The Commission said on Tuesday that it expects US tech companies to apply the “same procedures” that EU authorities do when handling “market-sensitive information”, including not disclosing the personal data of EU officials working on the Digital Services Act (DSA).
The remarks follow letters sent late on Monday by the US House Judiciary Committee to ten US tech companies, including Apple, Meta, Alphabet and Amazon, in which the body led by MAGA lawmaker Jim Jordan demanded to see communications between the tech giants and so-called “foreign censors” – including information sent via private messaging channels.
The EU’s tech spokesperson, Thomas Regnier, said that “any substantial information” exchanged between EU officials working on digital laws such as the DSA and Digital Markets Act and regulated tech companies “is shared via official channels”, meaning via letters and email exchanges.
The letter's central argument is that sovereignty must be defined by control, not by whether a provider merely has an EU presence. That means effective ownership of technology and protection from extraterritorial laws like the US CLOUD Act, which can compel American tech companies to provide data to US authorities, including data stored overseas, subject to legal process.
Musi, a free music streaming app that had tens of millions of iPhone downloads and garnered plenty of controversy over its method of acquiring music, has lost an attempt to get back on Apple’s App Store. A federal judge dismissed Musi’s lawsuit against Apple with prejudice and sanctioned Musi’s lawyers for “mak[ing] up facts to fill the perceived gaps in Musi’s case.”
Die ID Austria soll in Österreichs Firmen heuer richtig durchstarten. 200 zusätzliche Firmenpartner sollen gewonnen werden, neue Anwendungen kommen.
Egal welcher Digitalisierungsstaatssekretär hierzulande zuständig sei, ob aktuell Alexander Pröll oder davor Claudia Plakolm (jetzt: Bauer) oder Florian Tursky (alle ÖVP), immer hätten sie die Umsetzung aufgeschoben und auf das gute Funktionieren der heimischen Insellösung verwiesen. Am von der EU kofinanzierten „Aptitude“-Konsortium ist Österreich auch nicht beteiligt.
What explains the popularity of terminals with 80×24 and 80×25 displays? A recent blog post "80x25" motivated me to investigate this. The source of 80-column lines is clearly punch cards, as commonly claimed. But why 24 or 25 lines? There are many theories, but I found a simple answer: IBM, in particular its dominance of the terminal market. In 1971, IBM introduced a terminal with an 80×24 display (the 3270) and it soon became the best-selling terminal, forcing competing terminals to match its 80×24 size. The display for the IBM PC added one more line to its screen, making the 80×25 size standard in the PC world. The impact of these systems remains decades later: 80-character lines are still a standard, along with both 80×24 and 80×25 terminal windows.
In a CNBC interview Thursday, Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp opined that AI will undermine the influence of “highly educated, often female voters” and empower working class men instead. And anyone who doesn’t realize this political reality, he added, belongs in an “insane asylum.”
From the guy who bragged that he chats with “real Nazis” and mused about how legalizing war crimes would be good for his bottom line comes another zinger that will have you yearn for the days when CEOs acted more like cautious bureaucrats than ‘roided out pro wrestlers.
Mit dem Start der ID Austria vor mehr als zwei Jahren sollte der Alltag der Menschen eigentlich vereinfacht werden. Neben den technischen stehen Interessierten aber nach wie vor bürokratische Hürden im Weg. Für die Ausstellung des digitalen Identitätsnachweises müssen Personen bis zu vier Monate auf einen Termin warten.
Users cannot create a Wero account, but use their existing European bank account. If you want to use Wero, you need to have a current account with a European bank that supports Wero.
For merchants, the situation is similar. There’s no publicly documented Wero API for developers. Wero payments are exclusively made through the payment service providers that Wero partnered and integrated with. The implementations with Wero’s partners are currently relatively simple and are often just a hosted payment page. Your website, shop or app sends the user to a payment link within the browser. Native apps have to use the system’s in-app browser options as there’s currently no native SDK offered by any of Wero’s payment processing partners.
Nach dem erfolgreichen Pilotprojekt bei den Wahlen 2024 wird die Stadt Salzburg heuer weiterentwickelte KI-Phone- und Chatbots für grundlegende Auskünfte per Telefon und Internet einsetzen. Künstliche Intelligenz wird als Amtshilfe eingesetzt, aber von Menschen programmiertIm Melde-, Pass- und Fremdenamt sowie im Gesundheitswesen ist der Einsatz bereits fix vorgesehen.
Europa will weg von US-Technologie. Doch die eigene Wirtschaft bremst – aus Kosten- und Zeitgründen.
Normally the "digital divide" refers to access to technology, but as access becomes less and less of an issue, the real divide is between people who know how to defend themselves from the cruel indifference of technology designers and people who are helpless before their enshittificatory gambits.
"We used an AI to do this" is increasingly a way of saying, "We didn't want to do this in the first place and we don't care if it's done well."
Im Bund steht das Motto Public Money, Public Code bislang vor allem auf dem Papier. Schleswig-Holstein ist weiter, berichtet aber auch über Probleme.
In the past three, we’ve gone from casual users freaking out about their first encounters with ChatGPT to the Pentagon staging industrial-strategy-level fights over whether fully autonomous A.I.s can be deployed in war zones without any human oversight. In the next three? Those exponential curves may not bring us to a new godhead, but the genie doesn’t exactly look like it’s going back in the bottle, either. And those hoping to play a more active role in shaping the future that it’s conjuring will probably have to do more than stop ground from being broken for a few new data centers.
Österreichs Wirtschaftsministerium suchte Ersatz für Skype-for-Business und wurde bei einer Kollaborationslösung aus Deutschland fündig.
KI-Anwendungen sollen die Behörden im Land effizienter machen. Bis KI in die ID Austria einzieht, wird aber noch einige Zeit vergehen
Fast die Hälfte der Beamten geht in den nächsten Jahren in Pension. Die Regierung will gegensteuern und den Bundesdienst modernisieren. Dabei setzt man auf künstliche Intelligenz und betont: „KI soll Menschen unterstützen, nicht ersetzen“.
Microsoft is removing Entra credentials for school and work from jailbroken and rooted devices running iOS and Android.
The process is automatic and there is no opt-out. If Microsoft Authenticator detects that a device has been jailbroken or rooted, it will first display a warning, then block access, and finally wipe credentials. The procedure is already underway for Android devices, and iOS devices will follow in April 2026.
Derzeit entstehen im Großraum Wien drei Rechenzentren des US-Konzerns Microsoft. Unter dem Versprechen der „digitalen Souveränität“ soll Österreich damit seine digitale Zukunft kontrollieren. Während von wachsender Wertschöpfung die Rede ist, wachsen zwei ganz andere Dinge: die Macht von Big Tech und der Ressourcenverbrauch. Mina Fahimi fordert eine Debattenverschiebung.
Die jährlichen Kosten sind abhängig von der konkreten Anzahl des zu lizenzierenden Personals. Für jede Personallizenz sind 25 Schülerlizenzen inbegriffen. Im vergangenen Jahr 2025 etwa betrugen die Gesamtkosten im Zuge des MS-ACH Agreements 3.717.844,89 Euro (inkl. USt.).
