Security
A group of visual artists has scored a significant victory in their legal battle against AI image generators. A California federal judge has ruled that visual artists can continue to pursue some of their copyright claims against AI companies Stability AI, Midjourney, DeviantArt, and Runway AI. The artists alleged that these companies used their copyrighted…
Microsoft plans to begin archiving unlicensed OneDrive user accounts after 90 days beginning Jan. 27, 2025 — with a fee required for account storage and re-activation. There are different reasons why businesses might have unlicensed OneDrive accounts, Microsoft said in a blog post on the SharePoint admin site; if a license has been removed when an employee…
Modern-day websites aren’t usually built for printing. Whether you want to print a web page on paper, save it as a PDF, or capture a clean screenshot for archival purposes, it’s often harder than it should be. Plus, so much junk — advertisements, pop-ups, navigation elements, and more — can get in the way of…
Notion users can now create charts to display data held in the productivity app, providing a new way to visualize information such as project status. Notion Charts, available to paid users as of Tuesday, includes options for bar, donut, and line charts. These are accessible via the new “chart” view in Notion databases that appears…
Apple’s competitors are reeling on bad news, which makes this a perfect moment for Apple to exploit their weakness and seize market share. And it’s well prepared to do so. Just in the last few weeks, several big events have taken place Cupertino could and should exploit. Reasons to be cheerful Here’s the landscape Apple…
Microsoft is urging all users of Office and Microsoft 365 to update the software as soon as possible, because hackers have started exploiting a serious vulnerability to access sensitive information on computers. To be fully protected against the vulnerability, designated CVE-2024-38200, users need to install a security fix that will be released to the public…
Security company Oligo is warning that hackers can bypass firewalls and gain full access to local networks with the help of a bug found in most browsers for macOS and Linux. According to Oligo, the bug has been around for 18 years and all the hackers have to do is use the 0.0.0.0 address instead of 127.0.0.1….
Like me, analysts expect Apple to eventually charge for access to some Apple Intelligence features, which is why I think the biggest opportunity for the company involves AI-augmented fitness and healthcare. First, the thesis: Analysts Neil Shah (Counterpoint Research) and Ben Wood (CCS Insight) both told CNBC they believe Apple will eventually attempt to monetize Apple…
A recent discovery has revealed a serious flaw in Microsoft’s Windows Update. Instead of protecting computers, it can be tricked into installing older, vulnerable operating system versions. This allows hackers to bypass security measures and attack computers even if they have the latest updates installed. It’s like dialing back time to find the perfect vulnerability…
Nvidia scraped huge amounts of data from YouTube to train its AI models, even though neither Youtube nor individual YouTube channels approved the move, according to leaked documents obtained by 404 Media via Futurism. Among other things, Nvidia reportedly used the YouTube data to train its deep learning model Cosmos, an algorithm for automated driving, a human-like…