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Judge puts Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement on hold

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-01 04:45:42

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement has been put on pause after the federal judge overseeing the class action case raised concerns about the terms of the agreement. During a hearing this week, Judge William Alsup rejected the settlement over concerns

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Anthropic judge rejects $1.5B AI copyright settlement

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 20:46:53

The federal judge overseeing Anthropic PBC’s proposed $1.5 billion copyright settlement is concerned class lawyers are striking a deal behind the scenes that will be forced “down the throat of authors.” Judge William Alsup at the hearing said the motion to approve the deal was denied without prejudice, but in a minute order after the hearing said approval is postponed pending submission of further clarifying information. During the first hearing since the deal was announced on Sept. 5, Alsup s

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Judge: Anthropic's $1.5B settlement is being shoved "down the throat of authors"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-01 16:19:39

At a hearing Monday, US District Judge William Alsup blasted a proposed $1.5 billion settlement over Anthropic's rampant piracy of books to train AI. The proposed settlement comes in a case where Anthropic could have owed more than $1 trillion in damages after Alsup certified a class that included up to 7 million claimants whose works were illegally downloaded by the AI company. Instead, critics fear Anthropic will get off cheaply, striking a deal with authors suing that covers less than 500,0

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The Apple Watch 11 Finally Gets the High Blood Pressure Alerts I Wanted for Years

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-01 15:39:00

I've had high blood pressure for years. Or I used to before I got it under control. But I've wished for a blood pressure-aware smartwatch for years. Apple is finally adding it, to a degree, with the Apple Watch Series 11 announced at Apple's latest iPhone event. Hypertension notifications are part of the latest Apple Watch's feature set, and according to Apple it'll be supported in 150 countries and regions this month. Apple says it expects clearances from the US Food and Drug Administration an

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Kosovo hacker pleads guilty to running BlackDB cybercrime marketplace

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-01 20:33:09

Kosovo national Liridon Masurica has pleaded guilty to running BlackDB.cc, a cybercrime marketplace that has been active since 2018. Kosovar authorities arrested the 33-year-old defendant (also known online as @blackdb) on December 14, 2024. He was extradited to the United States on May 9, 2025, and detained following his court appearance in Tampa on May 12. Masurica was the lead administrator of the online criminal marketplace BlackDB.cc, which has been operating for almost seven years, betwe

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Windows 10 KB5065429 update includes 14 changes and fixes

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-01 20:57:12

Microsoft has released the KB5065429 cumulative update for Windows 10 22H2 and Windows 10 21H2, with fourteen fixes or changes, including fixes for unexpected UAC prompts and severe lag and stuttering issues with NDI streaming software. The Windows 10 KB5065429 update is mandatory as it contains Microsoft's September 2025 Patch Tuesday security updates, which fix two publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities and 81 flaws. Windows users can install this update by going into Settings, clicking

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Our Favorite Budget TV Is Only $264 at Walmart

wired.com Brad Bourque 2025-11-01 20:48:46

Don't want to shell out big bucks on a new television? Walmart is offering an $86 discount on our favorite budget TV. This 55-inch 4K panel from Vizio comes in well under $300, a downright steal for the features on offer here, which includes Dolby Vision, Variable Refresh Rate, and a great smart interface. Our reviewer Parker Hall called the picture “bright and punchy” and support for Dolby Vision sweetened the deal. It also supports HDR10+, HDR10, and HLG, so you have a wide array of options f

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Your Blink subscription price is going up - unless you act fast

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-11-02 00:49:00

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Blink is raising the price of a monthly and yearly subscription. The Plus plan will be $12/month and $120/year. The company hasn't changed its subscription price since 2020. For the first time ever, Blink is raising the price of its subscription plan -- but it's adding some new features. And if you hurry, you can avoid the rate increase. In an email to subscribers this week, the company explained

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Judge in Anthropic AI Piracy Suit Worried Authors May 'Get the Shaft' in $1.5B Settlement

