Quantum leap or quantum winter? The EU faces an innovation crossroads
The European Union (EU) has before it the threat of a “quantum winter,” as it is behind in the development of quantum technologies. Quantum advancements are considered one of the most disruptive technologies, and the EU is behind the leading
Could the EU abandon Windows and tip its fedora to Linux?
Secure, sovereign, and sleek. That’s how the new open-source EU OS is being promoted: as a concept of an operating system specific to the public sector that aspires to become, in the future, a project of the European Commission (EC).
Cyberattacks hit Spanish and Portuguese firms 2,000 times a week
Companies in the Iberia region have registered an average of 1,919 cyberattacks per week in the last six months, with e-mail being the main entry vector to infect equipment, appearing in two-thirds of attacks. Education and Health are the main
Spain enters new era of identity verification with official digital ID
Spanish citizens no longer need to carry their physical national identity cards, known as DNI or Documento Nacional de Identidad, in their wallets, as the ID has officially entered the digital age. The country has introduced its official digital identity
US urges 23andMe users to delete data amid bankruptcy
The Office of the Attorney General of the United States (US) state of California has issued a notice advising 23andMe customers to request that the company, which has recently declared itself insolvent, delete their personal data, destroy their test samples,
FuriosaAI rejects Meta’s US$800M bid, aiming to challenge Nvidia
Korean startup FuriosaAI, dedicated to the manufacturing of processors for Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, has rejected an acquisition offer valued at US$800 million by Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. South Korean media reported in mid-February that Meta
Spain warns: DeepSeek is a cyber threat
Malware campaigns, fake news, and fake bots are among some of the concerning cybersecurity threats that countries will face in the coming years, as highlighted by Félix Barrio, head of the Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute (INCIBE) under the Ministry for
IBM selects Spain for its first Quantum System Two supercomputer in Europe
The Basque regional government in Spain and IBM have announced an expansion of the BasQ initiative, launched in 2023, to consolidate the region as a key technological hub, which will result in the installation of Quantum System Two supercomputer in
Nvidia open-sources advanced AI agents with Llama Nemotron models
US chipmaker Nvidia has launched its new family of open models, Llama Nemotron, whose reasoning capabilities are designed to provide developers and companies with a foundation to create advanced AI agents that can work independently or in teams to solve