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Friday June 27, 2025. 03:25 AM
Authors are having a hard time protecting their works from the maws of the LLM makers Updated Californian courts have not been kind to authors this week, with a second ruling going against an unlucky 13 who sought redress for use of their content in training AI models.…
Rust 1.88 has been released, featuring support for writing naked functions, as well as backing for Boolean literals. The update of the popular fast and safe programming language was announced June 26 by the Rust Release Team. Current Rust users can get Rust 1.88 by running...
Apple's Swift programming language is expanding official support to Android through a new 'Android Working Group' which will improve compatibility, integration, and tooling. 'As it stands today, Android apps are generally coded in Kotlin, but Apple is looking to provide its...
Comcast is introducing new simplified, contract-free broadband plans that eliminate its unpopular 1.2TB data cap for residential customers. 'The company began enforcing a data cap in 2008, when it set that limit at 250GB,' notes PCMag. 'Four years later, it raised that to...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Gursewak Sokhi has announced the release of Oracle Linux 10, a major new update of the company's enterprise-class Linux distribution built from the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: 'Oracle Linux 10...
Facing mounting competition from autonomous taxi services like Waymo, Uber is in early talks to help fund Travis Kalanick's potential acquisition of Pony.ai's U.S. subsidiary (source paywalled; alternative source). If completed, the deal would reunite Kalanick with Uber (now ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Google's AI search features are killing traffic to publishers, so now the company is proposing a possible solution. On Thursday, the tech giant officially launched Offerwall, a new tool that allows publishers to generate...
Edward “Big Balls” Coristine’s placement at the SSA comes after a White House official told WIRED on Tuesday that the 19-year-old had resigned from his position in government.
Thursday June 26, 2025. 11:40 PM
Michael Larabel writes via Phoronix: The upcoming Blender 5.0 3D modeling software application is introducing High Dynamic Range (HDR) display support on Linux when making use of Wayland -- no X11 support for HDR -- and Vulkan graphics accelerator. HDR support for Blender...
A group of authors has sued Microsoft for allegedly training an artificial intelligence model using their copyrighted works without permission. The case, filed in New York on June 24, alleges the tech giant unfairly used their books to train Megatron-LM, a transformer-based...
New research shows that as conversations with Claude, Anthropic’s AI chatbot, progress, users’ expressed sentiment “becomes more positive,” and they often walk away feeling emotionally lighter. The finding comes from Anthropic’s study on how users are turning to...
Google is bringing its AI Overviews-like feature to YouTube in the form of an 'AI-powered search results carousel.' The Verge reports: As shown in a video, the search results carousel will show a big video clip up top, thumbnails to a selection of other relevant video clips...
TL;DR: Keep all your Joy-Con controllers fully charged thanks to this 4-in-1 Charging Dock for the Nintendo Switch 2, now only $18.99 (reg. $29.99) with free shipping. When new consoles drop, that means it's time for a little shopping spree. — Read the rest The post Keep...
The world isn’t short of classic Macintosh emulators, but one more certainly cannot hurt. Snow emulates classic (Motorola 680×0-based) Macintosh computers. It features a graphical user interface to operate the emulated machine and provides extensive debugging capabilities....
It’s been nearly a year since a faulty CrowdStrike update took down 8.5 million Windows-based machines around the world, and Microsoft wants to ensure such a problem never happens again. After holding a summit with security vendors last year, Microsoft is poised to release ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: After sending cease-and-desist letters to VMware users whose support contracts had expired and who subsequently declined to subscribe to one of Broadcom's VMware bundles, Broadcom has started the process of conducting...
Aesop's fable 'The Frogs Who Asked for a King' is about human folly and the dangers of discontent. This version comes from the beautifully illustrated 1915 edition Aesop's Fables for Children, available in the Internet Archive's digital collection. It features Art...
Jokes aside, this is exciting news. PNG is back to its former glory after its progress stalled for over two decades. Did you know the U.S. Library of Congress, Library and Archives Canada, and the National Archives of Australia recommend PNG? It is important that we keep PNG ...
At least the BSOD acronym will still work The infamous Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) will be replaced later this summer by a new black screen as part of Microsoft's Windows Resiliency Initiative (WRI).…
Apple will allow developers in the European Union to distribute iOS apps outside its App Store, the company said Thursday in a bid to avoid escalating fines from Brussels regulators. The policy change came on the deadline for Apple to comply with EU rules or face new...
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