there is little evidence yet of a big hit to economic activity.

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Roskomnadzor, Russia’s official digital censor, said YouTube is “one of the key platforms participating in the information war against Russia” and accused it of harboring videos from far-right Ukrainian groups Right Sector and the Azov Battalion. Searches on YouTube for the two groups primarily showed news videos about the groups and the war.

o the extent that Russia’s military has embarrassed itself, it is more likely to lead to a well-aimed purge from above than a broad revolution from below. Russia’s new energy riches could eventually help it shake loose the grip of sanctions.

territorial concessions and Ukrainian neutrality. The West will also look for any opportunity to de-escalate, especially as we convince ourselves that a mentally unstable Putin is prepared to use nuclear weapons.

Suppose for a moment that Putin never intended to conquer all of Ukraine: that, from the beginning, his real targets were the energy riches of Ukraine’s east, which contain Europe’s second-largest known reserves of natural gas (after Norway’s).

When Western military analysts argue that Putin can’t win militarily in Ukraine, what they really mean is that he can’t win clean.

despite government and state media warnings of a market frenzy and scams related to the concept.

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to virtual narrators explain “current hot topics and knowledge”, and raise their hands to ask questions.

o move around and communicate with audio and their virtual bodies, the company said.

digital avatars, and they can examine historical relics and assemble installations, all in 3D

party conferences and party history lessons.

an article posted on Tencent Holdings’ WeChat by Beijing-based virtual reality (VR) firm Mengke VR,

The Chinese Academy of Governance,

and to continue providing services to Ukraine’s Armed Forces and other military formations as well as to the customers

to continue providing services to Ukraine’s Armed Forces and other military formations as well as to the customers,

confirming that connectivity collapse to 13% of pre-war levels

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may impose on a gatekeeper fines not less than 4% and not exceeding 20% of its totalfinesworldwide turnover in the preceding financial year where it finds that the gatekeeper, intentionally or negligently, fails to comply

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personal data ofminors should not be processed for commercial purposes, such as direct marketing, profiling and behaviourally targeted advertising

refrain from combining personal data for the purpose of delivering targeted or micro-targeted advertising

efrain from imposing unfair conditions on businesses and consumers

Members also amended the Commissions proposal to increase the quantitative thresholds for a company to fall under the scope of the digitalmarkets act to (as opposed to EUR 6.5 billion) in annual turnover in the European Economic Area (EEA) and a marketEUR 8 billioncapitalisation of (as opposed to 65 billion as proposed by the Commission).EUR 80 billionTo qualify as a gatekeeper, companies would also need to provide a core platform service in at least three EU countries and have at least 45, as well as . A list of indicators to be used by the providers of core platformsmillion monthly end usersmore than 10 000 business usersservices when measuring monthly end users and yearly business users should be provided in an Annex to the proposed Regulation.

Theseinclude online intermediation services, social networks, search engines, operating systems, online advertising services, cloud computing, andvideo-sharing services, which meet the relevant criteria to be designated as gatekeepers.

should only apply to large companies that would be designated as gatekeepers.

The proposed Digital Markets Act aims at preventing gatekeepers from imposing unfair conditions on businesses andconsumers and at ensuring the openness of important digital services

create products that are interoperable with smaller platforms.

“Technology and automation defined every piece of this museum, but the adjustments took human intervention,” Mr. Belhoul said. “In the actual installation, it was more about humans than cranes.”

said Majed Ateeq Almansoori, deputy executive director at Dubai Future Foundation, which operates the museum.

“We fed a computer what’s called a parametrically scripted growth algorithm,” he said. “You give it the rules. You say you want this many floors and this much height. You have to teach the algorithm to think, but then you go away on your weekend and see what it comes up with.”

There is a children’s area, a 345-seat theater and a cavernous top-floor that could accommodate as many as 1,000 people for a meeting or event.

a blend of human skill and digital power.

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After the legislation is been approved by the Council and the Parliament, the Commission expects it to come into effect around October. Companies running complex messaging apps are likely to be given a grace period to ensure their interoperability.

The DMA sets out a definition of gatekeepers as companies with a market capitalization of at least 75 billion euro (about $83 million) or an annual turnover of 7.5 billion euros, and additionally must provide certain services such as browsers, messengers or social media, which have at least 45 million monthly users in the EU and 10,000 annual business users. This extends to companies largely based in the US, including Apple, Meta, Amazon and Google.

gatekeeper companies must follow additional rules because they are "most prone to unfair business practices,"

"What we want is simple: Fair markets also in digital," European Competition Commissioner Margethe Vestager said in a statement. "We are now taking a huge step forward to get there -- that markets are fair, open and contestable."

