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Protesting For AI Regulation

There was an AI protest day today, with parallel protests around the world, and our family went to the Boston one: I'm not really a protest person : normally I share my views in writing . But while there's been a lot of writing on the internet about the risk that AI gets us all killed (some of it from me ), this can't be an internet-only thing. Way too few people are taking seriously the risk that OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are rapidly building something that could actually cause human extinction. A protest is a literal demonstration that people care, and it expands visibility to the genera

LessWrong · EN

The Digital Fairness Act is a decade-long bill coming due | Opinion

When a draft of the European Commission's Digital Fairness Act leaked earlier this week, some industry reactions had a distinctly end-of-days flavour. The official responses now winding their way out of trade bodies after the official draft of the act was released are only ratcheting down the tone a little; less apocalyptic, but nonetheless grim warnings of a terrible fate for European games companies, muttering darkly about the stripping of supposed freedoms from players, parents, and everyone else within a very wide radius. Read more

GamesIndustry.biz · EN

German Games Industry Association warns Digital Fairness Act could cause "double regulation and legal uncertainty"

The German Games Industry Association (Game) has criticised the Digital Fairness Act (DFA), warning that the legislation creates "double regulation and legal uncertainty" that could significantly harm European developers. Read more

GamesIndustry.biz · EN

Loot boxes, influencers, and addictive features face an EU crackdown

Gaming, social media, and e-commerce platforms are facing a fresh wave of sweeping European Union rules that aim to make "your online experience fairer." The newly proposed Digital Fairness Act (DFA) published by the EU Commission on Wednesday is designed to tackle practices that exploit consumers into spending more of their time and money online, […]

The Verge · EN

What the Digital Fairness Act means for the games industry

After it was leaked earlier this week, the European Commission has formally presented its draft for the Digital Fairness Act today. If adopted, the Act will have a massive impact on the games sector, particularly where virtual currencies are involved. Read more

GamesIndustry.biz · EN

German Games Industry Association warns the EU KIDS Act could undermine existing age-rating systems for video games

Game, the German Games Industry Association, has warned that the EU KIDS Act – which was unveiled in draft form in September and which is likely to have sweeping repercussions for game developers – could override well-established age-rating systems at the national level. Read more

GamesIndustry.biz · EN

Building a Culture for a Kubernetes-Based Platform in a Bank

In banking, open source can earn trust by running real workloads, as Marcy Paramonova and Stéphane Cusin explained in their talk Building Cloud Native Culture in a Bank at KubeCon & CloudNativeCon Europe. Deploying Kubernetes was the easy part; the hard part was culture: community of practice, shared knowledge, rituals, ownership. Teams try things, keep what works, and improve bottom-up. By Ben Linders

InfoQ · EN