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Thursday September 11, 2025. 11:30 PM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Verizon lost an attempt to overturn a $46.9 million fine for selling customer location data without its users' consent. The US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit rejected Verizon's challenge in a ruling (PDF) issued...
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Peter Mandelson has a long history performing the 'gray eminence' gigs of British politics, and his closeness to billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein brings an early end to the latest. After the publication of records detailing Mandelson and Epstein's weird and...
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A Singapore judge has ordered Ms Sophia Wu Chao Wen to pay S$25,000 (US$19,500) to a Taiwanese produce distributor for making disparaging comments about its vegetables, reports Channel News Asia. In 2022, Ms Wu posted: 'It's shocking, seriously, that someone would even dare ...
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For whom the bill tolls Content creation and delivery companies have introduced a digital licensing mechanism in an effort to compensate media makers when AI companies use their work.…
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Perplexity AI is the latest AI startup to be hit with a lawsuit by copyright holders, accused by Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster of misusing their content in its 'answer engine' for internet searches. From a report: The reference companies alleged in New York...
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DJ Tenderloin just released five mixtapes themed around the original Planet of the Apes movie. The tapes include Planet of the Apes movie clips, dialogue, and vintage content like trailers and toy commercials. Listen to all five tapes on Mixcloud. — Read the rest The post D...
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If you're a diplomat, journalist, vocal activist, politician, or anyone else with the potential to stir the pot, the odds are pretty good that you're currently being watched by the United States government or an enterprise that has skin in the geopolitical game. — Read the re...
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In 1978, Clive James reviewed the official biography of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982) by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism, CPSU Central Committee. 'I read the whole thing from start to finish, waiting ...
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Sega allegedly orchestrated a police raid to recover Nintendo development kits it had accidentally disposed of during an office relocation from Brentford to Chiswick Business Park. An anonymous UK reseller purchased the items -- including Game Boy Advance, DSi, 3DS, Wii, and ...
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A series of corporate leaks show that Chinese technology companies function far more like their Western peers than one might imagine.
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Okta uncovers new phishing-as-a-service operation with 'multiple entities' falling victim Multiple attackers using a new phishing service dubbed VoidProxy to target organizations' Microsoft and Google accounts have successfully stolen users' credentials, multi-factor...
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Everyone's favorite CEO, Warner Bros. Discovery head David Zaslav, thinks HBO Max is ripe for a price hike. Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia and Technology Conference (doesn't that sound like a fun time?) Zaslav argued that his...
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Still far short of the 50% market share Arm infra chief was hoping for Nvidia isn’t the only one riding the AI boom. During the second quarter, Arm CPUs captured a quarter of the server market, according to a recent Dell’Oro Group report.…
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Roku plans to dramatically expand its advertiser base from 200 to 100,000 companies using generative AI tools, CFO Dan Jedda told investors at recent conferences. The streaming platform, which commands over 20% of US TV viewing and reaches half of broadband households, is...
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Charlie Kirk said that he didn't care for the concept of empathy and that he was fine with a few folks getting shot if it meant protecting the Second Amendment. But according to DC Comics, that doesn't mean you can say mean things about him after he was killed by a bullet to ...
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Do you remember how none of the weapons the United States Air Force had could crash the shields baked into alien spacecraft in Independence Day? Pepperidge Farms space aliens do. Worse, they seem to have the technology to make the feat possible without Hollywood magic, as...
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It all started with a May report saying that some bot training may need licensing or permission A US appeals court has thrown a wrench into the White House's attempt to oust US Copyright Office director Shira Perlmutter, ruling that the president likely has no authority to...
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Videos of the shooting spread across TikTok, Instagram, and X. Researchers say that in some cases the platforms are falling short on enforcing their own content moderation rules.
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Extremists and an anonymously run website are posting identifying details about people accused of celebrating Charlie Kirk’s murder online. Some of those targeted are now getting death threats.
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