The European Commission has designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine and Reddit and Roblox as Very Large Online Platforms under the Digital Services Act, bringing additional regulatory obligations into effect by January 2027.
More than 150 technology, cybersecurity and financial companies have signed an open letter calling for coordinated action to strengthen cyber defences as AI is expected to increase the scale and sophistication of cyberattacks.
ICANN has released the schedule for its ICANN87 Prep Week, with ten online sessions planned from 5 to 7 October 2026 ahead of the annual meeting in Bali.
ICANN is inviting university students living or studying in Europe to apply for its NextGen@ICANN programme, which will take place alongside the ICANN88 Community Forum in Lisbon in March 2027.
The European Commission is urging Meta to consider stronger protections for children in the EU following a major US settlement, as regulators continue examining how Facebook and Instagram features affect younger users.
Bill Gates has called on governments to develop new national and international frameworks to address AI’s potential effects on employment, security, education and other areas of society.
Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security has opened a consultation on a national technical standard for network intrusion prevention products, covering security requirements, threat detection, system integration, performance and resilience.
A US federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration unlawfully retaliated against Anthropic by designating the AI company a supply-chain risk, finding that the action violated the company’s First Amendment rights.
ICANN has updated its public DNS abuse data to distinguish between reported allegations and cases considered actionable, providing more detail for assessing how domain registrars and registries respond to abuse.
ICANN has terminated the accreditation of two domain name registrars after finding unresolved compliance failures, including inadequate responses to phishing reports and failures involving registration data services and fees.
Civil Society Alliances for Digital Empowerment (CADE) is a project co-funded by the European Union.
