Topic: terms of service
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Arduino's New Terms of Service Spark Hobbyist Concerns Before Qualcomm Deal
Arduino's updated terms of service have sparked community concern, particularly around restrictions on reverse-engineering and new AI monitoring provisions as the company faces acquisition by Qualcomm. The company clarified that open source hardware and software remain unaffected, with restrictio...
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TikTok's New Owners: How Your Feed Will Change
A consortium including Silver Lake, Oracle, and Abu Dhabi's MGX has finalized a deal to create a new U.S.-based corporate entity for TikTok, installing a fresh team of American executives to lead it. For users, the app experience will remain seamless, but a key technical change involves retrainin...
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eBay Bans AI Shopping Bots Amid Rising Automation
eBay is banning the use of unauthorized third-party "buy for me" agents and AI chatbots on its platform, a policy targeting "agentic commerce" that will be enforced starting in early 2026. The new rules specifically prohibit AI-driven tools that autonomously place orders without human review, clo...
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Microsoft Halts Cloud Services for Israeli Unit Over Palestinian Spying
Microsoft terminated cloud services for an Israeli defense unit after an internal review found the technology was used to store surveillance data from monitoring Palestinian civilians. The decision, based on terms of service prohibiting mass surveillance, was prompted by investigative journalism ...
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Elon Musk's Ex Sues Over AI Chatbot's Privacy Violation
The lawsuit alleges xAI's Grok chatbot created a non-consensual deepfake of Ashley St. Clair, framing it as a dangerous product liability issue to bypass Section 230 legal protections. xAI countersued St. Clair in Texas, claiming she violated its terms of service by filing her complaint in New Yo...
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Artisan AI Returns to LinkedIn After Brief Ban
Artisan AI was temporarily banned from LinkedIn due to unauthorized use of LinkedIn's name on its website and issues with third-party data scraping, which violates the platform's terms of service. The ban, which lasted two weeks, generated significant publicity and unexpectedly improved the compa...
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Law Firm Probes Coupang Over Data Breach Security Lapses
Investors harmed by a major 2025 cyber-attack on Coupang are joining a class action lawsuit alleging security failures led to substantial financial losses. The breach potentially exposed personal data of 33.7 million customers, triggering a police raid, the CEO's resignation, and regulatory actio...
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Oura CEO Responds to Backlash, Envisions 'Cloud of Wearables'
Oura CEO Tom Hale denies any data-sharing with the Department of Defense or Palantir, asserting that user health data remains private and is not shared without explicit consent. The company's involvement with the DoD is limited to a secure enterprise solution, and its terms of service strictly pr...
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Spotify and djay Reunite for Seamless DJ Mixing
Spotify Premium integration has been restored in Algoriddim's djay desktop software, allowing users to stream and queue music from their libraries after being unavailable since 2020. The return follows a previous discontinuation due to licensing issues, indicating that legal or contractual obstac...
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Tech YouTuber's 350K+ Channel "Wrongfully" Terminated by AI
A prominent YouTuber named Enderman had multiple channels totaling over 350,000 subscribers terminated, which they attribute to flawed AI moderation without human oversight. The termination occurred after YouTube's automated systems incorrectly linked Enderman's channels to an unrelated channel w...
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Top Black Friday Streaming Deals 2025: HBO Max, Disney+, Apple
Black Friday offers significant discounts on streaming services, including HBO Max at $3/month and a Disney Plus and Hulu bundle for $5/month, primarily for new subscribers. Existing customers often miss out on these deals due to customer inertia but can attempt to access promotions by threatenin...
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TikTok US Service Largely Restored After Outage
TikTok's service for U.S. users has largely normalized after a multi-day outage, with core functions like uploading and viewing videos restored, though some residual bugs may persist. The outage was caused by a power failure at a data center that led to a cascading systems failure, sparking onlin...
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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health, 230M Weekly Health Queries Revealed
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Health, a dedicated platform for medical and wellness inquiries, responding to over 230 million weekly health questions and isolating these sensitive conversations from general chats. The feature guides users to its contained environment for privacy, can leverage conte...
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