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

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 03:19:39

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

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 11:07:16

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 2025-10-09 11:21:02

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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Synthesizing Object-Oriented and Functional Design to Promote Re-Use

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 11:39:25

Synthesizing Object-Oriented and Functional Design to Promote Re-Use Shriram Krishnamurthi, Matthias Felleisen, Daniel P. Friedman European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, 1998 Abstract Many problems require recursively specified types of data and a collection of tools that operate on those data. Over time, these problems evolve so that the programmer must extend the toolkit or extend the types and adjust the existing tools accordingly. Ideally, this should be done without modifyi

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All the Dyson Hair Tools You’ll Ever Need (2025)

wired.com Boutayna Chokrane 2025-10-09 19:00:00

Dyson launched its first hair dryer, the Supersonic, back in 2016. Since then, Dyson's hair tools include dryers, stylers, and straighteners. Among the lineup is a wet-to-dry straightener, the infamous Airwrap and all of its accessories, and a teeny, tiny blowdryer, in addition to the aforementioned standard-size hair dryer. Regardless of whether you’re new to the world of hair tools or a seasoned professional, it can feel overwhelming. There are a lot of factors at play in choosing the right o

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Motorola’s budget Razr is even more affordable now that it’s $100 off

theverge.com Brandon Russell 2025-10-09 19:15:00

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. If you’ve been eyeing a flip phone but have been put off by the price, now’s your chance to snag one at a serious discount. Motorola’s latest Razr is currently matching its all-time low price of $599.99 ($100 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and Motorola’s online storefront, making what was already an affordable flip phone even cheaper. The 2025 Razr is a solid, relatively inexpensive entry point into the world of

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Microsoft: Anti-spam bug blocks links in Exchange Online, Teams

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-09 23:40:58

Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that causes an anti-spam service to mistakenly block Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams users from opening URLs and quarantine some of their emails. In a service alert seen by BleepingComputer, the company stated that the issue is caused by the anti-spam engine incorrectly tagging URLs contained within other URLs as potentially malicious, which has also led to some emails being quarantined. The issues began impacting Exchange Online and Microsoft

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If Apple unveils the iPhone 17 Air with these features today, I'm ready to upgrade

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2025-10-09 23:12:00

The iPhone Plus model (pictured) may potentially be replaced by the iPhone Air/Slim. Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways iPhone 17 Air may debut as Apple's thinnest phone ever today. Single rear camera shows Apple's thinness trade-offs. Expected to debut on Sept. 9, 2025, priced around $900. Apple is rumored to be spicing things for today's iPhone event. It could introduce an ultra-thin model for the 2025 iPhone lineup called the iPho

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cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 23:14:00

I spend every day on the hunt for deals that save you money, so you don't have to. And I mean genuine savings; fake discounts don't pass the sniff test. My team and I are continually tracking and handpicking the best offers from the biggest retailers, such as Amazon and Walmart, for our CNET Deals text subscribers. I'll send the best sales to your phone to help you score the hottest deals without lifting a finger. With Apple set to announce new products, including the iPhone 17, we anticipate u

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Abu Dhabi launches low-cost AI reasoning model in challenge to OpenAI, DeepSeek

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-10-10 03:00:01

Omer Taha Cetin | Anadolu | Getty Images A new challenger in the global artificial intelligence race has entered the ring. The Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), an AI-focused research university established by the United Arab Emirates, announced on Tuesday the release of a new, low-cost reasoning model to rival OpenAI and DeepSeek. It comes after DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, earlier this year shocked the world with the release of a reasoning model called R1 which

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The USB-C Apple Pencil drops to a new all-time low

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-10 03:15:45

It's still back-to-school season and, regardless of whether you've picked up a textbook recently, that will always mean its time to pick up new supplies. Thankfully, there are some great deals currently running, including a new all-time low price for the USB-C Apple Pencil. Right now, you can pick up the USB-C Apple Pencil for $50, down from $79. The 37 percent discount is available as part of Woot's warehouse clean out and will run for six more days or until the accessory sells out. Notably, W

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The United Arab Emirates Releases a Tiny But Powerful AI Model

wired.com Will Knight 2025-10-10 03:33:44

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has released an open source model that performs advanced reasoning as well as the best offerings from both the United States and China—one of the strongest signs so far that the nation’s big investments in artificial intelligence are starting to pay off. The new model, K2 Think, comes from researchers at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) located in UAE’s capital Abu Dhabi. The model—one of the first so-called “sovereign” AI models th

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A New Platform Offers Privacy Tools to Millions of Public Servants

wired.com Dell Cameron 2025-10-10 11:00:00

A first-of-its-kind marketplace rolled out on Tuesday offering free and discounted privacy and security services to America’s 23 million current and former public servants. The initiative is supported by the Public Service Alliance (PSA), a nonprofit group that says it formed last summer following an unprecedented rise in threats against government workers across the United States. Open to anyone who is serving or has served in government—federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial—the platfo

