European technology news, explained. Calm, carefully sourced analysis with every source linked.https://eurobytenews.com/en-gbhttps://eurobytenews.com/article/europe-pulled-public-websites-offline-over-two-php-flaws/https://eurobytenews.com/article/europe-pulled-public-websites-offline-over-two-php-flaws/Government, hospital and university websites across Europe were switched off as a precaution on 21 October while emergency fixes for two critical flaws in PHP were released. The PHP Foundation says warning signs of one bug appeared in 2024, but work on a repair stalled, raising questions about how the free software behind public services is maintained and funded.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 05:43:00 GMTPolicy & regulationhttps://eurobytenews.com/article/iphone-duo-goes-on-sale-in-europe/https://eurobytenews.com/article/iphone-duo-goes-on-sale-in-europe/The iPhone Duo reaches shops in France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain today, with starting prices between €2,299 and €2,369 depending on the country. European buyers get all of the hardware, but not the rebuilt Siri assistant that Apple is withholding from the EU.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 07:20:00 GMTPolicy & regulationhttps://eurobytenews.com/article/siri-ai-still-missing-from-eu-iphones-as-apple/https://eurobytenews.com/article/siri-ai-still-missing-from-eu-iphones-as-apple/Four months after Apple unveiled Siri AI, the assistant has still not reached iPhones and iPads in the European Union, and the most recent statement from Apple that we could find, in June, said it had no timeline. Apple blames the Digital Markets Act, while the European Commission says holding the assistant back is Apple's own decision.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 11:22:00 GMTArtificial intelligencehttps://eurobytenews.com/article/nvidia-europe-ai-independence/https://eurobytenews.com/article/nvidia-europe-ai-independence/In Berlin, Jensen Huang offered faster routes to AI computing capacity. For Europe, the opportunity comes with a question about how much control a customer really gains.Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTArtificial intelligencehttps://eurobytenews.com/article/asml-ai-demand-capacity/https://eurobytenews.com/article/asml-ai-demand-capacity/The Dutch equipment maker reported €11.7 billion in quarterly sales. Its warning about future supply shows how the AI boom reaches far beyond the companies building models.Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTChips & hardwarehttps://eurobytenews.com/article/photon-bridge-laser-funding/https://eurobytenews.com/article/photon-bridge-laser-funding/Photon Bridge has raised €10 million for optical interconnect technology. Its manufacturing timetable offers a useful measure of the distance between an AI investment thesis and a product.Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTChips & hardwarehttps://eurobytenews.com/article/legora-legal-ai-funding/https://eurobytenews.com/article/legora-legal-ai-funding/The Stockholm-founded company is valued at $8.8 billion as it expands in the United States. The financing measures investor confidence; it does not yet show what legal work its software can safely take on.Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTStartupshttps://eurobytenews.com/article/fuse-energy-ai-compute/https://eurobytenews.com/article/fuse-energy-ai-compute/The British energy supplier has opened reservations for Nvidia GPU capacity in planned UK data centres. Its 142 MW pipeline describes development ambition, while the first advertised capacity remains scheduled for December.Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTClimate techhttps://eurobytenews.com/article/cloud-sovereignty-cost-study/https://eurobytenews.com/article/cloud-sovereignty-cost-study/An industry-funded estimate puts the cost of the EU’s proposed cloud and AI law as high as €115bn over a decade. That is a modelled exposure, not a forecast of a bill governments will pay.Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTPolicy & regulationhttps://eurobytenews.com/article/mistral-voxtral-voice-agents/https://eurobytenews.com/article/mistral-voxtral-voice-agents/Voxtral 3 connects speech, reasoning and actions. European hosting is part of its appeal, but deployment location answers only one of the questions facing a potential customer.Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTArtificial intelligencehttps://eurobytenews.com/article/pigment-autonomous-planning-funding/https://eurobytenews.com/article/pigment-autonomous-planning-funding/The Paris-founded software company says it has passed $100 million in annual recurring revenue. Its new financing backs a more ambitious claim: that AI agents can move from analysing plans to carrying them out.Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTStartupshttps://eurobytenews.com/article/dsa-content-moderation-appeals/https://eurobytenews.com/article/dsa-content-moderation-appeals/The Commission brought platforms and national regulators together to discuss the Digital Services Act’s dispute process. The meeting is evidence of implementation work, not a new rule or a verdict on platform compliance.Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTPolicy & regulationhttps://eurobytenews.com/article/ai-office-independent-evaluators/https://eurobytenews.com/article/ai-office-independent-evaluators/A report from a July workshop sets out possible criteria for external evaluators of general-purpose AI. It records an ongoing design discussion, not a new certification system or completed safety assessment.Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTPolicy & regulationhttps://eurobytenews.com/article/industrial-electrification-demonstrators/https://eurobytenews.com/article/industrial-electrification-demonstrators/A Commission agency has catalogued nearly €1bn of projects across 21 countries, with about €600m in EU support. The examples show technologies in use or demonstration, not a completed industrial transition.Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTClimate techhttps://eurobytenews.com/article/scaleway-amd-sweden/https://eurobytenews.com/article/scaleway-amd-sweden/The cloud provider says the system will use AMD Instinct MI355X accelerators. A Swedish site expands customer choice on paper; its capacity, price and opening date have not been specified in the reviewed announcements.Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTChips & hardware