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Welcome to the Generative AI Report round-up feature here on insideBIGDATA with a special focus on all the new applications and integrations tied to generative AI technologies. We’ve been receiving so many cool news items relating to applications and deployments centered on large language models (LLMs), we thought it would be a timely service for readers to start a new channel along these lines. The combination of a LLM, fine tuned on proprietary data equals an AI application, and this is what these inno
HannStar Display, a Taiwanese maker of liquid crystal displays (LCDs), has agreed to plead guilty and pay a US$30 million fine for participating in a global conspiracy to fix prices of the displays, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
The Stockholm District Court should decide that two of The Pirate Bay's founders have to pay a fine since the file-sharing site is still open and they are still involved, according to a recent filing from the music industry.
Microsoft was once again back in court on Tuesday to appeal against a €899 million fine imposed by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in 2008 after a decade of legal battles.
The European Ombudsman accused the European Commission on Thursday of "maladministration" during its antitrust investigation of Intel, which resulted in a hefty fine earlier this year, as well as an order to desist from its anti-competitive practices.
In another big victory for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) a federal jury has fined Boston University student Joel Tenenbaum $675,000 for illegally downloading and distributing 30 copyrighted songs.
A pre-trial decision by the judge in an RIAA anti-piracy case in Boston could allow the defendant, Joel Tenenbaum, to get hit with a hefty fine if he's convicted of copyright infringement.
The massive $1.9 million fine imposed by a federal jury in the retrial of a Minnesota woman accused of pirating 24 songs could hurt the RIAA's anti-piracy campaign more than anything else, a leading copyright lawyer said.
Japanese electronics maker Epson Imaging Devices has agreed to plead guilty and pay a US$26 million fine for the company's role in a conspiracy to fix prices of thin film transistor-liquid crystal display panels sold to Motorola, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
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Microsoft continues to tinker with Windows 8 even as it finalizes its beta version, acting on suggestions it received from users who have experimented with the Windows 8 Developer Preview.
The French National Assembly voted Tuesday to adopt, by 258 votes to 131, the so-called "three strikes" law criminalizing file-sharing. Those caught infringing copyright online could face the suspension of their Internet access, a fine or even prison.
Apple's laptops have had some interesting encounters at airport security checkpoints. The wafer-thin design of the MacBook Air befuddled one security officer earlier this year in the U.S., who asked to give some "special attention" to the "fine piece of machinery," according to Bob, who blogs for the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA). After inspection, the laptop was returned to the owner.
The General Court of the European Union has rejected Microsoft's appeal of a 2008 European Commission antitrust ruling, but has reduced the fine Microsoft must pay from €899 million (US$1.1 billion) to €860 million.
A jury in San Francisco on Tuesday decided to fine Toshiba US$87 million for colluding with other vendors to keep LCD prices artificially high, but the Tokyo-based company doesn't expect to have to pay anything.
A former U.S. Department of State employee has been sentenced to a year of probation and ordered to pay a US$5,000 fine for snooping on more than 50 electronic passport application files, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
The woman ordered to pay $1.92 million in fines for illegally distributing 24 copyrighted songs said she will appeal, and called the June 18 jury verdict "excessive, shocking and monstrous."
Intel this week presented an array of arguments to the E.U. General Court against a massive $1.33 billion fine imposed by Europe's antitrust regulators.