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Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features

news.ycombinator.com Miranda Bryant 2026-02-16 02:39:02

The Danish government is to clamp down on the creation and dissemination of AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to ensure that everybody has the right to their own body, facial features and voice. The Danish government said on Thursday it would strengthen protection against digital imitations of people’s identities with what it believes to be the first law of its kind in Europe. Having secured broad cross-party agreement, the department of culture plans to submit a proposal to ame

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Anthropic destroyed millions of physical books to train its AI, court documents reveal

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2026-02-17 22:51:00

WTF?! Generative AI has already faced sharp criticism for its well-known issues with reliability, its massive energy consumption, and the unauthorized use of copyrighted material. Now, a recent court case reveals that training these AI models has also involved the large-scale destruction of physical books. Buried in the details of a recent split ruling against Anthropic is a surprising revelation: the generative AI company destroyed millions of physical books by cutting off their bindings and d

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Meta Wins Blockbuster AI Copyright Case—but There’s a Catch

wired.com Kate Knibbs 2026-02-17 20:11:11

Meta scored a major victory in a copyright lawsuit on Wednesday when a federal judge ruled that the company did not violate the law when it trained its AI tools on 13 authors' books without permission. “The Court has no choice but to grant summary judgment to Meta on the plaintiffs’ claim that the company violated copyright law by training its models with their books,” wrote US District Court judge Vince Chhabria. He concluded that the plaintiffs did not present sufficient evidence that Meta’s

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Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-02-19 03:40:32

A federal judge sided with Meta on Wednesday in a lawsuit brought against the company by 13 book authors, including Sarah Silverman, that alleged the company had illegally trained its AI models on their copyrighted works. Federal Judge Vince Chhabria issued a summary judgment — meaning the judge was able to decide on the case without sending it to a jury — in favor of Meta, finding that the company’s training of AI models on copyrighted books in this case fell under the “fair use” doctrine of c

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How PC makers exploited BIOS copyright strings to unlock trial software during the Windows 95 era

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2026-02-19 22:06:00

What just happened? Jokingly referred to as "Plug and Pray" due to its notorious unreliability, the Plug and Play standard was nonetheless a pivotal advancement in simplifying hardware and peripheral configuration during the early Windows 9x era. Beyond easing setup for end users, the technology also played an unexpected role in exposing a cartel of PC manufacturers that had been exploiting a hardware feature to provide full versions of trial software packages to their customers. Microsoft vete

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Anthropic Scores a Landmark AI Copyright Win—but Will Face Trial Over Piracy Claims

wired.com Kate Knibbs 2026-02-23 02:26:26

Anthropic has scored a major victory in an ongoing legal battle over artificial intelligence models and copyright, one that may reverberate across the dozens of other AI copyright lawsuits winding through the legal system in the United States. A court has determined that it was legal for Anthropic to train its AI tools on copyrighted works, arguing that the behavior is shielded by the “fair use” doctrine, which allows for unauthorized use of copyrighted materials under certain conditions. “The

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Lenovo 2-in-1 IdeaPad Duet 5 Chromebook Is Nearly 50% Off and Comes with a Keyboard, Limited Stock Available

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2026-02-23 08:10:21

A lot of laptops are either too bulky, too limited, or just too expensive to justify. But every now and then, something strikes the right balance. You can use it to work every day, you can watch your favorite shows and movies, and you can just get some shopping done in your downtime. That’s what you’ll find with this particular laptop, which is on sale right now. It’s a deal you’re going to want to claim as soon as possible. Check out Best Buy to get the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet 5 Chromebook 2-in-1

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How the Universe and Its Mirrored Version Are Different

wired.com Zack Savitsky 2026-02-26 22:00:00

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. After her adventures in Wonderland, the fictional Alice stepped through the mirror above her fireplace in Lewis Carroll’s 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass to discover how the reflected realm differed from her own. She found that the books were all written in reverse, and the people were “living backwards,” navigating a world where effects preceded their causes. When objects appear different in the mirror, scientists call them

