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This week, AI is coming for your data, Adult Swim is giving back games, the EU is investigating Meta, and another streaming service is coming. http://f5live.tv Opening Powered by TeknoAXE (http://teknoaxe.com) Nifty Gifties Powered by Microsoft Store (http://f5live.tv/microsoft) AI models are coming for all of your data, personal and business (http://plughitz.live/u/3933) When AI technology first hit the mainstream a couple of years ago, the biggest concern came because of where the data came from. It appeared that the models were being trained on data that the companies behind them didn't have permission to train off of. They were scraping websites, blogs, newspapers, artist portfolios, music libraries, and more to train their data. While that was a violation of copyrights (https://plughitzlive.com/radio/3-2966-generative-ai-the-plagiarism-machine-episode-306.html) in many cases, the next generation of AI is going to find its data in new and even scarier places - your devices. Piltch Point with Avram Piltch Powered by PureVPN (http://piltchpoint.live/purevpn) Extra Life Powered by Eksa (http://f5live.tv/eksa) Adult Swim Games to return discontinued store listings to developers (http://plughitz.live/u/3934) A couple of months ago, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) announced that they would be shuttering 16 of the titles under the Adult Swim Games brand. The announcement meant that those titles would no longer be available to play and the games themselves would be lost to time. Now, the company has announced that they have come to an agreement with the independent developers whose games were on the chopping block to return the IP to their creators. News From the Tubes Powered by Malwarebytes (http://f5live.tv/malwarebytes) Meta under investigation in the EU for DSA violations against minors (http://plughitz.live/u/3935) This week, the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, initiated an investigation into Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. The Commission believes that the company and its social networks have not done enough to prevent harm to minors and to verify that minors are not able to access aspects of the company's offerings that they are prohibited from according to the Digital Services Act (DSA). * DRM Not Included Powered by Amazon Prime (http://f5live.tv/prime) Venu Sports is yet another streaming services aimed at sports fans (http://plughitz.live/u/3936) Bad news everyone! There is yet another streaming service headed your way to steal your money and attention. This service, called Venu Sports, is a partnership between Disney (which owns ABC and ESPN), Fox (which owns Fox Sports), and Warner Bros. Discovery (which owns CBS). Together, Venu Sports hopes to be your one-stop shop for all things sports without a cable subscription, but there are some notable exceptions that might make that a difficult proposition. Closing Powered by Tech Podcast Network (http://www.techpodcasts.com/)

This week, Apple Vision Pro ships less, Garry's Mod cuts Nintendo content, the FCC revives Net Neutrality, and TikTok's time is almost up. http://f5live.tv Opening Powered by TeknoAXE (http://teknoaxe.com) Nifty Gifties Powered by Microsoft Store (http://f5live.tv/microsoft) Apple's XR ambitions may be over as shipments cut for Vision Pro (http://plughitz.live/u/3927) When Apple announced its ambitious Vision Pro headset, reactions were mixed, to say the least. Apple envisioned people using the product similarly to an iPhone, wearing these dystopian isolation headsets all day Potential users, on the other hand, saw them as an occasional toy. Because of that disparity, it appears that Apple had ordered too many devices for the demand, and that is being corrected. Piltch Point with Avram Piltch Powered by PureVPN (http://piltchpoint.live/purevpn) Extra Life Powered by Eksa (http://f5live.tv/eksa) Nintendo-based content being removed from Garry's Mod Steam Workshop (http://plughitz.live/u/3928) Garry's Mod, the popular game design workshop available through Steam, has begun removing content containing anything Nintendo-related. This comes following a takedown notice from Nintendo, as confirmed by the Garry's Mod team. The Steam Workshop contains user-made content spanning 2 decades, making this a long and arduous process. News From the Tubes Powered by Malwarebytes (http://f5live.tv/malwarebytes) Net Neutrality is back, and ISPs seem not to know how to feel about it (http://plughitz.live/u/3929) Over the past 2 decades, the topic of Net Neutrality has come up a number of times. In the early 2000s, the US had a time-limited set of rules, known publicly as Net Neutrality. When those expired, early in the existence of PLUGHITZ Live, a long-running debate was reignited: should the internet be regulated and, if so, by whom? The FTC has claimed power, but that was short-lived. The FCC has claimed power, but that has been struck down twice. Now, the FCC has tried once again to claim authority over the Internet, and the chaos that brings has already begun. * DRM Not Included Powered by Amazon Prime (http://f5live.tv/prime) TikTok timer has been started - nine months to sell or shut down (http://plughitz.live/u/3930) In the past two weeks, the US House of Representatives and the US Senate passed a bill with a timer for TikTok, and President Biden signed it into law. This law sets a timer of 9 months for ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, to sell the social network to a Western company or face an outright ban in the US. If it feels like you're living in a time warp, it's because you sort of are. We've been here before, but this time it looks as if the result will be different. Closing Powered by Tech Podcast Network (http://www.techpodcasts.com/)

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This week, Apple and Epic are at it again, Adult Swim is killing off some games, TikTok's clock is ticking, and NYT says it didn't hack ChatGPT. http://f5live.tv Opening Powered by TeknoAXE (http://teknoaxe.com) Nifty Gifties Powered by Microsoft Store (http://f5live.tv/microsoft) Epic Games and Apple continue fight on same front in the EU and US (http://plughitz.live/u/3918) Apple hates Epic Games - there is no doubt about that. The company has created policies and procedures to target the popular game studio and publisher specifically. In fact, Apple's heavy-handed approach to their platforms and to Epic Games in particular has led states, countries, and even the EU, to look into their practices and craft new laws around them. In the past few weeks, some of the original actions that spurred the whole battle between titans came back up when Apple banned Epic's developer account for a day, but quickly reversed course. Piltch Point with Avram Piltch Powered by PureVPN (http://piltchpoint.live/purevpn) Extra Life Powered by Eksa (http://f5live.tv/eksa) Adult Swim Games to delist 16 titles, causing trouble for developers (http://plughitz.live/u/3919) The reality of the modern gaming industry is one of constant change with ups and downs. Many of those downs come about when a game, which many people poured their hearts and souls into while designing, developing, and playing, is shut down. Everyone in that chain is affected in some way - some more than others. This week, developers and players alike were left disappointed to discover that Adult Swim Games (https://www.adultswim.com/games/), under the leadership of Warner Bros. Discovery, was planning to delist 16 games from marketplaces in the coming weeks. News From the Tubes Powered by Malwarebytes (http://f5live.tv/malwarebytes) TikTok is back on the chopping block as House passes new security law (http://plughitz.live/u/3920) After a few years of silence, the US government once again has its sights set on TikTok and its Chinese-owned parent company ByteDance. Following a security briefing, the US House of Representatives quickly submitted and passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521). This bill, if passed in the Senate and signed by the President, would start a 60-day timer for ByteDance to divest its ownership in TikTok or face an outright ban in the country. * DRM Not Included Powered by Amazon Prime (http://f5live.tv/prime) NYT says it didn't hack ChatGPT, only exposed copyright infringement (http://plughitz.live/u/3921) The lawsuit (https://plughitzlive.com/theupstream/3838-the-new-york-times-carries-the-banner-against-generative-ai-plagiarism.html) between The New York Times and ChatGPT maker OpenAI has heated up in the past few weeks. After NYT cited examples of ChatGPT spitting out exact text from NYT articles. This prompted OpenAI to claim that the publication had "hacked" the system in order to get it to do things it shouldn't do. The publication has responded by claiming that it did nothing wrong, only used publicly available capabilities, and exposed ChatGPT as a system of plagiarism. Closing Powered by Tech Podcast Network (http://www.techpodcasts.com/)