The FaZe Clan is teetering with drama once again, and this time the damage could last longer. Decrypt notes that FaZe has fined four players for allegedly participating in a pump-and-dump scheme with the Save the Kids cryptocurrency project. The eSports team has suspended Jarvis (pictured), Nikan and Teeqo and permanently removed Kay from the … Read more
Apple’s copyright protection technology will cost the company dearly. According to Bloomberg, a Marshall, Texas court ordered Apple to pay $ 308.5 million to Personalized Media Communications for allegedly violating a digital rights management (DRM) patent. PMC claimed in 2015 that the FairPlay technology used in the App Store, Apple Music and iTunes infringed seven … Read more
As clear as the potential for profound abuse may be, new, unfamiliar examples keep popping up. The Philadelpha Inquirer and Harrisburg’s Patriot News report that police arrested Raffaela Spone of Chalfont, Pennsylvania for allegedly using deepfakes to cast rivals from her daughter’s cheerleading team, the Victory Vipers. Law enforcement officials said Spone sent trainers AI-modified … Read more
iCloud has had service issues on occasion, but the latest issue seems very … specific. Actress and writer Rachel True claims iCloud effectively banned her from her account because of the way her last name was spelled. According to reports, your Mac considered lowercase letters to be “true” for a Boolean (true or false) flag … Read more