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The Digital Markets Act Is Almost Here: 10 Things to Know About the EU’s New Rules for Big Tech

Data Matters

1 To ensure the progressive nature of the obligations, a category of “emerging gatekeeper” is also provided for to enable the Commission to impose certain obligations on companies whose competitive position is “proven but not yet sustainable.” determine the ranking of its own and third parties’ offerings.

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Your New Excuse to Get an Xbox

ChiefTech

Take a moment and think about what video games look like, what they sound like, the way you can move on the screen, what “you&# can be. Video games have become sophisticated creations that can take years to develop, weeks to play, and days to go platinum. No category of site is therefore inappropriate for “game think.&#

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European Union Launches Revolutionary Proposals to Regulate “Big Tech”

Data Matters

The Commission would also be able to impose structural remedies, such as obliging a gatekeeper to sell all or part of a business, on companies that repeatedly engage in anticompetitive behavior prohibited by the DMA. The Digital Markets Act. “Gatekeeper” designation. Obligations susceptible to specification.

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Types of Malware & Best Malware Protection Practices

eSecurity Planet

At its core, malware exploits existing network, device, or user vulnerabilities , posing as little a risk as annoying advertisements to the much more damaging demand for millions of dollars in ransom. Adware, also known as malvertising , is a type of malware that downloads or displays advertisements to the user interface. Backdoors.

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IDEA 2008: An Interview with Elliott Malkin

ChiefTech

By directing Monarch butterflies to urban food sources it “is the equivalent of a fast-food sign on a highway, advertising rest stops (waystations) to monarchs traveling through the area.&#. That said, I tend to widen my definition of self to encompass broader categories, such as American Jew.

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Seeing Like a Data Structure

Schneier on Security

Facebook sees its users like a data structure when it classifies us into ever more precise interest categories, so as to better sell our attention to advertisers. We are becoming increasingly aware that things are continuous spectra, not discrete categories. This involves the use of abstract reason over social preferences.

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AI and the Evolution of Social Media

Schneier on Security

1: Advertising The role advertising plays in the internet arose more by accident than anything else. Advertising was the obvious business model, if never the best one. Big Tech needs something to persuade advertisers to keep spending on their platforms. In both cases, the solution lies in limits on the technology’s use.