Rick Beato vs UMG: Fighting Copyright Claims Over Music Clips on YouTube Summary Music educator and YouTuber Rick Beato has publicly called out Universal Music Group (UMG) after a wave…
Swatting Hits a Dozen US Universities. The FBI is Investigating Summary Federal and local authorities are probing a wave of false active-shooter reports that targeted a dozen US universities as…
Smelling This One Specific Scent Can Boost the Brain’s Grey Matter Summary A small Japanese study asked 28 women to wear a specific rose-scented oil on their clothing daily for…
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary Veteran computer scientist Brian Kernighan — co-creator of Unix and author of the classic C book — described his single…
Summary This piece summarises concerns reported by The Register and community feedback on Slashdot about aggressive AI web crawlers that are scraping pages to gather training data for large language…
Beta Blockers for Heart Attack Survivors: May Have No Benefit for Most, Could Actually Harm Women Summary A large modern trial (REBOOT) and related analyses call into question routine use…
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary The production team behind the US government climate site climate.gov were dismissed earlier in the year and the site has…
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy Summary Slashdot reports on an NBC News piece describing a growing gig economy role: freelancers hired to clean up…
OpenAI Is Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police Summary Futurism reports that OpenAI quietly disclosed in a blog post that it scans ChatGPT conversations and routes interactions…
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Summary Nearly 400 students and entrepreneurs have gathered in Forest City, Malaysia, to attend “Network School,” an initiative by Balaji Srinivasan that…
