The world’s leading internet firms are actively collaborating with regulators in the European Union to ensure compliance with the bloc’s stringent data protection rules. According to Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), which serves as the lead EU regulator for major tech companies including Alphabet’s Google, Meta, Microsoft, TikTok, and OpenAI, these firms are taking extensive measures to ensure that their AI products do not violate data privacy regulations.
1:09 – OpsMill Releases InfraHub
There’s a new automation sheriff in town. Launching yesterday at AutoCon 2.0 is OpsMill. Their founders have had lots of experience in the networking industry and have seen where the next step needs to be. OpsMill InfraHub brings together the structure of existing tools like Nautobot and NetBox with the scalability and flexibility of GitHub. InfraHub serves as a single source of truth that stores more than just configuration. It also integrates with popular frameworks like Ansible and Terraform.
4:37 – EU probes Telegram, because size matters for regulators
European Union officials are currently engaging in discussions with Telegram regarding its user base, as reported by Bloomberg and citing unnamed sources. While Telegram officially asserts that it has 41 million European users, local regulators remain skeptical and suspect that the actual user count might be higher. This issue is particularly significant because platforms with 45 million or more users—referred to as “very large online platforms” (VLOPs)—operating within the EU are subject to stricter regulations under the EU Digital Services Act (DSA).
Read More: EU probes Telegram, because size matters for regulators
8:19 – FBI Seizes Stolen Data Bazaar BreachForums
The FBI has decided to get into the forum business. Well, sort of. Last week the popular hacker forum site BreachForums was apparently taken over by the feds. A notice went up on the front page telling everyone that the site was now under the control of the FBI. The site had already been seized last year when operator Conor Brian Fitzpatrick was arrested and pled guilty to operating it. After he was sentenced some other person took over the site and started up again. This time the FBI seized the forums on the official Telegram channel.
Read More: BreachForums, an online bazaar for stolen data, seized by FBI
12:17 – VPN Provider Sanctioned for Crime Traffic
If the VPN is free, are you the product? In the case of a residential service known as 911 S5, or more commonly marketed at MaskVPN or Dew VPN, you were absoultely the product. That’s because the operators of the service were using your computer as a proxy for criminals to send their traffic through you to commit offenses. When users would connect to the VPN servers a reverse socket would be opened that allowed the PC to be used for illicit purposes. Three Chinese nationals have been sanctioned by the US Treasury Department as the investigation continues.
Read More: US sanctions operators of “free VPN” that routed crime traffic through user PCs
15:51 – T-Mobile Picks Up US Cellular
In a blockbuster move, T-Mobile has added US Cellular to their portfolio. The Un-carrier is snapping up 30 percent for a reported $4.4 billion. This includes all the subscribers and brick-and-mortar retail locations. T-Mobile will also assume around $2 billion in debt from US Cellular and rent towers from the company. T-Mobile has framed the bill not as a reduction in competition but as a way to more directly compete against industry titans AT&T and Verizon. The acquisition follows a long line of deals including Sprint and Mint Mobile.
Read More: T-Mobile to buy US Cellular’s wireless ops, plus slice of spectrum for $4.4B
21:45 – Top EU data regulator says tech giants working closely on AI compliance
The world’s leading internet firms are actively collaborating with regulators in the European Union to ensure compliance with the bloc’s stringent data protection rules. According to Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), which serves as the lead EU regulator for major tech companies including Alphabet’s Google, Meta, Microsoft, TikTok, and OpenAI, these firms are taking extensive measures to ensure that their artificial intelligence (AI) products do not violate data privacy regulations. Arjan, is EU governmental involvement a good or a bad thing, and what other EU regulations are impacted by this?
Read More: Top EU data regulator says tech giants working closely on AI compliance
33:37 – The Weeks Ahead
AppDev Field Day 1 – May 29 – 30
Tech Field Day Experience at Qlik Connect – June 3 – 5
Tech Field Day Experience at Cisco Live – June 4 – 5
The Six Five Summit – June 11 – 13
Cloud Field Day 20 – June 12 – 13
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