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-02 00:07:16

A federal judge on Monday ordered the court to slow-roll a proposed $1.5 billion settlement to authors whose copyrighted works Anthropic pirated to train its Claude AI models. Judge William Alsup, of the US District Court for the Northern District of California, said the deal is "nowhere close to complete," and he will hold off on approving it until more questions are answered. Alsup's concerns seem to be around making sure authors have enough notice to join the suit, according to Bloomberg. In

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Judge: Anthropic’s $1.5B settlement is being shoved “down the throat of authors”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-02 00:21:02

At a hearing Monday, US district judge William Alsup blasted a proposed $1.5 billion settlement over Anthropic's rampant piracy of books to train AI. The proposed settlement comes in a case where Anthropic could have owed more than $1 trillion in damages after Alsup certified a class that included up to 7 million claimants whose works were illegally downloaded by the AI company. Instead, critics fear Anthropic will get off cheaply, striking a deal with authors suing that covers less than 500,0

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Firefox provides AI page summaries if you shake your iPhone

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-02 03:58:37

AI summaries seem to be everywhere, with the latest entry into the mix coming courtesy of Mozilla. The company has announced that its web browser, Firefox, is rolling out page summaries on mobile devices. Notably, this feature is only available for English-language iOS users in the US right now. Unlike other major summary tools from Google and the like, Firefox's page summaries are available when you shake your device. If you feel a bit weird doing that then you can, instead, tap the thunderbol

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Blink just raised its subscription price - but you get 2 new features in return

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-11-02 03:08:00

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's takeaways Blink is raising the price of a monthly and yearly subscription. The new price will be $3.99 a month or $39.99 a year. The company hasn't changed its subscription price since 2020. For the first time ever, Blink is raising the price of its subscription plan -- but it's adding some new features. In an email to subscribers this week, the company explained that "for the first time since Blink launched su

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US Taxpayers Will Pay Billions in New Fossil Fuel Subsidies Thanks to the Big Beautiful Bill

wired.com Molly Taft 2025-11-02 04:50:17

The Trump administration has already added nearly $40 billion in new federal subsidies for oil, gas, and coal in 2025, a report released Tuesday finds, sending an additional $4 billion out the door each year for fossil fuels over the next decade. That new amount, created with the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act this summer, adds on to $30.8 billion a year in preexisting subsidies for the fossil fuel industry. The report finds that the amount of public money the US will now spend on dom

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Google’s Veo 3 can now generate vertical AI videos

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-11-02 09:23:51

Google has added support for 1080p resolution and vertical video formats to its Veo 3 AI video generator. According to the announcement on Google’s developer blog, both Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast — a faster, and more affordable version of the video model that produces lower-quality results — now allow users to generate videos in a 9:16 aspect ratio that’s better suited for content displayed on mobile devices and social media apps. The blog says that vertical video support can be enabled by setting th

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AI Use at Large Companies Is in Decline, Census Bureau Says

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-02 14:23:36

For the past few years, the AI industry has been charging full steam ahead, in what can sometimes feel like a pell-mell mad dash to take over the world. Ever since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, the industry has leveraged an ever-expanding arsenal of political, cultural, and economic power in its effort to lay claim to many different parts of society. Yet, despite the AI industry’s attempts to make itself seem omnipresent, a new report this week shows that adoption at large U.S. companies has de

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Samsung killed my favorite Galaxy Tab S11 model

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-03 04:00:19

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority The Galaxy Tab S11 and S11 Ultra are incremental upgrades over the last few generations of flagship tablets from Samsung, with brighter displays, faster processors, and the other improvements you’d expect from the latest in a long line of products. This year, though, there’s no Plus model, leaving the 11-inch Tab S11 and 14.6-inch S11 Ultra. Last year’s Galaxy Tab S10 series made a similar move, dropping the base model and instead offering the 12.4-inch Plus

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Samsung wants to get ahead of the iPhone Fold with its own ‘Wide Fold’ (Update: Image)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-03 04:13:50

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung is reportedly working on two Fold devices for 2026. One of these devices could be a so-called “Wide Fold” with a wider folding screen. It’s believed that this foldable is a response to Apple’s rumored iPhone Fold. Update: September 9, 2025 (6:10 AM ET): Tipster Ice Universe has posted a fan rendition of Samsung’s new “Wide Fold” device, giving people a better idea of what to expect. Check out the image below. This unofficial image suggests that

