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Legal power is not enough for a judge for whom the stronger tool is their desire to understand human life and people's problems, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said on Wednesday at an event organised by the Supreme Court Bar Association.

Facebook parent company Meta Platforms on Tuesday released an AI model capable of translating and transcribing speech in dozens of languages, a potential building-block for tools enabling real-time communication across language divides. The company said in a blog post that its SeamlessM4T model could support translations between text and speech in ...

The lawyer said that he "greatly regrets" using ChatGPT and added that he had never used it for legal research before. He opined that he was "unaware that its content could be false".

YouTube's case in the US Supreme Court, that is set to be decided in the coming months, could also influence the debate over whether firms developing AI chatbots should be protected from legal claims like defamation or privacy violations. The US Supreme Court is set to decide in June whether YouTube can be sued over its recommendations to users, an...

Disco Elysium’s PC version just got a Collage Mode. This diorama tool lets you drag and drop characters, and add backgrounds, stickers, frames, filters, and more to create custom scenes. The free update weighs about 300MB and can be accessed from the main menu. Additionally, former Disco Elysium creatives Robert Kurvitz and Sander Taal have dispu...

The US panel will hold a vote on TikTok ban bill next month. The measure would aim to give the White House the legal tools to ban TikTok over US national security concerns. A ban on TikTok, owned by ByteDance and is popular among teens, would face significant hurdles in Congress to pass, and would need 60 votes in the Senate.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Tuesday said artificial intelligence (AI) would need legal regulation and social norms that will need to be worked out, as it would create powerful tools. He also said that engineering standards bodies would need to establish standards for building safe AI systems, similar to how medical bodies set rules for the safe prac...

US Senators and civil rights lawyers are pushing for a law that would limit the ability of law enforcement in the US to purchase and use tools to track users using their cellphones, sometimes without a search warrant. Earlier this month, it was reported that US police departments were using a tool called "Fog Reveal" search hundreds of billions of ...

A software glitch in a Saudi women’s rights activist’s iPhone turned the tide against NSO Group, one of the world’s most sophisticated spyware companies, which is now facing a cascade of legal action and scrutiny in Washington over allegations that its software was used to hack government officials and dissidents around the world.

China passed a new legislation that bans "defamation" of military personnel, adding an array of legal tools to its 2018 law under which a popular Chinese blogger was punished recently for "defaming" PLA soldiers.

The new law is China's latest and most wide-ranging legal tool to retaliate against foreign sanctions and is intended to give Chinese retaliatory measures more legitimacy and predictability, according to local experts.

Microsoft, Google, Dell, and Cisco have joined Facebook in a legal battle against hacking company NSO. The tech giants have filed an amicus brief in a US federal court saying that the Israeli firm's tools were "powerful and dangerous”.

GitHub has brought back YouTube-DL, a popular YouTube downloading tool, that was removed from the platform over copyright violation last month. GitHub in a blogpost has said that all future take-down requests will be scrutinised by its technical and legal experts.

GitHub, a Microsoft-owned code hosting platform, has removed the source code of a popular YouTube tool citing a request from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Now a new investigative tool being launched by British authorities could serve as a powerful deterrent. But it is fraught, forcing wealthy individuals to demonstrate that they bought property with lawfully earned funds - a departure from legal precedent that required the state to prove the use of illicit money.

Legal power is not enough for a judge for whom the stronger tool is their desire to understand human life and people's problems, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said on Wednesday at an event organised by the Supreme Court Bar Association.

Facebook parent company Meta Platforms on Tuesday released an AI model capable of translating and transcribing speech in dozens of languages, a potential building-block for tools enabling real-time communication across language divides. The company said in a blog post that its SeamlessM4T model could support translations between text and speech in ...

The lawyer said that he "greatly regrets" using ChatGPT and added that he had never used it for legal research before. He opined that he was "unaware that its content could be false".

YouTube's case in the US Supreme Court, that is set to be decided in the coming months, could also influence the debate over whether firms developing AI chatbots should be protected from legal claims like defamation or privacy violations. The US Supreme Court is set to decide in June whether YouTube can be sued over its recommendations to users, an...

Disco Elysium’s PC version just got a Collage Mode. This diorama tool lets you drag and drop characters, and add backgrounds, stickers, frames, filters, and more to create custom scenes. The free update weighs about 300MB and can be accessed from the main menu. Additionally, former Disco Elysium creatives Robert Kurvitz and Sander Taal have dispu...

The US panel will hold a vote on TikTok ban bill next month. The measure would aim to give the White House the legal tools to ban TikTok over US national security concerns. A ban on TikTok, owned by ByteDance and is popular among teens, would face significant hurdles in Congress to pass, and would need 60 votes in the Senate.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Tuesday said artificial intelligence (AI) would need legal regulation and social norms that will need to be worked out, as it would create powerful tools. He also said that engineering standards bodies would need to establish standards for building safe AI systems, similar to how medical bodies set rules for the safe prac...

US Senators and civil rights lawyers are pushing for a law that would limit the ability of law enforcement in the US to purchase and use tools to track users using their cellphones, sometimes without a search warrant. Earlier this month, it was reported that US police departments were using a tool called "Fog Reveal" search hundreds of billions of ...

A software glitch in a Saudi women’s rights activist’s iPhone turned the tide against NSO Group, one of the world’s most sophisticated spyware companies, which is now facing a cascade of legal action and scrutiny in Washington over allegations that its software was used to hack government officials and dissidents around the world.

China passed a new legislation that bans "defamation" of military personnel, adding an array of legal tools to its 2018 law under which a popular Chinese blogger was punished recently for "defaming" PLA soldiers.

The new law is China's latest and most wide-ranging legal tool to retaliate against foreign sanctions and is intended to give Chinese retaliatory measures more legitimacy and predictability, according to local experts.

Microsoft, Google, Dell, and Cisco have joined Facebook in a legal battle against hacking company NSO. The tech giants have filed an amicus brief in a US federal court saying that the Israeli firm's tools were "powerful and dangerous”.

GitHub has brought back YouTube-DL, a popular YouTube downloading tool, that was removed from the platform over copyright violation last month. GitHub in a blogpost has said that all future take-down requests will be scrutinised by its technical and legal experts.

GitHub, a Microsoft-owned code hosting platform, has removed the source code of a popular YouTube tool citing a request from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Now a new investigative tool being launched by British authorities could serve as a powerful deterrent. But it is fraught, forcing wealthy individuals to demonstrate that they bought property with lawfully earned funds - a departure from legal precedent that required the state to prove the use of illicit money.