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Anna’s Archive Loses .Org Domain After Surprise Suspension

Anna's Archive Loses .Org Domain After Surprise Suspension (Update, .Se Too) * TorrentFreak

#ShadowLibraries

40 million people turn to ChatGPT for health care https://www.axios.com/2026/01/05/chatgpt-openai-health-insurance-aca #AI #LLM #Healthcare

David 4 months ago

LAION Round 2: Machine-Readable but Still Not Actionable

Open Future

LAION Round 2: Machine-Readable but Still Not Actionable – Open Future

The OLG Hamburg ruled that machine-readable opt-outs must be machine-actionable, not just intelligible—but it left the definition of standards to...

#AI #TDM

David 4 months ago

How Mickey Mouse entered the Public Domain in 2024 – but not in Germany

COMMUNIA Association

How Mickey Mouse entered the Public Domain in 2024 – but not in Germany

The end of the copyright protection for Walt Disney's 1928 short film "Steamboat Willie" – known as the first-ever appearance of Mickey Mous...

#PublicDomain #Copyright #Law

David 5 months ago

Their Copyrights Expired. The Legal Threats Keep Coming.

Copyright Lately

Their Copyrights Expired. The Legal Threats Keep Coming.

Public domain works are free—unless aggressive claims deter the public from using them. From Hergé to Chaplin, some estates won't let go.

#Copyright #Law

David 5 months ago

2025: The year in LLMs

Simon Willison’s Weblog

2025: The year in LLMs

This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see Stuff we ...

#AI #LLM #2025

David 5 months ago

Instagram chief: AI is so ubiquitous 'it will be more practical to fingerprint real media than fake media'

Engadget

Instagram chief: AI is so ubiquitous

Adam Mosseri offered a notably candid assessment on how AI is upending Instagram.

#AI #Instagram

David 5 months ago

Who to follow for staying current with AI

Who to follow for staying current with AI | Nicole Hennig

#AI #GenerativeAI #GenAI

David 5 months ago

AI Wrapped: The 14 AI terms you couldn’t avoid in 2025

MIT Technology Review

AI Wrapped: The 14 AI terms you couldn’t avoid in 2025

From “superintelligence” to “slop,” here are the words and phrases that defined another year of AI craziness.

#AI #2025

David 5 months ago

Now that phones alter our photos without us knowing, how do we know what’s real?

the Guardian

Now that phones alter our photos without us knowing, how do we know what’s real? | Isabel Brooks

Comparing the pictures taken with my camera’s automatic software to those taken with a ‘zero-processing’ app, the results are shocking. Is th...

#Photography #Technology #AI

David 5 months ago

Reggaeton artists challenge originality of 'dembow' rhythm in copyright battle

Courthouse News Service

Reggaeton artists challenge originality of

The judge expressed some reluctance to rule as a matter of law whether the percussion arrangement of a 1989 instrumental track was an original crea...

#Music #Copyright #Reggaeton #Dembow

David 5 months ago

Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group

A pirate activist group has reportedly scraped and released metadata from Spotify, and intends to release 86 million audio files.

#Music #Copyright #ShadowLibraries

David 5 months ago

In a First, AI Models Analyze Language As Well As a Human Expert

Quanta Magazine

In a First, AI Models Analyze Language As Well As a Human Expert | Quanta Magazine

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

#AI #LLM #Linguistics

David 5 months ago

The 8 worst technology flops of 2025

MIT Technology Review

The 8 worst technology flops of 2025

The Cybertruck, sycophantic AI, and humanoid robots all made this year’s list of the biggest technology failures.

#Technology

David 5 months ago

Prediction: AI will make formal verification go mainstream

Prediction: AI will make formal verification go mainstream — Martin Kleppmann’s blog

#AI #ComputerScience

David 5 months ago

‘Greetings, earthlings’: Nvidia-backed Starcloud trains first AI model in space as orbital data center race heats up

CNBC

‘Greetings, earthlings’: Nvidia-backed Starcloud trains first AI model in space as orbital data center race heats up

The company's Starcloud-1 satellite is running Gemma, an open model from Google, marking the first time in history that an LLM has been trained in ...

#AI #Datacenters

David 5 months ago

Does AI Therapy Have a Future? https://cacm.acm.org/news/does-ai-therapy-have-a-future/ #AI #Psychology

David 6 months ago

I love AI. Why doesn't everyone? Anti-AI sentiment might or might not be rational, but it certainly relies on a lot of bad arguments.

I love AI. Why doesn't everyone?

Anti-AI sentiment might or might not be rational, but it certainly relies on a lot of bad arguments.

#AI

David 6 months ago

ADHD diagnoses are growing. What’s going on? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03855-2 #ADHD #Science

David 6 months ago

New Investigation Unravels “You Wouldn’t Steal a Car” Anti-Piracy PSA

New Investigation Unravels "You Wouldn't Steal a Car" Anti-Piracy PSA * TorrentFreak

Following a two-year investigation, French journalists have finally identified the creators of the iconic "You Wouldn't Steal a Car" PSA.

#Copyright