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The Seattle Times and Newsday have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming their journalism was used without permission to train AI models and is often reproduced verbatim in chatbot responses. Microsoft was named as a defendant because its Copilot tool relies on OpenAI's technology, and the outlets are seeking destruction of any copied works, datasets, and models built from them.
The creators of the original Dataflow Model paper—Tyler Akidau, Rafael Fernández-Moctezuma, Reuven Lax and Daniel Mills—revisited their influential streaming framework eleven years after publication, on the occasion of its VLDB Test of Time award. They conclude that its core ideas, such as prioritizing event time and abandoning the wait for complete data, held up well, but admit that windowing, triggers, and a stream-first worldview were overengineered or misguided compared to database-style approaches like SQL and materialized views.
Andrew Lakeman, a former Jagex employee known as Mod Jed who worked on Old School RuneScape since 2015, received a three-year suspended prison sentence after being convicted of stealing over $400,000 worth of in-game gold and selling it on black market sites. Jagex uncovered the scheme after noticing suspicious account recovery patterns starting in 2018, then secretly altered its firewall setup to trace the thefts back to him.
Security guidance highlights that leaving Bluetooth constantly active exposes phones to attacks like bluebugging and bluesnarfing, where nearby hackers exploit open connections. Recommended precautions include turning Bluetooth off when not needed, setting it to hidden rather than discoverable mode, unpairing phones from rental or sold cars, and disabling features like Android Auto's automatic activation or the iPhone's Live Listen tool.
The Seattle Times and Newsday have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging their journalism was used without permission to train AI models like ChatGPT and Copilot. The suit claims these tools consume original reporting and generate imitative outputs that could financially undermine the news organizations that created the source material.
A new U.S. Census Bureau report finds that people aged 65 and older now outnumber young children worldwide for the first time. The bureau projects the share of people 65 and up will nearly double from 10.5% in 2025 to 19.6% by 2060, driven largely by falling birth rates and longer lifespans. Global population is expected to grow from about 8 billion to 10 billion by 2060, with over half that growth coming from the elderly population.
An independent Zelda researcher highlights a Resetera thread proposing that the name 'Ganon' and the Gerudo tribe may trace back to Geldam, a villain organization from the Kamen Rider tokusatsu series. The theory builds on the researcher's earlier work suggesting the Geldman enemy from A Link to the Past was a linguistic precursor to the Gerudo, long before their formal introduction in Ocarina of Time.
Terence Tao posted a paper showing that a modified, 'averaged' version of the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations can develop a finite-time singularity, even though this modified equation preserves the same energy identity and function-space bounds as the real equations. Earlier blowup examples for Navier-Stokes-like systems either lacked the energy identity or required five or more dimensions; Tao's construction is the first to combine three dimensions, the energy identity, and finite-time blowup.
The Seattle Times and Newsday filed a joint lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies scraped their copyrighted articles, bypassing paywalls, to train generative AI models. The publishers claim this practice has hurt their revenue by diverting readers to AI-generated summaries and has produced false information wrongly attributed to their outlets.
Napoleon Jones, a Navy veteran, was filming a traffic stop from a private parking lot in Sussex, Wisconsin, when a Waukesha County deputy turned around and detained him instead, later pulling him from his car and arresting him for 'resisting and obstructing.' Jones was released after five hours with no charges, and an internal memo confirmed the stop was illegal, but records show his vehicle was subsequently searched via Flock license-plate-reading cameras more than 100 times.
A maker restored a vintage 1995 TrueTime XL-AK GPS time server by gutting it and installing a Raspberry Pi 5 paired with Jimmy Paputto's L1 GNSS HAT, turning the old hardware into a working stratum 1 NTP time server. The project reuses the unit's original LCD screen and bicolor LED for status display, and the builder intends to add it to the public NTP Pool and use it for time services at the VCF Midwest event.
Timekettle unveiled the W4 Plus, its newest pair of AI-powered interpreter earbuds, at IFA 2026. The earbuds let two people each wear one bud and converse naturally in different languages, with near-instant translation, adjustable speed, and a choice of voice output—no shared phone or app required.