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India's government targets Uber, Ola with plan to launch zero-commission rideshare platform
India’s government is set to launch a rideshare platform and app that charges no commission and is intended to make life harder for Uber and its ilk.…
Micron ditches consumer memory brand Crucial to chase AI riches
The lure of AI spending was too much for Micron to ignore. On Wednesday, the US chipmaker announced it's abandoning its Crucial memory and storage lineup to bolster its supply of enterprise-focused chips, including those used in AI systems.…
John Henry still leading the race vs. AI in customer service
The world’s smallest digital violin is playing for AI chatbots, which are having a hard time elbowing out their human counterparts for jobs in customer service, according to a Gartner study.…
Lawyer's 6-year-old son uses AI to build copyright infringement generator
You don't have to be smarter than a fifth grader (or even a first grader) to commit potential copyright infringement using AI tools. One IP attorney watched over the weekend as his young son built a bedtime story generator that used copyrighted characters without permission. …
'Exploitation is imminent' as 39 percent of cloud environs have max-severity React hole
A maximum-severity flaw in the widely used JavaScript library React, and several React-based frameworks including Next.js allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to execute malicious code on vulnerable instances. The flaw is easy to abuse, and mass exploitation is "imminent," according to security researchers.…
MAGA cognoscenti warn feds away from shielding AI infringers
A group of conservatives allied with President Donald Trump's MAGA movement, including former Trump strategist Steve Bannon, has asked the Justice Department and the White House to stop protecting Big Tech against copyright claims.…