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AI companies start winning the copyright fight
Tech firms notch victories in battle over copyrighted text, Trump’s gold phone, and online age checksHello, and welcome to TechScape. If you need me after this newsletter publishes, I will be busy poring over photos from Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s wedding, the gaudiest and most star-studded affair to disrupt technology news this year. I found it a tacky and spectacular affair. Everyone who was anyone was there,...
Published on: July 01, 2025 | Source:
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Xiaomi’s YU7 Is an SUV-Sized Middle Finger to Tesla’s Model Y
In just three minutes Xiaomi took 200,000 preorders for only its second ever EV—four times what Cybertruck has sold in its 18-month lifetime. But at $35,000, it’s really gunning for Elon’s family SUV.
Published on: July 01, 2025 | Source:The Download: tripping with AI, and blocking crawler bots
This is today’s edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. People are using AI to ‘sit’ with them while they trip on psychedelics A growing number of people are using AI chatbots as “trip sitters”—a phrase that traditionally refers to a sober person…
Published on: July 01, 2025 | Source:Cloudflare will now, by default, block AI bots from crawling its clients’ websites
The internet infrastructure company Cloudflare announced today that it will now default to blocking AI bots from visiting websites it hosts. Cloudflare will also give clients the ability to manually allow or ban these AI bots on a case-by-case basis, and it will introduce a so-called “pay-per-crawl” service that clients can use to receive compensation…
Published on: July 01, 2025 | Source:Cloudflare Is Blocking AI Crawlers by Default
The age of the AI scraping free-for-all may be coming to an end. At least if Cloudflare gets its way.
Published on: July 01, 2025 | Source:People are using AI to ‘sit’ with them while they trip on psychedelics
Peter sat alone in his bedroom as the first waves of euphoria coursed through his body like an electrical current. He was in darkness, save for the soft blue light of the screen glowing from his lap. Then he started to feel pangs of panic. He picked up his phone and typed a message to…
Published on: July 01, 2025 | Source:Moonlight Peaks: your chance to live as a tiny vegan vampire
Dracula’s daughter seeks a more peaceful life making plant-based blood substitutes in this Stardew-Valley-inspired, gently creepy farming gameWhat if you were a tiny, vegan vampire? That’s the question posed by Moonlight Peaks, the gen Z-coded, achingly TikTok-ready supernatural life sim. Inspired by the popularity of “cosy games” such as Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley, Moonlight Peaks drapes you in the cape of...
Published on: July 01, 2025 | Source:What comes next for AI copyright lawsuits?
Last week, the technology companies Anthropic and Meta each won landmark victories in two separate court cases that examined whether or not the firms had violated copyright when they trained their large language models on copyrighted books without permission. The rulings are the first we’ve seen to come out of copyright cases of this kind.…
Published on: July 01, 2025 | Source:Tech firms suggested placing trackers under offenders’ skin at meeting with justice secretary
Exclusive: Shabana Mahmood told companies she wanted ‘deeper collaboration’ to tackle prisons crisisAnalysis: Whitehall’s ambition to cut costs using AI is fraught with riskTracking devices inserted under offenders’ skin, robots assigned to contain prisoners and driverless vehicles used to transport them were among the measures proposed by technology companies to ministers who are gathering ideas to tackle the crisis...
Published on: July 01, 2025 | Source:Senator Blackburn Pulls Support for AI Moratorium in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Amid Backlash
After critics called the bill a “get-out-of-jail-free card” for Big Tech that could make it nearly impossible to rein in social media platforms, Senator Marsha Blackburn killed her own compromise.
Published on: July 01, 2025 | Source:From Access to Agency: Embarking on a 5-Year Journey to Reach 25 Million Learners
Back in 2013, while many believed universal internet access was just around the corner and that the digital learning revolution would soon…Continue reading on Learning Equality »
Published on: July 01, 2025 | Source:Embracing Smart Living with SwitchBot’s Smart Button Pusher
The Smart Home Industry is evolving rapidly, and one of the standout brands making waves is SwitchBot.Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: July 01, 2025 | Source:Here Is Everyone Mark Zuckerberg Has Hired So Far for Meta’s ‘Superintelligence’ Team
After a poaching frenzy that’s brought in talent from rival firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, Zuckerberg announced a team of nearly two dozen researchers in an internal memo.
Published on: June 30, 2025 | Source:Cute dates, bisexual chaos and game-changing kisses: video games’ best queer moments
From Fable and Life Is Strange to Last of Us, Thirsty Suitors and Unpacking, five queer game developers and writers pick their sweetest, realest, most meaningful scenesLife Is Strange, as a series, is really characterised by a patented mix of earnestness and cringe for me – but you can’t fault its determination to put queer characters front and centre. It has been variably successful at this – the messy relationship...
Published on: June 30, 2025 | Source:Roundtables: Inside OpenAI’s Empire with Karen Hao
Recorded on June 30, 2025 AI journalist Karen Hao’s book, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, tells the story of OpenAI’s rise to power and its far-reaching impact all over the world. Hear from Karen Hao, former MIT Technology Review senior editor, and executive editor Niall Firth for a conversation exploring…
Published on: June 30, 2025 | Source:Microsoft says AI system better than doctors at diagnosing complex health conditions
Firm says results of research create ‘path to medical superintelligence’ but plays down job implicationsMicrosoft has revealed details of an artificial intelligence system that performs better than human doctors at complex health diagnoses, creating a “path to medical superintelligence”.The company’s AI unit, which is led by the British tech pioneer Mustafa Suleyman, has developed a system that imitates a panel of...
