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Disney turns to dark side, licenses IP to OpenAI for videos, images
Amid controversy over its ability to generate content with copyrighted characters, OpenAI has struck a three-year deal with Disney to license more than 200 Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars characters for use in Sora videos and ChatGPT Images.…
Russian hackers debut simple ransomware service, but store keys in plain text
CyberVolk, a pro-Russian hacktivist crew, is back after months of silence with a new ransomware service. There's some bad news and some good news here.…
European cloud trade group says EU should have blocked VMware-Broadcom merger
A trade group of European cloud providers has laid into the European Commission’s decision to allow the VMware-Broadcom merger to go ahead, alleging that it failed to assess the infrastructure and semiconductor company’s incentives to massively raise prices on customers.…
Space-power startup claims it can beam energy to solar farms
You can't generate solar power at night unless your panels are in space. A startup that wants to beam orbital sunlight straight into existing solar farms has just emerged from stealth, claiming a world-first power-beaming demo, but with a lot of critical information left unreported. …