“One of the most tech-savvy judges in the US has ruled that Anthropic is within its rights to scan purchased books to train its Claude AI model, but that pirating content is legally out of bounds.” theregister.com
The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun. HR departments are being overwhelmed by “hiring slop” — applicants using AI to bulk-generate resumes. arstechnica.com
The LA Dodgers claim they deterred an ICE raid, but the men in masks claim otherwise. techdirt.com
We’ve been traveling, and I’ve been mostly unplugged from the news during that time. I see we’re going to war in the Middle East again. I’m sure it will go well this time. Fourth time’s a charm, right?
A Republican lawmaker suffered delays receiving care for her life-threatening ectopic pregnancy, blames the left. Classic MAGA: Pass a bad law and then blame the people who opposed the law for the problems the law creates. theguardian.com
House staffers can’t have WhatsApp on their devices. The chief administrative officer claims the messaging app is “high-risk.” theverge.com
You sound like ChatGPT: AI is changing how we write and what we sound like when we talk. theverge.com
As ICE Raids Continue, Parts of a Vibrant City Go Empty. Missing vendors, markets of rotting food, and families too frightened to leave home: this is life in Los Angeles now. motherjones.com
Jio: ‘AI is the new UI and APIs are the new KPI’ — The telco discussed its ambitious plan to make AI inclusive and affordable for 1.4 billion Indians, at TM Forum’s DTW Ignite conference. My latest on Fierce Network.
“Let’s make sure that Venice is not remembered as a postcard venue where Bezos had his wedding but as the city that did not bend to oligarchs.” nytimes.com
Forms of Transportation that Were Supposed to Change the World (But Didn’t…). youtu.be
A friend asked a group of tech journalists the most time we spent at an individual publication. I spent a long time poring over my memory and LinkedIn profile and am still not sure.
Mapping my career path is like working out the timelines of the Back to the Future movies. Or unbending a pretzel.
The Micro Macintosh is a programmable $43 miniature reproduction of the 1986 Macintosh Plus with a 0.85-inch screen that “runs animated images of the Mac OS 7 operating system and a captivating game of Pong.” It “serves as a delightful desktop toy that pays tribute to a bygone era of computing.” tindie.com
California Senator Alex Padilla was assaulted, handcuffed,forced to the ground and detained when he tried to confront Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at a press conference. politico.com
Tape, glass, and molecules – the future of archival storage. Tape is the standard for archival storage, but it has to be rewritten every five years or so, which is expensive. Microsoft and other vendors are working on technologies using etched glass and DNA that could last hundreds or thousands of years. theregister.com