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The EU’s 20th sanctions package includes transaction bans on 20 Russian banks and four financial institutions in third countries linked to sanctions circumvention. For the first time, the bloc has imposed a sector-wide ban on Russian crypto service providers and platforms, while also prohibiting transactions involving RUBx and support for the digital rouble. The European [...]
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EU officials have agreed to water down certain aspects of the AI Act, including delaying the implementation of rules covering a number of high-risk applications until December 2027, instead of the originally set deadline of August 2026, according to the latest update of EU lawmakers watering down AI rules. This agreement comes after many companies argued the EU was bogging itself down in unnecessary regulation, leaving the EU behind competitors in the US and Asia. The deal was reached after 9 hours of talks, which is fairly standard for negotiations in Brussels. It still needs to be ratified by EU […]
Fund says preparations needed for ‘inevitable’ AI-enabled breaches of financial institutions’ cyber defences
Partnership between top startup DeepL and Amazon comes amid concern about Silicon Valley’s monopoly over digital infrastructure AI companies in Europe risk losing their world-leading status in the field of machine translation, industry figures have said, after the decision by one of the continent’s leading startups to partner with Amazon’s cloud computing division provoked alarm. While businesses in the EU have generally lagged behind the US and China in AI adoption, a small group of European companies have cornered the global market for high-quality machine translations for professional use. Continue reading...
It's not just you. Hackers and other cybercriminals are complaining about “AI shit” flooding platforms where they discuss cyberattacks and other illegal activity.
The Emily Hart case shows the gap between what platforms say about AI transparency and what users actually see in their feeds.
Vibe coding and spec-driven development (SDD) are two emerging approaches where devops teams use AI to develop all of an application’s code. There are discussions about which approach to use for different use cases, and there are many platforms to consider with varying capabilities and experiences. Some experts question whether AI delivers reliable, maintainable applications, while others suggest that, at some point, AI can lead the end-to-end software development process. But one certainty IT organizations face is that there’s more demand for applications, integrations, and analytics than there is supply of agile teams and devops engineers. Compound this imbalance with business priorities to address application security vulnerabilities, modernize applications for the cloud, and address technical debt. It results in tough choices on what work to prioritize and where to drive efficiencies in the software development life cycle. Even before AI code generators emerged, IT leaders sought
