When hackers grounded Aeroflot and wiped out thousands of its servers, they didn’t just take down flights—they exposed just how fragile a big company’s tech stack can be. One minute you’re a national airline; the next, your app’s dead, your call center’s silent, and your entire network’s in shambles.
In the twentieth century, totalitarian rule was built on simple things: paper lists, fear, and backrooms with wires in the walls. People disappeared into archives, interrogations, and camps. But even then, it all worked thanks to the technologies of the time — typewriters, intercepted letters, shortwave radio. Technology didn’t save anyone from dictatorship. It merely…
Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine and its increasingly hostile stance toward Western democracies have cast a long shadow over its technology sector. What was once seen as a rising hub of digital innovation is now deeply entangled in a geopolitical crisis—raising serious questions about the safety, ethics, and long-term risks of using Russian software.
Today we’re going to talk about recent developments in technology governance: the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act. This groundbreaking legislation is set to transform how AI systems are developed, deployed, and regulated within the EU.
Last month LaSoft team had a tough, but the most fascinating task forever. We had discovered more than 30 different KYC companies all around the world and had chosen our very own TOP-7 among them by using good-ol’ team’s brain shower. During 2 weeks we had talked with the sales teams of those companies. I’m…
These days things are changing extremely fast. Only yesterday we were able to buy and sell things freely and in the online mode. But today almost any online business requires KYC and other policy requirements. If you want to stay tuned and earn profit by using those policies, then you have to definitely check the…
All our interactions with the Internet are about exchanging data. We go online to get information, but we also have to be ready to give our personal details. So does it mean that any service can use personal information of the user if he gets to interact with it? It has been so, but the…
