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Lisa Nandy says government will introduce legislation after talks end without breakthrough Apple and Google will be forced to block explicit images on children’s smartphones by law in the UK after talks failed to produce a breakthrough, the government has said. The legislation commitment puts ministers on a collision course with two of the biggest players in Silicon Valley, months after the gover…

Oracle has reportedly garnered some unwanted attention from the European Commission around its enterprise software licensing practices. The Commission’s antitrust regulators are currently gathering information from third parties about Oracle’s licensing practices to assess whether there is evidence to warrant further action, although it has yet to open a formal investigation into the company, MLe…

Most security teams already have a breach clock memorized. GDPR gives you 72 hours. SEC rules give public companies four business days after determining an incident is material. Those numbers get built into incident response runbooks, tabletop exercises and escalation paths, because the clock starts the moment the team confirms something happened. Article 73 of the EU AI Act adds a third clock, a…

Eshan Singhal, Ph.D., Research Scholar, Faculty of Law, Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Agra Dr. Shiti Kanth Dubey, Professor, Faculty of Law, Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Agra ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence has fundamentally transformed the technological environment in which cybercrime is conceived, executed and investigated. Generative artificial intelligence, large language models, deep…

It’s too late (almost). The first major operational deadline for the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) arrives this Friday, on September 11th, 2026. That’s when mandatory reporting obligations under Article 14 take effect for manufacturers of products with digital elements sold in the EU. What does that mean? The first step to avoiding significant financial […] The post The CRA’s first major deadline…

The G7 Cybersecurity Working Group recognizes the growing threat that quantum computing poses to public-key cryptography, and the security of both public and private organizations. To address these risks, the group asserts that post-quantum cryptography (PQC) transition demands action across all sectors, not just critical infrastructure, and requires collective engagement, coordinated planning, a…

Debates over the moral status of artificial systems are frequently stalled by the assumption that legal or ethical protection must wait on resolving whether such systems are phenomenally conscious. This paper argues that assumption rests on a proxy structure it does not examine: functional criteria are treated as evidence for a further, hidden fact rather than as constitutive of moral relevance i…

English Premier League football club Chelsea’s lucrative new front-of-shirt sponsorship deal with a stablecoin issuer has left Hong Kong fans and retailers concerned about whether wearing or selling the top counts as illegal promotion under digital currency laws. Chelsea signed the deal with Circle to feature its USDC stablecoin brand on player jerseys for the 2026-27 season in late August, just …

The G20 Innovation Ministerial was held in North Carolina, US, from September 1 to 2, with artificial intelligence (AI) taking center stage. The US urged governments to pursue a light-touch regulatory approach, while officials and technology executives also addressed data centers and copyright rules governing AI training data. The following are the key takeaways from the meeting.

September 11, 2026. One week from now. That's when the EU Cyber Resilience Act starts enforcing its first real obligations. Most developers haven't heard of it. Most companies aren't ready for it. Here's what's changing and why it matters if you ship software anywhere in Europe. What's the CRA? The Cyber Resilience Act is the EU's first horizontal cybersecurity law for digital products. Not secto…

Preeti, LLM, Amity University, Gurugram ABSTRACT However, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the way personal data is collected, inferred, aggregated and reused, which is threatening fundamental data protection and privacy principles and calls for a re-thinking of the Indian Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) regime. The objective of this study was to understand the correlation between…

Dr. Mousumi Kalita, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, ICFAI University, Tripura Mr. Akash Majumder, LL.B., Faculty of Law, ICFAI University, Tripura ABSTRACT An act of cyberterrorism involves using the internet and other forms of information and communication technology to threaten or cause bodily harm to gain political or ideological power through threat or intimidation. Data theft, data mani…

Google will not be forced to sell its AdX advertising exchange under the current remedies path in its U.S. ad tech antitrust litigation. U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema rejected the Department of Justice's proposed AdX divestiture while leaving the court's underlying monopoly findings intact. The result is a significant shift in emphasis: rather than dismantling Google's ad tech stack, the…

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