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Meta’s ‘Pay or Consent’ Approach Faces E.U. Competition Rules Scrutiny

Meta’s ‘Pay or Consent’ Approach Faces E.U. Competition Rules Scrutiny

Meta’s decision to offer an ad-free subscription in the European Union (E.U.) has faced a new setback after regulators accused the social media behemoth of breaching the bloc’s competition rules by forcing users to choose between seeing ads or paying to avoid them. The European Commission said the company’s “pay or consent” advertising model is

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Google to Block Entrust Certificates in Chrome Starting November 2024

Google to Block Entrust Certificates in Chrome Starting November 2024

Google has announced that it’s going to start blocking websites that use certificates from Entrust starting around November 1, 2024, in its Chrome browser, citing compliance failures and the certificate authority’s inability to address security issues in a timely manner. “Over the past several years, publicly disclosed incident reports highlighted a pattern of concerning behaviors by Entrust that fall

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Apple Launches Private Cloud Compute for Privacy-Centric AI Processing

Apple Launches Private Cloud Compute for Privacy-Centric AI Processing

Apple has announced the launch of a “groundbreaking cloud intelligence system” called Private Cloud Compute (PCC) that’s designed for processing artificial intelligence (AI) tasks in a privacy-preserving manner in the cloud. The tech giant described PCC as the “most advanced security architecture ever deployed for cloud AI compute at scale.” PCC coincides with the arrival of new

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AI Company Hugging Face Detects Unauthorized Access to Its Spaces Platform

AI Company Hugging Face Detects Unauthorized Access to Its Spaces Platform

Artificial Intelligence (AI) company Hugging Face on Friday disclosed that it detected unauthorized access to its Spaces platform earlier this week. “We have suspicions that a subset of Spaces’ secrets could have been accessed without authorization,” it said in an advisory. Spaces offers a way for users to create, host, and share AI and machine learning (ML) applications. It also

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