TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

What’s notable here is that Vilnius, Lithuania-based Nord has been bootstrapped for the last 10 years (it was founded in 2012), a state that doesn’t seem to have held back its growth. “We saw the changing landscape in digital privacy… and that the open internet was not working as intended,” he said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

And the French government is taking advantage of this opportunity to make some progress on the tech startup policy front. In an interview with TechCrunch, France’s digital minister Cédric O shared some news for the European tech ecosystem. It’s the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union right now.

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The Verge

APRIL 30, 2021

Parliamentarians from the UK, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia had all arranged video calls with a hoaxer claiming to be Leonid Volkov, chief of staff to imprisoned Russian anti-Putin politician Alexei Navalny. They did so by cold-calling and emailing their targets from fake addresses, using a real picture of Volkov as their digital avatar.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

As things transpired, people might prefer to network in-person versus digital breakout rooms. Proton , the Swiss company behind encrypted email service ProtonMail , already has hubs across its native Switzerland, Lithuania, North Macedonia, and Taiwan. government is trying to engineer a dual-listing that includes the U.K.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

Twitter makes its API free for public announcement accounts Twitter announced on May 2 that it is making its API free for verified government or public-owned services posting about public utility alerts such as weather alerts, transportation information and emergency warnings. But once you refresh the page it disappears.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

As you may know, the government has been tightening regulations associated with deep synthesis technologies (DST) and generative AI services, including ChatGPT. We’re very excited for the impact they’ll have here at OpenAI,” OpenAI wrote in a brief post published to its official blog.

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