The Ukrainian Ground Forces Orchestra, it was a very memorable and emotional performance 🇺🇦

Van Morrison in the Hague! ✨
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Apple and Meta Hit With Fines for Violating E.U. Digital Competition Law The European Commission said the Silicon Valley companies violated the Digital Markets Act, a law meant to crimp the power of the largest tech firms.

Breaking News: Apple and Meta were fined after being found guilty of violating a new EU law meant to limit the power of the largest tech firms.

HOW the super rich will impoverish you and your kids

Google Is Illegally Monopolizing Online Advertising Tech, Judge Rules The ruling was the second time in a year that a federal court had found that Google had acted illegally to maintain its dominance. The judge ruled the company was a monopolist in two out of three sets...

"In its lawsuit, the Justice Department pre-emptively asked the court to force Google to sell some pieces of the ad technology business it had acquired over the years" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/t...

Making Sense of a Pro-Tech Trump Presidency w/ Brian Merchant Podcastaflevering · Tech Won't Save Us · 14-11-2024 · 1u 5m

This podcast was quite good. I also really like “System Crash” and “Tech won’t save us”. podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/t...

"Today, the EU Commission must stand firm on principle. It must not sacrifice on the negotiating table what used to be called important “Western values”: Free competition. The rule of law. Both are fundamental to democracy."

Will DeepSeek impact the AI Copyright Wars? Unless you have been in an isolated Yoga retreat for the last week, you will certainly have heard of DeepSeek. This is a new model from a Chinese startup that has taken the tech world by storm, inducing a Sputnik-like panic in the US, and prompting a sudden drop in share value as the Silicon Valley oligarchs suddenly remember that there's a big scary world outside their borders.

Will DeepSeek impact the AI Copyright Wars?

Unless you have been in an isolated Yoga retreat for the last week, you will certainly have heard of DeepSeek. This is a new model from a Chinese startup that has taken the tech world by storm, inducing a Sputnik-like panic in the US, and prompting a…

Position paper on Interplay between data protection and competition law EDPB www.edpb.europa.eu/our-work-too... Wow, waited long enough...

Leiden Law faculty, so beautiful

The birth of a star as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope

The politics of AI We are in the midst of a substantial technological revolution embodied by artificial intelligence, and whilst the technology is frequently overhyped, there is little doubt that it will continue to …

New blog post: The politics of AI

On the interplay between competition law and privacy: the impact of Meta Platforms case In July 2023, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a landmark judgment at the intersection of competition law and data privacy law. This article delves into two pivotal aspects:...

A really interesting article by
Arletta Gorecka on the interplay between competition law and #privacy and the impact of the #CJEU case C-252/21 Meta Platforms and Others (Conditions Générales d’Utilisation d’un Réseau Social) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The European Commission has published the First Draft of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice.

That looks like a good apple pie, enjoy! ☀️

The EU's Artificial Intelligence Act and copyright The European Union's (EU's) Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), published on 12 July 2024, seeks to establish a consistent legal framework for AI systems within the EU, promoting trustworthy and hu...

My short Note on the AI Act and copyright has now been published.

Art

Art #Escher #TheHague 🇳🇱

On the 21 and 22th November
The hybrid workshop “Global Value Chains in the Indo-pacfic: Challenges and opportunities” will be held in Leiden and online

Organised by Prof. Irma Mosquera Valderrama (Leiden #Law)
Want to attend? See:

If you choose to dance with a crocodile,
You must be prepared for when the music stops 🎶

📢 I am on the economic job market 🚀

My JMP "Algorithmic and Human Collusion" shows pricing algorithms can be more collusive than humans and explores their interaction.

Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Other research: tfwerner.com
#EconSky #EconJM #JMP

Tina Turner - Proud Mary - Live Wembley (2000) YouTube video by TINA Turner Blog (TINA Blog)

Tina Turner 🎶 #girlpower

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Not yet :)

#KamalaHarris2024 #vote #Election2024

#Oasis Live Forever!

“All you need is…” the Beatles after a long workday!

“It is not our abilities that show what we truly are it is our choices” ⚡️

20 years of TechnoLlama On the 20th of October 2024, this blog turned 20 years old. I’ve been both dreading and looking forward to this milestone. On the one hand, this is probably one of the longest single projects…

New blog post: 20 years of TechnoLlama

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