The decision by Italy's data protection authority to block access to Microsoft-backed OpenAI's ChatGPT last Friday, citing alleged privacy violations, may have kicked off a trend of European countries banning the AI chatbot.  Reuters reports a spokesperson for the German Federal Data Protection Comm...

Germany is returning to coal as it faces its worst energy crisis in decades, even as it officially pursues its climate change goals. The central European nation is consuming coal at the fastest pace in almost six years, as it becomes one of the few countries to increase imports of the fuel in 2023, ...

A school district in northern New Jersey confirmed this week it would reinstate its COVID-19 mask mandate starting Wednesday, drawing criticism. “Therefore, effective Wednesday, December 21, 2022, all employees, Pre-K through grade 12 students, and visitors are required to wear face coverings in all...

Germany is returning to coal as it faces its worst energy crisis in decades, even as it officially pursues its climate change goals. The central European nation is consuming coal at the fastest pace in almost six years, as it becomes one of the few countries to increase imports of the fuel in 2023, ...

A surprising admission has come in a Washington Post report Wednesday morning following a months-long investigation into the Sept. 26 Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipeline sabotage attacks. While there remains consensus that the explosions were indeed the result of a deliberate act of sabotage, numerous offi...

We guess the "robust demand" story at Tesla is finally over... The EV company, which has seen its stock shellacked over the last month and its CEO pre-occupied with his latest tryst in Twitter, is reportedly implementing a hiring freeze and a new round of layoffs, according to a report by electrek. ...

A majority of extremist-related investigations in the last year have been against Islamists, but the latest Reichsbürger case is getting around-the-clock media coverage for a reason Germany saw what is perhaps its largest police raid in history, involving 3,000 officers targeting 130 properties acro...

“The current federal government would like to abolish animal husbandry and switch the diet in Germany to vegetables and oatmeal,” says Hubert Kelliger, head of group sales at the large butcher Westfleisch The German meat industry has warned of impending supply bottlenecks, especially concerning pork...

While Europe has been keeping a generally optimistic facade ahead of the coming cold winter, signaling that it has more than enough gas in storage to make up for loss of Russian supply even in a "coldest-case" scenario, behind the scenes Europe's largest economy is quietly preparing for a worst case...

Germany’s interior minister, Nancy Faeser, is being hit with serious allegations that she falsified the number of so-called refugees coming to Germany since the beginning of the year. While she claims only 57,647 refugees have entered German territory, the federal police have registered 101,900 fore...

Italy argues that German ships flying German flags should be responsible for the migrants Three NGO ships with more than 1,000 people on board are waiting to dock off the Italian coast, but Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi are firmly refusing German demands that ...