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Germany's media regulator has ruled that Google's AI Overviews fall under German media law, marking one of the first formal attempts by a national authority to bring AI-generated summaries into an existing legal framework. The implications for how Google surfaces news content across Europe could be significant.
On the payments front, Visa, Mastercard, and Ripple have thrown their weight behind x four oh two, the open protocol originally built by Coinbase. Forty companies now govern it, and last month it settled roughly twenty-four million dollars across seventy-five million transactions, averaging about thirty-two cents each. That's a real signal that machine-to-machine micropayments are finding traction.
And a security researcher has published a proof-of-concept exploit called LegacyHive, targeting a privilege escalation vulnerability in Windows' User Profile Service. The flaw allows an attacker to load an arbitrary registry hive with elevated permissions. It's a quiet but serious finding that Windows administrators will want to track closely.
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