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A Munich court ruled that OpenAI violated German copyright law by training its models on lyrics from nine songs and allowing ChatGPT to reproduce them. OpenAI now faces damages as it considers an appeal. Reuters reports: The regional court in Munich found that the company trained its AI on protected content from nine German songs, including Groenemeyer's hits "Maenner" and "Bochum." The case was brought by German music rights society GEMA, whose members include composers, lyricists and publishers, in anothe
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Moscow said on Thursday that it's also moved to "impose restrictive measures" on Meta's FaceTime for similar reasons. Read more âș
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At WIREDâs Big Interview event, the activist and organizer said he doesnât âthink the Chuck Schumers of the world understandâ whatâs coming for the party. Read more âș
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Spot XRP ETFs have now attracted nearly $850 million in inflows since launching in mid-November â one of the strongest altcoin ETF starts on record â suggesting long-horizon capital continues to accumulate exposure. Read more âș
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Technical analysis shows DOGE failed to hold key support levels, suggesting continued downside unless buyers reclaim critical price points. Read more âș
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It appears Meta's Horizon Worlds may literally and figuratively not have legs after all. Read more âș
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New documents reveal how the USS Gettysburg shot down an F/A-18 and nearly hit a second one above the Red Sea last year. Read more âș
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It has been months since a group of Trump administration officials put together a Signal group chat to discuss classified military intelligence ahead of a military strike in Yemen while inadvertently adding a journalist, and now the Pentagonâs inspector general has released its report on the mess. The results of Steven Stebbinsâ eight-month-long investigation found [âŠ] Read more âș
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Thirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all. Read more âș
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The United States Inspector General report reviewing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's text messaging mess recommends a single change to keep classified material secure. Read more âș
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A softer inflation report could lower the 10-year Treasury yield and support cryptocurrencies. Read more âș
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1998 3D accelerator uses an experimental 64-bit driver from 2006, to run on a PC using an OS from 2011, powered by a processor from 2024. Read more âș
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New research finds the shingles vaccine can potentially provide broad protection against dementia. Read more âș
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Ancient Slashdot user Alain Williams shares a report from Al Jazeera: The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has announced it filed a complaint against Microsoft, accusing the global tech giant of unlawfully processing data on behalf of the Israeli military and facilitating the killings of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. In the complaint, the council asked the Data Protection Commission -- the European Union's lead data regulator for the company... Read more âș
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Androidâs in-call protection now activates during suspicious calls involving financial apps. If you open a banking or payment app while on the line with an unfamiliar number, your phone will warn you, pause actions for 30 seconds, and offer quick safety options. Read more âș
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By rolling back auto industry fuel efficiency goals, US president Donald Trump hopes to make new cars cheaper. But prices won't drop for years, and consumers will spend more on gas in the meantime. Read more âș
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The Trump administration is facing renewed scrutiny over an apparent war crime committed in its campaign against alleged drug traffickers. What happened? The US has [âŠ] Read more âș
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Googleâs Android 16 QPR2 update introduces AI-powered notifications, improved dark mode, scam detection, and new safety tools, making everyday phone use smoother, safer, and more intuitive. Read more âș
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Breaking free from Microsoft is harder than it looks. Airbus began migrating its 100,000-plus workforce from Office to Google Workspace more than seven years ago and it still hasn't completed the switch. The Register: As we exclusively revealed in March 2018, the aerospace giant told 130,000 employees it was ditching Microsoft's productivity tools for Google's cloud-based alternatives. Then-CEO Tom Enders predicted migration would finish in 18 months, a timeline that,... Read more âș
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Bruce66423 shares a report from the Los Angeles Times: Tattoo ink doesn't just sit inertly in the skin. New research shows it moves rapidly into the lymphatic system, where it can persist for months, kill immune cells, and even disrupt how the body responds to vaccines. Scientists in Switzerland used a mouse model to trace what happens after tattooing. Pigments drained into nearby lymph nodes within minutes and continued to... Read more âș
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An anonymous reader writes: Netflix has removed the ability to cast shows and movies from phones to TVs, unless subscribers are using older casting devices. An updated help page on Netflix's website, first reported by Android Authority, says that the streaming service "no longer supports casting shows from a mobile device to most TVs and TV-streaming devices," and instead directs users to navigate Netflix using the remote that came with... Read more âș
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Microsoft has acknowledged that a recent Windows preview update, KB5064081, contains a bug that renders the password icon invisible on the lock screen, leaving users to click on what appears to be empty space to enter their credentials. The issue affects Windows Insider channel users who installed the non-security preview update. The company's suggested workaround is straightforward if somewhat absurd: click where the button should be, and the password field... Read more âș
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Earlier this month MasterCard noted that even Walmart now allows its customers to make purchases through ChatGPT. And after polling more than 4,000 consumers in the U.S., Canada, U.K., and UAE, they found "more than four in 10 consumers already use AI tools to help them shop, including 61% of Gen Z and 57% of millennials." Many (50% of Gen Z and 49% of millennials) say they'd even let AI... Read more âș
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Micron is shutting down its Crucial consumer RAM business in 2026 after nearly three decades, citing heavy demand from AI data centers. "The AI-driven growth in the data center has led to a surge in demand for memory and storage," Sumit Sadana, EVP and chief business officer at Micron Technology, said in a statement. "Micron has made the difficult decision to exit the Crucial consumer business in order to improve... Read more âș
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Australia's streaming quotas have become law. Legislation requiring the likes of Netflix, Disney+ and HBO Max to spend a portion of their local earnings on original Australian content has been passed in parliament, and now comes into effect. From a report: The quotas were announced earlier this month. This will see global streamers with more than one million Australian subscribers made to spend 10% of their total Australian expenditure --... Read more âș
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OpenAI's data centre partners are on course to amass almost $100 billion in borrowing tied to the lossmaking start-up, as the ChatGPT maker benefits from a debt-fuelled spending spree without taking on financial risks itself. Financial Times: SoftBank, Oracle and CoreWeave have borrowed at least $30 billion to invest in the start-up or help build its data centres, according to FT analysis. Investment group Blue Owl Capital and computing infrastructure... Read more âș
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Australia warned it's in danger of missing its 2035 climate targets without deeper pollution cuts, which in turn threatens the nation's ambitions to reach net zero by mid-century. From a report: Emissions are set to fall 48% by 2035 from 2005 levels based on current projections [non-paywalled source], the government said in a report on Thursday. That's short of an official pledge to cut greenhouse gases between 62% and 70%.... Read more âș
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Apple's Podcasts app on both iOS and Mac has been exhibiting strange behavior for months, spontaneously launching and presenting users with obscure religion, spirituality and education podcasts they never subscribed to -- and at least one of these podcasts contains a link attempting a cross-site scripting attack, 404 Media reports. Joseph Cox, a journalist at the outlet, documented the issue after repeatedly finding his Mac had launched the Podcasts app... Read more âș
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