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SELinux removes NSA name
Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) has been part of the mainline kernel for two decades, providing a security module that enforces access control security policies and is now widely used to enhance the security of production Linux servers and other systems. SELinux was originally developed and contributed to the Linux kernel by the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States, and has continued to contribute to it for many years, so its official name is "NSA SELinux". However, given the NSA's poor reputation, it has been suspected of having unknown backdoors buried in the SELinux code, although there is no public evidence to prove this. Due to community doubts and the increasing participation of the community in the development of SELinux, the Linux kernel will no longer contain "NSA" in the name of NSA starting from 6.6.
Source: Phoronix
Lao Wang’s comment: Although I also have a distrustful attitude towards the NSA, I do not agree with this approach.
OpenAI says using copyrighted material in transformative ways does not violate copyright
OpenAI has responded to a series of lawsuits filed by authors alleging that OpenAI illegally used unlicensed copies of their works to train ChatGPT. OpenAI asked the court to dismiss all but one of the claims of direct copyright infringement. OpenAI said the authors "misunderstood the scope of copyright and failed to take into account limitations and exceptions (including fair use)." OpenAI argued that "innovators using copyrighted material in transformative ways does not violate copyright" even if a "tiny fraction" of ChatGPT's massive data set contains the authors' books. OpenAI argued that, unlike plagiarists who seek to profit directly from distributing copyrighted material, their goal is to "teach their models to derive the basic rules of human language," reminding the court that "while authors can register copyrights for their books, However, the 'statistical information' related to 'word frequency, syntactic patterns and subject tags' in the book is not within the scope of copyright protection."
Source: Ars Technica
Lao Wang’s comment: In a certain sense, these lawsuits reflect the contradiction between the current development of AI technology and copyright law, and their judgments can be regarded as an important legal reference for the future AI field. It deserves continued attention.
Microsoft uses malware-like pop-ups to make people abandon Google
Someone reported that when he used the Chrome browser, a window popped up on his Windows 11, asking to switch the default search engine in the Chrome browser to Microsoft Bing. It’s not an ordinary notification, it doesn’t appear in the Notification Center, and it has nothing to do with the section of Windows 11 that recommends new features to you. It's an executable file that somehow appears in the temporary directory and is digitally signed by Microsoft. This behavior makes the user feel like "malware has been installed". Microsoft responded that it was "aware of these reports and has paused this notification."
Source: The Verge
Lao Wang’s comment: I originally wanted to say, “Users who have paid for Microsoft licenses have reason not to be affected by such advertising and analysis, and open source operating systems can avoid this situation.” But then I remembered that Canonical also does I've experienced something similar, so I have nothing to say.