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Tuesday August 26, 2025. 09:43 PM
Byte magazine ran in print from 1975 to 1998, defining a golden age that began with the first commercially successful personal computer and ending with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (or the introduction of the iMac, perhaps.) At byte.tsundoku.io, you can explore the...
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Anthropic faced the prospect of more than $1 trillion in damages, a sum that could have threatened the company’s survival if the case went to trial.
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Anthropic reached a settlement with authors in a high-stakes copyright class action that threatened the AI company with potentially billions of dollars in damages. From a report: In a Tuesday filing in the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, both sides asked the court ...
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The Michigan Supreme Court has drawn a firm line around digital privacy, ruling that police cannot use overly broad warrants to comb through every corner of a person's phone. From a report: In People v. Carson, the court found [PDF] that warrants for digital devices must...
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Expands VMware Cloud Foundation with AI freebie, new security and storage bits Broadcom has opened its VMware Explore conference in a defiant tone, declaring it now offers a superior user experience compared to public clouds.…
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From environmental and safety concerns to noise and filters, there’s a lot to think about before buying a window AC. Our air quality expert walks you through the process.
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Our editors’ favorite surround sound Sonos speaker is matching its lowest price ever from Amazon.
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Air pollution from oil and gas causes more than 90,000 premature deaths and sickens hundreds of thousands of people across the US each year, a new study shows, with disproportionately high impacts on communities of color. From a report: More than 10,000 annual pre-term...
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CEO Mark Zuckerberg went on a recruiting blitz to lure top AI researchers to Meta. WIRED has confirmed that three recent hires have now resigned.
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Just in time for back-to-school, a new COVID strain named 'Stratus' is rapidly infecting folks across California. The rate at which COVID lab tests came back positive in L.A. County is 12.6% for the week that ended Aug. 16, up from 7.6% a month earlier. — Read the rest ...
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Judge says label is 'misleading' A German court has told Apple to stop advertising its Watches as being carbon-neutral, ruling that this was misleading and could not fly under the country's competition law.…
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Swiss researchers have determined that fermentation degree controls beer foam stability after seven years of study published in Physics of Fluids. Triple-fermented Belgian beers maintained the longest-lasting foam while single-fermented lagers produced the shortest duration. ...
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A Missouri farmer told Congressman Mark Alford exactly what every other hard-working American is thinking right about now: 'I am pissed…You need to take your head out of Trump's ass.' The heated voter, Fred Higginbotham, was one of many unhappy folks who showed up at a town h...
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The GSA is letting AI chatbot makers jump the FedRAMP queue The US government wants more AI chatbots in fed employees' hands, and its push to do so means that tech companies keen to provide other services will have to get in line behind the LLM makers.…
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Not settling for $60 million, pushing for a lower amount, and insisting on confidentiality resulted in Tesla publicly incurring a $243 million loss in an Autopilot lawsuit. The proposal stemmed from a lawsuit filed by the families of the victims in a 2019 crash in which a...
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Raise your hand if you're sick of this being the key defining feature of the current video game generation, then join the damn club. Likely as a response to the latest round of Trump's 'legendary' tariffs or perhaps feeling validated by Xbox's example, Sony has made the...
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By Yinan Chen - www.goodfreephotos.com (gallery, image), Public Domain, Link The post From Iceland to Japan: Where to find the world's best natural hot springs appeared first on Boing Boing.
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Google has integrated AI-powered language learning capabilities into its Translate app through a beta feature that generates customized lessons using its Gemini AI models. The Practice button allows English speakers to learn Spanish and French while Spanish, French, and...
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LinkedIn says professionals are turning to their colleagues and personal contacts for advice at work, not search engines or AI tools. New global research released by the company suggests 43 percent of workers rank personal networks above other options when they need clarity, ...
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Administrators can get patches installed via Intune before the first login From next month, Windows administrators will be able to inflict Microsoft's quality updates on users via the Out of Box Experience (OOBE) by default.…
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