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(1:13) Open
(2:36) cj's week: You’re Not THAT Big or Rush?
(3:51) Jeff's Week: Tucker Carney, Polymath
(5:20) Headline: Fair Use or Foul Play? AI Copyright Ruling Divides Industry
(13:23) Headline: Android 16 Has a New Feature: Detecting Government Spy Tools
(17:20) Headline: Canada Drops Tech Tax to Resume Trade Talks
(18:48) Headline: Beyond Published Posts: Meta Seeks Access to Your Private, Unpublished Photos
(21:57) Headline: Trump Phone's "Made in USA" Claim Disappears
(28:13) Recommendation: Introducing Compu-Brush
A federal judge ruled AI training on legally obtained, copyrighted works is fair use - at least for now - but confirmed that using pirated copies is not. Certainly this is only one small step in the legal battle over AI and copyright, but incredibly interesting nonetheless.
In happier news, soon your Android-powered phone will be able to tell you if you are covertly being spied on by a government-deployed Stingray. Yay!
Sadly, Canada decides not to collect their Big Tech Tax, while Meta decides to go ahead and collect your private, unpublished photos. #notwinning
Oh, and by the way, that T1 phone that proudly claimed “Made in the USA” while we said it surely would not be? Well, turns out what they meant to say was that it won’t be made in the USA, but woud instead have some “American hands behind the device”. So, yay for hands, we think.
Android phones could soon warn you of “Stingrays” snooping on your communications - Ars Technica
Meet CO-TRAVELER: The NSA's Cell Phone Location Tracking Program | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Canada drops Big Tech tax to appease Trump | The Verge
Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos | The Verge
The Trump Phone no longer promises it’s made in America | The Verge
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