The DMA will require companies with messaging apps to make them interoperable.

“subject to existing anti-money laundering, counterterrorism, Know Your Customer, and financial transaction reporting requirements and regulations.”

The realistic goal is to make it so expensive and time consuming to hack the chip that no one would bother.

The bill, which Grey consulted on, would direct the US Treasury Department to conduct a pilot program for a version of digital dollars that work just like cash.

As the economy shifts inexorably toward all-digital transactions, a future where our only options are payment apps, banks, crypto, or CBDCs means a future in which every financial transaction is potentially subject to surveillance by the government or private companies.

true digital cash doesn’t exist.

When you send a payment using Venmo, or a bank, on the other hand, you’re just directing them to update your account by moving some numbers around in their books. The same thing is true of cryptocurrencies; the only meaningful difference is that the network as a whole, rather than a financial institution, approves the transactions.

the early faith in crypto anonymity was misplaced. The thing about blockchains is that while your transactions might be hidden behind a crypto wallet address, they are also permanently stored on a public database. It didn’t take law enforcement agencies too long to figure out how to connect those transactions and wallets to the real-world identities behind them.

The ECASH Act would direct the US government to experiment with issuing digital dollars that are stored on hardware, not in bank accounts, and can be used without an internet connection.

A bill introduced in Congress on Monday seeks to re-create the virtues of cash, privacy and all, in digital form.

The only kind of money that leaves no paper trail is paper.

For instance, 5G and quantum computing are poised to enable new growth in AI capabilities, while AI stands to transform the biological sciences, producing significant technological breakthroughs and turning the biotechnology sector into one of the primary drivers of overall economic competitiveness.”

5G technology and artificial intelligence

Schmidt maintained a close relationship with the president’s former science adviser, Eric Lander, and other Biden appointees.

New Google Calendar feature takes the back-and-forth out of scheduling

Predicting the future of technology is impossible – it will happen when it happens. One can try to draw an analogy with the past. It took the airline industry more than 60 years to go from the Wright brothers to jumbo jets carrying hundreds of passengers thousands of miles.

There are proposals to use small-scale quantum computers for drug design, as a way to quickly calculate molecular structures, which is a confusing application because quantum chemistry is a small part of the whole. process. Equally disconcerting are claims that quantum computers will soon help finance. There is no technical literature that conclusively demonstrates that small quantum computers, let alone NISQ machines, can lead to significant optimizations in algorithmic trading or risk assessment or arbitrage. or hedging or targeting and predicting or trading assets or profiling risk. However, this hasn’t stopped some investment banks from jumping into the quantum computing wars.

But despite the continued hype of NISQ coming from various quantum computer startups, the potential for commercialization remains unclear.

The qubit systems we have today are a huge scientific achievement, but they don’t bring us any closer to having a quantum computer that can solve a problem anyone is interested in.

the war is intended to wipe out the possibility of any future that looks towards Europe and some form of liberating modernity.

Yuri Kovalchuk, a close friend who controls a vast media group

like Konstantin Leontyev, an ultra-reactionary 19th-century visionary who admired hierarchy and monarchy,

the onset of the covid-19 pandemic two years ago brought a raising of the ideological stakes.

he told a press conference in Moscow that nuclear weapons and Orthodox Christianity were the two pillars of Russian society, the one guaranteeing the country’s external security, the other its moral health.

Mr Putin formally rejected the idea of Russia’s integration into the West

the new ideology of isolationism

His contract with the Russian people was based not on religion or ideology, but on improving incomes.

an anonymous book called “Project Russia”

Anti-Westernism and a siege mentality are central to their beliefs. Mr Putin relies on the briefs with which they supply him, always contained in distinctive red folders, for his information about the world

the priests are the siloviki of the security services, from whose ranks Mr Putin himself emerged.

Elizbar Orlov, a priest in Rostov, a city close to the border with Ukraine, said the Russian army “was cleaning the world of a diabolic infection”.

The cathedral is a Byzantine monstrosity in khaki, its floor made from melted-down German tanks. But it is not devoted solely to the wars of the previous century. A mosaic commemorates the invasion of Georgia in 2008, the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the country’s role in Syria’s civil war: angels smile down on the soldiers going about their holy work.

Links between the church and the security forces, first fostered under Stalin, grew stronger after the fall of Communism.

“He once said that the storms of war would glorify Russia,” Mr Putin told the crowd. “That is how it was in his time; that is how it is today and will always be!”

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The legitimacy of the state is now grounded not in its public good, but in a quasi-religious cult.

