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A landmark copyright fight over genAI – Computerworld
What Disney did with the public domain, MidJourney, and the rest of the AI companies want to do with pretty much everything on the Internet. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, for instance, has consistently argued that training genAI on copyrighted data should be considered “fair use.” He’s not alone. On the other side of the fence, Disney and Universal’s lawsuit is not…
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Facebook rolls out passkey support to fight phishing attacks
Passkeys can replace traditional passwords with your device’s own authentication methods. That way, you can sign in to Gmail, PayPal, or iCloud just by activating Face ID on your iPhone, your Android phone’s fingerprint sensor, or with Windows Hello on a PC. Built on WebAuthn (or Web Authentication) tech, two different keys are generated when you create a passkey: one…
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Why Apple is trying to save Google Search in the antitrust fight
Google is in antitrust court, fighting to preserve the search engine business that has made it so historically successful. At a few different moments through the various stages of the trial, high-powered executives from Apple have taken the stand — and largely taken Google’s side. Just this week, Apple’s Eddy Cue made the case that Google is actually in a…
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Google’s antitrust trial begins with a fight over Chrome, money, and AI
Near the beginning of his opening arguments, David Dahlquist, a lawyer for the US Department of Justice, showed a slide that he described as Google’s “vicious cycle.” It goes like this: Google pays billions of dollars to be the default search engine practically everywhere, thus it gets more search queries, thus it gets better data, thus it is able to…
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Law enforcement needs to fight fire with fire on AI threats
UK law enforcement agencies have been urged to employ a more proactive approach to AI-related cyber crime as threats posed by the technology accelerate. The Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, is calling for the creation of a dedicated AI Crime Taskforce within the National Crime Agency. Research from the institute shows there’s…
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Google Is Picking a Fight With Steam That It Can’t Win
Summary Google Play Games is expanding to PC for Android & native PC games, becoming a direct competitor to market-leader Steam. Google faces challenges from past gaming failures like Stadia in its bid to attract devs and players, particularly in a market that competitor Amazon has failed to crack. Google must understand PC gamers’ preferences, improve technology, and offer appealing…
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Epic Games v. Apple: the fight for the future of the App Store
After months of preparation, Epic Games will finally take on Apple in court in a trial that could fundamentally change the makeup of the App Store. The fight dates back to August, when Epic added a direct payment mechanism to its hit battle royale game Fortnite in violation of Apple’s rules. The iPhone maker quickly removed the game from the…
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AI company Ross Intelligence loses copyright fight with Thomson Reuters – Computerworld
A US judge has ruled in favor of Thomson Reuters in a AI training fight against Ross Intelligence, a legal AI startup, according to The Verge. Thomson Reuters sued Ross Intelligence in 2020 for using the company’s legal research platform Westlaw to train Ross Intelligence’s AI without permission. Westlaw indexes large amounts of non-copyrighted material, but mixes it with its…
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What handheld PCs should do to fight the Nintendo Switch 2
I stopped buying most games for my Nintendo Switch the day I bought a Steam Deck. My Switch has been a Mario and Zelda machine ever since. It’s simple: the Steam Deck took the Switch’s best trick — pick-up-and-play portability — while offering more games that run better. I can easily resume the ones I started on my desktop PC,…
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Apple execs head to London to fight for the App Store – Computerworld
Is it all about legality — or profitability? In the end, and as I’ve pointed out before, even some of the company’s critics levy similar fees on sales through their platforms, which means it isn’t a matter of fee/no fee, but a question of how much fee is legitimate for Apple’s storefront, or any storefront, to charge. Even big brick-and-mortar…
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