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Anthropic, operator of LLM chatbot Claude, proposed paying a $1.5bn settlement to authors whose books it pirated to build its $183 billion language model. The district judge in charge of the case finds it underwhelming, and even suggested it is being ...

Today, one of the most important tech events of the year took place: the announcement of Apple's latest mobile hardware. It's such a big deal that the media wranglers for other companies stay the hell away from posting about their new products. --

2025 has been filled with chaos so far, and this year's Burning Man festival was no exception. Burning Man 2025 began with a murder (read here), and ended with a torrential downpour that left thousands of people stranded and stuck in the mud. -- Read ...

Right now, if you were to walk into your local Target, Walmart, or Costco, you likely wouldn't be able to find any Pokémon TCG (trading card game) products. Scalpers buy as much inventory as they can, then sell it for more than the manufacturer's ...

Every once in a while a book comes along that feels less like reading and more like having your creative brain blown wide open. ULTRAWILD: An Audacious Plan for Rewilding Every City on Earth (Lerner/Graphic Universe, Sept. 2025) is that kind of book.

A former executive of a podcasting company that relied on human talent has decided to lean into AI, cause paying humans is so yesterday. "I think that people who are still referring to all AI-generated content as AI slop are probably lazy luddites. -

Apple's announced its latest products today. The biggest news was the $1000 iPhone Air, a 5.6mm-thick (0.22 inches) phone that Apple called a "paradox you have to hold to believe." (The iPhone 16 is 7.8mm (0.31 inches thick) It also announced updated ...

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Undersea mapping projects uncovered forty years of toxic waste dumping directly into the Pacific off the coast of Southern California. A recent Scripps study shows some of those barrels are altering the chemistry and biological makeup in the areas ...

The Mouth of Moron seems frustrated; either she or the White House press pool can't keep track of her many lies. If the evidence is real, but you call it a "narrative," does it magically cease to be evidence? This evidence seems pretty damning, but ...