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Five major publishers and author Scott Turow have sued Meta and Mark Zuckerberg, alleging that Zuckerberg "personally authorized and actively encouraged" massive copyright infringement by using pirated books, journal articles, and web-scraped material to train Meta's Llama AI systems. Meta denies wrongdoing and says it will fight the case, arguing that courts have recognized AI training on copyrighted material as potentially fair use. Variety reports: "In their effort to win the AI 'arms race' and build a f
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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On Tuesday, NASA announced several upcoming lunar missions to the Moon's South Pole region. These missions will pave the way for the crewed Artemis landing slated for 2028, starting with three Moon Base missions NASA says are "the first of more than a dozen missions that will be announced this year." In addition to the […] Read more ›
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Brockovich’s map overlays major operational and planned hyperscale AI data centers with community submitted reports of concerns. Read more ›
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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 wants federal employees to sign broad new non-disclosure agreements. Why do this? President Donald Trump and members of his administration have long […] Read more ›
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US energy supplies, largely made up of natural gas and coal, are under intense strain by data centers and other digital infrastructure. Read more ›
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The missions will deliver payloads to the lunar surface and test equipment from Blue Origin and Astrolab. Read more ›
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The actor, now starring in Netflix's new series 'The Boroughs,' says he would reprise his 'Spider-Man' villain if asked. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Internet access has started to be restored in Iran after being cut off almost three months ago, the country's first vice-president has said. "The first step toward free and regulated access to cyberspace has been taken," Mohammad Reza Aref wrote on X on Tuesday. Internet monitoring groups Netblocks and Kentik reported "partial" restoration around 13:00 GMT, though the latter warned most... Read more ›
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While there are a few software kinks to work out, it's already looking very cool! Read more ›
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Вы когда-нибудь заполняли json-конфигов на 20 000 - 25 0000 строк вручную перед выпуском релиза? А боль в глазах геймдизайнеров от этого процесса видели?Вы TechLead/Менеджер и к вам часто подходят дизайнеры с просьбой написать парсер данных, а свободных рук нет? А после изменений в фиче приходится выделять человека для правок схемы парсинга под новую разметку?Возможно, пора начать использовать тулзу по экспорту данных, которую смогут настроить сами геймдизайнеры? Нам этот инструмент... Read more ›
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Samsung is shipping out the May security patch to Galaxy S25 model owners. Inside, only the May patch is listed per the changelog, but once owners boot up the software, feel free to poke around and let us know if you spot anything. Updated Software Version Numbers Go snag it. // Verizon Read the original post: Galaxy S25 Series Gets May Security Patch Read more ›
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U.S. President Donald Trump said it was "critically important" that the CFTC keep "exclusive authority" over prediction markets, echoing CFTC Chair Michael Selig. Read more ›
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Remember DOGE, the Elon Musk-led “government efficiency” project that spread chaos during President Donald Trump’s first few months back in office, fired tens of thousands of federal employees, and then vanished almost as abruptly as it began? If you didn’t lose your job in one of Musk’s federal employee purges, or you aren’t one of […] Read more ›
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It’s Tuesday, May 26, 2026, and welcome to another edition of the Venture Capital & Startup Funding Roundup. The biggest story in today’s funding tape is not that investors are still pouring money into AI. It’s where that capital is ... Read more ›
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Governor of California Gavin Newsom has publically accused one of the biggest gas brands in America of exacerbating high fuel prices by overcharging customers. Read more ›
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An immigration lawyer says the new memo stating I-485 forms will only be approved in "extraordinary circumstances" will have a ripple effect. Read more ›
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BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Plex is raising the price of a new Lifetime Plex Pass from $249.99 to $749.99 on July 1. That's a $500 increase for media server software. Plex says it needs the money for "long-term development" and future features, but a lot of self-hosting folks are already wondering if this is basically a soft way of killing the Lifetime option without officially removing it. At... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has signed the nation's first law banning prediction market sites from operating in the state, and in response, the Trump administration has sued, teeing up a legal battle over the most far-reaching crackdown on popular services like Kalshi and Polymarket. It comes as states confront a growing standoff with the Trump administration over how to regulate the industry,... Read more ›
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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an ultra-faint galaxy seen just 800 million years after the Big Bang. The galaxy contains almost no heavy elements, shows signs of intense early stellar radiation, and could offer a rare glimpse into the first stages of galaxy formation. Phys.org reports: In a paper published in the journal Nature, a team of scientists led by Kimihiko Nakajima, an astronomer at Kanazawa... Read more ›
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Google is again pressuring some longtime G Suite Legacy users to move onto paid Workspace plans, warning that accounts flagged as "commercial use" could lose access to Gmail, Drive, Calendar, and other services if appeals fail. "The trouble, according to users, is that the appeals system appears about as transparent as a brick," adds The Register. From the report: A reader alerted The Register to what appears to be a... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The AI coding boom is now coming directly for Android app development. On Tuesday at Google IO 2026, the company announced new native Android app creation capabilities in its web-based Google AI Studio, shrinking a process that takes weeks of setup and coding down to minutes. The company also said that consumers will be able to use Gemini AI to find the... Read more ›
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The 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is facing backlash after several winning entries were accused of being AI-generated, with one Caribbean winner's story flagged as fully AI-written by a detector that WIRED says it independently confirmed. From the report: Each year, the Commonwealth Foundation, a nongovernmental organization in London, awards its short story prize to one writer in each of five regions: Africa, Asia, Canada and Europe, the Caribbean, and... Read more ›
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A long-running lawsuit over Vizio's Linux-based smart TV software is headed to trial in August, with the Software Freedom Conservancy arguing that GPL rules require Vizio to release complete source code owners could use to modify, maintain, or strip ads and tracking from their TVs. Ars Technica reports: The outcome could reverberate across the industry. Because many of today's popular smart TV operating systems are Linux-based, the case may help... Read more ›
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Seagate CEO Dave Mosley said Monday that building new memory chip factories or adding capacity would "take too long" to keep up with AI-driven storage demand. "If we took the teams off and started building new factories or bringing up new machines, that would just take too long. You would end up with more capacity, but then you'd slow the rate of growth on that technology," Mosely said. CNBC reports:... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: A coalition of thirteen major publishers has won a massive $19.5 million default judgment against shadow library Anna's Archive. A New York federal judge fully approved the publishers' requests, issuing a broad permanent injunction that orders more than twenty specific global registries, hosts, and service providers to immediately disable the site's remaining domains. [...] At first glance, the damages award is the... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader Himmy32 writes: GitHub has announced on X that their internal repositories have been breached through a compromised VS Code Extension on an employee's workstation. Bleeping Computer reported that the attack is linked to TeamPCP who have been in the news for a recent campaign affecting Checkmarx, Trivy, SAP, TanStack, and Bitwarden. The group appears to be attempting to sell the stolen code on cybercrime forums. "Yesterday we... Read more ›
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