Germany

Qilin ransomware group claims attack on German political party Die Linke, threatening to leak 1.5 terabytes of internal data in what the party calls a hybrid warfare operation.

Munich-based Proxima Fusion, RWE, Bavaria, and the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics have agreed on a two-stage, multibillion-euro roadmap to build a demonstration stellarator and a grid-connected commercial fusion plant at the decommissioned Gundremmingen reactor site.

Germany's first industrial AI cloud delivers 0.5 ExaFLOPS from a converted bank building cooled by the Eisbach river, marking Europe's boldest bid for AI independence from US hyperscalers.