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Microsoft Director Privately Admitted AI Was the “Largest Theft of Labor in Human History,” Unsealed Court Documents Show (futurism.com)

2026-09-17 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: openai, microsoft, new york times lawsuit

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Negativland, Culture Jamming, and the Art of Making Something New (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-16 | get Audio-Technica ATH-M20x studio headphones → | tags: negativland, culture jamming, sampling

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The Fairphone (Gen 6+) Review: Finally in the US (wired.com)

2026-09-09 | by Julian Chokkattu | get Fairphone Gen 6 smartphone → | tags: fairphone, snapdragon 7s gen 4, android

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Authors push back as publishers and agents make claims on Anthropic settlement (techcrunch.com)

2026-09-06 | by Anthony Ha | get The Copyright Handbook Nolo → | tags: anthropic, copyright settlement, harpercollins

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Why are AI companies buying books? (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-03 | get Fujitsu ScanSnap iX1600 scanner → | tags: ai companies, large language models, copyright settlement

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Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2014) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-03 | get pea and bean garden inoculant rhizobia → | tags: peanut plant, rhizobia, google science fair

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Trump Administration Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Lawsuit (wired.com)

2026-09-02 | by Kate Knibbs | get New York Times subscription gift card → | tags: openai, nytimes, copyright

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The Trump administration is supporting OpenAI in the NYT copyright lawsuit (theverge.com)

2026-09-02 | by Hayden Field | get The Coming Wave Mustafa Suleyman book → | tags: openai, nytimes, large language models

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Fair Work Commission condemns 'plain wrong' AI legal advice (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-30 | tags: fair work commission, ai legal advice, legal technology

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Ex-Meta scientists want to bring visual AI to the factory floor (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-26 | by Lucas Ropek | get Luxonis OAK-D Lite depth AI camera → | tags: meta, perceptron, isaac 0.5

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We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is an intimate coming-of-age horror film (theverge.com)

2026-08-23 | by Terrence O'Brien | get We're All Going to the World's Fair Blu-ray → | tags: world’s fair, jane schoenbrun, arg creepypasta

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Steve Jobs’ 8th-Grade Science Fair Project Is Up for Auction (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-18 | tags: steve jobs, apple, science fair

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FTC Strikes Deals to Ignore Unlawful Credit Discrimination (wired.com)

2026-08-14 | by Maddy Varner | tags: ftc, passport, coulter motor

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Equifax Customers Have a Month to Claim a Piece of $2.2M Class Action Settlement (cnet.com)

2026-08-03 | by Tyler Graham | tags: equifax, fair credit reporting act, credit reports

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Better to Beg Forgiveness (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: creative commons, copyright law, fair use

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AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale (futurism.com)

2026-07-25 | by Frank Landymore | tags: anthropic, large language models, hydraulic cutting machine

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New Jersey Bans Surveillance Pricing, Puts the Brakes on Electronic Shelf Labels (cnet.com)

2026-07-24 | by Omar Gallaga | tags: new jersey, surveillance pricing, electronic shelf labels

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Anthropic hit with largest-ever $1.5 billion penalty in copyright lawsuit — court says training AI on published material is fair use, but startup’s pirated library infringes on authors’ rights (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-21 | by Jowi Morales | tags: anthropic, copyright lawsuit, fair use

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Anthropic’s landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-21 | by Kirsten Korosec | tags: anthropic, copyright, library genesis

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Would you eat Pickle Pie? The Minnesota State Fair’s new foods are turning heads (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-10 | tags: cakes, corn, corn dogs

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International chess federation sanctions Kramnik (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-03 | get Chess Strategy Book → | tags: fide, vladimir kramnik, fair play commission

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Amazon fined $2.25M for withholding evidence from fraud victims (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-07-01 | get Legal Evidence Organizer → | tags: amazon, federal trade commission, fair credit reporting act

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Why paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal’s editor-in-chief (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-01 | by Naddaf | get Peer Review Payment Guide → | tags: biology open, peer review, fast and fair

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How FAIR data are helping to build trust in science (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-01 | by Heidt | get FAIR Data Principles Book → | tags: fair data, scientific trust, leiden university

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Amazon will pay $2.25 million to settle FTC identity theft case (engadget.com)

2026-06-30 | by Anna Washenko | get Identity Theft Protection Kit → | tags: amazon, ftc, fair credit reporting act

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Amazon fined $2.25 million for failing to help identity theft victims (theverge.com)

2026-06-30 | by Emma Roth | get Identity Theft Help Kit → | tags: amazon, ftc, identity theft

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The unbearable emptiness of the Great American State Fair (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-29 | tags: great american state fair, president trump, 250th anniversary

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Microsoft lifts price of Xbox consoles due to soaring component costs (cnbc.com)

2026-06-25 | by Jordan Novet | get Xbox Series X Console → | tags: xbox, microsoft, cologne trade fair

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Still facing copyright lawsuits, AI music generator Suno raises another $400M (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-03 | by Amanda Silberling | get Suno AI Music Generator → | tags: suno, ai music generator, fair use

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Monica Lewinsky Has Always Hated Notifications (wired.com)

2026-06-03 | by Elana Klein | get Smart Notification Silence Device → | tags: google alerts, iphone 15 pro, macbook air