Topic: legal actions
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Hollywood Reacts to Seedance 2.0 Video Generator
ByteDance's new AI video generator, Seedance 2.0, has sparked major controversy by enabling users to easily create videos featuring copyrighted characters and celebrity likenesses without permission, leading to accusations of mass infringement from Hollywood studios and guilds. The tool's rapid a...
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Control ChatGPT for Teens: New Parental Guide
OpenAI has introduced parental controls for ChatGPT, allowing parents to manage features, set time limits, and customize safety settings to create a safer environment for teenagers. Key settings include reducing sensitive content exposure, disabling model training and memory features, and enablin...
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Meta Must Stop Scammers or Face the Fallout
Meta knowingly profits from fraudulent advertisements, generating an estimated $7 billion annually from scam ads despite internal awareness of the issue, with inadequate enforcement policies allowing deceptive content to persist. Scams facilitated by Meta's platforms cause immense financial harm ...
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Power Cut at Russian Spaceport After Unpaid Bills
The Vostochny Cosmodrome, a key Russian spaceport project since 2011, has halted construction due to unpaid electricity bills, continuing its history of setbacks including worker protests and corruption scandals. Despite ongoing issues, the cosmodrome has achieved operational milestones with two ...
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Musicians Voice Frustration Over AI Clones
The music industry is facing a surge of AI-generated fake songs and vocal clones on streaming platforms, exploiting distribution loopholes and overwhelming platform moderation efforts. This widespread impersonation angers artists, who argue AI cannot replicate human experience and emotion, and ra...
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Barts Health NHS Data Breach Linked to Oracle Zero-Day Hack
A global cyberattack exploiting a critical Oracle software flaw (CVE-2025-61882) led to a data breach at Barts Health NHS Trust, stealing invoice files containing patient and former employee personal information. The Clop ransomware gang published the stolen data on the dark web, and Barts Health...
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OpenAI, DeepMind Backers Invest $12M in Wonder Studios for AI in Hollywood
Wonder Studios secured a $12 million seed investment led by Atomico to expand its operations and accelerate AI integration in filmmaking, signaling strong investor confidence in AI's role in content creation. The company will use the funds to grow its engineering team and advance original content...
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Republican Purge: The Political Reckoning Has Just Begun
The shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has sparked a fierce debate over free speech and led to retaliatory actions, including demands for bans and dismissals based on public comments about the incident. Government officials, including former President Trump, have applied pressure on m...
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Google's AI Headlines Are Replacing News Editors
Google has made its AI-generated news headlines in the Discover feed a permanent feature, despite ongoing issues with factual accuracy and misrepresentation of source articles. The AI system frequently produces errors, such as falsely announcing news events, conflating stories, and distorting ori...
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Leaker Defies Apple, Reveals Foldable iPhone Early
A prominent leaker has released detailed 3D renders of a rumored foldable iPhone, providing an early, unofficial look at a potential 2025 launch. The renders depict a book-style device with a 5.5-inch external display and a 7.8-inch interior screen, noted for its potential thinness of about 9mm w...
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Pokémon Leak Reveals Game Lineup Through 2030
A massive leak from Game Freak has revealed Pokémon's entire game lineup through 2030, including development roadmaps and concept art for upcoming projects. The leak details Generation 10 games set for next year, a Pokémon MMO, and a third Pokémon Legends entry, with Generation 11 planned for the...
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Tesla's Door Handle Redesign: Why It's a Major Challenge
Tesla's retractable door handles, once a symbol of innovation, are under investigation by the NHTSA due to numerous complaints about failures that trapped occupants, prompting a redesign. A tragic lawsuit alleges Tesla knew about manual door opening difficulties before a fatal Cybertruck crash, h...
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Google Shuts Down IPIDEA Proxy Networks Powered by Malware
Google and partners dismantled the IPIDEA residential proxy network, which was secretly routing malicious traffic through millions of compromised devices via trojanized apps. The network was used by over 550 threat groups for activities like account takeovers and DDoS attacks, masking their origi...
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Deezer Empowers Rivals to Challenge AI-Generated Music
Deezer is offering its AI music detection technology to rival streaming services to combat fraudulent streams, reporting that 85% of streams from fully AI-generated tracks are fraudulent. The tool identifies AI-generated music with high accuracy, demonetizes these tracks by excluding them from re...
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Trump Threatens Retaliation Over EU Tech Rules
The U.S. is threatening economic retaliation against the EU, arguing its tech regulations unfairly target American companies through lawsuits and fines, despite their significant investments in Europe. The U.S. contends there is a regulatory imbalance, as European firms operate freely in the Amer...
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Leaks Plague the Trump Administration's Inner Circle
A recent public post by President Trump on Truth Social, intended as a private message, highlights a pattern of using unsecured platforms for sensitive communications, raising security concerns. Multiple incidents involving officials like Mike Waltz and Pete Hegseth reveal careless handling of co...
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Fujifilm's Open X-Mount: The Lens Revolution You've Waited For
Fujifilm has reversed its previous policy by opening its X-Mount system to third-party lens manufacturers, addressing a past strategic error and fostering a more collaborative, user-friendly ecosystem. This openness has unlocked a diverse wave of new autofocus and manual focus lenses, providing p...
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Web Developers Revolt Against Google's AI Overviews
Web developers and publishers are challenging Google's AI Overviews, which they argue reduce traffic and revenue by providing direct answers in search results, prompting infrastructure provider Cloudflare to update robots.txt files to pressure Google into changing its content crawling practices. ...
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