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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.
Rent your idle GPU to generate pornographic AI content
2024-04-19 404 Media
Why lend your computing power to scientific projects such as SETI or other initiatives, when you can 'sell' your unused GPU for the creation of AI-generated pornographic content and potentially violate someone's privacy or commit acts of violence?
After the hype around virtual currencies and cryptocurrencies, here is ...
The first Apple-approved emulator for the iPhone has arrived... and been pulled.
2024-04-18 The Verge
Recently, the App Store has allowed the presence of applications intended to function as emulators for the system used by Apple's product line. iGBA, the first Game Boy Advance system emulator available for the iPhone, was released recently.
Its presence in the App Store, however, did not last long. Shortly after its ...
Teachers are using AI to grade essays. But some experts are raising ethical concerns.
2024-04-17 CNN
During the first few months of the spread of artificial intelligence, the worrying possibility of its misuse by young students was repeatedly rumoured - more than a year after its rise, this technology seems to have become the hero of anyone acting in an academic capacity, whether student or teacher.
A professor of st...
US farms are making an urgent push into AI. It could help feed the world.
2024-04-16 BBC
Not all artificial intelligence comes to harm, as already seen in the past. Used carefully and judiciously, this technology proves to be of fundamental importance for the development of various sectors: whether scientific, medical or agricultural. In fact, many US farms have recently started to push towards the use of ...
Samsung-Backed AI Image Generator Produces Nonconsensual Porn.
2024-04-15 404 Media
Leonardo AI, one of the most widely used artificial intelligences in the Internet world, has recently come under the spotlight thanks to a successful fundraising effort, reaching the impressive sum of 31 million dollars. Another reason for the sudden attention towards this image generator lies behind the ease it offers...
Insomniac: Spider-Man 2 PlayStation studio victim of huge hack.
2024-04-13 BBC
The 20th of October 2023 saw the release of the long-awaited 'Spider-Man 2', the recent piece de resistance from Insomniac Games, a video game development company that rose to fame thanks to titles such as 'Spyro' and 'Ratchet & Clank'. The game of the friendly neighbourhood spider has enjoyed considerable success from...
Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal.
2024-04-12 Techcrunch
Back in 2016, Facebook launched a secret operation called 'Project Ghostbusters', aimed at intercepting and deciphering network traffic between users of the Snapchat app and its servers. The ultimate goal was to understand the reasons behind the behaviour of those using the app, so as to be able to compete with Snapcha...
Meta and Google accused of restricting reproductive health information.
2024-04-11 The Guardian
The accessibility to culture and information is a right of any human being, and it should be easier to convey education through the billions of networks and technological supports available today. Nevertheless, two giants of the vast internet world, Meta and Google, have recently been accused of hindering the diffusion...
Data centre power use 'to surge six-fold in 10 years'.
2024-04-10 BBC
Every innovation in the technological environment is bound to permanently change global energy consumption. Due to the 'recent' rise in popularity of artificial intelligence (and quantum computing), it is inevitable that energy consumption will experience significant spikes.
According to National Grid, a British multi...
FTC investigating TikTok over privacy and security.
2024-04-09 CNN
The Tiktok saga continues: in recent months, the Chinese platform has been subjected to a series of investigations and accusations, but the situation seems to be getting worse and worse. Officially regarded as a threat to US citizens by the House of Representatives, there has recently been a proposal to ban the applica...
Elon Musk says all Premium subscribers on X will gain access to AI chatbot Grok this week.
2024-04-08 Techcrunch
March ended with a "festive week" for those users of X (formerly known as Twitter) subscribed to its Premium version, as the platform's CEO gave them access to Grok, his AI chatbot.
Earlier this month, Elon Musk had announced his intention to make Grok open-source and granted access to all Premium+ subscribers, in a m...
Hacked health care giant makes progress in recovery, but concerns for small clinics remain.
2024-04-05 CNN
During the month of February, one of the pillar companies of the US health insurance industry fell victim to an unprecedented cyber attack. Change Healthcare, the company in case, is fortunately recovering quickly from this breach: the services it offers are up and running again and the liquidity required to maintain t...
OpenAI’s voice cloning AI model only needs a 15-second sample to work.
2024-04-04 The Verge
Voice cloning seemed, for years, to be a technology available only to those in possession of a certain economic liquidity, to those belonging to a certain elite class, to those in the 'powerful' category. The latest update of OpenAI, on the contrary, has made this innovation available to anyone in possession of a compu...
Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Inquiry.
2024-04-03 Wired
During the last week of February, the famous Reddit platform publicly announced an agreement it had made with Google, in which it sanctioned the decision to license content on its platform.
Reddit is a social network whose entire support is community-driven, which means that the 17 billion posts within it are, presuma...
Ongoing major cyber-attack on various French ministry sites.
2024-04-02 Il Post
As mentioned in a reference article published last week, the French government has recently been faced with a rather worrying situation: the beginning of the second week of March marked the incipit of a series of cyber attacks aimed at damaging their internal organisation.
The culprits have not yet been identified but...
Facebook’s Algorithm Is Boosting AI Spam That Links to AI-Generated, Ad-Laden Click Farms.
2024-03-29 404 Media
Artificial intelligence is taking over the world, but not in the way science fiction fans expect, or rather, not yet. Facebook, one of the world's most popular platforms with more than 3 billion users, has recently become a breeding ground for a new kind of advertising.
Whole pages generated by artificial intelligence...