A US judge rules Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train AI was fair use, but its storage of pirated books in a central library for training LLMs was not
but it's still in trouble for stealing books Blake Brittain / Reuters : Anthropic wins key US ruling on AI training in authors' copyright lawsuit Jason Koebler / 404 Media : Judge Rules Training AI on...
Lawsuit: a civil rights organization says a Virginia town installing Flock cameras violated the Fourth Amendment, making citizens moving untracked “impossible”
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Leaked contract: Samsung requires independent repair shops to notify Samsung, share customer data, and “immediately disassemble” devices with aftermarket parts
In exchange for selling them repair parts, Samsung requires independent repair shops to give Samsung the name … Mastodon: @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social Mastodon: Jason Koebler / @jasonkoebler@mastodon...
The US DOJ sues Apple, alleging the company blocked its competitors from accessing iPhone features, made switching to non-Apple devices more difficult, and more
In 2010, a top Apple executive emailed Apple's then-CEO about an ad for the new Kindle e-reader. TechCrunch : TechCrunch Minute: Breaking down the Apple iPhone antitrust lawsuit from the DOJ CNBC : DO...
Google formally endorses right to repair and will testify in favor of a law in Oregon, says regulators should ban “parts pairing”, a tactic used by Apple
The Android phone maker says go ahead, fix your own phone. Abner Li / 9to5Google : Google Pixel supports Right to Repair bill, calls for ‘parts assemblies’ over lone components Sebastian Pier / PhoneA...
Omegle shut down as part of a settlement with a user who sued the chat website company claiming its design enabled her to be sexually abused since age 11
Omegle, the once-popular online chat service that launched in 2009 … X: Jason Koebler / @jason_koebler : Omegle shutdown was part of a settlement in a child sex abuse lawsuit https://www.404media.co/....
Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons proposes offering customers a free hot drink and baked good as a settlement for collecting their location data for over a year
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As videos from court hearings on Zoom go viral, a look at the debate over privacy of citizens in those videos and judicial transparency on the internet
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US DOJ indicts CEO of encrypted phone company Sky for selling devices to drug traffickers, the second such company to face charges after Phantom Secure
“The indictment alleges that Sky Global generated hundreds of millions of dollars providing a service that allowed criminal networks around … Source: U.S. Department of Justice . Tweets: @josephfcox a...
House Judiciary Committee's letter to Apple asks for all internal communications from 14 top execs relating to “restrictions on third-party repairs”
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