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I changed 6 settings on my Samsung TV to give it a significant performance boost

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2026-02-27 00:09:19

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Say you recently picked up a shiny new TV. You unbox it like a kid at Christmas and prepare to indulge in all its visual glory. You think to yourself, "This is 2025. TV technology is sizzling, and it's going to look amazing no matter what." So you plug it in and don't take one look at the default settings. Big mistake. Also: Your car's USB port is seriously underutilized: 5 features you're not taking advantage of I've been guilty of it. And I'm okay with that because it's wide

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Requiem for a Solar Plant

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-26 12:44:28

Requiem for a Solar Plant The email landed like a brick through a plate glass window. "...requiring reconductoring of 1.71 miles at a cost of $795,150...limiting output to 3MW..." I stared at my laptop screen, the blue light illuminating the shadows under my eyes in my darkened California living room. Outside, endless February rain tapped against the windows like impatient fingers. My gut churned, a familiar discomfort that had become my constant companion over the past year. This wasn't just

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YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3

gizmodo.com James Pero 2026-02-26 18:00:28

I told you that AI slop was coming for your YouTube content, and did you believe me? I don’t know, maybe you did, but if you didn’t believe before, you certainly will now. According to YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, who gave a keynote at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity on Wednesday, YouTube is getting a new tool that generates Shorts from “scratch.” By scratch, I mean with the help of Google’s recently unveiled Veo 3 AI generator. That’s right, a one-stop shop for AI slop is incom

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The JAWS shark is public domain

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-27 04:28:50

As we’re all celebrating the 50th anniversary of the movie Jaws, here’s something I bet you didn’t know: Due to a fluke of publishing and copyright law, the Jaws shark is public domain. It’s not the character of the shark that’s public domain – or someone would surely be making a low-budget horror prequel about how he became the Amity Island Killer. But I’m talking about the famous shark painting from the movie poster: Yep. That painting, the same one that appeared on the cover of the paperbac

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It's True: The Jaws Shark Is Public Domain

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-27 16:28:50

As we’re all celebrating the 50th anniversary of the movie Jaws, here’s something I bet you didn’t know: Due to a fluke of publishing and copyright law, the Jaws shark is public domain. It’s not the character of the shark that’s public domain – or someone would surely be making a low-budget horror prequel about how he became the Amity Island Killer. But I’m talking about the famous shark painting from the movie poster: Yep. That painting, the same one that appeared on the cover of the paperbac

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Posit floating point numbers: thin triangles and other tricks (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Marc B. Reynolds 2026-03-03 17:42:03

WARNING: Some numerical analysis and mathematics will be mentioned in passing. Also the number systems will not be treated like black-boxes. Risk of physical injury, however, is negligible. I like magic tricks. Watching the performer do the show and attempting to catch the “slight-of-hand” that makes the impossible seem possible. It’s fun and makes me believe in magic for a few moments. So I’m going to give a shot at doing some floating point magic tricks. Throughout my performance I’ll use

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The 6 Best OLED TVs (2025)

wired.com Ryan Waniata 2026-03-04 03:33:00

OLED is the best screen technology right now, which means the best OLED TVs provide the pinnacle of picture quality. Imagine a jet black screen in which each tiny pixel is controlled independently for an image that seems to appear from the void like magic. It’s almost hard to believe it’s real, and it keeps getting better. Display manufacturers like LG and Samsung have pushed OLED beyond expectations for brighter highlights, richer and more natural colors, and faster refresh rates to elevate eve

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Elon Says He’s Working to ‘Fix’ Grok After AI Disagrees With Him on Right-Wing Violence

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2026-03-05 22:05:03

Billionaire conspiracy theorist Elon Musk really doesn’t like it when Grok says anything that contradicts his far-right worldview. And that’s exactly what his AI chatbot did late Tuesday when an X user asked whether people on the political right or the political left have been more violent since President Donald Trump was first elected in 2016. Grok said it was people on the right. Musk responded that he was working to fix Grok so it wouldn’t do that again. It all started on Tuesday in a tweet

