Microsoft Vows to Store European Users' Data in Europe

Microsoft said data stored by its European cloud customers would stay in Europe, under European Law, with operations controlled by its local personnel, and under full control of customers. European companies and governments have been increasingly worrying about their data being moved outside the continent into the hands of other countries such as the U.S., pushing the American companies such as Microsoft to announce safeguards.

Washington Post Resets Accounts After Cyber Attack on Journalists

The Washington Post is investigating a cyber attack on the email accounts of some journalists, prompting the newspaper to beef up its online security. The company carried out a forced reset of login credentials for all staff, according to a memo sent by Executive Editor Matt Murray to affected employees, which said the attack affected a limited number of email accounts of journalists and a forensic team had been brought in to investigate.

Brazil's Supreme Court Holds Platforms Responsible for Third-Party Content

Brazil's Supreme Court formed a majority to hold social media companies accountable for some types of content published by users on their platforms in the country. Six of the 11 judges from the Supreme Court voted to hold platforms responsible for third-party content seen as illegal, in a decision that could facilitate potential fines against social media companies for not removing some users' posts in the country.

Disney, Universal Sue Midjourney for Copyright Infringement

Disney and Universal sued a prominent artificial intelligence start-up for copyright infringement, bringing Hollywood belatedly into the increasingly intense battle over generative A.I. The movie companies sued Midjourney, an A.I. image generator that has tens of millions of registered users, contending that Midjourney “helped itself to countless” copyrighted works to train its software, which allows people to create images (and soon videos) that “blatantly incorporate and copy Disney’s and Universal’s famous characters.”

OpenAI Fights Court Order Requiring Preservation of ChatGPT Logs

OpenAI is now fighting a court order to preserve all ChatGPT user logs — including deleted chats and sensitive chats logged through its API business offering — after news organizations suing over copyright claims accused the AI company of destroying evidence. "Before OpenAI had an opportunity to respond to those unfounded accusations, the court ordered OpenAI to 'preserve and segregate all output log data that would otherwise be deleted on a going forward basis until further order of the Court (in essence, the output log data that OpenAI has been destroying)," OpenAI explained in a court filing demanding oral arguments in a bid to block the controversial order.

Judge Refuses to Pause Order Opening Apple App Store to Competition

Apple has failed to persuade a U.S. appeals court to pause key parts of a federal judge's order requiring the iPhone maker to immediately open its lucrative App Store to more competition. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Apple's request to put the provisions on hold as the tech giant appeals the judge's order, which came in a long-running antitrust lawsuit brought by “Fortnite” maker Epic Games.

Reddit Sues Anthropic for Using Data Without Licensing Agreement

Reddit is suing AI startup Anthropic for using the online discussion site’s data without a licensing agreement, a new front in the battle over how artificial-intelligence companies train their models. Reddit said the AI company unlawfully used Reddit’s data for commercial purposes without paying for it and without abiding by the company’s user data policy, according to the complaint, which was filed in California.

Departures at Cybersecurity Agency Raise Concerns About Threats

Roughly 1,000 people have already left the nation's top cybersecurity agency during the second Trump administration, a former government official tells Axios — cutting the agency's total workforce by nearly a third. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is also facing a potential 17% budget cut under the president's proposed budget — raising fears that power grids, water utilities, and election systems could be left without a well-equipped federal partner as cyber threats mount.

Bipartisan State Lawmakers Asks Congress to Ban Local AI Regulations

As the Senate takes up President Donald Trump’s massive tax and immigration bill, state lawmakers from both parties are calling on Congress to remove a provision that would place a 10-year moratorium on state-level AI regulations. The letter bears the signatures of 260 lawmakers — half of them Republicans, almost half Democrats and one independent — from all 50 states.

Alphabet Agrees to Spend $500 Million to Settle Antitrust Suit

Alphabet Inc. has agreed to spend $500 million to improve its global regulatory compliance structure as a proposed resolution to a shareholder suit stemming from U.S. antitrust allegations, according to a federal court filing. The “comprehensive” reforms at Google LLC and its parent company won’t be limited to the antitrust arena and could “set a benchmark for other major American corporations,” shareholders who sued company leaders said.

Pornhub Owner Plans to Stop Adult Content in France, Protesting Law

The owner of Pornhub, Redtube and YouPorn plans to stop serving adult content to French users as soon as Wednesday afternoon, in protest of government measures forcing it to verify the age of its visitors. Aylo Freesites' platforms will display a message that will explain its decision to its French audience, including that it doesn't want to jeopardize the privacy of its users, company officials told reporters.

U.S. Sanctions Funnull, Says Company Linked to Crypto Scams

The U.S. government imposed sanctions on Funnull, a company accused of providing infrastructure for cybercriminals running “pig butchering” crypto scams that have led to $200 million in losses for American victims. The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control announced the sanctions, saying Funnull is “linked to the majority of virtual currency investment scam websites reported to the FBI.”

New York Times to License Content to Amazon for AI Platforms

The New York Times Company has agreed to license its editorial content to Amazon for use in the tech giant’s artificial intelligence platforms, the company said. In 2023, The Times sued OpenAI and its partner, Microsoft, for copyright infringement, accusing the tech companies of using millions of articles published by The Times to train automated chatbots without any kind of compensation.

European Commission Investigating Porn Sites for Child Safety Violations

The European Commission is investigating whether pornographic websites Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos are breaking strict new tech rules designed to protect children from harmful online content. The executive arm of the European Union said that those sites may be violating the Digital Services Act — the bloc’s rulebook that compels large online platforms to do more to protect users from harmful illegal content.

British Retailer Says Cyberattack Will Cost It $400 Million

Marks & Spencer, one of Britain’s largest retailers, said that disruption from a “highly sophisticated” cyberattack that crippled operations over the last month was expected to linger until July and would cost the company about 300 million pounds ($400 million) in lost profits this year. The breach, which emerged over the Easter weekend, has been costing the company millions of pounds a day after it had to pause online orders, staff had to resort to manual processes and food waste piled up.

Judge Rejects AI Company's Argument for First Amendment Protection

A federal judge in Orlando rejected an AI start-up’s argument that its chatbot’s output was protected by the First Amendment, allowing a lawsuit over the death of a Florida teen who became obsessed with the chatbot to proceed. Sewell Setzer III, who was 14, died by suicide in February 2024 at his Orlando home, moments after an artificial intelligence chatbot encouraged him to “come home to me as soon as possible.”

DOJ Charges 16 People Linked to 'DanaBot' Infections of 300,000 Machines

The U.S. Department of Justice announced criminal charges against 16 individuals law enforcement authorities have linked to a malware operation known as DanaBot, which according to a complaint infected at least 300,000 machines around the world. Aside from alleging how DanaBot was used in for-profit criminal hacking, the indictment also makes a rarer claim—it describes how a second variant of the malware it says was used in espionage against military, government, and NGO targets.

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