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Anthropic Faces Potentially "Business-Ending" Copyright Lawsuit

news.ycombinator.com Garrison Lovely 2025-12-28 02:41:26

This piece has been updated to add additional context and clarify some details. Anthropic, the AI startup that’s long presented itself as the industry’s safe and ethical choice, is now facing legal penalties that could bankrupt the company. Damages resulting from its mass use of pirated books would likely exceed a billion dollars, with the statutory maximum stretching into the hundreds of billions. Last week, William Alsup, a federal judge in San Francisco, certified a class action lawsuit aga

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This founder left Silicon Valley to challenge U.S. defense supremacy from Athens, and investors are paying attention

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-12-28 03:05:34

In the summer of 2021, Dimitrious Kottas made a move that would be unfathomable to most Silicon Valley engineers: after leaving his coveted position at Apple’s Special Projects Group, he packed up his life in California and moved back to Athens to start a defense company. Three and a half years later, his startup, Delian Alliance Industries, has set up solar-powered surveillance towers that monitor some of Greece’s borders around the clock and detect wildfires on remote islands, along with a pi

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Minister must apologise over Savile claim, says Farage

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-28 14:28:07

Minister must apologise over Savile claim, says Farage 33 minutes ago Share Save Kate Whannel Political reporter Share Save PA Media Nigel Farage has urged Technology Secretary Peter Kyle to "do the right thing and apologise" after he suggested that by opposing the government's online safety law, the Reform UK leader was on the side of sex offenders like Jimmy Savile. Reform has said it would scrap the new law, arguing it does not protect children and suppresses free speech. Kyle told Sky New

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Félix Nadar: the first celebrity photographer (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-23 21:26:05

Having his subjects sit for him allowed him to hone his skill for observation, resulting in wittily accurate portrayals that seemed to nail their personality and character traits. His genuine fascination for those he depicted would prove invaluable when he turned to photography in 1854, having first installed his artist brother Adrien in the profession. “He had figured out that people were willing to pay for images of famous people and this was a great tool as the images were quickly replicable

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50x rendering speed improvements in Hologram (Elixir web framework)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 10:27:54

Hologram v0.5.0 Released! Hologram 0.5.0 represents a major evolution of the framework, delivering significant new features, performance improvements, and architectural changes that provide a more robust foundation for future development. This release brings substantial performance enhancements across the entire stack - execution times have improved from milliseconds to microseconds in many core client-side operations, making Hologram fast enough to handle real-time interactions like mouse mov

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The best budgeting apps for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-28 15:01:26

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Managing your finances doesn’t have to be complicated, and there are so many tools available now that can make things easier (and even partially automated) for you. I was a Mint user for many years, but I was forced to find a new budgeting app after the service shut down in March 2024.

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The Vatican observatory looks to the heavens

news.ycombinator.com Rebecca Mead 2025-12-28 03:34:40

When the late Pope Francis was elected, a dozen years ago, and famously declined the pomp and perquisites typically associated with the office, among his renunciations was the use of the papal summer residence—a seventeenth-century palazzo in Castel Gandolfo, about fifteen miles south of Rome. Generations of Popes had enjoyed the use of the mansion, which overlooks a volcanic lake and is surrounded by spectacular terraced gardens. The palazzo is now a museum where visitors can admire a gallery o

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Structural-Demographic Theory

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-28 10:04:03

The causes of revolutions and major rebellions are in many ways similar to processes that cause earthquakes (Goldstone 1991: 35). In both revolutions and earthquakes it is useful to distinguish the structural conditions (pressures, which build up slowly) from triggers (sudden releasing events, which immediately precede a social or geological eruption). Specific triggers of political upheavals, such as self-immolation of a fruit vendor, which triggered the Arabic Spring in Tunisia, are very hard

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Google launches new AI search feature in UK

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-28 17:01:34

Google launches new AI search feature in UK 59 minutes ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman • @zsk Technology editor Share Save Getty Images Google is rolling out a new tool in the UK that will generate results using artificial intelligence (AI), in a significant shake-up to the world's most popular search engine. Instead of a list of search results showing links to other websites in blue type, people who choose "AI Mode" will be given an answer written in a conversational style, containing far fewer

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Anthropic throttles Claude rate limits, devs call foul

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-12-28 16:18:31

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Anthropic announced today it would introduce weekly rate limits for Claude subscribers, claiming that some users have been running Claude 24/7, with the majority of usage centered around its Claude Code product. Overall weekly limits will begin on August 28 and will be in conjunction with the current 5-hour limits. Anthropic said the throt

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Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors?

news.ycombinator.com Kevin Sieff 2025-12-25 00:32:22

MUR-DE-BRETAGNE, France — After the world’s best cyclists charged up the final climb in Stage 7 of the Tour de France, passing a roaring crowd at the finish line, a group of officials in black polo shirts darted toward their bikes. The officials put red bracelets on the carbon frames. Their job was to conduct a little-known check in one of the world’s most scandal-stained sports: The bikes were being inspected for tiny motors. Eight bikes were wheeled to a black tent a few feet from the podium,

