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Disney Just Threw a Punch in a Major AI Fight
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we explore Disney and Universal’s lawsuit against Midjourney, which could be consequential for the future of how intellectual property is treated in the AI era.
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:
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Six arrested at protest of Palantir, tech company building deportation software for Trump admin
Six of demonstrators were arrested at protest against the company’s work for Ice to help deport people from the USSix protestors who demonstrated in front of the New York City offices of Palantir Technologies were arrested on Thursday morning. The demonstrators had gathered to bring attention to the controversial firm and the work it does to power the deportation of immigrants from the US.The protestors stood in front...
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:Group of high-profile authors sue Microsoft over use of their books in AI training
Writers alleged that company used nearly 200,000 pirated books to train its Megatron artificial intelligenceA group of authors has accused Microsoft of using nearly 200,000 pirated books to create an artificial intelligence model, the latest allegation in the long legal fight over copyrighted works between creative professionals and technology companies.Kai Bird, Jia Tolentino, Daniel Okrent and several others alleged...
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:The Download: Google DeepMind’s DNA AI, and heatwaves’ impact on the grid
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. Google’s new AI will help researchers understand how our genes work When scientists first sequenced the human genome in 2003, they revealed the full set of DNA instructions that make a person. But…
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:On r/collapse, people are ‘kept abreast of the latest doom’. Its moderators say it’s not for everyone
A subreddit tracking apocalyptic news in a calm, logical way comforts users who believe the end times are nowThe threat of nuclear war, genocide in Gaza, ChatGPT reducing human cognitive ability, another summer of record heat. Every day brings a torrent of unimaginable horror. It used to be weeks between disasters, now we’re lucky to get hours.For many, the only sane solution is to stop reading the news altogether –...
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:It’s officially summer, and the grid is stressed
It’s crunch time for the grid this week. As I’m writing this newsletter, it’s 100 F (nearly 38 C) here in New Jersey, and I’m huddled in the smallest room in my apartment with the shades drawn and a single window air conditioner working overtime. Large swaths of the US have seen brutal heat this…
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:‘Amazing for blind people’: app helps cricket fan find way around Lord’s
Wayfinding technology is intended to help partially sighted and disabled fans to better access live sports“In 19ft turn slightly left,” said a robotic voice from the iPhone in Moshfique Ahmed’s hand as he tried to find a seat at Lord’s cricket ground in London.“Take the stairs,” it said as Ahmed, an England visually impaired cricketer, tapped his white cane on his way towards the Edrich stand without any other...
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:A real issue: video game developers are being accused of using AI – even when they aren’t
Generative AI is causing new and unusual problems for developers as players become more sensitive to the use of artificially generated ‘slop’ imagesIn April, game developer Stamina Zero achieved what should have been a marketing slam-dunk: the launch trailer for the studio’s game Little Droid was published on PlayStation’s official YouTube channel. The response was a surprise for the developer. The game looks...
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:Meta wins AI copyright lawsuit as US judge rules against authors
Writers accused Facebook owner of breach over its use of books without permission to train its AI systemMark Zuckerberg’s Meta has won the backing of a judge in a copyright lawsuit brought by a group of authors, in the second legal victory for the US artificial intelligence industry this week.The writers, who included Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates, had argued that the Facebook owner had breached copyright law by...
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:Should YouTube be included in Australia’s under-16s social media ban? Here’s what you need to know
The video platform previously had a carve out in the November draft legislation but the online safety regulator has recommended it be included in the banAustralia news live: latest politics updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s online safety regulator has recommended YouTube not be exempt from the under-16s social media ban, saying the video-streaming platform can expose children...
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:The Death of Television News: How Social Media Became America’s Truth Machine
The seismic shift that’s reshaping democracy, one scroll at a timeContinue reading on Medium »
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:The Lipetsk Mishap: How a Russian Kh-22 Missile Struck Its Own Village
A Russian missile meant for war turned back and struck home.Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:How I Built a Realtime Data Sync Engine in JavaScript That Never Misses a Beat
From microservices to local scripts, here’s how I designed a robust pub-sub architecture in Node.js to sync, log, and transform real-time…Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:How I Built My Own Real-Time Chat App With Pure JavaScript and Firebase
Tired of bloated frameworks, I went back to basics and built a chat system using nothing but raw JavaScript, Firebase, and some clever DOM…Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:Advanced Angular Error Handling: Best Practices, Architecture Tips & Code Examples
How Do You Professionally Handle Errors in Angular Applications?Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:I Rebuilt My Entire Frontend Toolchain in Vanilla JavaScript — No React, No Build Tools, Just Pure…
I wanted to see if I could build a fast, scalable frontend dashboard without React, Webpack, or any of the modern tooling that adds layers…Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:Why Your Brain Wasn’t Built For This Internet
How 300,000 years of evolution collides with 30 years of digital revolution—and what I learned trying to fight backContinue reading on Medium »
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:Meta Wins Blockbuster AI Copyright Case—but There’s a Catch
A federal judge ruled that Meta did not violate the law when it trained its AI models on 13 authors’ books.
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:Venice Braces for Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s Wedding
Some Venetians are concerned about the impact the three-day event—which includes 80 private jets and more than 30 private water taxis—will have on their city.
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:AI Agents Are Getting Better at Writing Code—and Hacking It as Well
One of the best bug-hunters in the world is an AI tool called Xbow, just one of many signs of the coming age of cybersecurity automation.
