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US rejects AI copyright for famous state fair-winning Midjourney art

Enlarge / The winning entry, Théåtre D'opéra Spatial, from the Colorado State Fair in August 2022. (credit: Jason Allen) On Tuesday, the US Copyright Office Review Board rejected copyright protection for an AI-generated…

Qualcomm strikes new Apple deal on 5G chips

Enlarge (credit: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Qualcomm has extended a deal to supply 5G modems for Apple’s smartphones, in a sign the iPhone maker is still struggling to perfect the technology in-house.…

Cisco security appliance 0-day is under attack by ransomware crooks

Enlarge / Cisco Systems headquarters in San Jose, California, US, on Monday, Aug. 14, 2023. Cisco Systems Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on August 16. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty…

The AI-assistant wars heat up with Claude Pro, a new ChatGPT Plus rival

Enlarge / The Anthropic Claude logo. (credit: Anthropic / Benj Edwards) On Thursday, AI-maker and OpenAI competitor Anthropic launched Claude Pro, a subscription-based version of its Claude.ai web-based AI assistant, which functions similarly…

Microsoft offers legal protection for AI copyright infringement challenges

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / Benj Edwards) On Thursday, Microsoft announced that it will provide legal protection for customers who are sued for copyright infringement over content generated by the company's AI systems.…

North Korea-backed hackers target security researchers with 0-day

Enlarge (credit: Dmitry Nogaev | Getty Images) North Korea-backed hackers are once again targeting security researchers with a zero-day exploit and related malware in an attempt to infiltrate computers used to perform sensitive…

OpenAI admits that AI writing detectors don’t work

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Last week, OpenAI published tips for educators in a promotional blog post that shows how some teachers are using ChatGPT as an educational aid, along with suggested prompts to…

The International Criminal Court will now prosecute cyberwar crimes

Enlarge / Karim Khan speaks at Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace during the visit of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in Bogota, Colombia, on June 6, 2023. (credit: Long Visual Press/Getty)…

Microsoft finally explains cause of Azure breach: An engineer’s account was hacked

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft said the corporate account of one of its engineers was hacked by a highly skilled threat actor that acquired a signing key used to hack dozens of Azure…

Toyota’s Japanese production was halted due to insufficient disk space

Enlarge (credit: Getty) Toyota's 14 Japanese factories all shut down for about two days last week due to a production order system malfunction caused by a lack of disk space, the company announced…