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A Life-Size Naboo Starfighter Will Be Among the Highlights of George Lucas’ New Museum

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-12-28 22:00:33

To close out San Diego Comic-Con with a bang, George Lucas made his first appearance at the long-running pop culture fest alongside filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and award-winning Lucasfilm designer Doug Chiang. But the panel topic wasn’t a new Star Wars project; it was the importance of keeping art accessible to the public, especially during unprecedented times, at the Lucas Museum opening next year in Los Angeles. Fanboys, fret not, though—during a quick sizzle reel of featured works, eagle-ey

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Google Revises Android Earthquake Alerts After Major Miss in Turkey

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-28 20:45:44

Google says it has updated its Android Earthquake Alerts System after the tool failed to deliver its most urgent warnings to millions of people during the devastating earthquakes in Turkey in 2023. The system, which turns Android phones into "mini seismometers," is designed to detect earthquakes quickly and push alerts to people nearby seconds before strong shaking hits, according to Google. But when two massive quakes struck southern Turkey and Syria in February 2023, the alerts system didn't

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Anthropic is rate limiting Claude Code, blaming some users for never turning it off

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-29 03:11:34

Anthropic has introduced new weekly rate limits on its Claude Code tool for AI assistance with coding tasks. The move comes shortly after the AI company quietly began implementing rate limits on the Claude Code service, which is an agentic side of the AI chatbot that is capable of reading code, editing files, performing tests and pushing GitHub commits. According to a series of posts from Anthropic on X, these changes are in response to some users who have been running Claude Code "continuously

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‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 00:05:41

A retired US special forces officer has revealed to the BBC why he resigned from his work with US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution centres. "I witnessed the Israeli Defense Forces shooting at the crowds of Palestinians," Anthony Aguilar told the BBC. He added that in his entire career he has never witnessed such a level of "brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against a civilian population, an unarmed, starving population".

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The Vatican Observatory Looks to the Heavens

news.ycombinator.com Rebecca Mead 2025-12-29 03:34:40

When the late Pope Francis was elected, a dozen years ago, and famously declined the pomp and perquisites typically associated with the office, among his renunciations was the use of the papal summer residence—a seventeenth-century palazzo in Castel Gandolfo, about fifteen miles south of Rome. Generations of Popes had enjoyed the use of the mansion, which overlooks a volcanic lake and is surrounded by spectacular terraced gardens. The palazzo is now a museum where visitors can admire a gallery o

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The Useless UseCallback

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 02:44:26

28.07.2025 — React, JavaScript, useCallback, Performance — 5 min read #1: The Uphill Battle of Memoization #2: The Useless useCallback I thought I'd written enough about memoization by now, but I feel there is one pattern I'm seeing a lot lately that makes me think otherwise. So today, I want to look at useCallback , and to some extent useMemo , in situations where I think they are totally pointless. Why memoize? There's usually only two reasons to create a memoized version of a function wi

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Microsoft trials Copilot Mode in Edge

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-29 08:18:51

Microsoft has debuted a Copilot Mode for its Edge web browser. When enabled, this experimental feature can search across multiple open browser tabs and analyze the information on each page. An example posted on X by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shows Copilot Mode examining several papers published by the company's researchers and assessing if they make any similar points. Today we’re introducing Copilot Mode in Edge, our first step in reinventing the browser for the AI age. My favorite featur

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Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 00:57:55

💾🎉 copyparty turn almost any device into a file server with resumable uploads/downloads using any web browser 👉 Get started! or visit the read-only demo server 👀 running on a nuc in my basement 📷 screenshots: browser // upload // unpost // thumbnails // search // fsearch // zip-DL // md-viewer 🎬 videos: upload // cli-upload // race-the-beam made in Norway 🇳🇴 readme toc quickstart just run copyparty-sfx.py -- that's it! 🎉 enable thumbnails (images/audio/video), media indexing, and audio

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FDA has approved Yeztugo, a drug that provides protection against HIV infection

news.ycombinator.com Bronwyn Has Always Loved Words 2025-12-29 08:06:00

An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark achievement that stands to save millions of lives across the globe. The makers are also providing affordable access to the drug in the US and beyond, signing royalty-free licensing agreements with six generic manufacturers to produce and supply it. In the US, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

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Anthropic unveils new rate limits to curb Claude Code power users

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-12-29 12:21:15

Anthropic says its rolling out new weekly rate limits for Claude to curb usage among subscribers who are running its AI coding tool, Claude Code, “continuously in the background, 24/7.” Anthropic says the rate limits also aim to stop a handful of users who are violating Claude’s usage policy by sharing accounts and reselling access to Claude Code. The new rate limits will go into effect August 28 for subscribers to Anthropic’s $20-per-month Pro plan, as well as its $100 and $200-per-month Max p

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Microsoft Edge is now an AI browser with launch of ‘Copilot Mode’

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-29 12:43:22

With demand for AI-powered browsers on the rise, Microsoft on Monday launched a new feature in its Edge browser called Copilot Mode, which allows users to browse the web while being assisted by AI. The idea is that the AI can become a helper that can understand what the user is researching, predict what they want to do, and then take action on their behalf. How well it works in practice remains to be seen, but Microsoft notes that Copilot Mode is still considered an experimental feature. It’s a

