New on @TheTerminal: The European Commission will announce tomorrow that Pornhub, XVideos and Stripchat will be considered very large online platforms, or VLOPs, under the Digital Services Act.

Russia is making a mockery of EU disinformation sanctions, including by setting up mirror sites to get around restrictions. “We spit on your sanctions,” RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan said in comments relayed by her press office. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Advanced packaging is rapidly becoming a new front in the global conflict over chips www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Meta is set to be hit by a Europe-wide ban on leveraging the trove of personal data of Facebook and Instagram users to target them with ads — a move the social network giant says ignores its recent moves to give people more control www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Twitter/X's value marked down by 65%. All going well, then www.axios.com/2023/10/29/f...

The EU is considering a three-tiered approach to regulating generative AI that would add rules for all foundation models, “very capable” foundation models and general purpose AI at scale. With @albertonardelli.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The DSA is here to protect free speech against arbitrary decisions, and at the same time protect our citizens and democracies. My requests to Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg following the terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel — and on tackling disinformation in elections in the EU ⤵️