Interesting report from RUSI that has some context on the role of Private Sector Offensive Actors ("cyber mercenaries"). https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/drones-data-private-contractors-and-cyber-mercenaries

If we're going to talk about other types of businesses, or how small businesses are shut out by the costs of adherence to GDPR, that's a totally fine line of discussion, but I think anyone who takes two seconds can think of other institutional solutions for those besides "weaken it".

So please, enlighten me.

I only see these arguments made by weird Linkedin sociopaths, politicians that have special interests, or losers that want to sell out one of Europe's few advantages: that its citizens own their data.

Has generative AI been profitable? Has data center build out actually led to a jobs explosion? Oh, are we talking about other types of AI? Which ones? What does it do besides tie Europe even more to US investors?

I'd like one person, in a clear, sober, and not ai-boostery manner, explain to me why Europe would actually need to weaken GDPR for AI development. https://www.euractiv.com/news/draghi-calls-for-deep-cuts-to-privacy-rules-and-pause-on-high-risk-ai-act/

www.wired.com/story/22-cel... Fascinating write-up about a "vigilante" who burned down 5G towers.

“attempted to to cover up the illegal origin of the misappropriated assets, hid and disguised the true source of their origin through various financial transactions and actions, thereby allowing him to freely dispose of and use the illegally obtained assets.” https://protos.com/bitcoin-beatings-and-a-billionaires-vendetta-georgias-bachiashvili-case/

https://themoloch.com/trace/infrastructure-destruction-squad-dark-engine-targets-latvian-entities/ Just a quick example of how pro-Russian hacktivists are claiming to be in NATO ICS/SCADA systems, now. (they're probably not)

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