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45% of the EU's total economic activity is attributable to the intellectual property industry worth EUR 6.6 trillion in Patents, Trade Marks, Industrial Design and Copyright. (25 September 2019, EUIPO)
We have collected in these pages a set of articles and news from around the world on the topic of Intellectual Property and Copyright, selected and verified by our Press Office.
APpaREnTLy THiS iS hoW yoU JaIlBreAk AI.
2025-01-17 404 Media
In recent years, a particular Spongebob meme has reached the peak of online fame, laying the foundation for a new method of typing messages, usually with a certain tone of mockery. The meme shows the protagonist of the cartoon of the same name mocking his interlocutor, and is usually accompanied by a script whose text ...
Cellebrite Unlocked This Journalist’s Phone. Cops Then Infected it With Malware.
2025-01-16 404 Media
Nowadays, any electronic device is potentially subject to ‘invisible’ tampering. According to today's reference article, law enforcement officers in Serbia repeatedly unlocked several mobile phones and then infected them with malware. According to a new report by Amnesty International, a human rights organisation, ...
‘It’s beyond human scale’: AFP defends use of artificial intelligence to search seized phones and emails.
2025-01-15 The Guardian
Law enforcement agencies from all over the world are increasingly approaching the use of artificial intelligence within their personnel, implementing it as a tool to speed up investigations and to be able to achieve summarily satisfactory results within a short period of time.
The Australian Federal Police has recentl...
Generative AI Still Needs to Prove Its Usefulness.
2025-01-14 Wired
Artificial intelligence seems to have taken over the world in just under two years. The great ‘revolution’ began with the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, making OpenAI and Sam Altman, its CEO, unprecedented celebrities within a few months. From that moment on, every company in the tech sector has been trying t...
Inside the DemandScience by Pure Incubation Data Breach.
2025-01-13 TroyHunt
Nowadays, the most fascinating resource in the world, especially for the big tech companies that command the online landscape, is the invaluable data of every single user in the vast world of the Internet. Possessing the information needed to understand the habits, preferences and contacts of potential future customers...
Former OpenAI researcher and whistleblower found dead at age 26.
2025-01-10 CNBC
The tech giant OpenAI always seems to be the centre of attention, for better or worse. During August 2024, a researcher had left the company, expressing a certain level of concern regarding some unethical decisions implemented by the company.
Suchir Balaji's departure from OpenAI caused more movement than desired: the...
From X to Bluesky: why are people fleeing Elon Musk’s ‘digital town square’?
2025-01-09 The Guardian
As mentioned in other reference articles published in recent weeks, the exodus of X users has not gone unnoticed. For months, if not years now, US entrepreneur Elon Musk's platform had been losing prestige: the quality of content and the app's satisfaction index had been declining since the name change in summer 2023.
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Caught by Google Maps: Photo of man putting suspicious bundle in his trunk, key to solving a murder.
2025-01-08 El País English
In Tajueco, a small village located in the autonomous community of Castile and León, live approximately 115 inhabitants, accustomed to a simple and quiet life, rather rural in comparison with new habits. Consequently, when faced with the passage of the famous Google machine, used to provide the images needed for ‘st...
Traffic Camera 'Selfie' Creator Holds Cease and Desist Letter in Front of Traffic Cam.
2025-01-07 404 Media
While Italy grapples with new laws implemented in the traffic code, the state of New York seems to be struggling with excessive surveillance on its streets. The city in question is plastered with traffic cameras, placed in plain sight on every corner, intersection or lamppost.
To make the general public aware of this ...
Nothing Is Sacred: AI Generated Slop Has Come for Christmas Music.
2025-01-06 404 Media
Artificial intelligence is now part of everyday life for most users of the vast world of the Internet, and its eternal and devious presence is unfortunately undeniable. Despite being a tool with amazing potential, its misuse reduces it to a generator of cheap contentwith which to further fill the online landscape.
The...
Hospitals to use AI to cut patient visits.
2024-12-20 BBC News
The East Yorkshire area in England seems to be a perfect example of how the implementation of artificial intelligence in the medical field can benefit the industry. The city of Hull, in March 2023, proposed the use of an application aimed at symptom control for patients suffering from chronic respiratory diseases, run ...
Social media given 'last chance' to tackle illegal posts.
2024-12-17 BBC News
The UK Office of Communications, known as Ofcom, is a government-approved regulatory authority responsible for communications within the nation. Recently, the institution published a series of codes of conduct aimed at regulating and managing illegal online content by companies.
The new Online Safety Act (OSA) regulat...
US appeals court upholds law forcing sale or ban of TikTok.
2024-12-16 The Guardian
The fight between the United States of America and the famous Tiktok platform has been going on for years now; the US Appeals Courthas been responsible for several proposals regarding a possible removal of the application from the state, supported by the government itself, however, no proper solution has yet been reach...
Google’s AI enters its ‘agentic era’.
2024-12-13 The Verge
What could be the natural successor of chatbots, if not virtual agents? We have officially entered the ‘agentic’ era of the big tech companies specialising in artificial intelligence systems. Indeed, the buzzword of the industry giants, including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, is agent - a new type of AI assistant, ...
Chatbot 'encouraged teen to kill parents over screen time limit'.
2024-12-12 BBC News
Adolescence is universally recognised as a rather complex time, both for the adolescents themselves, who are grappling with some substantial changes in their personality and mental health, and for the parents involved, who are often struggling with the changes in their offspring. During this period of life, therefore, ...
Taylor & Francis AI Deal Sets ‘Worrying Precedent’ for Academic Publishing.
2024-12-11 Inside Higher Ed
More and more big names in international publishing are approaching artificial intelligence. Renowned powerhouses in the field have recently proposed a fair number of agreements with various companies, as to gain access to various information-rich archives, an extremely valuable resource for the development of AI syste...