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CommerceEU fines AliExpress 550 million euro over dangerous and counterfeit goodsOn July 20 the European Commission fined AliExpress 550 million euro under the Digital Services Act (DSA). The reason: the platform failed to do the work of assessing and reducing the risk of selling illegal, dangerous, and counterfeit goods - fake clothes, dangerous toys, harmful cosmetics. For a buyer in the EU, this shows just how much weight big platforms' responsibility now carries.InfraNVIDIA showed Vera Rubin: AI hardware that keeps learning nonstopNVIDIA announced Vera Rubin - a platform for 'continuous post-training' of agentic models, meaning systems that don't stop learning from their own actions after the initial training. The company claims it does the same job with a quarter of the chips compared to the previous generation. The numbers come from NVIDIA. The direction is real though, and everyone paying the AI bill pays for it.CommerceThe European Parliament approved the digital euro - now it has a deadline (2029) and a price tagA follow-up to the story from 14 July: a week after the ECB named the 36 providers for the pilot, the European Parliament approved the digital euro with about 70% majority. Cipollone laid out the road ahead - actual issuance around 2029 and a bill between 4 and 5.8 billion euros. For Bulgaria, which joined the euro this year, the topic is no longer someone else's.SecurityWordPress has a critical hole for remote code - Cloudflare raised a shield, but the patch won't waitThe WordPress core has two vulnerabilities, and the more severe one lets an unauthenticated attacker run their own code on the server. Cloudflare rolled out protective rules for all its customers on July 17, while the patches roll out. For anyone running a shop or site on WordPress, this is one of those things that won't wait until Monday.ControlBrussels orders Google to open Android to rival AI assistants and share search dataThe European Commission issued two packages of mandatory specification measures under the Digital Markets Act. Google must give rival AI assistants access to the same Android features that only Gemini reaches today, and share part of Google Search's data with other search engines. Not a fine - an order for exactly what to build and by when.CultureNetflix admits it: around 300 of its titles this year went through generative AIIn its Q2 shareholder letter, Netflix says generative AI was used in around 300 titles in 2026, mostly in post-production. What matters is where and to whom it was said: in an investor report, not to the viewer on screen.CultureRoblox launches Build - a game made from text, entirely on the phoneRoblox showed Build - a tool that turns a word description into a ready-to-play foundation, no line of code, no computer. The alpha launches on 28 July in New Zealand. The significance is in the numbers: a platform with millions of teenagers is dropping the barrier to zero.SecurityAn autonomous AI agent breached HuggingFace's production infrastructureHuggingFace confirmed a breach: an autonomous agentic system got into their production environment through two holes in dataset processing. Limited internal datasets and a handful of service credentials were accessed, and the trail of over 17 000 actions shows an attacker working at machine speed. The company has notified law enforcement.
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