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The US Department of Justice arrested a Wisconsin man last week for generating and distributing AI-generated child sexual abuse material. As far as we know, this is the first case of its kind as the DOJ looks to establish a judicial precedent that exploitative materials are still harmful even when no children were used to create them.
Ars Technica reports that a federal judge won’t dismiss the case against Kochava. The lawsuit alleges that the app analytics firm lets advertisers track customers’ names, addresses, and specific geolocation information. Kochava says its sales are legally compliant and it can’t be held responsible for bad-faith actors, even after the FTC used examples from similar cases to demonstrate how easily someone could trace your steps to sensitive venues like abortion clinics or religious halls.
A new actively exploited vulnerability has been discovered that can be used against a number of services, including Apple's iCloud, Valve's Steam, Microsoft's Minecraft, and more.
A new actively exploited vulnerability has been discovered that can be used against a number of services, including Apple's iCloud, Valve's Steam, Microsoft's Minecraft, and more.
Microsoft has released its first stable version of the modern Edge browser for Linux, two years after the Mac and Windows versions..