China’s willingness to be part of a hypothetical UN peacekeeping mission in Ukraine is not new in itself. But it could complicate the historical problems of multilateral military operations, especially in the field of cybersecurity by Andrea Monti – Originally published in Italian on Italian Tech – La Repubblica
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Sweden returns to cash due to fears of cyber attacks
The report published on 10 March 2025 by Riksbank, the Swedish central bank, warns of the risks of a cashless society. But intangible currency is not the only problem caused by forced digitalisation by Andrea Monti – Originally published in Italian on Italian Tech-LaRepubblica
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Those on Big Tech are the only duties the EU (and Italy) cannot afford
The geopolitical role of information technology and the unavoidable dependence on US technology make the option of 15% tariffs on Big Tech, in reaction to Trump’s aggressiveness towards the EU and Italy, simply impracticable by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by Italian Tech – La Repubblica Continue reading “Those on Big Tech are the only duties the EU (and Italy) cannot afford”
After Huawei and TikTok, is DeepSeek the new threat to US national security?
The availability of DeepSeek, the Chinese Large Language Model, on the market under an open source intellectual property regime – that is, without proprietary claims in terms of copyright and patents – has shaken up the AI sector and challenged some of the dogmas that have become prevalent in the sector. by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by Formiche.net
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Paragon and Meta: the spectre of surveillance and the phantom of democracy
The growing suspicion in recent days, recently dispelled by the Italian government, that the state secret service had used Paragon spyware to eavesdrop on a journalist and an activist brought to mind Juvenal’s eternal question – who controls the controllers? – but with the need for reformulation: who controls the suppliers of the controllers? by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by La Repubblica-Italian Tech Continue reading “Paragon and Meta: the spectre of surveillance and the phantom of democracy”