Lawsuits and Shutdowns Abound | Episode 663 | F5 Live: Refreshing Technology

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.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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