Belgium has a semiconductor research institute the whole industry depends on, and almost nobody outside the industry has heard of it.
imec, in Leuven, is where the process technology behind advanced chips gets developed and tested before anyone manufactures at scale, and its partners are every name in the sector. Around it sits a genuine research cluster: KU Leuven and Ghent spinouts in biotech and materials, a photonics and imaging specialism, and a startup scene that is small, well-funded per head, and rarely covered in English at all.
The other half of Belgian tech news is not Belgian in origin but is written here. Brussels is where EU digital regulation happens — the rules on platforms, AI, data and privacy that end up applying to companies on three continents — and enforcement decisions and court rulings that shape the global internet get made a tram ride from the city centre.
We summarise both to 60 words in English: funding rounds, product and research news, regulatory decisions, outages and breaches that affect people here.
Where a story is a company announcement, it is labelled as one, and where a regulatory story is a proposal rather than a law, the brief says which.
Josephine Bouwens, 21, from Knokke developed a chatbot at PXL University of Applied Sciences in Hasselt for students with dyslexia or dysphasia. StudyBuddy asks questions about their lessons and asses…
South African author Coral Hart admits she wrote her books with the help of artificial intelligence. She says she published 400 in a single year. Her unapologetic choice has led to her being called a …
Nothing, the British technology company, is known for smartphones with LED lighting on the back and began with wireless earbuds. After releasing its first headphones last year, the company now follows…
A former student solved, through a query to ChatGPT, a mathematical problem the author had been working on for months. The experience leads him to see advances in artificial intelligence as heralding …
Antidote quiz No. 259 invites readers to test their spelling skills. The exercise involves rereading a text and finding five mistakes. Antidote is presented as French writing assistance software combi…
Four apps can make household management more organized by dividing chores, creating shopping lists and structuring schedules. They are intended for those seeking extra help with daily tasks and also o…
OPPO has announced the Find X10 Pro Max as its most expensive non-foldable smartphone to date. According to the manufacturer, prices start at €1,799. This makes it one of the most expensive smartphone…
AI-generated posters are appearing increasingly often in public spaces, from restaurants and parties to youth association activities. That may seem like a threat to graphic designers, but for now they…
Six in ten local authorities in Flanders have no plan to continue operating after a cyberattack on their IT infrastructure. Audit Flanders notes this in a report. This shows that a majority of Flemish…
In the Thélyson Orélien case, publisher Le Boréal commissioned an “in-depth external analysis” to decide whether to end its professional relationship with the author. A specialist explains how to look…
A hack makes it possible to modify games on the Nintendo Switch 2 without fully cracking the console. As a result, players can, among other things, change characters in Mario Kart World, Nintendo's ra…
Websites running outdated PHP versions remain vulnerable to attacks until administrators install an update. The team behind the programming language released patches for several security vulnerabiliti…
Critical vulnerabilities were discovered in PHP using artificial intelligence. Their detection led to the preventive shutdown of certain online services, particularly in Belgium. The episode highlight…
In three years, KU Leuven Libraries and Google digitized 101,807 books from Leuven library collections. The final shipment, comprising 5,000 books, returned to Leuven today from Google’s scanning cent…
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