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Valve and five game publishers fined millions for geo-blocking Steam games in EU

The Verge

The European Commission says the geo-blocking was to prevent games being activated outside Czechia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Under EU competition law, companies are prohibited from contractually restricting cross-border sales”.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

TechCrunch

The lawsuit alleged that the social network “fuels its business with countless infringing copies of musical ‘compositions, violating Publishers’ and others’ exclusive rights under copyright law.” It added that, unlike its competitors TikTok and Instagram, Twitter hasn’t struck a music licensing deal for the use of copyrighted music.

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

TechCrunch

Italy’s data protection authority has just put out a timely reminder that some countries do have laws that already apply to cutting edge AI: it has ordered OpenAI to stop processing people’s data locally with immediate effect. Europe, South Korea and New Zealand, and soon more will be able to download the app from the app store.

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