Apple faces a fine of about 500 million euros in early March. EU policymakers would like to punish Apple for allegedly anticompetitive behaviour in offering music services. The antitrust notice was filed by Spotify in 2019, alleging that iPhone users are not getting informed about alternative st... Read more
2 months ago
The EU is trying to make the online environment safer with a package of new measures. This concerns the DMA and the DSA. The rules are completely different, we explain the details. The Digital Services Act package already passed the European Parliament in 2022. This package, in turn, came from a... Read more
2 months ago
Nokia is introducing a suite of generative AI tools named MX Workmate. In this way, it aims to support employees in industrial (OT) environments in real-time, especially with troubleshooting and repairing machinery problems. With the introduction of its suite of generative AI tools, MX Workmate,... Read more
2 months ago
The European Commission has excluded iMessage, Bing, Edge and Microsoft Advertising from the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The rules will, however, continue to apply to Apple and Microsoft's previously designated services. Among the products subject to the DMA, iMessage, Bing, Edge and Microsoft A... Read more
2 months ago
Meta and ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, discovered a gap in the fee imposed by the EU Big Tech for the DSA. X, Amazon and Snapchat would contribute virtually nothing as a result, even though they are part of wat the EU sees as Big Tech. Meta and ByteDance will challenge the supervisory f... Read more
2 months ago
44 per cent of the customers feel most comfortable sharing personal information with banking companies. With that, the sector enjoys the most trust in our country. This is according to a survey by Thales among more than 12,000 customers. Other trusted institutions are active in healthcare (41%) ... Read more
2 months ago
The Microsoft Edge browser appears to be importing data from the Chrome browser without permission from end users. The data includes opened tabs in the Chrome browser, as well as other information. Microsoft makes no secret of its desire to let Windows users use its own Microsoft Edge browser. T... Read more
3 months ago
ChatGPT inadvertently stored conversations of other users in the conversation history of another user. This poses a security problem for other users, as passwords, among other things, were leaked. The leak was disclosed to the editors of Ars Technica. Update 31-01 (Erik van Klinken): It is now k... Read more
3 months ago
Italy's privacy watchdog sees the tool ChatGPT as in violation of the privacy law. The regulator came to this conclusion after an investigation into the AI tool. Italy's privacy commission opened an investigation into ChatGPT and imposed a ban on the AI tool after indications that the tool viol... Read more
3 months ago
The tool Nightshade twists artwork in a way that is invisible to humans but "poisons" the data for AI systems. The project taps into the debate surrounding AI and copyright and empowers artists with a tool that exploits the weaknesses of AI systems, eventually bringing the developers behind these t... Read more
3 months ago
