Pierluigi Paganini
August 28, 2026
Trump targets foreign-made power grid equipment, citing cyber, sabotage and supply-chain risks to U.S. national security. Executive Order 14420, signed on August 26, targets equipment and technologies that could expose the power grid to sabotage, unauthorized access, malicious remote activity or supply-chain disruption. The timing matters. The White House points to the rapid expansion of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2026
Meta will pay up to $18B and cap teen Facebook and Instagram use at two hours daily after nearly all US states sued over child safety. Meta will pay up to $18 billion over the next decade and impose real usage limits on teenagers using Facebook and Instagram, settling claims that the company deliberately designed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2026
Uber faces an €825M GDPR fine for automatically suspending drivers without human review, highlighting the risks of AI decisions affecting workers. The Dutch Data Protection Authority handed Uber its largest privacy fine yet, and this one isn’t about data transfers or cookie consent. The regulator imposed an 825 million euro penalty, roughly $964 million, over […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 24, 2026
TikTok will pay $400 million to settle U.S. claims that it violated child privacy laws by collecting data from users under 13. The U.S. Department of Justice announced that TikTok will pay $400 million to settle a 2024 lawsuit over children’s privacy. “Today, the Department of Justice announced a $400 million settlement with TikTok, ByteDance, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 14, 2026
Trump authorizes vetted US cybersecurity firms to conduct government-approved cyber operations against transnational criminal networks. President Trump signed a national security memorandum on August 13 establishing a formal program that allows vetted private US cybersecurity companies to conduct offensive cyber operations against transnational criminal organizations under government direction and oversight. The program, managed by the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 07, 2026
Meta was ordered to pay $567M after a judge ruled its platforms harmed children, bringing New Mexico penalties to $942M. Meta ‘s child-safety legal bill just got another half-billion dollars heavier. A New Mexico state judge ruled that company’s platforms constitute a “public nuisance,” the BBC reports, ordering $567 million into a fund meant to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 30, 2026
The FCC added foreign robots and power inverters to its Covered List, while allowing security updates for existing authorized devices until 2029. The FCC just widened its Covered List again, this time adding foreign-produced advanced robotic devices and power inverters. In plain terms, that means new models in those categories generally can’t get the equipment […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 24, 2026
EU fined Google €890M under the DMA for favoring its own services and restricting Play Store competition, with AI search features also under scrutiny. The European Commission hit Google with two fines totalling €890 million on Thursday for violating the Digital Markets Act, one for giving its own services preferential placement in Google Search and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2026
EU’s top court upheld a €4.1B fine against Google, ruling it abused Android’s market dominance through restrictive licensing practices. The Court of Justice of the European Union issued its ruling on July 2, 2026, and Google lost. The court dismissed the appeal brought by Google and its parent company Alphabet against an earlier judgment from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2026
Anthropic disputes restrictions on Mythos 5 and Fable 5, arguing the decision lacks transparency and isn’t based on clear technical evidence. On Friday June 12 at 5:21pm ET, Anthropic received a letter from the US Commerce Department, signed by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and drafted with officials from the Bureau of Industry and Security. The […]
Cyber Crime / September 11, 2026
