The editor
Julian Vonk is the editor of Eurobyte and takes editorial responsibility for the site. Publication decisions and corrections belong to the editor. Article approval records use the label “Eurobyte Editor”.
Our focus is European technology: AI and software, semiconductors, startups, infrastructure and the rules that shape them. We explain developments across borders and distinguish announcements from results.
Editorial standards
- Go to the original evidence. We prioritise company filings, official decisions, research and other primary documents, and compare them with independent reporting. Several outlets repeating the same announcement do not count as independent confirmation. If access to the original evidence is limited, we say so.
- Every key claim is linked. Figures, statements and findings are linked to the source they come from, in the sentence where they appear.
- Facts, claims and forecasts are kept apart. What happened, what a company or government says, and what someone expects are described as different things.
- Credit for other people’s work. Journalists and institutions whose work we use are named in the text and in the source list. They did not write or endorse our articles.
- Our own words. We summarise in our own words. Direct quotations are short, exact, marked with quotation marks and attributed.
- No paywall circumvention. For sources behind a paywall we use only what the publisher makes publicly available.
- Fairness to people. We write about people in their public or professional role, attribute every accusation, and do not publish private personal details.
Corrections
When we get something wrong, we correct the article and add a dated note under “Corrections and updates” explaining what changed. We do not silently change facts.
Report an error or ask for a correction at info@eurobytenews.com.
Tools and editorial responsibility
We use AI tools to assist research and draft articles from published sources. AI output is not evidence: the linked documents and reporting are. Automated checks support the editorial process; they do not replace source checking or editorial judgement.
Articles include a process note beside their sources, identifying AI assistance and any recorded editorial approval. We credit the original reporters and describe gaps in the evidence. Analysis based on published material is not presented as interviews or reporting from the scene.
For publishers: our crawler
Eurobyte’s software identifies itself as EurobyteBot/1.0 (+https://eurobytenews.com/about/#crawler). It reads public RSS feeds and fetches individual public articles at a slow pace. It respects robots.txt, and it honours text-and-data-mining reservations made under Article 4 of the EU Copyright Directive, including the tdm-reservation header and meta tag. When a publisher has reserved its rights, we use only the headline, summary and link that it publishes in its feed. We do not fetch or publish images from other publishers.
Photos and illustrations
Our first choice is a photograph connected to the story: the person, company, place or institution involved. European locations and subjects help ground our coverage. Archive photos and video stills are labelled, and a contextual image is not presented as a picture of the event itself.
We use real photos only when we know who took them, where they come from and that their licence allows reuse, for example on Wikimedia Commons under a Creative Commons licence. Every photo is credited with the photographer, a link to its source page and its licence. Captions say what a photo shows and, where known, when it was taken; a file photo is never presented as a picture of the news event itself. We never use AI-generated images that look like photographs.
Any editorial illustration is clearly labelled and does not claim to show an actual event.