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This Insignia 50″ Smart TV Drops Below the Price of the Same-Size Amazon Fire TV for a Limited Time

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2026-03-06 03:10:54

It’s time to upgrade that smart TV you bought 10 years ago. Amazon has a wide range of TVs from all the big name providers and you can secure yourself something that looks great without breaking the bank. One of the major deals we’ve come across is for the Insignia 55-inch Class F50 Series LED 4K UHD Smart Fire TV. Typically priced at $300, right now you’d save a solid 40%. That brings the price down to just $180, saving you $120. This Insignia smart TV supports HDR 10, allowing for true darkne

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AI copyright anxiety will hold back creativity

technologyreview.com Nitin Nohria 2026-03-08 13:00:00

During a later visit to a Picasso exhibit in Milan, I came across a famous informational diagram by the art historian Alfred Barr, mapping how modernist movements like Cubism evolved from earlier artistic traditions. Picasso is often held up as one of modern art’s most original and influential figures, but Barr’s chart made plain the many artists he drew from—Goya, El Greco, Cézanne, African sculptors. This made me wonder: If a generative AI model had been fed all those inputs, might it have pro

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Lawyers Just Discovered Something About Meta's AI That Could Cost Zuckerberg Untold Billions of Dollars

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-08 23:09:59

A legal expert found that Meta's AI is able to spit out entire portions of books verbatim — and if he's right, it could be seriously bad news for the company and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg. First, a quick primer. All the AI that's commercially buzzy at the moment, like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Meta's Llama, is trained by feeding in huge amounts of data. Then researchers do a bunch of number crunching using algorithms, basically teaching the system to recognize patterns in all that data so thoroughly th

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No Hello

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-09 19:09:22

Note that Keith could have got his answer minutes sooner, and needn't have kept Tim waiting. In fact, Tim could have started thinking about the question right away! People who do this are generally trying to be polite by not jumping right into the request, like one would in person or on the phone - and that's great! But it's 2022 and chat is neither of those things. For most people, typing is much slower than talking. So despite best intentions, you're actually just making the other person wait

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‘Psyop’: How Far-Right Conspiracy Theories About the Minnesota Shooting Evolved to Protect MAGA

wired.com David Gilbert 2026-03-10 15:54:00

In the hours after Vance Boelter was named as the suspect in the fatal shooting of Melissa Hortman, a Democratic Minnesota state representative, and her husband Mark Hortman, far-right conspiracists and Republican influencers claimed he was a violent, leftist Democrat. “The far left is murderously violent,” Elon Musk wrote on X on Saturday, a post that remains on the site and has been viewed over 50 million times. When the facts of the story emerged—that the alleged shooter had been registered

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Writing a Truth Oracle in Lisp

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-09 00:50:53

This post assumes some familiarity with typed functional programming, Lisp, and formal logic. Today we will attempt to write a truth oracle in Lisp. By "truth oracle," I mean a program that can determine whether arbitrary mathematical statements are true or false. This might sound impossible, due to first-order logic being undecidable, but let's try anyway. Before that, though, we need to go over some required concepts. Extracting information from proofs First, sometimes, we can extract info

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Anker 5-in-1 USB-C Hub Just Dropped to Almost Free, Limited Stock Available on Amazon

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2026-03-13 11:40:03

If you’ve ever found yourself flipping your laptop over and over looking for a USB port that just doesn’t exist anymore, you’re not alone. Laptops keep getting thinner, and ports keep disappearing. But that doesn’t mean you won’t be able to use them at all anymore. You just need to get smarter about it. And luckily, there are products out there meant to help you do this so you can take full advantage of all the connections your laptop or Chromebook can support. And there’s a deal on one right no

