December 10, 2023

WIRED: The Generative AI Copyright Fight Is Just Getting Started

WIRED: The Generative AI Copyright Fight Is Just Getting Started. “The biggest fight of the generative AI revolution is headed to the courtroom—and no, it’s not about the latest boardroom drama at OpenAI. Book authors, artists, and coders are challenging the practice of teaching AI models to replicate their skills using their own work as a training manual. The debate centers on the billions of works underpinning the impressive wordsmithery of tools like ChatGPT, the coding prowess of Github’s Copilot, and artistic flair of image generators like that of startup Midjourney.”

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December 9, 2023

Ars Technica: Verizon fell for fake “search warrant,” gave victim’s phone data to stalker

Ars Technica: Verizon fell for fake “search warrant,” gave victim’s phone data to stalker. “Verizon Wireless gave a female victim’s address and phone logs to an alleged stalker who pretended to be a police officer, according to an affidavit filed by an FBI special agent. The man, Robert Michael Glauner, was later arrested near the victim’s home and found to be carrying a knife at the time, according to the affidavit submitted in court yesterday.”

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December 9, 2023

Tubefilter: Congress is putting off its plan to regulate TikTok until 2024 (but GOP hopefuls still have takes)

Tubefilter: Congress is putting off its plan to regulate TikTok until 2024 (but GOP hopefuls still have takes). “TikTok continues to face criticism from American politicians, but the Congressional plan to regulate the app is going on the back burner — at least until 2024. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), who heads the Senate Commerce Committee, told Reuters that Congress will not take up TikTok-oriented legislation until the calendar turns over to a new year.”

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December 8, 2023

Billboard: Swiss Digital Licensing Org Targets Twitter for Copyright Infringement

Billboard: Swiss Digital Licensing Org Targets Twitter for Copyright Infringement . “SUISA Digital Licensing is suing Twitter International in Munich District Court for copyright infringement on X, the online platform formerly known as Twitter. The suit alleges that music compositions controlled by SUISA Digital are found on the platform, and that the company has made no effort to license them or act promptly to remove the infringing content.”

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December 7, 2023

Boing Boing: Six months jail for YouTuber who filmed self bailing out of plane for the views

Boing Boing: Six months jail for YouTuber who filmed self bailing out of plane for the views. “Trevor Jacob, the YouTuber who bailed out of his own plane and later admitted that he did it for the views, is off to jail for six months over the November 2021 stunt. Jacobs earlier plead guilty to obstructing a federal investigation, having recovered and destroyed the wreckage himself to make sure the NTSB couldn’t get its hands on it.”

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December 6, 2023

Irish Independent: Micheál Martin initiates High Court proceedings against Google over scam adverts

Irish Independent: Micheál Martin initiates High Court proceedings against Google over scam adverts. “Tánaiste Micheál Martin is taking a legal action against Google to secure information about the source of scam adverts for cryptocurrency using his name and image. Mr Martin initiated High Court proceedings against Google Ireland Limited and Google LLC in an attempt to establish why his name and image are being used for fake adverts.” As I understand it, the “Tánaiste” is the deputy head of government in Ireland.

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December 6, 2023

PR Newswire: New Database Reveals Impact of Wrongful Convictions on Taxpayers and Communities in City of Chicago

PR Newswire: New Database Reveals Impact of Wrongful Convictions on Taxpayers and Communities in City of Chicago (PRESS RELEASE). “The Truth, Hope and Justice Initiative, global law firm Ropes & Gray, the Law Firm Antiracism Alliance, and global professional services firm Aon announced today the creation of a searchable database comprising information on Section 1983 civil rights lawsuits filed against the City of Chicago and personnel from the Chicago Police Department since the year 2000.”

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December 6, 2023

WIRED: The Binance Crackdown Will Be an ‘Unprecedented’ Bonanza for Crypto Surveillance

WIRED: The Binance Crackdown Will Be an ‘Unprecedented’ Bonanza for Crypto Surveillance. “The crackdown doesn’t just mean a chastened Binance will have to change its practices going forward. It means that when the company is sentenced in a matter of months, it will be forced to open its past books to regulators, too. What was once a haven for anarchic crypto commerce is about to be transformed into the opposite: perhaps the most fed-friendly business in the cryptocurrency industry, retroactively offering more than a half-decade of users’ transaction records to US regulators and law enforcement.”

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December 6, 2023

404 Media: Reuters Takes Down Blockbuster Hacker-for-Hire Investigation After Indian Court Order

404 Media: Reuters Takes Down Blockbuster Hacker-for-Hire Investigation After Indian Court Order. “Reuters has ‘temporarily’ taken down a blockbuster investigation into a specific Indian hacker-for-hire operation after facing a court order issued on Monday, according to an editor’s note now published on Reuters’ site in place of the article. There is no indication that the article contained errors or otherwise incorrect information, and the editor’s note states ‘Reuters stands by its reporting and plans to appeal the decision.’”

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December 6, 2023

SF Gate: Almost 100,000 Google employees are about to get a hard-fought $20

SF Gate: Almost 100,000 Google employees are about to get a hard-fought $20. “Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit from 2016 that outlined the Bay Area tech giant’s strict confidentiality policies for workers. The suit helped launch a wave of employee activism in the industry, and has been litigated across seven years and thousands of pages of court documents. In the end, Google will pay out only $27 million, a drop in the bucket for such a titanic company — and just a fraction of that money will actually go to workers.”

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December 6, 2023

ProPublica: Tribes in Maine Spent Decades Fighting to Rebury Ancestral Remains. Harvard Resisted Them at Nearly Every Turn.

ProPublica: Tribes in Maine Spent Decades Fighting to Rebury Ancestral Remains. Harvard Resisted Them at Nearly Every Turn.. “A ProPublica investigation this year into repatriation has shown how some of the nation’s elite museums have used their power and vast resources to delay returning ancestral remains and sacred objects under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. By exploiting loopholes in the 1990 law, anthropologists overruled tribes’ evidence showing their ties to the oldest ancestral remains in museums’ collections.”

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