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Cybercrime forums span national boundaries
The bust of the illegal Cracked and Nulled crime forums evidences the global nature of cybercrime and the impossibility of seeing it as a threat that has no regard for national boundaries. Although at least 17 million US citizens were victims of the crime forums. law enforcement agencies in the United States, Romania, Australia, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Greece were all involved in the bust, according to the US Department of Justice.
EU’s planned AI rulings meet opposition
Next Wednesday will see the last round in a “King Kong meets Godzilla"-style contest between the European Union and the global technology sector over proposed regulations from Brussels to control AI. The opening rounds have been fought by lawyers, lobbyists, and bureaucrats over the monitoring of foundation model AI services such as GPT-4, access to source codes, fines for disobeying the Brussels rulings, and other related topics. However, EU member states France, Germany, and Italy are known to be opposed to the EU’s proposed rulings and to favor self-legislation by the technology sector, as opposed to being constrained by hard rules dictated by Brussels. French AI company Mistral and Germany's Aleph Alpha have criticized the EU’s tiered approach to regulating foundation models, defined as those with more than 45 million users.