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Belgian PM De Wever leaves door open for Ukraine reparation loan
COPENHAGEN – Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever said on Thursday that he would back the European Commission’s Ukraine “reparation loan” if concerns about the liability and legality of using frozen Russian assets held in Belgium are addressed....

Belgium says EU states must share risk to use frozen Russian assets for Ukraine
By Andrew Gray and Jan Strupczewski COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever has asked other EU leaders to guarantee they will share the risks if frozen Russian assets held in his country are used to finance loans to Ukraine. At...

Israel-Premier Tech pull out of Gran Piemonte, Tre Valli Varesine and Coppa Bernocchi as pro-Palestine protests spread across Italy
The Israel-Premier Tech team have pulled out of races in Italy as pressure from Pro-Palestine protesters grows and threaten the security of the final races of the 2025 season. "In light of security concerns, Israel – Premier Tech will no longer be...

Plopsaland Belgium expanding with new area and attraction
Plopsaland Belgium in De Panne has announced a €25 million expansion with the new Plopsaland Plaza, which includes a new flying theatre attraction and more. With the addition of Plopsaland Plaza, the largest expansion in the park's history,...

Grant Thornton businesses in France, Spain and Belgium join global platform
Grant Thornton Advisors, the company’s private equity backed global platform, has expanded with the addition of Grant Thornton’s member firms in France, Spain and Belgium. The latest expansion by Grant Thornton Advisors sees the total number of...

Is Artificial Intelligence Perpetuating Loneliness?
Co-authored by Adrian Parham and Robert T. Muller, Ph.D. Last year, a 14-year-old boy began withdrawing from others. He spent hours on his phone, and his academic performance plummeted. Alarmed, his parents limited his screen time, but nothing...

Game-based Learning Market Research 2025-2033, Competitive Analysis of Badgeville, Bunchball, Classcraft Studios, Six Waves, Recurrence, Gametize, Kuato, BreakAway, Filament Games, LearningWare – ResearchAndMarkets.com
DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “Game-based Learning Market Report by Component, Platform Type, Deployment Mode, Game Type, End-User, Countries and Companies Analysis 2025-2033” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. The world...

How Europe’s rules and barriers stifle its tech future
When the European Commission spent €387,000 on a party in the metaverse to promote its €300-billion Global Gateway investment plan, the aim was to showcase Brussels as forward-looking and tech-savvy. Instead, the event became infamous for other...
Dutch tech giant ASML’s executive recalls company CEO meeting PM Modi for two hours, says “not always easy” to meet EU politicians
Brussels [Belgium], October 2 (ANI): A senior executive of Dutch semiconductor giant ASML has criticised the European Union for being inaccessible to Europe's companies. He made the remarks during Politico's Competitive Europe summit in Brussels...

IRESEN Drives Morocco’s Green Hydrogen Agenda at World Power-to-X Summit
Marrakech – Morocco’s Institute for Research in Solar Energy and New Energies (IRESEN) marked its strongest showing yet at the World Power-to-X Summit, which concluded yesterday in Marrakech. The fifth edition of the annual gathering brought...

Google does Gemini for Home Q&A: Early Access vs. Public Preview, 3rd-party speakers, launch schedule
The Google Home team is answering the “top questions” it has received from users since Wednesday’s Gemini for Home launch. Gemini for Home’s Early Access program is different from the existing Public Preview, which is a “broader program for the...

Drone Title Buzz For Tech-savvy Mates
Two Bathurst locals and best mates are flying high after representing the Australian Defence Force drone racing team at the Military International Drone Racing Tournament in the United Kingdom last month. The Army reservists were part of the...

Syensqo develops chemical recycling technology for sulfone polymers
Syensqo S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) has announced the invention of a proprietary chemical recycling technology that efficiently depolymerizes sulfone polymers to obtain purified raw material monomers. This new process enables the infinite circularity...

Full-Life nabs $77M for radiopharmaceuticals, Belgium GMP site
Full-Life Technologies Ltd. announced Sept. 29 the completion of a $77 million financing, comprising $50 million in series C equity and $27 million in debt financing, which will be used to advance a portfolio of radiopharmaceuticals and...

Belgium’s Proximus launches new web app with 3SS support
Live as of mid-September 2025, the new web-based service extends the reach of Proximus’ multiscreen React Native platform infrastructure engineered by 3SS and announced in 2024. Belgium’s Proximus launches new web app with 3SS support According to...

How Japanese paper cutting inspired Montreal researchers to engineer a new type of parachute
This green mesh parachute is unlike any that Westerners are used to: It is thin, flexible and can be folded back into a disk for reuse. Montreal researchers are testing its uses with small objects. Nothing useless can be truly beautiful,...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Announces R&D Partnership with AstraZeneca BioVentureHub
WILMINGTON, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 1, 2025-- The PPD™ clinical research business of Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced a new research and development (R&D) partnership with the AstraZeneca...

Imagine Live expands European presence with Italian and Belgian approvals
The company has secured regulatory approvals to operate in two additional European markets, obtaining GLI certification for Italy and a Class E licence for Belgium. By Jack Found Key points: - Imagine Live has received GLI certification for Italy...

Meet Alex Muzio, the man behind Belgium’s Brighton plotting Champions League disruption with Union SG
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Battering RAM Attack Breaks Intel and AMD Security Tech With $50 Device
Researchers have disclosed the details of a new hardware attack that has been demonstrated against AMD and Intel systems, but the chip giants do not appear concerned as the method requires physical access to the targeted device. The attack method,...