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The EU’s DSA investigation into Shein is just the latest in the company’s problems, which are piling up in many of its major markets as it seeks a successful IPO (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 22, 2026

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EU says TikTok’s ‘addictive design’ illegal under DSA, citing app’s infinite scrolling and recommendation algorithm, in preliminary findings (Adam Satariano/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 6, 2026

Featured Podcasts Channels with Peter Kafka: Jeff Bezos was in love with the Washington Post. What happened? Media and technology…

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Dutch consumer protection regulator launches investigation into Roblox under DSA over potential risks to underage users in EU (Charlotte Van Campenhout/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 30, 2026

Charlotte Van Campenhout / Reuters: Dutch consumer protection regulator launches investigation into Roblox under DSA over potential risks to underage…

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The EU plans to designate WhatsApp as a "very large platform"after WhatsApp reported user numbers above the DSA threshold in February 2025 (Louise Breusch Rasmussen/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 9, 2026

Louise Breusch Rasmussen / Reuters: The EU is considering designating WhatsApp as a “very large platform”, after WhatsApp reported user…

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EU officials and policymakers say the EC will step up enforcement of the DMA and DSA in 2026, a move expected to reignite clashes with US tech giants and Trump (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 4, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Meta’s AI Agent Plan, Grok’s Perversion, The Prison of Financial Mediocrity The Big Technology Podcast…

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French President Emmanuel Macron criticizes EU for slow action on investigations into big tech companies, blaming delay on US pressure against DSA (Politico)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 28, 2025

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: The 50 Most Iconic Hard Fork Technologies in 2025 The future is already here. Each week,…

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The EU accuses Meta under the DSA of failing to provide users with easy ways to report illegal content and adequate tools to appeal moderation decisions, in its preliminary findings (Kim Mackrael/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 24, 2025

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix) Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth…

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The European Commission accuses the Chinese market Aliexpress of not attacking illegal products on its platform, in the preliminary conclusions under the DSA (Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 18, 2025

Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg:: The European Commission accuses the Chinese market ALIEXPRES- The EU executive branch unveiled a list of…

‘Seismic shift’ to Australia’s orbit likely under new Solomon Islands PM – Radio Free Asia

The fall of Victory Day in Kazakhstan – The Diplomat

From discreet cooperation to strategic partnership? – The diplomat

Counter-drone efforts in Southeast Asia – The Diplomat

Pakistan and the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing – The Diplomat

Chinese electric vehicles are coming to Canada and dealers are eager to sell them

Family Investors Turn to Old Economy Companies to Avoid AI Disruption

Starbucks to lay off 300 US employees, close some regional offices

Detroit automakers cut more than 20,000 U.S. payroll jobs as AI looms

China to order 200 Boeing planes, Trump tells Fox News

Trump doesn’t have enough votes to get his ballroom money

The war in Iran broke Trump

China humiliated Trump and now he’s in a damage control frenzy

HUD Secretary’s BDS is completely closed

JD Vance Compares Himself to Child Abandoned at Deranged White House Event

Data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics: Employment in 18 occupations exposed to AI decreased by 0.2% between May 2024 and May 2025, while the US labor market as a whole increased by 0.8% (Matthew Boesler/Bloomberg)

Los Angeles-based Fasset, which offers stablecoin-based cross-border banking and payments services in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, has raised a $51 million Series B round (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)

Electricity prices on the largest U.S. power grid, operated by PJM, jumped 76% year-over-year to an average of $136.53/MWh in the first quarter due to rampant data center demand (John Ainger/Bloomberg)

Sources: OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, which offered AI tools for creating clones of people’s voices, earlier this year; PitchBook: Weights.gg raised about $4 million (Mike Isaac/New York Times)

How tech companies are using open source initiatives to achieve critical strategic goals and how these efforts are reshaping industries like AI, AV, and more. (Bill Gurley/Bill’s Substack)

Browsing: DSA

The EU’s DSA investigation into Shein is just the latest in the company’s problems, which are piling up in many of its major markets as it seeks a successful IPO (Financial Times)

EU says TikTok’s ‘addictive design’ illegal under DSA, citing app’s infinite scrolling and recommendation algorithm, in preliminary findings (Adam Satariano/New York Times)

Dutch consumer protection regulator launches investigation into Roblox under DSA over potential risks to underage users in EU (Charlotte Van Campenhout/Reuters)

The EU plans to designate WhatsApp as a "very large platform"after WhatsApp reported user numbers above the DSA threshold in February 2025 (Louise Breusch Rasmussen/Reuters)

EU officials and policymakers say the EC will step up enforcement of the DMA and DSA in 2026, a move expected to reignite clashes with US tech giants and Trump (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)

French President Emmanuel Macron criticizes EU for slow action on investigations into big tech companies, blaming delay on US pressure against DSA (Politico)

The EU accuses Meta under the DSA of failing to provide users with easy ways to report illegal content and adequate tools to appeal moderation decisions, in its preliminary findings (Kim Mackrael/Wall Street Journal)

The European Commission accuses the Chinese market Aliexpress of not attacking illegal products on its platform, in the preliminary conclusions under the DSA (Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg)