🚨💻 Frontier AI brings opportunity, but also new operational and cyber risks. EBA, EIOPA and ESMA are urging financial institutions to strengthen governance, risk management and resilience as AI adoption accelerates. 🔍 link.europa.eu/hcVy8t
Ellen Timmer
@ellen-timmer.bsky.social
Jurist/lawyer, site: ellentimmer.com linkedin: http://nl.linkedin.com/in/ellentimmer nws: https://quodari.com/ellentimmer; mastodon: https://mastodon.nl/@ellent
“PostNL wil een AI First company worden” - De Volkskrant 1 augustus 2026 Volgens mij zouden jullie primair een bedrijf moeten zijn dat dingen probeert te bezorgen…
The AI That Hacked Its Way Out and the Hype That Followed It www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
De 'moderne' overheid:
Best for Britain@bestforbritain.org · 4d ago🚨Two Polish citizens, who have lived in the UK for 80yrs after their parents fled the second world war, were told they didn't have post-Brexit rights to return to UK & refused boarding by Ryanair https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/30/how-couple-lived-in-uk-80-years-got-stuck-in-krakow
These businesses aren't just wasting billions - they're replacing skilled workers with defective chatbots. As I've written before, AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our technological society. 79/
I keep saying what this post says, but people just don’t get it. They think that AI will magically fix the fact that there are many repositories of information in every business, many of them wrong or badly written. AI can’t tell what’s important or what is true in the slop that’s fed into it.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d agoChatbots don't help. The internally facing chatbot that's supposed to help employees figure out how to navigate the business sucks because it is only as good as its training date - the business's documentation of its own processes. 29/
Italy’s government, DPA argue over legality of face biometrics retention plan www.biometricupdate.com/202607/italy...
So true. I know from experience how governmental organizations in the Netherlands are running like lemmings of a cliff entrusting all sensitive data and core processes to Microsoft Azure.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d ago(Contrast this with what would transpire if Trump directed his tech giants to switch off your country's Office 365 access, or to brick your Android and iOS phones, or to killswitch your John Deere tractors.) 6/
Online scams are evolving, and increasingly, they’re promoted through paid ads on major platforms. Scam ads shouldn’t be promoted, full stop. We’ve joined forces with our members to take action 👇
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Consumer groups filed complaints against Meta, TikTok and Google for failing to protect consumers against financial scams
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- Volgens nieuwe rechtbankstukken kregen Secret Service-agenten de opdracht Comeys verhoor naar Air Force One door te sturen zodat Trump het kon inzien. Comey vraagt daarop om seponering van de zaak.
Kirsten Verdel@locuta.bsky.social · 7d agoTrump dag 556: Trump zegt dat terugbetalen importheffingen ‘biljoenen’ kost, China levert 400 afweerraketten aan Iran, resolutie in senaat tegen gratie voor Maxwell, politie gebruikt Flock om vrouw die abortus onderging te vinden: reportersonline.nl/trump-dag-55...
'A state that outsources its artificial-intelligence capability to foreign companies with organic ties to a foreign government is not sovereign, however firmly its leadership asserts autonomy in multilateral forums; it is a digital protectorate' writes Francisco Carneiro in RUSI Newsbrief.
The Algorithmic Deterrent
Palantir's manifesto and the sovereignty question for states without algorithmic independence.
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Is it bye bye bye for Digital ID? As ORG’s @jim.killock.org.uk said, this scheme would risk “creating a digital surveillance infrastructure that will change everyone’s daily lives.” Another authoritarian assault on our rights could hit the shredder as Burnham heads to No.10. We’ll wait and see…
Burnham to scrap Starmer’s digital ID scheme in ‘reset of priorities’
Incoming PM will reallocate unspecified resources from unpopular plan to helping with cost of living
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An estimated 4-9% of unsold textiles in Europe are destroyed before ever being worn. We’re putting an end to this wasteful practice. As of today, large companies will need to prioritise keeping products in use: by selling, donating, or preparing for reuse. Find out more: link.europa.eu/cdYmK9
Brussel dwingt overheden bij inkoop minder op prijs te sturen
Brussel dwingt overheden bij inkoop minder op prijs te sturen
Veiligheid, duurzaamheid en autonomie moeten zwaarder meewegen. In het voorstel staat ook dat elk land een organisatie krijgt die toezicht houdt op aanbestedingen.
