Herrmann at the Security and Innovation Forum at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg At the Security and Innovation Forum at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) on Monday, Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann emphasised the...
Society & Politics
Airbus’ OneSat selected for Oman’s first satellite
Space Communication Technologies (SCT), Oman's national satellite operator, has awarded Airbus Defence and Space a contract for OmanSat-1, a state-of-the-art, fully reconfigurable, high-throughput OneSat telecommunications satellite, including the associated system....
Black Friday: Half go bargain hunting
On average, 312 euros are spent – around 11 per cent more than last year Online shops from China polarise opinion: half avoid them, the other half have already ordered from them Four out of ten young people would send AI shopping on its own When Black Friday and the...
Internet search in transition: Half already use AI chats
50 percent of internet users use AI chats at least occasionally instead of traditional search engines Among 16- to 29-year-olds, the figure is as high as two-thirds 42 percent have already received incorrect answers, only 57 percent check the results Entering search...
Smart high-tech fabric keeps the body cool
Protection from direct sunlight – skin temperature drops by up to 3.8 degrees Celsius A new textile fabric developed by researchers at the University of South Australia (https://www.unisa.edu.au/) and Zhengzhou University (http://international.zzu.edu.cn/) lowers skin...
Secure payments in the digital age: PSR requirements and the relevance of device identification
A guest article by Dirk Mayer, Head of Anti-Fraud Consultants at RISK IDENT Digital payments require robust security measures to counteract increasing fraud. The Payment Services Regulation (PSR) sets out comprehensive framework conditions for this. Device...
BSI:NIS-2 implementation: Bundestag passes cybersecurity law
Germany's cybersecurity situation is tense: the Federal Republic is vulnerable in the digital space, particularly due to poorly protected areas of attack (https://bsi.bund.de/lagebericht). The law implementing the European NIS 2 Directive, which was passed today in...
Commentary: Berlin-Mitte Is Drifting Into Uncertainty – and Business Owners Are Footing the Bill
A growing wave of vandalism in Berlin-Mitte—smashed storefronts, nighttime attacks with blunt objects, paint assaults, and even arson—has created a climate that can no longer be dismissed as random mischief. Recent reporting* on multiple affected businesses, from...
Europol: 35 arrests in Bulgaria in a large art trafficking investigation
The criminal network is investigated for the trafficking of cultural goods; the invaluable antiquities have allegedly been looted from countries across the Balkans On 19 November 2025, a coordinated effort led by Bulgarian authorities and supported by Europol,...
Palantir as a symptom of a larger challenge
European sovereignty between aspiration and dependence The debate surrounding Palantir’s expanding footprint in Europe is not simply a dispute over a single software provider. It goes to the heart of Europe’s struggle for digital sovereignty: whether states should...
