Microsoft Monopolies and Abuses
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Euro monopoly cops to probe Microsoft for slipping Teams into Office
The latest case, which the Financial Times says will go under the spotlight imminently, pertains to Microsoft injecting Teams into its online Office suite in 2017. Rival Slack lodged a complaint with the EU in 2020, griping that the Windows giant was “force installing [Teams] for millions, blocking its removal, and hiding the true cost to enterprise customers.”
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Microsoft granted two-month pause of UK appeal over Activision deal
The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) ruled on Monday that the full hearing of Microsoft's appeal, which was due to begin on July 28, should be adjourned.
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Microsoft 'Logging Tax' Hinders Incident Response, Experts Warn
A recent email compromise by Chinese APT group Storm-0558 highlights a lack of access to security logging by many Microsoft 365 license holders, prompting calls from researchers to abolish it.
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Barts Health NHS Trust faces ransomware threats from Russian organisation BlackCat [Ed: Windows TCO]
According to BlackCat, these documents contain personally identifiable information of both employees and clinicians associated with the Trust, including National Insurance Numbers (referred to as Social Security Numbers by the organisation).
In addition to personal data, the documents are claimed to contain financial information such as client documentation, credit card details, financial reports, accounting and loan data, as well as insurance agreements.
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Generative AI tools are quickly 'running out of text' to train themselves on, UC Berkeley professor warns
Several lawsuits filed against OpenAI in the past few weeks allege the company used datasets containing personal data and copyrighted materials to train ChatGPT. Among the biggest was a 157-page lawsuit filed by 16 unnamed plaintiffs, who claim OpenAI used sensitive data such as private conversations and medical records.
The latest legal challenge, presented by lawyers for comedian Sarah Silverman and two additional authors, accused OpenAI of copyright infringement due to ChatGPT's ability to write up accurate summaries of their work. Two additional authors, Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in late June that makes similar allegations.