Published on: June 30, 2025 | Source:Microsoft Says Its New AI System Diagnosed Patients 4 Times More Accurately Than Human Doctors
The tech giant poached several top Google researchers to help build a powerful AI tool that can diagnose patients and potentially cut health care costs.
Published on: June 30, 2025 | Source:The Download: meet RFK Jr’s right-hand man, and inside OpenAI
This is today’s edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meet Jim O’Neill, the longevity enthusiast who is now RFK Jr.’s right-hand man When Jim O’Neill was nominated to be the second in command at the US Department of Health and Human Services,…
Published on: June 30, 2025 | Source:Meet Jim O’Neill, the longevity enthusiast who is now RFK Jr.’s right-hand man
When Jim O’Neill was nominated to be the second in command at the US Department of Health and Human Services, Dylan Livingston was excited. As founder and CEO of the lobbying group Alliance for Longevity Initiatives (A4LI), Livingston is a member of a community that seeks to extend human lifespan. O’Neill is “kind of one…
Published on: June 30, 2025 | Source:More than 25% of UK businesses hit by cyber-attack in last year, report finds
Exclusive: Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says lack of action leaves firms at risk of ‘sleepwalking’ into problemsMore than one in four UK businesses have been the victim of a cyber-attack in the last year and many more risk “sleepwalking” into such disruption unless they take urgent action, according to a report.About 27% of companies said their building had suffered a cyber-attack in the last 12 months,...
Published on: June 30, 2025 | Source:Understanding the Different Trading Styles in Crypto
The world of cryptocurrency offers exciting opportunities—but navigating the market successfully often depends on choosing the right…Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: June 30, 2025 | Source:How I Automated Cloud Cost Reports With Python and AWS Cost Explorer
No more spreadsheets or guesswork—my daily AWS cost breakdown lands in Slack automatically at 9 AM.Continue reading on AWS in Plain English »
Published on: June 30, 2025 | Source:Conversations I’ve had with my dog that make me question my sanity
He doesn’t talk back, but I swear he’s judging me in fluent sarcasm.Continue reading on The Humor Pub »
Published on: June 30, 2025 | Source:7 Free AI Tools That Save Me 10 Hours Every Week ⏳
“Why work harder when you can work smarter—and for free?”Continue reading on AI Advances »
Published on: June 30, 2025 | Source:How I Replaced 3 Chrome Extensions with Just JavaScript and a Browser Console
From blocking ads to autofilling forms and scraping job data, I got tired of bloated Chrome extensions and wrote lightweight scripts that…Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
Published on: June 30, 2025 | Source:How I Built a Full-Stack JavaScript Automation System That Manages My Daily Workflow Without Me
From scraping sites and sending Slack messages to generating charts and automating reports, here’s how I wired JavaScript into a…Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
Published on: June 30, 2025 | Source:7 JavaScript Animation Techniques I Use Instead of CSS or Libraries
For years I avoided JavaScript-based animations… until I needed total control and smoothness that CSS couldn’t deliver.Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
Published on: June 30, 2025 | Source:7 JavaScript APIs I Wish I Knew When I Started Web Development
These native browser APIs are powerful, underrated, and often replace entire libraries.Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
Published on: June 29, 2025 | Source:OpenAI Leadership Responds to Meta Offers: 'Someone Has Broken Into Our Home'
As Mark Zuckerberg lures away top research talent to Meta, OpenAI executives say they're ‘recalibrating comp,’ according to an internal memo.
Published on: June 29, 2025 | Source:OpenAI Leadership Responds to Meta Offers: ‘Someone Has Broken Into Our Home’
As Mark Zuckerberg lures away top research talent to Meta, OpenAI executives say they're ‘recalibrating comp,’ according to an internal memo.
Published on: June 29, 2025 | Source:Fake, AI-generated videos about the Diddy trial are raking in millions of views on YouTube
Channels serving AI slop feature videos full of false claims about celebs and their involvement with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs for quick cashThis story was reported by Indicator, a publication that investigates digital deception, and co-published with the Guardian.Dozens of YouTube channels are mixing AI-generated images and videos with false claims about Sean “Diddy” Combs’s blockbuster trial to pull in tens of millions of...
Published on: June 29, 2025 | Source:Dawn of the drone age: how agri-tech is boosting production and morale
Instagram-inspired gadgets to spread or spray crops are gaining traction on UK farms but require deep pockets “The idea came from an Instagram video,” says Tom Amery, looking admiringly at one of three huge drones he has bought to help grow watercress on a Hampshire farm.The drone boasts four sets of rotary blades and is able to carry up to 50kg of fertiliser, seed or feed for spreading or spraying, and is the product...
Published on: June 29, 2025 | Source:‘Lidar is lame’: why Elon Musk’s vision for a self-driving Tesla taxi faltered
The company’s rollout of its new driverless cars has gotten off to a wobbly start – and rival Waymo remains well aheadAfter years of promising investors that millions of Tesla robotaxis would soon fill the streets, Elon Musk debuted his driverless car service in a limited public rollout in Austin, Texas. It did not go smoothly.The 22 June launch initially appeared successful enough, with a flood of videos from...
Published on: June 29, 2025 | Source:How I Created Stunning 8K Movies with Ease
Discover the power of AI in filmmakingContinue reading on Medium »
Published on: June 29, 2025 | Source:the phone addiction paradox
I don’t even enjoy being on my phone anymore—I just don’t know how to stop.Continue reading on Medium »
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