The Cyber Resilience Act and the future of open source software

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The Cyber Resilience Act and the future of open source software

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Nov 3, 2023

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EU policymakers are hashing out their approach to open source software in the Cyber Resilience Act. We discussed how this regulation would affect the open source software community with Bert Hubert, an IT developer and tech entrepreneur.

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Nov 3, 2023

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EURACTIV Digital & Media Editor Luca Bertuzzi gives a breakdown of the week’s biggest European tech news in the world of politics and policy.

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Digital Brief: One App to Rule Them All?: On Monday, the EU’s data watchdog said that the bloc should establish its own “pan-European COVID-19 mobile application” due to divergences in current app developments across the bloc. EURACTIV Digital Editor Samuel Stolton looks into this issue further, by The Tech Brief
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The Digital Decade: This week, we take a look into the thinking behind the Commission's recently published plans for their so-called 'Digital Decade' targets, and we probe perhaps the blindspots that the EU executive hasn't yet addressed in detail. by The Tech Brief
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The Cyber Resilience Act and the future of open source software

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