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European anti-trust regulators have reportedly stopped their pursuit of a $1 billion fine against multinational semiconductor firm Qualcomm, according to Reuters. In June this year, Qualcomm won an appeal at Europe’s General Court over a $1 billion fine that European Union regulators sought due to payments the firm made to Apple to use Qualcomm chips.

It’s no secret that top-tier tech talent is hard to find, with skilled staff having a great deal of choice in selecting where they want to work. In a bid to attract skilled workers to the UK, the Home Office has announced the launch of a Scale-up visa for firms to sponsor valuable tech talent.

At a time when artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly commonplace, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport have published a policy paper that sets out regulation of artificial intelligence and takes a more decentralised approach compared to the EU.

Governments and regulators are becoming increasingly concerned with the resilience of digital  systems, particularly in critical sectors including financial services, telecom, transportation and cloud services. However, while some of these industries – for example, financial services – are highly regulated and subject to government oversight others – like cloud services – are not.

The EDPS has granted a 12-month period for Europol to comply with the Decision for the datasets already received before this decision was notified to Europol.” In the 18 years since the EDPS was founded, the authority have admonished many institutions that have been accused of failing to uphold the privacy rights of individuals.