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:Dan Rath: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)
The comedian wants you to know he does not have social media. So this is a list of things he watches on his TV through YouTube in the middle of the nightGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailI buy the Guardian from the newsagent. The digital seeps into the analogue so you can find out about trends through print media; you just get it a bit later. Last week I found out about twerking from reading the Economist.I...
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:‘It’s like being walled in’: young Iranians try to break through internet blackout
Desperate for news and contact during a 13-day shutdown, Iranians searched for proxy links outside the country• Middle East crisis – live updatesAmir* hasn’t slept much in days. From his apartment in northern Tehran, the 23-year-old has spent his nights searching for proxy links, fragile digital lifelines that briefly break through the internet blackout.For 13 days Iran was under a near-total internet shutdown,...
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:How Hideo Kojima created yet another weird, wonderful world in Death Stranding 2
In Kojima’s latest epic, the Australian outback becomes a shifting, spectral landscape that you can get lost inAs a teenager in the late 1980s, I became obsessed with Australian new wave cinema, thanks partly to the Mad Max trilogy, and partly to an English teacher at my high school, who rolled out the TV trolley one afternoon and showed us Nicolas Roeg’s masterpiece Walkabout. We were mesmerised. Forty years later, I...
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:Google’s new AI will help researchers understand how our genes work
When scientists first sequenced the human genome in 2003, they revealed the full set of DNA instructions that make a person. But we still didn’t know what all those 3 billion genetic letters actually do. Now Google’s DeepMind division says it’s made a leap in trying to understand the code with AlphaGenome, an AI model…
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:From Chimpanzini Bananini to Ballerina Cappuccina: how gen alpha went wild for Italian brain rot animals
If you were born after 2000, or know someone who is, the chances are you’ve come across this ludicrous AI-generated meme. If not, be reassured that its chaotic, nonsensical banality is the pointWhen one of Tim’s year 8 pupils asked him about his “favourite Italian brain rot animal”, he thought he’d misheard. “My hearing is not great at the best of times – I had to ask her to repeat this probably four or five times,” he...
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:Mirrors in space and underwater curtains: can technology buy us enough time to save the Arctic ice caps?
A conference in Cambridge this week will explore a raft of geoengineering ideas to cool the region down – and attempt to address the fears of those who argue the risks outweigh the benefitsWhen the glaciologist John Moore began studying the Arctic in the 1980s there was an abundance of suitable sites for him to carry out his climate research. The region’s relentless warming means many of those no longer exist. With the...
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:The Download: Introducing the Power issue
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. Introducing: the Power issue Energy is power. Those who can produce it, especially lots of it, get to exert authority in all sorts of ways. The world is increasingly powered by both tangible…
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:The Bank Secrecy Act is failing everyone. It’s time to rethink financial surveillance.
The US is on the brink of enacting rules for digital assets, with growing bipartisan momentum to modernize our financial system. But amid all the talk about innovation and global competitiveness, one issue has been glaringly absent: financial privacy. As we build the digital infrastructure of the 21st century, we need to talk about not…
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:Second study finds Uber used opaque algorithm to dramatically boost profits
US academics say computer code systematically raised fares at expense of drivers and passengersA second major academic institution has accused Uber of using opaque computer code to dramatically increase its profits at the expense of the ride-hailing app’s drivers and passengers.Research by academics at New York’s Columbia Business School concluded that the Silicon Valley company had implemented “algorithmic price...
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:The AI Hype Index: AI-powered toys are coming
Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry. AI agents might be the toast of the AI industry, but they’re still not that reliable. That’s why Yoshua Bengio, one of the…
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:The Outer Worlds 2, the most expensive Xbox game yet
Xbox is putting a lot behind its new space action-RPG sequel – which will be the first $80/70 video game from Microsoft. Does it earn its price tag? We asked the developer what went into itThe Outer Worlds 2, from RPG makers Obsidian, will be the first first-party Xbox game to cost $80 (70). Given that Nintendo Switch 2 games are already priced at least that high, and Sony’s own PlayStation 5 games have been pushing...
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:3 things Rhiannon Williams is into right now
The last good Instagram account It’s a truth universally acknowledged that social media is a Bad Vibe. Thankfully, there is still one Instagram account worth following that’s just as incisive, funny, and scathing today as when it was founded back in 2016: Every Outfit (@everyoutfitonsatc). Originally conceived as an homage to Sex and the City’s…
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:The Debrief: Power and energy
It may sound bluntly obvious, but energy is power. Those who can produce it, especially lots of it, get to exert authority in all sorts of ways. It brings revenue and enables manufacturing, data processing, transportation, and military might. Energy resources are arguably a nation’s most important asset. Look at Russia, or Saudi Arabia, or…
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:Job titles of the future: Pandemic oracle
Officially, Conor Browne is a biorisk consultant. Based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, he has advanced degrees in security studies and medical and business ethics, along with United Nations certifications in counterterrorism and conflict resolution. He’s worked on teams with NATO’s Science for Peace and Security Programme and with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, analyzing…
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:Python For Loops Made Easy for Data Analysts
Ever looked at a giant spreadsheet and thought, “There’s gotta be a faster way to go through all this”? You’re not alone—and you’re…Continue reading on Python in Plain English »
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source: