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45% of the EU's total economic activity is attributable to the intellectual property industry worth EUR 6.6 trillion in Patents, Trade Marks, Industrial Design and Copyright. (25 September 2019, EUIPO)
We have collected in these pages a set of articles and news from around the world on the topic of Intellectual Property and Copyright, selected and verified by our Press Office.
New Data Breach Uber Eats in Less than a Year: 283,000 Orders Exposed on BreachForums
2024-10-08 RedHotCyber
According to today's reference article, a home-delivery giant has again fallen victim to a major data breach. Uber Eats, a food delivery company particularly popular in the United States, had already been the victim of a suspiciously similar unfortunate affair in November 2023, during which 1.4 million pieces of data h...
Meta to put under-18 Instagram users into new ‘teen accounts’.
2024-10-07 The Guardian
Myriads of British, American, Australian and Canadian teenagers will soon be forced to submit to the new rules of one of today's most loved and popular social networks: Instagram. The software, now owned by Meta, has announced that it will soon introduce a new account category, dedicated exclusively to teenage users.
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OpenAI says the latest ChatGPT can ‘think’.
2024-10-04 The Guardian
Two years after the sudden boom in artificial intelligence, triggered by the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the company behind this rapid rise has recently declared that the latest version of its famous product is capable of ‘thinking’, supposedly bridging the gap between technology and the human mind - but i...
Massive AI Dataset Back Online After Being ‘Cleaned’ of Child Sexual Abuse Material.
2024-10-03 404 Media
In December 2023, a team of researchers from the Stanford Internet Observatory discovered that one of the world's largest open-source datasets, LAION-B5, used for machine-learning training of various AI models, contained more than 3,000 suspected istances of child abuse material. Anyone who had downloaded the dataset w...
White House blasts Elon Musk for X post about Biden and Harris assassination.
2024-10-02 The Guardian
The owner of X (generally known as ‘Twitter’) seems to have found his new favourite pastime: using his platform to provoke government structures, both US and British. The entrepreneur is rapidly gaining a reputation as the ‘troublemaker’ of the online landscape, often sharing somewhat controversial thoughts on ...
AI Adds Human Cries and Creepy Laughs to People’s Songs Without Warning.
2024-10-01 Vice
The time has come, dear readers. Artificial intelligence has become sentient, has attained a superior understanding of its own self, and has realised the misuse to which it has been subjected in recent years. As its only methodology for communicating with humans, it is now sharing its state of mind through disturbing c...
Google Serves AI Slop as Top Result for One of the Most Famous Paintings in History.
2024-09-30 404 Media
The ‘Garden of Earthly Delights’ is a famous work by the Flemish painter Hieronymus Bosch, dated between 1480 and 1490. The painting is, more precisely, composed of a triptych of works using the technique of oil on oak panels and is generally considered to be the most ambitious work created by Bosch - the artist wi...
Threatened US ban against TikTok ‘unconstitutional’, platform argues.
2024-09-27 The Guardian
Tiktok is no longer the beloved platform dedicated to dancing, funny voice-overs and short funny clips of little animals. In recent years, the average content of the platform has expanded considerably, mainly due to the introduction of videos of a longer duration. Storytimes, makeup tutorials and vlogs of various genre...
Stalker Allegedly Created AI Chatbot on NSFW Platform to Dox and Harass Woman.
2024-09-26 404 Media
Obsession with real life people is a dangerous perversion. James Florence Junior, a Massachusetts citizen, was arrested on Wednesday 11 September on charges of stalking, harassment and doxing a female professor, his victim for seven years. The man is also accused of using artificial intelligence to create pornographic ...
A Dad Trained AI on His Late Daughter. He Plans to Sell the Tech.
2024-09-25 Vice
Artificial intelligence is, without a doubt, a technology with impressive potential. Its application within the medical-scientific sector has demonstrated over and over again the valuable contribution this tool is able to give to today's research. The nuances of its use, of course, can take on different meanings depend...
NaNoWriMo Says Condemning AI Is ‘Classist and Ableist’.
2024-09-24 404 Media
NaNoWriMo, a renowned US non-profit organisation promoting creative writing worldwide, has recently come under the spotlight for a rather surprising reason. The organisation, which originally started as a simple creative project, has expanded to the point of becoming an engaging challenge for any creative mind: during ...
Telegram Apologizes to South Korea for Deepfake Porn.
2024-09-23 Vice
Recently, Telegram seems to have become the focus of a series of rather serious scandals: CEO Pavel Durov was arrested by the French authorities during the last week of August, under the accusation of having allowed child pornography to be distributed on his platform; shortly afterwards, other news arose concerning its...
The Trademark Tug-of-War Over ‘Demure’ Shows a Massive Meme Power Shift.
2024-09-20 WIRED
Recently, tiktoker Jools LeBron's playful slogan seems to have gained a considerable following: ‘very demure, very mindful, very cutesy’ is a constant reminder of how we should behave in our lives. In a previous article, we mentioned an intense struggle concerning the enforcement of copyright on this famous phrase,...
Apple’s Huge “Dual Use” Face Swap App Problem Is Not Going Away.
2024-09-19 404 Media
As mentioned in several articles published both in the past and recently, the use of deepfake technology to generate non-consensual pornographic content is not exactly new. The rise of artificial intelligence, in fact, has found its successor in the rapid fame that this misuse of deepfake technology is gaining.
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Harmful 'Nudify' Websites Used Google, Apple, and Discord Sign-On Systems.
2024-09-18 WIRED
The practice of nudify refers to the use of artificial intelligence systems to virtually undress flesh-and-blood people through image manipulation to make the subjects appear as if they were naked. Following the rapid spread of AI, the application of this technology for malicious purposes has skyrocketed, also relying ...
Not very demure: TikTok creator faces a legal battle over her own catchphrase.
2024-09-17 The Guardian
‘Very demure, very mindful, very cutesy’ is the behaviour we should all adopt in different contexts of our lives: whether it's work or private life, influencer Jools LeBron recommends that we should always be proper. The transgender tiktoker jokingly shared this advice in a video on her account, which went viral ov...