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TikTok’s US security chief to face the House China committee on September 15

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Will Farrell, the chief security officer for TikTok’s US operation, will appear before the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party on September 15 to answer questions about Beijing’s influence over the app, Reuters reported. He will be the first executive from the business recently sold to a group of US investors to testify since that ownership […]

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Tennessee puts Instagram’s addictive design on trial as Meta faces a seven-week jury fight

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Meta went on trial in Nashville on Monday over Tennessee’s allegation that it engineered Instagram to keep teenagers compulsively scrolling, one of the first state cases to put the question of addictive design before a jury. Jury selection began on 20 July in a proceeding expected to run about seven weeks, part of a wider wave […]

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Judge signs off on Anthropic’s $1.5bn book piracy settlement, the biggest in US copyright history

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A federal judge in San Francisco has signed off on Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement with authors who accused the company of training its Claude models on pirated books, closing what lawyers on both sides describe as the largest copyright recovery in United States history. Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín granted final approval on 20 July, months after she […]

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The EU just fined AliExpress €550M, its biggest DSA penalty yet

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Alibaba’s AliExpress has been hit with a €550 million ($629 million) fine from the European Union. Brussels says the Chinese shopping platform failed to keep illegal, unsafe and counterfeit products off its site. The penalty, announced on Monday, is the biggest yet under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA). That law forces very large platforms […]

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AGCOM fined Google €750,000 over gambling videos on YouTube

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The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled in a case that turns on a deceptively small question: whether a platform that shares advertising revenue with a creator is still merely hosting what that creator uploads. The dispute began on 19 July 2022, when AGCOM, Italy’s communications authority, fined Google Ireland €750,000 and ordered it […]

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xAI’s first lawsuit against a user tests who is responsible for what Grok makes

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The company says the defendant engineered prompts to defeat Grok’s safeguards. Courts on three continents are being asked whether the safeguards were ever the point. AI has sued one of its own users, alleging he used Grok to generate child sexual abuse material in breach of the company’s terms of service. It is understood to […]

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Ofcom opens a child safety investigation into TikTok

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Ofcom has opened a formal investigation into whether TikTok is failing to protect children from harmful content, escalating a dispute that has been running in public since May. The probe, announced on Thursday, examines two things under the Online Safety Act: whether TikTok has adequate measures to work out that a given user is a […]

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Apple wins dismissal of iCloud child abuse imagery lawsuit on Section 230 grounds

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US federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action accusing Apple of failing to stop images of child sexual abuse from being stored and shared through iCloud, finding that the claims sit inside the liability shield of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Judge Noël Wise issued the order late on Monday. The dismissal […]

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Switzerland opens a competition probe into Google’s vanishing Android choice screen

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Switzerland’s Competition Commission opened a preliminary investigation into Google on Tuesday, after the search engine selection prompt that Android owners elsewhere in Europe still meet when they switch on a new handset quietly stopped appearing on Swiss phones. The feature, known as the Choice Screen, asks users which search engine they want as their default […]

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OpenAI wants its legal fees from xAI, while Apple comes for OpenAI

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On Monday, OpenAI asked a federal judge in California to rule that xAI’s trade secrets lawsuit against it “should never have been filed,” and to make Elon Musk’s company cover more than $1m in legal expenses. The filing landed hours after xAI gave notice that it intends to appeal. The case has been dismissed twice; […]

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