Tech News Roundup — July 9, 2026 (NOON)

The NOON tech roundup is a slim edition: only two new articles have crossed the wire since the morning edition, both from Pplware. The first reopens the long-running fight over the EU’s proposed “Chat Control” CSAM-detection mandate, and the second surfaces an interesting margin inversion at Renault, where the small EVs are out-earning the big ones.

Security & Privacy

• “Chat Control” returns to the European Parliament. After being shelved at the start of the year, the controversial CSAM-detection proposal is back on the EU legislative calendar. The plan would force platforms to scan private messages for child sexual-abuse material — a measure critics argue amounts to mandatory client-side scanning of encrypted chats. The Parliament is set to reopen debate on the rule that privacy advocates and several EU member states refused to back earlier in 2026. [Pplware]

Hardware & Mobility

• Renault’s compact EVs are quietly out-earning its bigger models. Renault’s CEO has disclosed that the small electric R5, R4 and Twingo are generating margins ABOVE those of the larger Megane and Scenic EVs — a reversal of the usual logic where bigger cars carry fatter profits. The data point reframes the small-EV bet as a margin story, not just a market-entry one, and could sway other European OEMs weighing similar sub-€25k EV programmes. [Pplware]

Roundup compiled from the TTRSS Tech feed. 2 new articles from 1 source (Pplware) summarized; both items are also excluded from the running mark-read because the Pplware feed is processed on an end-of-day cadence via the local tracker.