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Google Wants AI Scraping to Be 'Fair Use.' Will That Fly in Court?
By Avram Piltch published
The company is training its bots on millions of copyrighted works without permission.

Intel 'Downfall' Bug Steals Encryption Keys, Data From Years of CPUs (Update)
By Andrew E. Freedman last updated
A Google researcher has found a speculative execution vulnerability in several generations of Intel processors.

Google and Bing AI Bots Hallucinate AMD 9950X3D, Nvidia RTX 5090 Ti, Other Future Tech
By Avram Piltch published
The AIs even offer specs, benchmarks and pricing for these imaginary products.

AI Companies Promise Watermarked Data, Additional Safety Measures
By Francisco Pires published
They promise they can police themselves

Bot Mess: AI-Generated Clickbait Will Hasten the Demise of Search and Web Publishing
By Avram Piltch last updated
Publishers have been using AIs to write articles in hopes of ranking in Google, but these attempts are going to backfire.

Google Docs AI Open to Prompt Injection Attacks, Exposing Users to Phishing or Misinformation
By Avram Piltch last updated
Adding a prompt in your document will cause the 'refine text' to follow it, changing the output and leaving readers open to phishing.

Raspberry Pi Pico W Keeps Your Productivity on Target
By Ash Hill published
Dan Ionescu is using a Raspberry Pi Pico W to drive this Google Calendar LED progress bar project to help keep an eye on his schedule.

US Considering Cutting China's Cloud Computing Access
By Francisco Pires published
Following China's move to bottleneck rare earth exports needed for semiconductor manufacturing.
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