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Gmail may finally alert you when someone reacts to your Chat messages (Updated: Rolling out)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-03 04:45:48

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR Strings in the latest Gmail update hint at some new Google Chat features in testing. Notification summaries in Gmail might work independently of Android 16’s system-wide version, bringing the feature to more devices. Gmail may also offer auto-generated conversation summaries and finally notify you when someone reacts to your Chat messages. Update, September 9, 2025 (06:45 AM ET): Google has announced that real-time push notifications for reactions are n

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Firefox launches ‘shake to summarize’ on iPhones

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-03 04:51:49

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Firefox will soon let you shake your iPhone to get an AI-generated summary of the webpage you’re on. The feature rolls out this week, and will operate using Apple’s on-device AI model on the iPhone 15 Pro or newer once iOS 26 launches. On older iOS versions, Mo

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ReOrbit lands record funding to take on Musk’s Starlink from Europe

techcrunch.com Anna Heim 2025-11-03 03:00:00

ReOrbit, a Finnish startup focused on helping nations control their own sovereign satellites, has raised a record €45 million (about US $53 million) Series A round of funding for a European space tech company. The funding round signals that Europe’s new space market is heating up, fueled by a geopolitical environment in which countries increasingly worry about relying on foreign technology for critical infrastructure. Founded in 2019 and based in Helsinki, ReOrbit provides both the hardware and

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Our Pixel 10 Pro XL has also run into the infamous screen snow issue (Updated: Fix incoming)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-02 11:27:54

Paul Jones / Android Authority TL;DR Multiple Google Pixel 10 series users are experiencing a “screen snow” issue. The display freezes and shows a static-like image, but recovers automatically after about ten minutes. We have also faced the issue on our own Pixel 10 Pro XL. Google has acknowledged the bug publicly and says a fix started rolling out on September 3. Update: September 8, 2025 (10 PM ET): Google has confirmed to Android Authority that it started rolling out a fix for the screen

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Google is already shoveling out a fix for Pixel 10’s screen snow

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-03 05:59:00

Google is now rolling out a fix for the so-called “screen snow” bug affecting some Pixel 10 devices. The company confirmed the development in a statement to Android Authority: We’re aware of an issue impacting a small number of Pixel 10 devices. We began rolling out fixes on Sept. 3 with more to follow in the coming weeks. Google began pushing the September 2025 security update on September 3, which included a slate of bug fixes and improvements. While the official changelog didn’t explicitly

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Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-03 06:32:49

Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG Apple introduced the Liquid Glass effect during WWDC 2025 in June—a stunning UI effect that makes interface elements appear to be made of curved, refractive glass. This article is a hands‑on exploration of how to recreate a similar effect on the web using CSS, SVG displacement maps, and physics-based refraction calculations. Instead of chasing pixel‑perfect parity, we’ll approximate Liquid Glass, recreating the core refraction and a spec

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AMD’s AI-powered FSR 4 upscaling is now available in most FSR 3.1 games

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-11-03 14:10:10

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. AMD’s FSR 4 AI upscaling and frame-generation technology can now be enabled for “most games that support FSR 3.1 with DirectX 12,” the company says in the patch notes for its newest 25.9.1 driver. This support has been a big promise from AMD, but it’s taken awhile to come to fruition;

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Google Meet is back after an outage. Here are a few workarounds for next time

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-11-03 18:15:00

SOPA Images/Contributor/LightRocket via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's takeaways Google Meet experienced a widespread outage. There are a few workarounds, like using the app or another browser. Google has since fixed problem. Google Meet is back after a widespread outage, Monday. At the time of this writing, Google's Cloud Service Health Status page is reporting no service issues with Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Drive. "Today some users

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Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-03 08:58:38

High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution Català Español Français Italiano 日本語 한국어 Deutsch Nederlands Türkçe 中文 Українська Русский Português Brasileiro Svenska العربية Tiếng Việt ภาษาไทย Disclaimer ⚠️ The project is under very active development. The project is under development. ⚠️ Expect bugs and breaking changes. Expect bugs and breaking changes. ⚠️ Do not use the app as the only way to store your photos and videos. ⚠️ Always follow 3-2-1 backup plan for y

