Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin , of the Northern District of California, described the settlement as a source of "significant relief" for the plaintiffs in her ruling on Monday.
Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion to authors for using pirated books to train Claude. - Sinaptica
What happened A federal judge in the United States approved the $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and a group of authors and publishers who sued the com
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They say books won’t change the world. Tell that to every colonizer who burned them. To every enslaved person who was punished for reading. Literacy is resistance. Literacy is liberation. The library is a battlefield.
Copilot's code reviewer is just as good as a senior software engineer. It fails to understand the intention of the pull request and chooses about 5 things to give erroneous feedback about because it's underpaid and tired. It's trying to look busy until 5:00, but for it, 5:00 never comes.
"If these tools are so good, where's all the magic software?" I see more bugs now, in software that was rock solid before. The uncomfortable question: when does that hit something load-bearing? Has it already?
What if I were to tell you there's a way to produce less reliable and less secure software that takes longer and costs more? I can see you're intrigued.
ICE is not broken. It's agents murdering people, taking trophies of victims, using illegal tactics, breaking laws, spreading terror, and leaving death cards are not isolated events, outliers, or accidents. ICE is operating exactly as intended.
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/
"Trying to 'engage' with fascism is like trying to have an intimate emotional relationship with a running chainsaw. The very act of framing fascism as a reasonable partner for dialogue is an act of propaganda that validates and normalizes fascism." Good read on the utter failure of corporate media:
Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 4mo agoover at the newsletter I wrote about how Tim Cook is an embarrassing coward
It would be an objective good for the world if Donald Trump died tonight and not a second later.
Every piece of US Military hardware destroyed for any reason is a net good for the world
@viewfrommyoffic.bsky.social · 5mo ago30 million dollar drone shot down due to incompetence. Now two F-15s taken out due to friendly fire. Estimated cost of 90-95 million each unit. 200 million pissed away in 3 days. #Whee #Merica
When it was slow to write code, it was slow to accumulate technical debt. What is it about LLMs that won't result in accumulating technical debt even faster than before?
Cancel World Cup No sporting event is worth killing one dog www.newsweek.com/will-million...
Will millions of dogs be killed ahead of World Cup? What we know
Morocco has been accused of culling millions of stray dogs ahead of it co-hosting the 2030 FIFA World Cup.
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The history of gRPC is well worth the read. Thanks for sharing this @danciruli.cloud
Dan Ciruli@danciruli.cloud · 6mo agoI worked on a few fairly prominent efforts in open source (Istio, OpenAPI), but I think of all of them, it’s gRPC that I think has the coolest story. Pull up a chair and set for a spell (any inaccuracies in what follows are 100% my fault for having a bad memory!).
In 20 years the most popular book will be titled: "How to think without a computer"
In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
Corporatist fascism, plain and simple. DHS is trying to get tech companies to hand over data on Trump critics. This is unconstitutional, and Congress must shut it down, before we turn into East Germany. techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/h...
Homeland Security is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics | TechCrunch
The use of administrative subpoenas, which are not subject to judicial oversight, are used to demand a wealth of information from tech companies, including the owners of anonymous online accounts docu...
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1980: en mis tiempos, escribíamos código en ensamblador 1990: en mis tiempos, escribíamos código en COBOL 2000: en mis tiempos, escribíamos código en BASIC 2010: en mis tiempos, escribíamos código en C 2020: en mis tiempos, escribíamos código en PHP 2030: en mis tiempos, escribíamos código.
Generating code was never the goal. The goal was to solve problems. I tried my best to avoid writing code by leveraging existing solutions or reframing the problem. Writing code was always a last resort and a liability. If I was going to write code, then I was going to do it right.
ceos are so fucking delusional. People cannot be more clear: we fucking hate AI being shoved in every product. And yet they still think if they push hard enough it's going to magically turn into money for them.
Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users
Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.
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Sobran arquitectos de software y faltan ingenieros civiles de software.
Good. I don't give a shit if people think it's performative or late to the game or whatever. Every damn celebrity in the country should be using their platform to push back against fascism.
Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 6mo ago“I can’t stay silent, and neither should you,” Ringwald said. “It’s not becoming a fascist government; it is a fascist government.” parade.com/news/molly-r...
The UK has lost its measles elimination status, the World Health Organization has announced. Vaccine disinformation is a worldwide pandemic that is killing us.
UK loses measles elimination status
Decision made after outbreaks in 2024, when there were nearly 3,000 cases in England and Wales.
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