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Tesla Drivers Sue Elon Musk for Turning Their Cars Into "Extreme" Right-Wing Symbols

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-15 02:08:11

"Tesla branded vehicles have become strong political symbols and now appear to be veritable extreme-right 'totems.'" The Implications Tesla drivers in France are suing Elon Musk's EV maker for turning their vehicles into what they characterize as "extreme-right" symbols. As news agency France 24 reports, the owners are demanding that their lease contracts be terminated and reimbursed for the accrued legal costs. "Because of Elon Musk's actions... Tesla branded vehicles have become strong pol

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Pixel phones may finally get native flashlight brightness controls, years after Samsung and Apple

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-15 23:00:49

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google may add native flashlight brightness controls to Pixel phones in the next quarterly release of Android 16. While the hardware has long supported it, Pixel users currently need to use an app to adjust the flashlight’s intensity. The new feature, discovered in the latest beta, will likely make the Quick Settings flashlight tile expandable. Nearly every smartphone has an LED flash on the rear that you can use as a flashlight in a pinch, but most d

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Disney and Universal sue AI image company Midjourney for unlicensed use of Star Wars, The Simpsons and more

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2026-03-16 08:40:12

The Walt Disney logo is displayed on screen during the Walt Disney Studios presentation at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace at CinemaCon 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada, on April 3, 2025. Disney and Universal joined forces in a lawsuit against artificial intelligence image creator Midjourney, alleging copyright infringement. It is the first AI copyright lawsuit from Hollywood giants. The lawsuit claims that the company used and distributed AI-generated characters from the movie studios like Star War

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"Piracy Is Piracy": Disney Sues Midjourney for Massive Copyright Violation

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-16 09:31:56

Disney and NBCUniversal — a pair of media behemoths behind franchises ranging from "Star Wars" and "Toy Story" to "Minions" and "Shrek" — are suing AI company Midjourney, accusing it of enabling copyright infringement on a massive scale through its AI image generator tech. In the lawsuit, which was filed in a California district court today, the two Hollywood juggernauts accused the firm of ignoring its previous requests to stop violating their intellectual property rights. "Midjourney is the

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Disney and Universal Studios file suit against Midjourney for copyright infringement

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-16 07:42:06

Disney and NBCUniversal have filed a joint suit against AI company Midjourney alleging copyright infringement on their various properties. The complaint, filed in federal district court in Los Angeles, includes images created by Midjourney that feature a wide variety of protected characters from each company’s various properties, including Star Wars, Shrek, The Simpsons, Despicable Me and others. The 110-page suit alleges that the AI company “helped itself to countless” copyrighted works when tr

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Apple made a haptic trailer for the F1 movie that only works on iPhones

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-16 11:08:16

It 'lets you feel the action of the film right in your hands.' The long-anticipated F1 film comes to theaters on June 27 . To celebrate the pending release, Apple has developed a haptic trailer exclusively for iPhones. This leverages the smartphone's Taptic Engine to let people "feel the action" right in the palm of their hands. Apple promises that viewers will "experience the power of the engines, the rumble of the curbs, and the intensity of every gear shift like never before with responsive

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Best Outdoor Projector for 2025: Tested by Our Experts

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-16 11:00:00

CNET staff -- not advertisers, partners or business interests -- determine how we review products and services. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. The best outdoor projectors can create the ultimate backyard movie night. You can watch movies on Netflix, Disney Plus, Amazon Prime Video or videos on YouTube while camping in the wild or behind your house. All you need is one of these projectors and a flat -- or flat-ish -- surface for an instant movie theater. Portable, batter

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Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features

Anthropic destroyed millions of physical books to train its AI, court documents reveal

Meta Wins Blockbuster AI Copyright Case—but There’s a Catch

Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books

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Posit floating point numbers: thin triangles and other tricks (2019)

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Disney and Universal Studios file suit against Midjourney for copyright infringement

Apple made a haptic trailer for the F1 movie that only works on iPhones

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