploded simultaneously. The incident showed how the global supply chain can become a means of attack and how exposed states are to such risks.
Turkey and the EU are like two lovers who can never be united. Turkey has drifted away from the membership process, the rule of law has declined and it has moved closer to Russia. Even so, the author argues, the EU should not give up on Turkey.
Merih Demiral’s grey wolf sign at EURO 2024 split Europe in two. The wolf appears in the mythology of many peoples, from Rome to Lithuania and from Chechnya to Scandinavia. So when does a symbol become a tool of manipulation?
After the Kirov assassination, Stalin purged millions of people in the name of “the enemy within”. There are striking similarities between the Great Purge and what has happened in Turkey since 15 July.
The EU’s Digital Markets Act designates the biggest technology companies, from Google to Meta, as “gatekeepers” and imposes new obligations on them. What will change for users?
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ended decades of neutrality: Finland and Sweden applied to join NATO. Prolonged by objections from Turkey and Hungary, the process was completed in 2024.
Meetings, training and collaboration now happen on screen. But not every video-conferencing tool offers the same security. Zoom’s problems and the advantages of the open-source BigBlueButton.
Tesla can give its cars new headlight features with a software update. The German armed forces are moving to “software-defined defence” on the same logic, and Platform42 is the accelerator of this transformation.
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