“the Russian world”, a previously obscure historical term for a Slavic civilisation based on shared ethnicity, religion and heritage.

“If Russia wins, there will be no Ukraine; if Ukraine wins, there will be a new Russia.”

The Ukrainians want to embrace many, if not all, the values held dear by other European nations.

they must encourage India and China to do the same.

the Russian military lacks the vital hardware and software used by other modern forces to gather real-time field intelligence,

by limiting access to technology.

If European countries were serious about affecting Mr. Putin’s thinking, they would spend less time seizing oligarchs’ yachts and more lessening their dependence on Russian energy.

they believe give Russia its superpower status: its oil and its military.

he word literally means people with force — the power that comes from being in the security forces or military.

saying “they can’t get by without oysters or foie gras” and that they do not mentally exist “here, with our people, with Russia.”

But the lack of properly defined property rights and a legal and institutional framework to protect them meant these oligarchs still depended on the Kremlin, occupied since 2000 by Mr. Putin.

These oligarchs may hold wealth that connects them to power and can be used by Mr. Putin, but in Russia, that does not mean that they wield any power over him or those in the Kremlin.

In Western capitalist democracies, wealth often equates to access and influence.

Russian scholars have long noted that the absence of private property rights and impartial legal authority lead to state actors holding the power that determines the lives of Russians in every way.

Digital currencies can also help bring down costs of cross-border payments, for example when expatriate workers send earnings back to their families.

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But the Russian invasion of Ukraine has put an end to the globalization we have experienced over the last three decades.

Initially, the search for alternatives to Russian oil and natural gas “will inevitably slow the world’s progress toward net zero [emissions] in the near term”, he wrote.

will be included in an Executive Order that will form the basis of the Commission’s assessment in its future adequacy decision.

o translate this arrangement into legal documents that will need to be adopted on both sides to put in place this new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework.

including through alternative dispute resolution and binding arbitration.

he requirement to self-certify their adherence to the Principles through the U.S. Department of Commerce.

an independent Data Protection Review Court

oversight of signals intelligence activities.

a new redress mechanism with independent and binding authority;

a new mechanism for EU individuals to seek redress if they believe they are unlawfully targeted by signals intelligence activities.

signals intelligence activities are necessary and proportionate in the pursuit of defined national security objectives

struck down in 2020 the Commission’s adequacy decision underlying the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework.  

Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework

to implement new safeguards

Then on Thursday, the Department of Justice unsealed indictments against four Russians accused of mounting state-sponsored cyberattacks against the US, publicly releasing details of a highly sophisticated hacking campaign involving supply-chain software compromises and spear-phishing campaigns against thousands of employees of companies and US government agencies.

CISA and the FBI issued a joint cybersecurity advisory to satellite communications providers

was conducted through a compromise of the system that manages customer satellite terminals, and only affected customers of the KA-SAT network,

The hack affected the KA-SAT satellite broadband network, owned by Viasat, an American satellite communications company.

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China and the others need not lift a finger, one by one the fruits of history will fall into its basket, and the US system will crumble.

All this – all this – will be made impossible by the West’s destructive energy, cold war philosophy, conversion to a kind of war economy, and total lack of positive Realpolitik vision in even a 20-year horizon.

So the future ice-cold war in the world could be between the declining Occident and the rising Orient, to simplify.

More hatred brings satisfaction, inward solidarity and strengthen the sense of shared values. And so who will be the next object of hate?

it is futile to try to have a reasonably trusting relationship with the US, NATO and the EU after this

Terrorist groups of various kinds will undoubtedly feel drawn; I imagine that the terrorist groups that Russia has helped to defeat in Syria will see Ukraine as a golden territory for revenge against Russians.

a de facto war between NATO/EU and Russia.

is to ensure that a war with Russia is fought on European soil, not US soil.

It is called over-extension, and the economy, as in the old Soviet Union, will collapse under this burden.

The US will impose itself militarily and politically on Europe to a perhaps unprecedented extent.

the EU will blame the US for demanding that the EU impose these suffocating sanctions whose human consequences will only affect Europe, not the US.

the focus is now 100% on strangling the Russian economy and effectively collapsing the country like the old Soviet Union.

These poor, innocent people are victims of Western sanctions that were imposed without a time limit.

Nazism could spread precisely because its supporters were seen as heroes in the fight against Russia.

That way this hellishly complex conflict over decades with at least 50 parties can be reduced to issues of one person’s mental health.

What kind of suffocating, very hard, broad, unconditional and unlimited sanctions like those the US and EU – not the UN – have decided can possibly be compatible with international law?

