In a weird X Spaces chat, Elon Musk and Alice Weidel, a co-chair of the German far-right party AfD, pushed disinformation about Hitler, migrants, war, and more
God! Martians! A “communist” Hitler! It was heavy on oddness and light on policy as the X owner and the AfD co-leader hit it off.
Nick Clegg criticizes the then PM Rishi Sunak's doomerism during November 2023's AI safety summit, saying UK “wasted a huge amount of time” focusing on AI risks
Five case business case is something Gov Clegg would be aware of. What are the benefits, yes. Which are never viewed in isolation from the risks, costs, need, impact, reputation ...
Nick Clegg criticized Rishi Sunak's doomerism after the PM held a summit on AI safety, saying Britain “wasted a huge amount of time” focusing on the risks of AI
The Meta exec and former deputy PM said Britain had “wasted a huge amount of time” focusing on the gloomy risks of artificial intelligence.
The EU's crackdown on Huawei shows an EU-wide TikTok ban will likely take years of diplomacy, as the bloc lacks a formal say over national security concerns
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Sources: Germany and Intel agree on subsidies worth ~€10B for its chip plant in Magdeburg, up from an initial agreement on €6.8B, as part of a ~€30B project
Thierry Breton says EU Digital Services Act content rules will apply to Apple, Meta, Google, TikTok, Twitter, Wikipedia, YouTube, and others from August 2023
Five Alphabet (GOOGL.O) subsidiaries, two Meta Platforms (META.O) units, two Microsoft (MSFT.O) businesses, Twitter and Alibaba's …
The French government bans TikTok and all other recreational apps from staff phones, claiming none have sufficiently robust security for government devices
Meanwhile the US contemplates drastic action — The government of France has banned TikTok - and all other recreational apps - from phones issued to its employees.
France plans to use large-scale AI-based video cameras for the 2024 Paris Olympics, potentially becoming the first EU country to legalize AI surveillance
PARIS — France's AI-powered array of surveillance cameras for the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics cleared a final legislative hurdle on Thursday.
Worried that cloud giants offer concentrated targets, the US plans to regulate the security practices of cloud providers like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google
Governments and businesses have spent two decades rushing to the cloud — trusting some of their most sensitive data to tech giants …
A profile of Christos Rammos, the key investigator of the Greek government's spyware scandal engulfing PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis' administration since summer 2022
How the UK's Online Safety Bill became an overwrought law that may not achieve its aims due to repeated policy changes by four prime ministers since 2019
LONDON — Britain's attempt to rein in the internet has turned into a political omnishambles. — The country's masterplan …
How Estonia is aiding cybersecurity workers in Ukraine and coordinating with European and US allies in the global effort to defend against Russia's cyberattacks
Estonia — has played an outsized role in helping them do so. https://www.politico.com/... Eric Geller / @ericgeller : This is a great story about an underappreciated relationship i...
A look at Huawei's future in Europe, as sources say the company is scaling back in the UK, France, and Belgium to focus on China, following US sanctions
Politico : Tweets: @politicoeurope and @politicoeurope Tweets: @politicoeurope : Huawei is giving up on Europe. The reason has little to do with the company's commercial potential...
A look at Huawei's future in Europe, as sources say the company is scaling back in the UK, France, and Belgium to focus on China, following US sanctions
Politico : Tweets: @politicoeurope and @politicoeurope Tweets: @politicoeurope : Huawei is giving up on Europe. The reason has little to do with the company's commercial potential...
NXP Semiconductors CEO Kurt Sievers estimates the EU must invest €500B to achieve its 20% global chip market share goal by 2030, short of the Chips Act's €43B
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Despite many of the CJEU's rulings saying mass surveillance is banned in the EU, member states have ruthlessly exploited loopholes to collect and keep the data
Sources: the EU plans to open a San Francisco office to engage with Silicon Valley tech giants under scrutiny from newly adopted EU rules, such as DMA and DSA
Samuel Stolton / Politico : Tweets: @cbjola , @politicoeurope , @claesdevreese , @quinnypig , @michel_ehrlich , and @carnage4life Tweets: @cbjola : Great news @TechambDK, @TFletch...
European Commission says it is planning to propose a bill for a digital euro in early 2023; the ECB expects to start working on a prototype at the end of 2023
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Meta, YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok sue the German government over rules requiring illegal pieces of content are sent to a federal database, citing privacy risks
including photos of swastikas or posts inciting violence — and user data to a central law enforcement agency. https://www.politico.eu/... Matthias C.Kettemann / @mckettemann : Inte...