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Lenovo Coupon Codes and Deals: Up to $890 Off

wired.com Luke Larsen 2025-10-10 11:20:00

Lenovo is currently the biggest PC and laptop company in the world, and they just so happen to make some of our favorite laptops and PC peripherals. In fact, our list of the Best Laptops you can buy include a number of Lenovo devices that we’ve tested and fully recommend, ranging from high-end premium laptops to options for budget-minded shoppers. If you are looking to save a few bucks while shopping for a new Lenovo product, here are the Lenovo coupon codes and special offers you need to know a

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Job mismatch and early career success

news.ycombinator.com Julie Berry Cullen 2025-10-10 22:57:40

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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Turn Live Footage Into CG Scenes for Free With AutoDesk

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-10 23:22:00

If you edit videos on the regular, you know how expensive certain software and tools can be, especially when you start playing with special effects. Things like CGI are often not accessible by the average person. But with AutoDesk, you can bring Hollywood right to your laptop with its Flow Studio tool. This tool is a cloud-based and AI-powered to bring your live-action footage into editable CG scenes. Software like this seems like it would cost a fortune. But what if it it didn't cost you anyth

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Lovesac confirms data breach after ransomware attack claims

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-11 11:24:25

American furniture brand Lovesac is warning that it suffered a data breach impacting an undisclosed number of individuals, stating their personal data was exposed in a cybersecurity incident. Lovesac is a furniture designer, manufacturer, and retailer, operating 267 showrooms across the United States, and having annual net sales of $750 million. They are best known for their modular couch systems called 'sactionals,' as well as their bean bags called 'sacs.' According to the notices sent to i

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Wi-Fi Signals Can Measure Heart Rates Without Wearables, New Research Suggests

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-11 10:46:00

Imagine checking your heart rate without strapping on a smartwatch or chest monitor. This future might not be far off. Engineers at the University of California-Santa Cruz developed a system that uses Wi-Fi signals to monitor heart rate without the need for smartwatches, chest straps or other wearables. The project, known as Pulse-Fi, shows in early data that ordinary wireless devices can be repurposed as accurate health sensors. "Non-intrusive monitoring of vital signs such as heart rate is c

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Spotify’s new ‘smart filters’ let you screen library content by activity, genre, or mood

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-11 12:50:40

Spotify is giving users more ways to personalize what they hear. The company is launching a new feature that allows users to filter their library by specific activities, moods, or genres. These filters can also be used to find playlists, or, to some extent, audiobooks and podcasts, and can even kick off a new session on Spotify’s AI DJ. The smart filters, which began rolling out on Friday, will first be made available to Premium subscribers on mobile devices and tablets in select markets, inclu

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Tropical Storms Routinely Shredded Baby Pterosaurs, Fossil Evidence Suggests

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-11 19:15:24

The Solnhofen Limestone, a fossil hotspot in southern Germany, hosts a particularly rich array of baby pterosaur bones. That led paleontologists to believe that the animals flourished here—until an autopsy unveiled the broken, storm-tossed wings of two baby pterosaurs, painting a darker picture of how the bones got there. In a Current Biology paper published September 5, paleontologists at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom describe the tragic tale of Lucky and Lucky II, two baby

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Are You Using the Wrong Cooking Oil? Here's What a Chef Says

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-11 18:38:00

A walk down the cooking oil aisle can feel a bit overwhelming. Olive, avocado, canola, grapeseed, peanut -- they all promise something different, and not every bottle works for every recipe. If you use the wrong one, your dish can end up greasy, bitter or just plain off. The key to choosing the correct one is knowing which oils handle heat best and which are better left raw. High-heat methods like frying or searing call for neutral oils with a higher smoke point, such as canola, avocado or grap

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All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-11 19:24:59

Last year, we reported on the efforts of classic iPod fans to preserve playable copies of the downloadable clickwheel games that Apple sold for a brief period in the late '00s. The community was working to get around Apple's onerous FairPlay DRM by having people who still owned original copies of those (now unavailable) games sync their accounts to a single iTunes installation via a coordinated Virtual Machine. That "master library" would then be able to provide playable copies of those games to

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Job Mismatch and Early Career Success

news.ycombinator.com Julie Berry Cullen 2025-10-11 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

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OpenAI Wants This Film to Prove AI Animation Is Ready for the Big Screen

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-11 23:11:00

Can generative AI animate a decent movie? That question's getting an early test. OpenAI and production studio Vertigo Films have announced a plan to create a feature-length adaptation of a 2023 short film made as a demonstration for OpenAI's Dall-E image generator. The film, called Critterz, has a budget of less than $30 million, and producers hope to make the movie in about nine months -- in time for the Cannes Film Festival next May, according to reporting by The Wall Street Journal. The sho

