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White House fires Copyright Office leaders as controversial AI report surfaces
Over the weekend, President Donald Trump fired the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter, less than a day after the office rushed out a sure-to-be-controversial report on artificial intelligence. The report found that AI companies training their models on copyrighted materials may not be protected by the fair use legal…
Little fires everywhere for March Patch Tuesday
Microsoft on Tuesday released 57 patches affecting 10 product families. Six of the addressed issues are considered by Microsoft to be of Critical severity, and nine have a CVSS base score of 8.0 or higher. Six, all affecting Windows, are under active exploit in the wild. One issue has been publicly disclosed but not yet…
Los Angeles fires: How to help from afar
Finding ways to help from afar in the wake of natural disasters, like the Los Angeles fires, isn’t always straightforward. Despite the best of intentions, people can sometimes do more harm than good by overwhelming local organizations with unneeded donations or inadvertently detract from relief efforts by making uninformed decisions about how to best donate…