It has broken the promises not to expand NATO an inch, made to Gorbachev in 1989-90. It has set up The Ballistic Missile Defence that deliberately undermines Russia’s ability to respond to a nuclear attack. It has waged war in Yugoslavia, treating both Russia and the UN and international law as inferior.

The boomerangs will come back to us.

“We are coming to get you!” – President Biden said in his State of the Union address.

an orgiastic heat of self-righteousness.

when this collective psychosis, this mass hysteria with a single focus, will end generations from now?

they are being punished because they are Russian.

Germany decides – again without analysis – to immediately rearm up to US$ 112 billion per year. Russia’s is US$ 66 billion!

entirely at the mercy of emotion.

For example, Switzerland and China are working to create favourable conditions for smaller private-sector actors to access the digital market in order to avoid excessive market concentration

International Geneva:

The inclusion of all stakeholders in their respective roles is essential for the development of this digital space.

Security:The security and protection of digital networks are of utmost importance for Switzerland and its interna-tional standing. Switzerland is paying close attention to data security and protection with regard to the emergence of 5G technology and the Internet of Things

for example to what extent the use of technology provided by Chinese firms could endanger Swiss companies’ proprietary knowledge or competitive advantage

Who Makes Foreign Policy in China?Author: Tristan Kenderdine  Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2022

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If the West not only thwarts Moscow on Ukraine’s battlefields, but also does serious, lasting damage to Russia’s economy, it is in effect pushing a great power to the brink. Mr Putin might then turn to nuclear weapons.

There’s a close intermingling of US foreign policy interests with the IMF.

But capital must come in also to take control of the sources of raw materials. And in the case of Ukraine also take control over the land area. Capital would like to own the entire land of the planet. 

So, I think these countries are going to remain highly indebted and in that sense they would be like Greece. And forever there would be these measures of austerity which will be imposed on the people. That means they will be excluded from the benefits of these loans or whatever. 

Eastern Europe is a part of the latter.

But there are other places where globalization takes the form not of supporting and sustaining and promoting the productive apparatus but rather the productive apparatus gets completely destroyed and of course people then start migrating. 

these are the countries to which a lot of the activities are shifting from the metropolis.

Firstly, it slashed the gas subsidy by half. Therefore gas prices went up for the consumers. Secondly, you know there was a ban on the sale of land area in Ukraine to Big Capital, to foreigners and so on under Yanukovych. And that had been one of the things demanded by the IMF that the ban should go. And immediately when the government came in that ban went. So, you had the opening up of Ukraine, not just Ukrainian resources, but even land area to the penetration of foreign capital, foreign Big Capital.

Prominently, the unwillingness of Yanukovych to cut government subsidies on Ukrainian gas provided to domestic consumers, so the Ukrainian people.

And that is when Yanukovych, who was the President of Ukraine at that time said that, no, this is something which is not possible. So, at that point therefore, IMF ended up deciding that if the conditions are not being met in that case, it’s not going to provide any more loans to Ukraine. That’s when Yanukovych started negotiating with Russia. 

They cannot really pay back that kind of debt particularly when their productive apparatus is not really generating much. 

And that is something where again, you have the emergence of these oligarchs who simply appropriated state property as their own. Now, to some extent in Russia itself there was some check on it that was introduced after Boris Yeltsin left the scene. 

And as far as Russia is concerned, it was for a very long time during the Yeltsin period, virtually run by a group of persons from the United States. In fact, they surrounded Yeltsin and they were the main economic architects of that kind of collapse of the Soviet Union and of Russia. 

So this is really very different from the role that was originally envisaged for it under the Bretton Woods Agreement.

So, so it actually started suggesting an alternative economic regime quite different from the economic regime that either Keynes or Harry Dexter White would have approved of.

But all that was still within the regime.

OK you may have balance of payments problems. A country can get into balance of payments problems. And some of these problems may not be easily solved. In such a case you would have to borrow from an organization and the IMF was meant to be such an organization.

the government’s role in providing education, in providing healthcare, in providing employment, all this must actually be wound up.

the government’s role in the economy on behalf of the people: that means the government’s role in providing subsidies and essential goods whose prices remain low;

to create these enormous cleavages inside the society through its so-called investor-friendly policies.

But what has happened in Russia is the growth of tremendous inequality.

these oligarchic structures that blocked any path to a functioning democracy from the outset,

This and absurd privatization attempts orchestrated by the West paved the way for an oligarchy that was initially hailed by the West as a “private solution” to the structural problem, but which proved fatal for the countries’ development chances.

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