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The EU’s new digital border system was meant to bring travel into the 21st century. Unfortunately, it gets confused by identical twins. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/entr...
Some people want to break up the EU. Why don’t they want to break up the US?
Some people want to break up the EU. Why don’t they want to break up the US?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions poses a federal question
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En wat een gotspe om mensen als Wieringa en Luyendijk met misdadigers als Peter Thiel en de broertjes Tate in één artikel bij elkaar te zetten.
So the US House Speaker rejects the idea of democracy (and elections and the rule of law along with it, I presume). That pretty much amounts to a coup d'état.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2w agoUS House Speaker Mike Johnson going full Red Hunter at The Family Leadership Summit: “We were the first nation in the history of the world to boldly proclaim the eternal truth that our rights do not come from government. They come from God Himself.” 1/
IMSI catchers are a global surveillance problem. It’s not beyond reasonable belief that they can be integrated with facial capture / facial recognition capabilities.
Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · 3w agoCell-site simulators (stingrays) are these secretive surveillance devices that can locate and identify cell phones over a large area, which invariably subject large numbers of entirely innocent people to surveillance. This warrant was denied, but it's unclear how many similar warrants were granted.
an unlikely hub for Europe’s arms industry: Hengelo. A company called Destinus used to make gas turbines there but now makes rockets for Ukraine. The Ukrainian defence minister visited last month and Hengelo is now on the official Russian target list for military strikes www.ad.nl/binnenland/e...
Eerst maakte dit Nederlandse bedrijf gasturbines, nu maakt het dodelijke kruisraketten voor Oekraïne
Haast ongemerkt is het Nederlandse Destinus een hoofdrol gaan spelen in de oorlog in Oekraïne. Kort geleden maakte het nog gasturbines, nu kruisraketten. „Bada boom”, roepen Oekraïense militairen als ...
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Uitspraak in recent kort geding ("verzoek tot voorlopige voorziening"): het verbod op de overname van Solvinity wordt niet geschorst. Oftewel, de overname blijft voorlopig verboden. Uitspraak is zoals was voorspeld in dit stuk: berthub.eu/articles/pos...
Kort geding aandeelhouders Solvinity - Bert Hubert's writings
Gisteren deed ik op Mastodon live verslag van het kort geding van de aandeelhouders van Solvinity tegen de staatssecretaris van Digitale Economie en Soevereiniteit. Gek genoeg zag ik in de rechtbank d...
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New: Telegram's short URL t.me domain returned online Tuesday after a day-long suspension knocked the domain off the web. The domain registrar behind .me said the incident was due to "OFAC compliance," likely sparked by fresh US Treasury sanctions against a VPN firm that contained a "t.me" link. 🤦
Telegram's shortlink domain is back online after day-long suspension | TechCrunch
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov confirmed an outage in a tweet, saying that short-links to the messaging app had "stopped working."
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We’ve asked banks to submit cybersecurity action plans by 31 October. Cyber risks have long been a priority for us as banking supervisors. But with frontier AI models advancing at pace, it is more vital than ever that banks strengthen their defences www.bankingsupervision.europa.eu/press/letter...
He's got a trillion dollars and chooses to spend his time being egregiously wrong on his crappy social media site. What a strange man. bsky.app/profile/joni...
Joni Askola@joniaskola.bsky.social · last mo.Musk’s newest lie to explain why he gutted USAID and stripped aid from the world’s poorest, contributing to thousands of deaths, just dropped
A transaction being reported is not proof of wrong-doing, just like a SAR not resulting in prosecution is not proof that the transaction is fine. The whole system is badly designed, chronically understaffed, poorly resourced, and generally crap. If you want to know more: read my book.