We have requested information from YouTube, Snapchat, and TikTok about the design of their recommender systems under the Digital Services Act.
YouTube and Snapchat need to detail their algorithms’ parameters and their role in amplifying risks, including users' mental well-being and protection of minors.
TikTok must explain measures against manipulation and risks to elections, media pluralism, and civic discourse.
ℹ️ More: https://europa.eu/!WpdMQY
#DSA #EU
Europe’s next quantum leap: LUMI-Q.
A new European quantum computer will be built in Czechia with 🇨🇿 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 🇩🇰 🇵🇱 🇳🇴 🇩🇪 🇧🇪 🇳🇱 under the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking.
Its star-shaped topology will enable the execution of very complex quantum algorithms, adding a new architecture to the European quantum computing ecosystem.
LUMI-Q will be available to European users in science, industry, and the public sector.
Europe can lead the way to federated, secure quantum computing ➡ https://europa.eu/!XPyNcD
Europe’s vision for AI: prioritising people, safeguarding rights.
Nearly 1,000 attendees, including AI providers, industry leaders, civil society members, academics, and experts will virtually gather today to begin drafting the first Code of Practice for general-purpose AI models.
They will discuss transparency, copyright, and mitigation measures, among others, helping us in detailing the AI Act rules.
The final Code will be unveiled in April 2025.
⛔️⚠️AFU military command refute ongoing Western and Ukrainian media pro-Russian disinformation campaign: No battles are occurring anywhere in Dnipropetrovsk region (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4011863-ukrainian-military-no-battles-in-dnipropetrovsk-region.html #Ukraine #Mastodon #NYT #KyivIndependent #WashingtonPost #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState #TrumpIsARussianAsset
⛔️🇺🇸Russian asset Hegseth and Republicans intentionally paused defensive aide to Ukraine to protect civilians despite Pentagon finding aid wouldn't hurt US readiness, NBC reports (more) https://kyivindependent.com/hegseth-paused-ukraine-weapons-despite-pentagon-findings-aid-wouldnt-hurt-us-readiness-nbc-reports-06-2025/ #Ukraine #Mastodon #Brussels #SHAPE #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine
#RussiaIsATerroristState #TrumpIsARussianAsset
Discover the cities redefining urban living with cutting-edge innovation competing for the top spots at the 2024 iCapital prize 👇
🏙️ European Capital of Innovation:
🇫🇮 Espoo
🇮🇹 Turin
🇬🇧 West Midlands Combined Authority
✨ Rising Innovative City:
🇵🇹 Braga
🇦🇹 Linz
🇫🇮 Oulu
These cities are shaping more sustainable, inclusive, and resilient urban environments by embedding innovation into the fabric of daily life.
Winners will be announced on 13 November 2024.
Apple must provide free and effective interoperability to third-party developers and businesses with hardware and software features controlled by iOS and iPadOS.
Today, we've initiated two specification proceedings to assist Apple in complying with its interoperability obligations under the Digital Markets Act.
Press release: http://europa.eu/!wKPpFH
Nearly 26 million EU small and medium enterprises employ 90 million people.
Our latest #Eurobarometer reveals that 93% adopt resource-efficiency measures like saving energy, reducing waste, and recycling.
The new findings will guide our efforts to help them go greener.
Discover them ➡ https://europa.eu/!wrXTty
https://t.me/liveukraine_media/24843
💛💙 "I thank everyone who stands with Ukraine," noted President Zelensky after nearly thirty meetings in the U.S. SLAVA UKRAINE! (VIDEO) #Ukraine #Mastodon #Press #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar
#BoycottHungarians #10yrInvasionofUkraine
#Article7 #Article7HungaryNow
⚠️🇺🇦Kyiv condemns Iran's attack on Israel and calls on partners to defend Ukraine's skies just as resolutely as they do Israel (more) https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/10/2/7477838/ #Ukraine #Mastodon #Biden #PACE #OSCE #CoE #UN #Press #USA #UnitedNations #Rutte #US #UK #Harris #Harris2024 #HarrisWalz #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar
#BoycottHungarians #10yrInvasionofUkraine
#Article7 #Article7HungaryNow
Many cultures, one Union.
Europe's living cultural #heritage is more than just our past—it's our inspiration for the future.
This is why we celebrate it every year at the European Cultural Heritage Summit, running in Bucharest 🇷🇴 until tomorrow!
Heritage professionals from all over the 🇪🇺 have gathered to find adequate responses to the climate crisis.
Our culture is what brings us together as people. We’re united in diversity.
📸 Flickr, Europa Nostra
🚗🏍️🚴♂️🏃♀️🚶♂️ Safer roads by 2030: where are we?
In 2023, the EU saw a 1% decrease in road fatalities, with 20,400 lives lost – a 10% drop since 2019, but still an unacceptable number.
This is not enough to reach our target. We need to bring this number down to 11,400 by 2030 and to zero by 2050.
While we see some positive developments in some EU countries, we need more efforts on all levels to make our roads safer for everyone.
Today, we found that X should not be designated as a core platform service under the Digital Markets Act.
We concluded that X does not qualify given that our investigation revealed that X is not an important gateway for business users to reach end users.
We will continue to monitor the developments in the market concerning this service should any substantial changes arise.
More: https://europa.eu/!7GfFpY
> celebrate_future_coders()
The EU Code Week is here to inspire people to gain coding and digital skills.
From 14 to 27 October, grassroots events across Europe will allow everyone to explore coding and careers in STEM.