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Job mismatch and early career success

news.ycombinator.com Julie Berry Cullen 2025-11-03 17:57:40

How does being over- or underqualified at the beginning of a worker's career affect skill acquisition, retention, and promotion? Despite the importance of mismatch for the labor market, self-selection into jobs has made estimating these effects difficult. We overcome endogeneity concerns in the context of the US Air Force, which allocates new enlistees to over 130 different jobs based, in part, on test scores. Using these test scores, we create simulated job assignments based on factors outside

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Autumn Equinox Is in 2 Weeks: What It Is and What It Looks Like

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-03 22:53:00

Even if the leaves haven't yet begun turning where you live, Labor Day is over, school is back in session and fall is almost here. The official arrival of the season is the autumnal equinox, which occurs in the Northern Hemisphere this month. After a hot summer, the September equinox marks a welcome shift in the seasons for many folks. But what exactly is an equinox? It's all about Earth and its relationship with the sun. Here's how to understand, visualize and celebrate the autumnal equinox.

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Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Flip 7 are about to get these handy features

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-04 06:56:00

Lanh Nguyen / Android Authority TL;DR A software update has arrived for the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Flip 7. The update brings Google Finance integration to Now Bar and the ability to add widgets to the home screen when using Samsung DeX. The update is only live in South Korea at the moment. Samsung’s latest foldables are receiving a software update. This update not only delivers September 2025’s security patch, but also a couple of new features related to Now Bar and Samsung DeX. Don’t want to

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Job Mismatch and Early Career Success

news.ycombinator.com Julie Berry Cullen 2025-11-04 23:57:40

How does being over- or underqualified at the beginning of a worker's career affect skill acquisition, retention, and promotion? Despite the importance of mismatch for the labor market, self-selection into jobs has made estimating these effects difficult. We overcome endogeneity concerns in the context of the US Air Force, which allocates new enlistees to over 130 different jobs based, in part, on test scores. Using these test scores, we create simulated job assignments based on factors outside

Topics: individuals job jobs results scores

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Judge puts Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement on hold

Anthropic judge rejects $1.5B AI copyright settlement

Judge: Anthropic's $1.5B settlement is being shoved "down the throat of authors"

The Apple Watch 11 Finally Gets the High Blood Pressure Alerts I Wanted for Years

Kosovo hacker pleads guilty to running BlackDB cybercrime marketplace

Windows 10 KB5065429 update includes 14 changes and fixes

Our Favorite Budget TV Is Only $264 at Walmart

Your Blink subscription price is going up - unless you act fast

Judge in Anthropic AI Piracy Suit Worried Authors May 'Get the Shaft' in $1.5B Settlement

Judge: Anthropic’s $1.5B settlement is being shoved “down the throat of authors”

Firefox provides AI page summaries if you shake your iPhone

Blink just raised its subscription price - but you get 2 new features in return

US Taxpayers Will Pay Billions in New Fossil Fuel Subsidies Thanks to the Big Beautiful Bill

Google’s Veo 3 can now generate vertical AI videos

AI Use at Large Companies Is in Decline, Census Bureau Says

Samsung killed my favorite Galaxy Tab S11 model

Samsung wants to get ahead of the iPhone Fold with its own ‘Wide Fold’ (Update: Image)

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Firefox launches ‘shake to summarize’ on iPhones

ReOrbit lands record funding to take on Musk’s Starlink from Europe

Our Pixel 10 Pro XL has also run into the infamous screen snow issue (Updated: Fix incoming)

Google is already shoveling out a fix for Pixel 10’s screen snow

Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG

AMD’s AI-powered FSR 4 upscaling is now available in most FSR 3.1 games

Google Meet is back after an outage. Here are a few workarounds for next time

Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management

Job mismatch and early career success

Autumn Equinox Is in 2 Weeks: What It Is and What It Looks Like

Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Flip 7 are about to get these handy features

Job Mismatch and Early Career Success

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