In Canada, your IP deal with has the appropriate to stay silent. Elon Musk is suing OpenAI for not being Open. Apple faces a category motion not permitting aggressive entry to backup companies and the World Server Throwing Competitors in March 2024 is accused of being too violent in direction of servers.
All this and extra on the “no servers had been harmed within the making of this podcast ” version of Hashtag Trending. I’m your host, Jim Love, CIO of IT World Canada and TechNewsDay within the US.
The Supreme Court docket of Canada has dominated that Canadian police should receive a search warrant to entry a person’s IP deal with. This resolution, handed with a 5-4 majority, underscores that an IP deal with, which serves as a essential hyperlink between an web person and their on-line exercise, carries an inexpensive expectation of privateness beneath part 8 of the Constitution, which protects towards unreasonable search and seizure.
The ruling got here from a 2017 case the place Calgary police, investigating fraudulent on-line purchases, demanded a bank card processor handy over IP addresses related to sure transactions. This led to the arrest and conviction of a person for 14 offenses after additional acquiring subscriber info and search warrants. Nonetheless, the Supreme Court docket has now clarified that getting IP addresses with out judicial authorization constitutes an illegal search.
This resolution builds on a 2014 Supreme Court docket ruling that web suppliers can’t flip over subscriber info to police with out a search warrant. The court docket’s majority emphasised that the personal nature of the knowledge doubtlessly revealed by an IP deal with warrants safety over governmental legislation enforcement pursuits. They highlighted how the web has remodeled privateness dynamics, concentrating huge quantities of private knowledge with third events and enhancing the state’s informational capability.
The ruling has sparked considerations amongst legislation enforcement, notably in web baby exploitation items, concerning the potential for slowing down investigations. RCMP Sgt. Kerry Shima expressed worries that the choice might hinder the power to behave swiftly in circumstances, doubtlessly placing kids in danger and providing offenders better alternatives to evade detection.
Our U.S. listeners might have a particular notice that in Canada, there isn’t any distinction made within the press about which authorities regime appointed which choose so all we actually know is that it was a 5-4 resolution.
Sources embody: ITWorld Canada
Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit towards OpenAI, an organization he co-founded, and its CEO Sam Altman. Musk accuses OpenAI of shifting its focus in direction of revenue fairly than humanity’s profit.
Musk’s competition facilities round OpenAI’s partnership with Microsoft, which he claims contradicts the group’s unique mission by making it a “closed-source de facto subsidiary” of Microsoft.
Microsoft, beneath CEO Satya Nadella, has considerably invested in OpenAI and solely licenses the expertise behind GPT-4, OpenAI’s superior AI mannequin.
The lawsuit is posted on numerous websites, we’ll put a hyperlink within the notes. However whereas it’s provocative, it’s greater than a little bit complicated. Musk notes in his lawsuit that Microsoft’s funding doesn’t entitle it to any “possession” in Automated Common Intelligence. Apparently, the swimsuit additionally reveals that the board of OpenAI has the only proper to declare when AGI has been achieved.
Musk presumably is complaining as a result of he thinks that OpenAI has already achieved AGI in some kind and isn’t sharing it with the world.
But when OpenAI was an open supply firm, everybody would have entry together with Microsoft.
The lawsuit has sparked reactions amongst Silicon Valley’s elite, with enterprise capitalist and OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla and others exchanging criticisms on social media platforms.
However this isn’t the one feud that Musk has going. He’s supposedly planning to create a Gmail competitor in response to Google’s AI biases and a problem to humanoid robotic startup Determine, backed by Jeff Bezos and others, as Musk develops his personal robotic at Tesla.
To anybody who has adopted the intensive political lawsuits within the U.S. not too long ago, Musk’s authorized battle might expose a wealth of details about Musk, OpenAI, and much more corporations and folks, doubtlessly affecting reputations and the operations of AI corporations.
And as tantalizing because it is likely to be to get some grime on Musk, Google’s Larry Web page, Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Mark Zuckerberg and others, it actually underscores the truth that a handful of billionaires and their whims and feuds management what is likely to be the best scientific breakthrough for the reason that invention of the digital laptop or if you happen to even partially consider the concept AI might presumably, within the flawed arms, result in the extinction of humanity, it’s a must to ask your self if these guys are the “proper arms” to carry the way forward for humanity.
Sources embody: Axios and The Verge has the textual content of the swimsuit
Apple is dealing with a newly proposed class motion lawsuit that accuses the corporate of unfairly monopolizing the cloud storage marketplace for its units by limiting gadget backups and different storage wants solely to its iCloud service. The lawsuit, reported first by Bloomberg Legislation, alleges that Apple has “marked up its iCloud costs to the purpose the place the service is producing virtually pure revenue,” by rigging the aggressive enjoying discipline.
The core of the criticism (pun not meant) is that Apple supplies solely 5GB of free iCloud storage, a restrict that has remained unchanged since its introduction by Steve Jobs introduced it in 2011. The plaintiffs argue that this quantity of storage is inadequate for many customers’ wants, compelling them to buy extra iCloud storage plans.
The lawsuit focuses on the truth that iPhone customers don’t have any different however to make use of iCloud for full gadget backups. Whereas customers can select different cloud-based storage suppliers, the lawsuit claims that Apple’s restrictions forestall rival platforms from providing a complete cloud resolution that may successfully compete with iCloud.
By making iCloud the one possibility for backing up Restricted Information and limiting the free storage to 5GB, Apple successfully forces gadget homeowners to make use of iCloud and pay for added storage, the lawsuit alleges. It argues that there isn’t any technological or safety justification for this requirement, suggesting that Apple imposes it solely to restrict competitors and favour its iCloud service.
The lead plaintiff within the case is represented by Hagens Berman legislation agency, recognized for dealing with numerous class motion lawsuits towards Apple, together with the notable $560 million Apple Books price-fixing lawsuit.
People who’ve bought iCloud storage and are thinking about doubtlessly becoming a member of the lawsuit are inspired to take action through a kind on the Hagens Berman web site.
Sources embody: 9to5 Mac
The 2024 World Server Throwing Championship is ready to happen on the annual CloudFest convention on March nineteenth.
This distinctive competitors, which started in Holland a few decade in the past, has been described as an “intense underground sport” criticized for being “needlessly brutal to servers.”
Rising from its data-center basement origins, the WSTC as it’s referred to as is now stepping onto the world stage, inviting athletes to showcase their power and talent in server throwing.
The occasion will probably be held outside in entrance of a stay viewers, welcoming as much as 40 server-throwing athletes from all genders and skill ranges. Contributors will probably be given two makes an attempt to throw a server so far as attainable, with the highest three performers successful prizes. Whereas the game’s nature is inherently brutal, security measures equivalent to sporting gloves are advisable on account of some servers having very sharp edges.
The Dutch have established a powerful presence within the sport, with the winner of a nationwide championship occasion in 2022 managing to throw a server weighing over 10kg (22 kilos) a distance of 12.23 meters (over 40 ft).
CloudFest 2024 will probably be held in Rust, Germany. (I don’t make these items up)
The occasion is described as important for anybody working within the cloud business, that includes keynotes, panel discussions, masterclasses, networking occasions, and extra. Solely paying attendees may have the chance to take part within the server-throwing competitors, with tickets beginning at 499 euros.
A shout out to Tom’s {Hardware} that did the groundbreaking journalism on this story.
Sources embody: Tom’s {Hardware}
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