#Europe is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 1,342 people shared 8,281 posts with it — around 276 a day. Activity is down 8% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 27 with 363 posts.
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www.theguardian.com
‘I feel utter anger’: From Canada to Europe, a movement to boycott US goods is spreading
Tesla sales are falling and apps and online groups are springing up to help consumers choose non-US items
media.tenor.com
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www.hendryadrian.com
Real emails, hijacked payments: Two H1 2026 attack chains
Gen Threat Labs examined two H1 2026 campaigns that abused trusted systems, including compromised mailboxes, browser and proxy manipulation, clipboard hijacking, and blockchain-based C2 resolution. The report highlights how these attacks bypassed normal trust signals while targeting banking sessions in Europe and cryptocurrency payments through a Rust-based clipper and Binance Smart Chain pointers. #GepyS #XWorm #RemcosRAT #BinanceSmartChain
linuxiac.com
The European Union’s open-source age-verification project has drawn criticism after a maintainer confirmed that hardware-bound attestation is a mandatory architectural requirement, raising concerns about Linux, custom Android ROMs, and independently compiled applications. The debate began in the GitHub repository for the project’s Android app, where a user argued that tying credentials to specific hardware environments would make it more difficult to support open systems. “ _Hardware-bound attestation is a requirement of this project, not an implementation detail we can simply drop_ ,” a maintainer responded. The project invited alternative architectural proposals and said a dedicated security review and threat model would be published soon. The solution lets users prove they are over a certain age without revealing their name, exact birth date, or full identity document. To prevent credentials from being copied, cloned, or reused by modified clients, the project relies on keys stored in protected hardware like Android TEE, StrongBox, or Apple’s Secure Enclave. However, critics claim that this approach endangers the system by making it dependent on a small number of approved devices, operating systems, and attestation providers. The project’s technical specification requires age verification apps to use native cryptographic hardware when available. However, stricter checks like root detection, Google Play Integrity, and Apple App Attest are not universally mandated by the reference implementation and may be left to individual deployers. This distinction matters because hardware-backed key storage does not require a server to approve the entire device, operating system, or application build. The maintainer’s wording leaves some uncertainty over how restrictive production deployments will be. There is also a separate governance limitation. Proof of Age providers are expected to issue credentials only to applications included in a list of compliant apps maintained by the European Commission. This means that publishing the source code does not automatically guarantee that a community-built version can use the real service. Importantly, Linux is not explicitly banned. Desktop Linux users could access a website and scan a QR code using a supported mobile wallet. However, the current architecture does not provide a native Linux wallet, and alternative mobile operating systems could struggle to meet the required trust conditions. So, as you can understand, the controversy goes far beyond a single Android implementation. For now, however, the project’s position is that hardware binding remains required. The expected security review and threat model may provide a more detailed explanation of why that trade-off was selected and whether alternative roots of trust or less restrictive implementations can still comply. Until then, the central question remains unresolved: whether an EU-funded, open-source identity system can meaningfully remain open when real-world access depends not only on available source code, but also on approved applications, supported security hardware, trusted operating environments, and the policies of credential providers.
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www.euronews.com
EU sanctions five people linked to Russia’s military industry after Ukraine strikes
The EU sanctioned five individuals tied to Russia’s military-industrial complex after recent Russian air strikes on Ukraine, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said, accusing Moscow of escalating att...
www.euronews.com
EU sanctions five people linked to Russia’s military industry after Ukraine strikes
The EU sanctioned five individuals tied to Russia’s military-industrial complex after recent Russian air strikes on Ukraine, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said, accusing Moscow of escalating att...
www.euronews.com
Exclusive: Euronews ‘extremist’ label is Lukashenka’s revenge, Tsikhanouskaya said
Exclusive: Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya said Belarus’ “extremist” label for Euronews shows the Lukashenka regime is afraid of independent information, and warned that it could put journalists, sources and...
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