Tech

The New York Times reports that in a landmark case that pitted authors against a tech giant, thriller writer Andrea Bartz emerged as a central figure in securing a $1.5 billion settlement from AI company Anthropic. Bartz, along with fellow writers Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson, served as named plaintiffs in the class-action lawsuit,…

In a statement late Sunday, the Dutch ministry of economic affairs said it had invoked the rarely used Goods Availability Act to intervene in the business of Nexperia, which makes semiconductors used in the automotive and consumer technology industries. Nexperia based in the Dutch city of Nijmegen but owned by China’s Wingtech Technology. Concerns about…

Researchers at AI startup Anthropic have revealed that AI language models can be easily manipulated through a technique known as “poisoning attacks.” The findings, which were conducted in partnership with the UK AI Security Institute, Alan Turing Institute, and other academic institutions, suggest that the integrity of AI-generated content may be at serious risk. Poisoning…

The Chosun Daily reports that tragedy struck the Korean streaming community when the body of Yoon Ji-ah, a beloved TikTok star with over 300,000 followers, was discovered on a remote mountainside in September. The 20-something influencer had been strangled to death, her body left bruised and battered. Investigators quickly zeroed in on a suspect —…

A judge has tossed Drake’s lawsuit against Universal Music Group (UMG), filed against the label after it released Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy-winning track “Not Like Us.” Drake contended that UMG spread defamatory claims that he was a pedophile, made secret payments, and offered reduced licensing rates to promote Lamar’s diss track. But U.S. District Judge Jeannette…

On Wikipedia, Tablet Magazine has been the subject of several discussions agreeing it was a reliable source with one of the identified editors even supporting its use in a prior case. The names of both pro-Palestinian editors were previously reported in 2019 by the Washington Free Beacon, which has been deemed reliable on Wikipedia, with…

Bloomberg reports that in a decision on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to grant Google’s request for protection from a lower court order that mandates a major restructuring of its Android app store. The order, issued by U.S. District Judge James Donato in October of last year, aims to foster greater competition in the…

BBC News reports that the London Metropolitan Police has announced the successful dismantling of an international criminal gang suspected of smuggling up to 40,000 stolen mobile phones from the UK to China in the past year. The operation, believed to be the UK’s largest ever crackdown on phone thefts, resulted in the arrest of 18…

After a hearing that lasted two weeks, the DOJ and Google have concluded their arguments over how to address the company’s illegal monopoly in advertising software. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia saw the conclusion of the remedies phase of the ad tech antitrust case against the Google, where the DOJ…

Vice President J.D. Vance expressed confidence that the Trump administration’s TikTok deal will effectively separate the app from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, and ensure the security of U.S. users’ data. In a recent interview with Fox News, Vice President J.D. Vance addressed concerns about the potential vulnerability of TikTok’s U.S. spinoff to Chinese propaganda and data…