"Microprocessors market: the General Court upholds the Commission's 2023 decision against Intel but reduces the fine by approximately € 140 million" to €230 Million curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/...

A pay-to-scrape AI licensing standard is now official

Razer resurrects the first ever gaming mouse as a limited edition

"But the calls for location verification in the U.S. have also led China's top cybersecurity regulator to call Nvidia in for questioning about whether its products contain backdoors that would allow the U.S. to bypass its chips' security features."

"A Virginia startup calling itself “Operation Bluebird” announced this week that it has filed a formal petition with the US Patent and Trademark Office, asking the federal agency to cancel X Corporation’s trademarks of the words “Twitter” and “tweet” since X has allegedly abandoned them."

USA : 5 ans d’historique de réseaux sociaux pour passer en tant que touriste français ?

What about Aptos, Microsoft's proprietary typeface which recently replaced (Microsoft's) Calibri as the default typeface in all the company's products? Microsoft should launch "The Microsoft Aptos Font Peace Prize" and hope that whoever is its inaugural winner could sway the US government.

Spain's ISPs block IPs used by pirate streaming sites during the Spanish league football matches. IP-level blocks impact the many unrelated sites that are behind each IP. Adding insult to injury, Movistar keeps the blocks for 14 HOURS after the match is over. bandaancha.eu/articulos/mo...

Paris court finds that Alstom knowingly sold to the Paris Metro system software liable to the Year 2038 problem.

From the Transmitter : "Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications that trained neural networks on ‘bonkers’ dataset - The dataset contains images of children’s faces downloaded from websites about autism, which sparked concerns at Springer Nature about consent and reliability".

"Brian Fagioli writes: Instead of opening models, training data, or anything that would meaningfully shift power toward the community, the companies ... are donating lightweight artifacts.... They're useful, but they're also the safest, least threatening pieces of their ecosystem to "open".

In the face of a profitability crisis, industrial-scale bitcoin miners are transforming their data centers into AI factories. www.wired.com/story/bitcoi...

We have received over 100 fantastic abstracts for BILETA 2026; Aberystwyth will be an incredible occasion. We have honoured several extension requests in this busy season, so have decided to extend the call until 14 January 2026. Further details and submission process: www.aber.ac.uk/en/lac/news/...

Trump says Nvidia can sell H200s to China – if Washington gets a 25 percent cut

"The move increases pressure on the UK after a government minister admitted last week that the 35-year-old Computer Misuse Act needed updating to protect cybersecurity pros from prosecution."

Is this a new thing? Bluesky on desktop just now asking me to give them my date of birth - not for messages, for the home feed

My marking this semester has taken me roughly twice as long as it did before because I have to spend extra time checking that sources my students are using are even real. Obviously I don’t have to check every single one, but the number I do check - and the number that aren’t real - has gone up.

"don't double fist" (!?)

ICE-tracking app developer sues Trump admin after Apple spikes the software

ICEBlock developer sues Trump administration over App Store removal

truly influential definitions of AI 'systemic risks' may not come directly from regulators, but from insurers currently trying to figure out how to exclude losses related to AI tools (unreliable, widely used -> correlated risks, complex supply chains -> unclear liability) www.ft.com/content/abfe...

Blogged The EU Commission has finally fined X - the Digital Services Act's main character My analysis - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

My 'Defending MAGA-speech: Trump’s war on global data privacy' papers.ssrn.com/abstract_id=..., is a non-US analysis of how the authoritarian Trump Administration has developed a systematic foreign & domestic policy ideology with which to attack data privacy globally. Comments much appreciated.

As I feared, it seems that Trump is going to warp antitrust to attack pro-consumer, pro-competition Netflix/WB deal. Trump wants Warner Bros. to end up in hands of right-wing Trump courtier Larry Ellison, owner of Paramount, rather than Netflix, whose founder and CEO are both Dem donors.

I provided my antitrust analysis of the deal here. bsky.app/profile/cjsp...

AI as commons: Why we need community-controlled Artificial Intelligence, By Vasilis Kostakis & Aristotle Tympas policyreview.info/articles/new... #AI #commons

[New article] Platform badges for civic communication: An interdisciplinary discussion of a risk mitigation measure pursuant to Art. 35 DSA, By Jan Rau, Jan-Ole Harfst, & Tobias Mast @bredowinstitut.bsky.social policyreview.info/articles/ana...

Pretty crazy that nearly all of the EU Commission is still on X even as Elon Musk is literally talking about destroying the EU. You can leave X. It's really not that difficult.

All of Russia's Porsches Were Bricked By a Mysterious Satellite Outage https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/12/08/0310242/all-of-russias-porsches-were-bricked-by-a-mysterious-satellite-outage?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner

📢 On behalf of the ESIL Interest Group on International Law and Technology, I'm delighted to announce that today marks the launch of our new @opiniojuris.bsky.social symposium:📢 *Forensic and Counter-Forensic Approaches to International Law – A Cartography and Anatomy of Genocide*

I joined the Tech Policy Podcast to talk about the latest DSA enforcement developments with @justinhendrix.bsky.social.

The European Commission has lost access to its control panel for buying and tracking ads on Elon Musk’s X — after fining the social media platform €120 million for violating EU transparency rules.

Jolla Trying Again To Develop A New Sailfish OS Linux Smartphone - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Jolla-Phone-2025

My @techpolicypress.bsky.social piece about X’s DSA fine, and how it is NOT about censorship, is up. It expands on points I made in a thread here, and adds context. Thanks to @justinhendrix.bsky.social for helping me pull it together!

Elon Musk and his Russian friends call for the abolishment of the EU

Netflix Confirms Cancel Membership Button Will Be Leaving Streaming Service Next Month

"Electronics biz Vizio may be required by a California court to provide source code for its SmartCast TV software, which is allegedly based on open source code licensed under the GPLv2 and LGPLv2.1."

We need to talk about the EU TDM exception and AI training Following the recent decision in GEMA v OpenAI, and last year's Kneschke v LAION, we now have two German courts grappling with the applicability of the text and data mining exceptions to AI training. Despite arriving at different outcomes,…

Welcome to the wellness surveillance state

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UK pushes ahead with facial recognition expansion despite civil liberties backlash

Commission fines X €120 million under the Digital Services Act. See ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Twins who hacked State Dept hired to work for gov again, now charged with deleting databases

Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.

30 years ago today, Netscape announced a new programming language, one that emerged from a frantic, week-and-a-half-long sprint. It ended up sticking around far longer than anyone could've expected.