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I switched to the Dell 14 Premium for a week, and it makes even the XPS feel outdated

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-12-29 17:07:00

Dell 14 Premium ZDNET's key takeaways Dell's latest high-performance laptop is currently on sale starting at $1,500. It's superbly designed, with a sleek, modern build and powerful, but accessible, hardware. It runs warm, and requires power management from the user to get the most out of the battery. View now at Dell Dell's laptop rebrand may have resulted in some shuffling around of naming conventions, but the new Dell 14 Premium -- Dell's refreshed high-performance line of laptops -- looks

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Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship

news.ycombinator.com Patricia Hernandez 2025-12-29 16:53:52

In the wake of storefronts like Steam and itch.io curbing the sale of adult games, irate fans have started an organized campaign against the payment processors that they believe are responsible for the crackdown. While the movement is still in its early stages, people are mobilizing with an eye toward overwhelming communication lines at companies like Visa and Mastercard in a way that will make the concern impossible to ignore. On social media sites like Reddit and Bluesky, people are urging on

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Chrome gives you another reason to use it for online shopping

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-29 22:00:56

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google has announced a new Chrome feature that allows users to easily gain insights into a store’s reputation and product quality. The tool provides an AI-generated summary that pulls data from Google Shopping and other review sites. The feature is limited to users in the US. Even if you’re a prolific online shopper, it can be difficult to figure out exactly which stores you should and shouldn’t trust. One way to do this is to check the store’s revie

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Microsoft wants you to chat with its browser now - but can you trust this Copilot?

zdnet.com Ed Bott 2025-12-29 22:00:17

Microsoft / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Microsoft's on a relentless quest to embed its Copilot AI into every software product it owns. That campaign takes another big step forward today with the addition of some new generative AI features in the company's Edge browser. Today's release beefs up the capabilities of Copilot Mode, the chat-based search interface for Edge, on Windows PCs and Macs. You can use natural voice commands to navigate pages, and the chatbot can see all the open tabs in th

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Microsoft Edge transforms into an AI browser with new Copilot Mode

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-12-29 22:00:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is starting to test a new experimental Copilot Mode inside its Edge browser today. The AI-powered mode allows Copilot to search across all your open tabs and handle tasks like booking a restaurant, and it brings the Copilot chatbot to your new tab page. Copilot Mode is somewhere between the limited Gemini integration that Google is testing in Chrome and the AI-powere

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The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global

news.ycombinator.com Bronwyn Has Always Loved Words 2025-12-30 02:06:00

An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark achievement that stands to save millions of lives across the globe. The makers are also providing affordable access to the drug in the US and beyond, signing royalty-free licensing agreements with six generic manufacturers to produce and supply it. In the US, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

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Here’s how Samsung is speeding up software updates for Galaxy devices

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-30 08:13:53

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung managed to release its Android 16-based One UI 8 update so quickly by adopting Google’s new “Trunk Stable” development model. Instead of using separate branches for new versions, all development now happens on a single, stable codebase with features hidden behind flags until ready. This trunk-based approach avoids the time-consuming “merge conflicts” of the old model, enabling a much faster release schedule for Google and Samsung. While Google

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Dell's back to school sale includes up to $350 off Premium laptops

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-30 08:32:05

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . That brings the price of a specced out 16-inch model down to $2,350. Dell is holding a back to school sale on all kinds of laptops and accessories, and there are some significant discounts on offer. The company's newly-released line of Premium laptops is up to $350 off, depending on t

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Latest Tech News

Anthropic Faces Potentially "Business-Ending" Copyright Lawsuit

This founder left Silicon Valley to challenge U.S. defense supremacy from Athens, and investors are paying attention

Minister must apologise over Savile claim, says Farage

Félix Nadar: the first celebrity photographer (2019)

50x rendering speed improvements in Hologram (Elixir web framework)

The best budgeting apps for 2025

The Vatican observatory looks to the heavens

Structural-Demographic Theory

Google launches new AI search feature in UK

Anthropic throttles Claude rate limits, devs call foul

Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors?

A Life-Size Naboo Starfighter Will Be Among the Highlights of George Lucas’ New Museum

Google Revises Android Earthquake Alerts After Major Miss in Turkey

Anthropic is rate limiting Claude Code, blaming some users for never turning it off

‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]

The Vatican Observatory Looks to the Heavens

The Useless UseCallback

Microsoft trials Copilot Mode in Edge

Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

FDA has approved Yeztugo, a drug that provides protection against HIV infection

Anthropic unveils new rate limits to curb Claude Code power users

Microsoft Edge is now an AI browser with launch of ‘Copilot Mode’

I switched to the Dell 14 Premium for a week, and it makes even the XPS feel outdated

Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship

Chrome gives you another reason to use it for online shopping

Microsoft wants you to chat with its browser now - but can you trust this Copilot?

Microsoft Edge transforms into an AI browser with new Copilot Mode

The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global

Here’s how Samsung is speeding up software updates for Galaxy devices

Dell's back to school sale includes up to $350 off Premium laptops

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