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The US state of Alabama has passed a bill to allow patients and clinics to immediately restart in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment without fear of legal repercussions if embryos are damaged or destroyed during the medical procedure. The law will also permit the University of Alabama to restart in-vitro fertilization treatments. The US Supreme Court had recently struck down the state’s in-vitro fertilization law.
Biden would not ban TikTok
After US lawmakers proposed a law to stop TikTok from selling in the country, a White House official said, “Obviously, this is about our national security.” The bill would require TikTok’s parent company ByteDance to sell the app because of national security concerns about its use and store of data or face a ban.
The Empires of Big Tech are being opened up by Europe
Apple has decided to allow third-party browsers to use their own engines in iOS in the EU, one of its responses to the new EU antitrust rules. Apple had blamed the DMA when it decided to drop support for PWAs in the EU. Apple blamed the DMA when it decided to drop support for PWAs in the EU.
A Chinese national was arrested and is accused of stealing trade secrets from the internet company
Google detected a Chinese employee trying to upload more files from the company’s network to his personal account while he was in China, court papers said. The employee claimed that he uploaded them as evidence of his work for Google. The files include software design for v4 and v6 chips, hardware and software specification for GPUs used in Google’s data centres.
The woolly mammoth is closer to being resurrected by scientists
US-based Colossal Biosciences has created elephant induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPSCs, the first such cells for an endangered species. “This is probably the most significant step in the early stages of this project. These cells will benefit the elephant conservation community just as much as being engineered to bring back the woolly mammoth,” Colossal Biosciences Co-founder Eriona Hysolli said.
Artificial Intelligence tools were still generating misleading election images
A report has said that generative AI tools are still generating misleading election-related images despite their policies. The report tested 160 prompts on ChatGPT Plus, Midjourney, Dream Studio and Image Creator and found that Midjourney was the most likely to produce misleading election-related images, at about 65% of the time. It added that Dream Studio prohibits generating misleading content.
TheTesla plant fire in Germany is claimed by the Volcano Group
The militant group ‘Volcano Group’ has claimed responsibility for a fire at Tesla Gigafactory in Germany’s Grnheide. The group claimed it intended to cause the “largest possible blackout of the Gigafactory” citing environmental and labour concerns. It had earlier claimed responsibility for another arson attack in 2021 during the construction of the Tesla Gigafactory.
The EU is introducing new competition rules that tech giants are responding to
Apple has said it’ll not appeal the European Union’s (EU) new competition rules that come into effect from today. The rules are aimed to force tech companies to make their products and services “consumer-focussed”, which Apple claimed would lead to less choice for users. Earlier, Apple had said it will no longer supportPWAs in iOS17.4 due to EU’s rules.
Apple might allow the pricing options outside of its app to be shown in the EU
Spotify is planning to change Apple’s anti-steering rules which would allow it to provide users with pricing information within the app and link users to subscription options. Earlier, the European Commission imposed a $2 billion fine on Apple for abuse of its dominant position in the music streaming app distribution business. This comes after US courts ruled Apple must allow developers to link out to other payment methods.
There is a decrease in the amount of false positives in search results
Google has been working on ways to fix low-quality content, including AI-generated spam, since 2022. “It takes time…to develop these changes effectively,” a Google official said. “Content at scale: the websites that create thousands of low-quality articles…target that content at search results,” the official added. “Site reputation abuse: sites that rent out part of their website for nonsense,” he further said.