The AI Act's high-risk obligations take effect today
Two years after entry into force, the substantive requirements arrive. What changes, what was delayed, and what to do now.
#policy
11 pieces tagged policy,
from March 31, 2025 to August 2, 2026.
The crawler tolls, one year on
Default blocking and pay-per-crawl changed who can read the web. An assessment of what actually happened.
Licenses: a practical guide for people who ship
Not legal advice. A working engineer's map of what the common licenses actually require you to do.
Open source funding: five models, honestly compared
Donations, foundations, dual licensing, open core, and hosted service. Each works for a specific shape of project.
The Cyber Resilience Act and the unpaid maintainer
Europe is about to regulate software security across the whole product lifecycle. Open source is mostly carved out, and mostly is doing a lot of work.
The EU AI Act's August deadline
High-risk obligations arrive this summer. If you ship into Europe, the classification work should already be done.
The electricity bill arrives
Datacenter power demand is showing up in residential rates, and the regulatory fight is now the main constraint on compute supply.
Post-quantum migration is a 2026 project
Harvest-now-decrypt-later makes this urgent for anything with a long confidentiality horizon. The tooling is finally ready.
Sora 2 and the feed nobody asked for
A better video model wrapped in a social app, with a cameo feature that makes consent the whole product question.
Cloudflare flips the default and starts charging crawlers
AI bots blocked unless allowed, plus a marketplace for per-crawl payment. A fifth of the web changes its robots policy at once.
Everything is Ghibli now
Native image generation in a chat model produced a two-week global aesthetic event and a copyright question nobody wants to answer.