Europe Is Bending the Knee to the US on Tech Policy

Almost everything is on hiatus. The EU AI Act, Digital Services Act, and Digital Markets Act are all at risk. The European Commission is preparing to end the year with virtually no movement on its most important tech policy initiatives. Many measures may even be reversed. In particular, a series of changes threatens to weaken…

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Game Theory Explains How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a smoke-filled tavern to discuss a secret plan: If they raise prices together instead…

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YARA-X 1.10.0 Release: Fix Warnings

YARA-X’s 1.10.0 release brings a new command: fix warnings. If you have a rule that would generate a warning with a help section (explaining how to fix it), like this example rule:   rule FixableCountWarning { strings: $a1 = “malicious” $a2 = “badstuff” condition: 0 of ($a*) } Then YARA-X from version 1.10.0…

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Scholars say most of what we believe about Vikings is wrong

According to scholars of Scandinavian studies, many widely held beliefs about Vikings and Old Norse paganism cannot be confirmed through modern scientific methods. “They are based essentially on reports written by Christian scholars in the High Middle Ages well over a century later, since, besides brief runic inscriptions, no written texts from the original period…

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