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Image-scraping Midjourney bans rival AI firm for scraping images
Enlarge / A burglar with a flashlight and papers in a business office—exactly like scraping files from Discord. On Wednesday, Midjourney banned all employees from image synthesis rival Stability AI from its service indefinitely after it detected “botnet-like” activity suspected to be a Stability employee attempting to scrape prompt and image pairs in bulk. Midjourney …
India bans wheat exports due to food security threat; heat wave
NEW DELHI — India has banned exports of wheat effective immediately, citing a risk to its food security, partly due to the war in Ukraine. A notice in the government gazette by the Directorate of Foreign Trade, dated Friday, said a spike in global prices for wheat was threatening the food security of India and …
India bans exports of wheat, citing threat to food security
Placeholder while article actions load NEW DELHI — India has banned exports of wheat effective immediately, citing a risk to its food security, partly due to the war in Ukraine. A notice in the government gazette by the Directorate of Foreign Trade, dated Friday, said a spike in global prices for wheat was threatening the …
Canada bans foreign home buyers for two years to cool housing market
Home buying in a hot housing market: How one family did it Mandy and Jordan Picchiottino looked for 9 months to find a home in the Atlanta suburbs. Here’s how they outcompeted others to land their dream home. Andrea Kramar, USA TODAY OTTAWA, Ontario – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government announced Thursday it will ban …
China bans financial, payment institutions from cryptocurrency business
China has banned financial institutions and payment companies from providing services related to cryptocurrency transactions, and warned investors against speculative crypto trading. It was China’s latest attempt to clamp down on what was a burgeoning digital trading market. Under the ban, such institutions, including banks and online payments channels, must not offer clients any service …
Virginia Law Bans Local Police Use of Facial Recognition Technology | Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider
The state of Virginia recently enacted a law banning local law enforcement and campus police departments from using facial recognition technology. Facial recognition technology is defined as an “electronic system for enrolling, capturing, extracting, comparing, and matching an individual’s geometric facial data to identify individuals in photos, videos, or real time.” The law states that …
Bitcoin tumbles after Turkey bans crypto payments citing risks
Bitcoin tumbled more than 4% on Friday after Turkey’s central bank banned the use of cryptocurrencies and crypto assets for purchases citing possible “irreparable” damage and transaction risks. In legislation published in the Official Gazette, the central bank said cryptocurrencies and other such digital assets based on distributed ledger technology could not be used, directly …
Facebook bans Australian news; Victoria’s lockdown lifted as state records no new local cases; Prince Philip admitted to hospital; Alleged rape survivor Brittany Higgins accuses PM of ‘victim blaming’; Trump gives first post-presidential interview
Data from more than 600,000 vaccinated Israelis shows the Pfizer vaccine is 95 per cent effective, with only 21 vaccinated people ending up in the hospital with COVID-19, according to a press release from Maccabi Healthcare Services, Israel’s second largest healthcare provider. The findings, while preliminary, suggest the vaccine remains remarkably effective in the real …
Supreme Court lifts California worship bans prompted by coronavirus
Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the Friday night ruling: new Justice Amy Coney Barrett, whose conservative Catholic views drew suspicion from many liberals in advance of her confirmation last year, declined to grant the churches the most sweeping relief favored by her most conservative colleagues. Justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas would have granted …
Britain bans new Huawei 5G kit installation from September 2021
British telecommunications firms must not install new Huawei 5G kit after September 2021, the government said on Monday, as part of a plan to purge the Chinese firm’s equipment from high speed mobile networks. Britain has already ordered all Huawei equipment to be removed from its 5G network by the end of 2027, falling in …