Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: The Dutch Supreme Court has requested guidance from the EU’s top court on geo-blocking, VPNs, and copyright in a case involving the online publication of Anne Frank’s manuscripts. The CJEU’s respon… Continue reading ‘Anne Frank’ Copyright Dispute Triggers VPN, Geoblocking Questions At EU’s Highest Court
A U.S. Trademark Office tribunal canceled Marvel and DC’s jointly owned “Super Hero” trademarks after the companies failed to respond to a request by London-based Superbabies Ltd, which argued the marks couldn’t be owned collectively or monopolize the … Continue reading US Trademark Office Cancels Marvel, DC’s ‘Super Hero’ Trademarks
The Register’s Tobias Mann reports: Oracle could choose to take control of Ampere Computing, the Arm processor designer it has backed and uses in its cloud. A proxy statement [PDF] filed on Wednesday reveals that Oracle held 29 percent stake in Ampere … Continue reading Oracle Owns Nearly a Third of Arm Chip House Ampere, Could Take Control In 2027
At its Connect event earlier this week, Meta said it’ll be adding conversational voices to its AI chatbot from celebrities like Awkwafina, John Cena, Dame Judi Dench, Keegan-Michael Key and Kristen Bell. The Verge reports: These celebrity voices will o… Continue reading Meta’s AI Can Now Talk To You In the Voices of Awkwafina, John Cena, and Judi Dench
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Jack Ryan from San Diego was recently being interviewed for a job. On a video call, the interviewer, a woman with red hair, said, “I find it helps when candidates tell me a story in answering the ques… Continue reading AI Avatars Are Doing Job Interviews Now
Meta has been fined $101.5 million by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for storing over half a billion user passwords in plain text for years, with some engineers having access to this data for over a decade. The issue, discovered in 2019, pr… Continue reading Meta Fined $102 Million For Storing 600 Million Passwords In Plain Text
[Ben] may be 15 years old, but he’s got the knack for 3D printing and artistic mechanical design. When you see his 3D-printed mechanical jellyfish lamp, we think you’ll agree. …read more Continue reading 3D Printed Jellyfish Lights Up
iFixit’s iPhone 16 teardown revealed a new battery removal process that does away with the usual pull tabs, instead opting for an adhesive that debonds when exposed to a low electrical current. “It only takes about a minute and a half for it to come un… Continue reading iFixit’s iPhone 16 Teardown Reveals Game-Changing Battery Removal Process
If your PC crashes during Windows installation or setup, you can use the fixes provided in this article. Some users experienced this issue while installing Windows Update, whereas some experienced it while performing a Clean Installation of Windows. Co… Continue reading PC crashes during Windows installation
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica, written by John Timmer: [P]art of the software stack that companies are developing to control their quantum hardware includes software that converts abstract representations of quantum algorithms i… Continue reading IBM Opens Its Quantum-Computing Stack To Third Parties