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  • Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI

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  • You could take those downvotes as an invitation to check if those other stories (environmental, economical, societal) hold up any better.

  • How Claude marks AI-generated content: (1) watermarks embedded in text, and (2) signed provenance metadata attached to files.

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  • You know how these AIs output tokens? I'm going to explain the concept with words, because that makes it easier to understand. But it means that the explanation is [ETA:]NOT quite right.

    An AI has a vocabulary. The words in that vocabulary are assigned to 2 groups.

    Sometimes when the AI is outputting something, it could use different words equally well. It's not quite the same as having synonyms, cause this isn't really about words. But let's say you have synonyms in those different groups. At those points in the text, you can pick from one group or the other to embed a hidden pattern in the text.

    Limitations are obvious. To embed the watermark, you need enough opportunities to pick "synonyms". It won't work for very short texts, or if the word choices are very constrained.

    I'm curious if the negative effects are really as minor as they say.

  • New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.

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  • Natural gas. In the EU that is classified as sustainable, green energy. Or maybe that's only if it's sourced from Russia. Common regulatory W.

  • Why Normal People Aren’t Using AI Agents

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  • May I ask what the use case was?

  • Safety testers find more examples of OpenAI, Anthropic models hacking during testing

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  • Looks like we need to regulate the regulators.

  • AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

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  • I was misremembering. Google won the precedent, when they were suing over Google Books. IA had only 1 big lawsuit and were forced to settle. The non-destructive scanning is dicey.

  • AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

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  • Copyright. They mustn't make a copy. There is legal precedent that confirms it's okay to transform the copy you bought into digital format. The Internet Archive relies a lot on that. I think they actually litigated it in the first place. So that's why the copyright heads are going so absolutely apeshit. If no one's charging you rent for using some data, then it's "unethical".

  • the Pope uses his teeth to eat food

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  • Boys need good, male role models.

  • OpenAI says its AI technology acted on its own in an 'unprecedented' hack of another company

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  • OpenAI says its AI technology acted on its own in an 'unprecedented' hack of another company

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  • Seems AI generated?

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  • I tried to come up with a mildly funny title but... gestures helplessly at title

    Sorry.

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    Seems AI generated?

  • Trump says EU to pay 'very big price' for €890 million Google fine

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  • I'm not sure how much sense this makes for European citizens. What the commission wants is that Google should direct more users to European competitors rather than its own services. For example regarding price comparison sites. The major German competitor is Idealo, owned by right-wing media empire Axel Springer. Some of this seems to be only about serving the interests of our European oligarchs.

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    What France’s Under-15 Social Media Ban Means for Europe

    www.techpolicy.press /what-frances-under15-social-media-ban-means-for-europe/

  • DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng Breaks His Silence: In a rare four-hour talk, the reclusive founder reveals an almost Daoist philosophy of AI—AGI as a tide no company can own...

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  • The EU's AI Act calls them open source, so that ship has sailed.

  • Microsoft strikes 'multibillion-dollar' deal with French AI firm Mistral

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  • Yes, but that only puts an upper limit on the price that anyone would be willing to pay.

    It's like this: Both companies estimate how much money they expect to make from using those servers for their own purposes. In Mistral's case, that might be a negative amount. Regardless, Microsoft obviously can put the capacity to better use. So they can offer to rent it from Mistral for more than Mistral believes it can make on its own. Basically, MS passes on some of their profits to Mistral.

  • 'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark Anne Frank copyright ruling

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  • Continental Europe had worse copyright laws since the 19th century. The US founding fathers were enlightenment age idealists, hence the copyright clause. European copyright laws were created by authoritarian empires. It's a major reason why we can't do tech. And I suspect also why Europe can't answer to the dominance of US culture.

    Legal theft like the Mickey-Mouse-Protection-Law is controversial in the US. In the EU, it goes by without comment. That ends up giving casual observers an exactly reverse impression of the legal and social situation. Same for a lot of issues.

  • 'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark Anne Frank copyright ruling

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  • Very minor. They are simply not illegal at present. This does not put a check on lawmakers wanting to outlaw or "regulate" them.

  • 'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark Anne Frank copyright ruling

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  • a) The EU extended copyright before the US. It went even further than the US by reviving previously expired copyrights.

    b) The relevant copyrights are expired in most of Europe. They still exist in the NL because of a special exemption granted by lawmakers.

  • OpenAI says its AI technology acted on its own in an 'unprecedented' hack of another company

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  • What would you consider sufficient to confirm the story?

  • OpenAI admits responsibility for HuggingFace Attack - an agent from an internal evaluation is reportedly the cause

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  • That reddit comment makes no sense.

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    Peter Thiel to Receive the 2026 Axel Springer Award

    www.axelspringer.com /en/ax-press-release/peter-thiel-to-receive-the-2026-axel-springer-award
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    Not Everything that is on Fire Should be Extinguished

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    EU Mandates Driver-Facing Cameras in New Cars From Today

    reclaimthenet.org /eu-mandates-driver-facing-cameras-in-new-cars-from-today
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    Copyright challenges in open-source AI development in the European Union – Open Future

    openfuture.eu /publication/copyright-challenges-in-open-source-ai-development-in-the-european-union/
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    Anthropic disables top-tier AI models after US order limiting foreign access

    www.reuters.com /technology/us-blocks-foreign-access-anthropics-most-advanced-ai-models-axios-reports-2026-06-13/
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    New plans to stop children taking, sharing or viewing nude images

    www.gov.uk /government/news/new-plans-to-stop-children-taking-sharing-or-viewing-nude-images
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    An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

    openai.com /index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/
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    Apple’s AirPods with cameras for AI are apparently close to production

    www.theverge.com /tech/926376/apple-airpods-cameras-ai-production
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    Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

    hacks.mozilla.org /2026/05/behind-the-scenes-hardening-firefox/
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    Sci-Hub has created a new AI chatbot. Is it any good?

    cen.acs.org /policy/publishing/Sci-Hub-created-new-AI/104/web/2026/04
  • Europe @feddit.org
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    White House against Anthropic expanding Mythos model access: report

    www.france24.com /en/live-news/20260430-white-house-against-anthropic-expanding-mythos-model-access-report
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    Europe craves its own superhacking AI

    www.politico.eu /article/europe-craves-its-own-superhacking-ai/
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    Commission preliminarily finds Meta in breach of Digital Services Act for failing to prevent minors under 13 from using Instagram and Facebook

    ec.europa.eu /commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_920
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    Even experts are surprised by AI’s latest ‘vibe-mathing’ advance

    www.scientificamerican.com /article/amateur-armed-with-chatgpt-vibe-maths-a-60-year-old-problem/
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    I'm enjoying the Perfect Date

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    Siemens warns EU over restrictive rules

    www.thestar.com.my /business/business-news/2026/04/21/siemens-warns-eu-over-restrictive-rules
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    The zero-days are numbered | The Mozilla Blog

    blog.mozilla.org /en/firefox/ai-security-zero-day-vulnerabilities/