19 stories tagged finland, newest first.
213 points by rustybolt | 164 comments
New York Post report that Google cleared about 250,000 trees in northern Finland for data centers before environmental approval, prompting Finnish authorities to suspend work.
288 points by wetwater | 235 comments
TechSpot news article on Finnish regulators questioning Google's clearing of 300 hectares of forest for a data center before environmental review finished.
10 points by vrganj | 2 comments
Yle News article reporting that Finland is buying a million landmines after withdrawing from the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel mines.
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59 points by NaOH | 8 comments
Yle's Pentulive hub page featuring a 24/7 live video stream of a lagotto romagnolo mother and her six puppies, plus related news, podcasts and chat.
401 points by heyimada | 115 comments
Guardian news article reporting that Google was ordered to halt work on two Finnish datacentre sites after failing to carry out environmental impact assessments.
77 points by cmrdporcupine | 27 comments
Verda blog post explaining what its $189M Series B funding round means for customers of its platform.
365 points by lukaspetersson | 326 comments
BBC News article reporting that Google has picked Finland for its largest single investment in Europe, tied to buying nuclear power for data centres.
327 points by sohkamyung | 194 comments
BBC Future article on Finnish public libraries that lend items like sewing machines and how such libraries can strengthen democracy.
669 points by Teever | 482 comments
Yle News article on Finland considering an Australia-style ban or restriction on social media use by children under 15, backed by the PM and health authority THL.
438 points by wslh | 466 comments
CNN news article reporting that Finland detained a ship and its crew after a critical undersea cable in the Baltic was damaged.
1038 points by DaveZale | 568 comments
Helsinki Times news article reporting that Helsinki went a full year without any traffic deaths.
396 points by axelfontaine | 355 comments
Rail News Vista article reporting that Finland plans to migrate its broad-gauge rail network to the international standard gauge.
683 points by freetonik | 415 comments
Yle News article reporting that Finland has banned smartphones in schools, allowing pupil use only with teacher permission in some circumstances.
506 points by nabla9 | 386 comments
Lloyd's List news article reporting that the Russia-linked tanker Eagle S, seized by Finland over cable damage, carried listening equipment to monitor Nato activity.
520 points by mooreds | 897 comments
CNN news article reporting that an undersea internet cable between Germany and Finland in the Baltic Sea was taken out of service by a mysterious fault.
463 points by helsinkiandrew | 257 comments
Financial Times article on AMD agreeing to buy Finnish AI start-up Silo AI for $665mn to compete with Nvidia, shown behind a subscription paywall.
332 points by miohtama | 57 comments
Finnish news article reporting that Finland's parliament has taken a position against the EU CSAM regulation, criticized as mass surveillance and an encryption ban.
389 points by Someone | 135 comments
Homepage of nic.funet.fi, a Finnish FTP archive serving freely distributable files since 1990 and the site where Linux was first released in 1991.
322 points by iamsanteri | 268 comments
NATO event page for the live stream of the April 4, 2023 Meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs in Brussels, when Finland joined as the 31st member.