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Nova Launcher’s demise is another death knell for the Android I remember

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-12 03:00:00

Robert Triggs / Android Authority Like many fans, news that Nova Launcher has hit the end of the road is a bad way to start my week. I’ve been a paid-up Nova Prime user since my Galaxy S2 and currently have the launcher padding out all the missing creature comforts on my OPPO Find X8 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro XL. It might not be everyone’s preferred third-party launcher these days, but it’s been my pick for as long as I can remember. As someone who swaps phones regularly, Nova has been my consisten

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Experimenting with Local LLMs on macOS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 03:43:17

So, this blog post will be about LLMs, and everyone has opinions about that. To be upfront about it, I’m a skeptic (bordering on hater), yet I like experimenting with stuff so I download and run them locally on my Mac. And I’ll teach you how to do it too, if you’d like! Some call them fancy autocomplete, some argue that they are sentient and should have rights. The truth is somewhere in between. Yes, they perform next word prediction, but it’s so complex that there’s nontrivial emergent behavio

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Spotify’s new ‘smart filters’ let you screen library content by activity, genre or mood

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-12 03:50:40

Spotify is giving users more ways to personalize what they hear. The company is launching a new feature that allows users to filter their library by specific activities, moods, or genres. These filters can also be used to find playlists, or, to some extent, audio books and podcasts, and can even kick off a new session on Spotify’s AI DJ. The smart filters, which began rolling out on Friday, will first be made available to Premium subscribers on mobile devices and tablets in select markets, incl

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If these iPhone 17 Air rumors are confirmed on Tuesday, I'm saying goodbye to my phone

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2025-10-12 07:40:16

The iPhone Plus model (pictured) may potentially be replaced by the iPhone Air/Slim. Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways iPhone 17 Air may debut as Apple's thinnest phone ever. Single rear camera shows Apple's thinness trade-offs. Expected to debut on Sept. 9, 2025, priced around $900. Apple is rumored to be spicing things for this Tuesday's iPhone event. It could introduce an ultra-thin model for the 2025 iPhone lineup called the iPh

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Meet the Ethiopian entrepreneur who is reinventing ammonia production

technologyreview.com Casey Crownhart 2025-10-12 19:30:00

Haile, now at Northwestern University, recalls thinking that Abate was particularly eager. As a visible Ethiopian scientist, she gets a lot of email requests, but his stood out. “No obstacle was going to stand in his way,” she says. It was risky to take on a young student with no research experience who’d only been in the US for a year, but she offered him a spot in her lab. Abate spent the summer working on materials for use in solid oxide fuel cells. He returned for the following summer, then

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Why basic science deserves our boldest investment

technologyreview.com Julia R. Greer 2025-10-12 19:45:00

Inspired by the 1945 report “Science: The Endless Frontier,” authored by Vannevar Bush at the request of President Truman, the US government began a long-standing tradition of investing in basic research. These investments have paid steady dividends across many scientific domains—from nuclear energy to lasers, and from medical technologies to artificial intelligence. Trained in fundamental research, generations of students have emerged from university labs with the knowledge and skills necessary

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

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”

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All the Dyson Hair Tools You’ll Ever Need (2025)

Motorola’s budget Razr is even more affordable now that it’s $100 off

Microsoft: Anti-spam bug blocks links in Exchange Online, Teams

If Apple unveils the iPhone 17 Air with these features today, I'm ready to upgrade

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Abu Dhabi launches low-cost AI reasoning model in challenge to OpenAI, DeepSeek

The USB-C Apple Pencil drops to a new all-time low

The United Arab Emirates Releases a Tiny But Powerful AI Model

A New Platform Offers Privacy Tools to Millions of Public Servants

Lenovo Coupon Codes and Deals: Up to $890 Off

Job mismatch and early career success

Turn Live Footage Into CG Scenes for Free With AutoDesk

Lovesac confirms data breach after ransomware attack claims

Wi-Fi Signals Can Measure Heart Rates Without Wearables, New Research Suggests

Spotify’s new ‘smart filters’ let you screen library content by activity, genre, or mood

Tropical Storms Routinely Shredded Baby Pterosaurs, Fossil Evidence Suggests

Are You Using the Wrong Cooking Oil? Here's What a Chef Says

All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity

Job Mismatch and Early Career Success

OpenAI Wants This Film to Prove AI Animation Is Ready for the Big Screen

Nova Launcher’s demise is another death knell for the Android I remember

Experimenting with Local LLMs on macOS

Spotify’s new ‘smart filters’ let you screen library content by activity, genre or mood

If these iPhone 17 Air rumors are confirmed on Tuesday, I'm saying goodbye to my phone

Meet the Ethiopian entrepreneur who is reinventing ammonia production

Why basic science deserves our boldest investment

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