Windows giant disagrees and plans to appeal Microsoft's attempt to claim that its software can't be resold has hit a wall at the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal, which decided that Office having clipart does not mean customers can't sell their licenses on.…

Alphabet Inc.’s Google was ordered to pay €573 million ($666 million) in damages to two German price-comparison websites in the wake of a European Union antitrust crackdown on the search-engine giant’...

FTC decisions should be “made by experts, not pure partisans.”

Long before automatic updates, the Windows 95 team tweaked third-party software to keep it running How to get that all-important piece of software working on Windows has vexed Microsoft since the beginning of the operating system. Compatibility was king.…

The Department of Homeland Security collected data on Chicago residents accused of gang ties to test if police files could feed an FBI watchlist. Months passed before anyone noticed it wasn’t deleted.

Un email, c’est une carte postale La métaphore n’est pas nouvelle, mais elle n’en reste pas moins toujours vraie. Mais savez-vous vraiment comment circulent les emails et qui peut y accéder ? Next vous explique leur fonctionnement et comment vérifier qui y a potentiellement accès. En marge de notre dossier sur le fonctionnement en profondeur […]

The gpt-oss models are being tested for use on sensitive military computers. But some defense insiders say that OpenAI is still behind the competition.

Draft Horizon Europe plan cites lack of IP protections and Beijing's civil-military fusion strategy The European Commission is preparing to block Chinese institutions from significant portions of its €95.5 billion ($110 billion) Horizon Europe research program, citing intellectual property risks and links between Chinese universities and Beijing's military.…

Jean-Baptiste Kempf lauded for keeping the media player free of crapware If you don't know what app will open a random media file (or URL), VLC is the answer. It runs on everything, plays anything, and it's free – thanks to Jean-Baptiste Kempf.…

The EU Commission has secretly set in motion a potentially massive reform of the GDPR. noybs first overview of the proposed changes.

The nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation is making thousands of historic songs accessible to the public for free through a new partnership with the University of California, Santa Barbara. The songs represent "some of the rarest and most uniquely American music borne from the Jazz Age and the Great...

Un brouillon de la loi « omnibus numérique » qui doit être présentée en décembre prochain révèle que Bruxelles veut modifier en profondeur le RGPD pour aider l’industrie de l’IA à se développer en Europe. Le texte prévoit aussi d’alléger la gestion des bannières de cookies et d’imposer un mécanisme à la « do not […]

American inspections of foreign food facilities hit historic lows this year.

The much-awaited decision in the lawsuit between stock photography giant Getty Images and AI developer Stability AI has now been released, see: Getty Images v Stability AI EWHC 2863 (Ch). I've discussed this case before, but these are the facts as presented by Smith J in her introduction: Getty Images, an image company that licenses high-quality photographs, videos, illustrations and related metadata through various platforms.

Amendments to the EU's AI Act to be proposed on Nov. 19 look to include easing compliance burdens and centralizing enforcement through the European Commission's AI Office. An early draft, obtained by ...

Neighbors complained about noise, security guards, and hordes of traffic. An unlicensed school named after the Zuckerbergs’ pet chicken tipped them over the edge.