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US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification

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bsky.app 3mo ago

Bluesky Is Made with AI

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AI Is Going Away

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seed.bytedance.com 5mo ago

Seedance 2.0

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www.saturdayeveningpost.com 6mo ago

Thomas Edison: The Unintentional Founder of Hollywood

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gpu.st 6mo ago

Show HN: Gpu.st – Instant GPU Instances over SSH

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moonbearmusings.com 7mo ago

The Moron Filter Effect

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www.404media.co 10mo ago

4chan Sues UK Ofcom over Online Safety Act

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www.politico.com 1y ago

Judge sharply criticizes lawyers for authors in AI suit against Meta

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spylab.ai 2y ago

Glazing over Security

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www.riaa.com 2y ago

RIAA Sues Suno AI Music Generator [pdf]

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github.com 2y ago

ToonCrafter: Generative Cartoon Interpolation

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SerenityOS Emoji Set

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www.eff.org 2y ago

EFF argues DMCA section 1201(a) violates First Amendment

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en.wikipedia.org 2y ago

Large Media Companies Are Releasing Works as CC-BY

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delcomplex.com 2y ago

VonGoom: A Novel Approach for Data Poisoning in Large Language Models

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twitter.com 2y ago

Japan: Disrupting AI learning for business interference could be illegal

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AI Is (Not) a Service Problem

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symbolica.ai 2y ago

Symbolica AI

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www.classicube.net 2y ago

ClassiCube: An Open-Source Recreation of Classic Minecraft

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github.com 3y ago

A TLS 1.3 stack written in Visual Basic 6

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Meta DMCAs llama-dl Repository

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Ask HN: Do you think ML model weights are copyrightable?

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Live2D: Why Full Disclosure

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Live2D Is a Security Trainwreck

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AI-Generated Images Are Tricky to Spot

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www.theregister.com 3y ago

Voice.ai denies claim it violated open source software license requirements

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Voice.ai: GPL Violations with a Side of DRM

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en.wikipedia.org 3y ago

All American Five radio receivers

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Whether those things are distractions depends on what they're used for.

I'm fairly certain schools had projectors a few decades ago, and nothing bad came of it.

You don't really need to ban phones from schools; just ban them in class. I don't know why this stuff is treated as such a big deal. Students should pay attention in class, which means not using anything (not devices, paper, books, etc.) except as needed for instruction.

At which point, the continued march towards higher resolution and bandwidth video will probably limit their utility

Just as the patent system intended: maximum extraction was enabled while the product was useful.

Qwen 3.8 4 days ago

It's important to note there was recently a large AI conference in Shanghai, and Xi Jinping mentioned a commitment to open source AI releases. It is no surprise that Alibaba would want to align.

I think no one objects to the refusals in the abstract but rather to the inconsistencies and the presentation. You don't know what request might be refused or downgraded. You do know that the marketing copy and CEO's words present it as being for your own good (or the good of society) instead of plainly stated as a business policy based on business or personal concerns. These aspects are what make it grating and yes, potentially dystopian.

Grok 4.5 14 days ago

Elon Musk doesn't do normal finance. Trying to understand it will melt your brain.

"America or not" is a red herring. Palantir is the specific problem.

The kind of people running these companies don't have true allegiance to anything but their own objectives. If necessary, they'd move all operations to Europe or East Asia in a month, and you'd have "Palantir 2" under a different name with no better ethics or privacy.

Increased emphasis has to be on running things domestically with on-premises hardware. As long as the vendor is elsewhere and not subject to oversight, the risks remain.