Whether it's Python, JavaScript, C++, Ruby, Rust, you name it, learning to code can help make sense of a rapidly changing world and open up countless opportunities.
Discover the activities closer to you and resources in 29 languages 👉 https://codeweek.eu/
What do our stats say about Europeans?
👵 Longevity: 🇪🇺 women life expectancy is 84.2 years. Men reach 78.9 years.
💼 Gender pay gap: 🇪🇪 highest at 21.3%, 🇱🇺 lowest at -7%. 12.7% in 🇪🇺.
📚 Language learning: 99.7% of 🇫🇷 pupils study 2+ languages. 60.8% of pupils do it in 🇪🇺.
🏖️ Tourism: nearly 3 billion nights spent in 🇪🇺 tourist accommodations.
Eurostat offers insights crucial for making decisions based on facts.
What else can they reveal to you?
Find out: https://europa.eu/!Bw69Dh
We’re committed to an inclusive future for everyone.
This week, the Council of the EU has taken a significant step toward equality by adopting our proposals to enhance the rights of millions of people with disabilities.
Here’s how they will make a real difference:
🆔 European Disability Card: Recognised across all 27 EU countries, granting access to essential services.
🅿️ Enhanced European Parking Card: Uniform parking rights across the #EU for greater independence.
🌐 Another major step in boosting the cyber resilience of Europe’s critical digital infrastructure.
Today, we have adopted the first implementing rules on the cybersecurity of critical entities and networks under the NIS2 Directive.
The act:
📋 details cybersecurity risk management measures;
🚨 specifies cases in which an incident should be considered significant and should be reported by digital infrastructure and service providers to national authorities.
Open data...
🔎 Foster transparency
🔬 Fuel research
🚀 Trigger technological advances
🧭 Guide policymakers
... and more!
This dynamic field is changing how we understand, shape and engage with our world.
If you have worked on projects that empower EU society with data, don’t miss the chance to showcase them at the EU Open Data Days 2025
Send us your proposal by 22 October ➡ https://europa.eu/!bmnkMd
✅ Pushing for bolder climate action at COP29 in 🇦🇿 Baku.
We will work with global partners to:
🌡️ Keep the 1.5°C global warming target alive
💰 Set a new climate finance goal
🌍 Progress on climate adaptation and resilience
Governments, industry, civil society, and citizens must work together to tackle humanity's greatest challenge.
Let's act before climate change blows our future away.
Find out how: https://europa.eu/!Mhx8RK
📸 Image captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2.
# How many lines of code to show our love for coders?
print("Just one: 🇪🇺 ❤️ 👨💻👩💻")
On #WorldCodingDay, we celebrate your passion and commitment to code an innovative, open digital society.
We are here to help with:
🔹 The Digital Markets Act, ensuring fair access to essential platform services and promoting interoperability.
🔸 The Digital Services Act, protecting your fundamental rights online.
Europe's new digital rulebook is the source code.
You are the compiler that brings it to life.
App Store, Apple Arcade, Music, iTunes Store, Books and Podcasts.
Following a coordinated investigation at the European level, we are calling on Apple to stop geo-blocking practices on Apple Media Services.
Their limitations unlawfully discriminate against European consumers based on their residence, including online access, payment methods and downloading.
Apple has one month to reply to the CPC Network’s findings and propose commitments on addressing them.
🎫 Hotels, car rental companies, and other travel service providers relying on Booking.com can begin enjoying new opportunities.
As of today, the online intermediation service must comply with all relevant obligations of the Digital Markets Act.
This means EU businesses can be free to differentiate prices and conditions on any online sales channel they wish to use.
The DMA ensures contestable and fair markets in the digital sector.
Find out how 👉 https://europa.eu/!wYHNtP
The research community is vital in scrutinising and safeguarding the online environment.
Today, we have launched a public consultation on the rules for researchers to access online platform data under the Digital Services Act.
With the #DSA, researchers will for the first time have access to data to study systemic risks and to assess online platforms’ risk mitigation measures in the #EU.
Have your say 👉
https://europa.eu/!8q9Y9T
Advancing trustworthy and safe AI in the EU.
Today, we published the first draft of the General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence Code of Practice.
The Code will help implement the AI Act rules governing general-purpose AI models, including chatbots.
The draft, prepared by experts and informed by public feedback, will be discussed next week in the Code of Practice Plenary.
Learn more: https://europa.eu/!dBbFwV
#EU #AI
We have opened formal proceedings to assess whether Temu may have breached the Digital Services Act in areas linked to:
▪️ Sale of illegal products
▪️ Potentially addictive design of the service
▪️ Purchase recommendations
▪️ Access to data for researchers
More: https://europa.eu/!4m8GPM
#DSA #EU
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def inspire_future_coders():
coders = [
"eager newbies",
"bug-fixing warriors",
"late-night debuggers",
"code review champions",
"keyboard ninjas",
"algorithm aficionados",
"future code legends",
"European digital innovators"
]
for coder in coders:
print(f"Cheers to the future {coder}! 🚀")
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def inspire_future_coders():
coders = [
\"eager newbies\",
\"bug-fixing warriors\",
\"late-night debuggers\",
\"code review champions\",
\"keyboard ninjas\",
\"algorithm aficionados\",
\"future code legends\",
\"European digital innovators\"
]
for coder in coders:
print(f\"Cheers to the future {coder}! 🚀\")
On the bottom-right side is the logo of the European Commission.")
