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A group of professors specializing in copyright law submitted an Amicus brief in support of authors who allegedly trained the Lama AI model in e-books without permission. The summary, filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the San Francisco Division in the Northern District of California, calls Meta’s fair use defense “a breathtaking request for greater legal privilege than the court has recognized human authors.” “The use of copyrighted works to train generative models is not “transformative.” This is because using works for that purpose is not related to using them to educate human authors. [authors’] “The use of…
A US immigration judge determined that the deportation case against Mahmoud Khalil could progress a month after a graduate student at Columbia University was detained for his involvement in the pro-Palestinian protest. Judge Jamie Commans said at the end of a nearly two-hour hearing in Louisiana’s US state on Friday, the government was “established by clear and convincing evidence that he is removable.” Halil, a permanent resident of the United States, can appeal the decision. “Mahmoud has been subject to the due process charade, a serious violation of his rights to a fair hearing, and weaponisation of immigration law to…
a Doctoral students at Tufts University A person detained by immigration officers from Turkey said she was talking to her mother on her phone shortly after she left Massachusetts when she was surrounded by several men. Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was moved to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention Center in Basil, Louisiana, provided her with an updated account on what happened to her. When she walked along the street In a document filed by an attorney in federal court on Thursday, March 25th. Ozturk is in it Several people with connections to American universities Who is Attendance demonstration or Publicly…
The court hearing on the sale of assets of bankrupt electric truck startup Nicola to Lucid Motors went smoothly on Friday. No objections have been raised to the deal, and Delaware Bankruptcy Judge Thomas Hollan approved it verbally without hesitation. That is, the lawyer piped up the Zoom call and piped up towards the end of the hearing. The lawyer said his client “has some concerns” about how the auction process is carried out. They could be addressed at a later date, he said, but he emphasized that he does not want client silence to be “opposed to us in…
A new shipbuilding startup called Blue Water Autonomy has emerged from Stealth with the promise to develop a naval vessel without a captain. The Boston, Massachusetts-based company has raised $14 million seed rounds from Eclipse, Riot and impatience ventures. The startup was founded in 2024 by Irobot, a former member of the US Navy and a leader of Amazon Robotics. Blue Water Autonomy is on a growing list of startups using their splurge on defence investments. Defense technology funding set new records in 2024, led by Andrill’s $1.5 billion Series F round and Salonick. The startup says it has developed…
Forty men of various nationalities arrive at an Italian naval vessel in the port of northern Shenzin, Albania.Italy sent 40 asylum seekers to Albania awaiting deportation. There, they will be kept in Italian detention centres until they are repatriated to their home countries. The rest of the European Union was closely monitored and was opened in October last year. However, in an attempt to save the costly programs plagued by legal challenges, the Italian government decided in late March to act as a repatriation facility to retain immigrants as they are primarily sent back to their home countries. Italian media…
On Friday, a group of former Openy employees filed an amicus brief proposed to support Elon Musk in his lawsuit against Open Eye, opposed the conversion from nonprofit to for-profit. A brief submitted by Lawrence Less Rig, a Harvard professor and founder of Creative Commons, has appointed 12 former Openai employees: Stephen Adler, Rosemary Campbell, Neil Choudhry, Jacob Hilton, Daniel Cocotairo, Gretchen Kruger, Tudal Markov, Richard NGO, Zilish Suntory, Julish Suntory, and Zilish Suntory. It claims that if Openai’s nonprofit transfers the organization’s business operations, it will “a fundamental violation of its mission.” Some former Staffers have previously opposed open-rai…
April 11, 2025Ravi LakshmananNetwork Security/Vulnerabilities Fortinet revealed that threat actors have found a way to maintain read-only access to vulnerable Fortigate devices even after the initial access vector used to compromise the device was patched. The attacker is believed to have exploited known and currently patched security flaws, including, but not limited to, CVE-2022-42475, CVE-2023-27997, and CVE-2024-21762. “Threat actors are using known vulnerabilities to implement read-only access to vulnerable Fortigate devices,” the network security company said in an advisory released Thursday. “This was achieved by creating a symbolic link connecting the user file system and the root file system in…
Pontiac, Michigan (AP) – Michigan judge who chaired Parent’s First Belief In shootings at US schools, prosecutors strongly suggested on Friday that agreements should be made clear with two important trial witnesses.However, Judge Cheryl Matthews has not yet decided whether Jennifer and James Crumbley should receive a new trial as a result.Matthews heard the argument from James Crumbleley’s appeals lawyer. Similar pitch From his wife’s lawyer. Crumbie was separately convicted of involuntary manslaughter last year in the deaths of four students killed by her son. Oxford High School in 2021.They were accused of negligence and did not predict that Ethan…
The US withdrew climate consultations at London’s International Maritime Agency this week.The United Nations Maritime Agency state has contracted for global fuel emission standards for the maritime sector. This charges an emissions fee on the vessel that will violate it and reward the vessel that burns fuel. The US this week withdrew climate consultations at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London, doing the same to other countries and threatening to impose “mutual measures” on fees charged to US ships. Nevertheless, other countries have approved CO2 cutting measures to meet the IMO targets to reduce net emissions from international transport…