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IN THE NEWS

i h8 ai

More than 10,500 artists sign open letter protesting unlicensed AI training

X updates its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI models with its data

Former OpenAI Researcher Says the Company Broke Copyright Law

OpenAI and Microsoft are funding $10 million in grants for AI-powered journalism

ByteDance intern fired for planting malicious code in AI models

Longtime policy researcher Miles Brundage leaves OpenAI

Google offers its AI watermarking tech as free open source toolkit

23andMe faces an uncertain future — so does your genetic data

A federal ban on fake online reviews is now in effect

Private Equity Firm Permira Acquires Squarespace for $7.2 Billion

The Feds Are Coming for John Deere Over the Right to Repair

Meta bans private jet tracking accounts on Instagram and Threads

Elon Musk, Tesla and WBD sued over alleged 'Blade Runner 2049' AI ripoff for Cybercab promotion

Seven newly named frog species make whistles that sound like Star Trek

Riker sits down

De-extinction company provides a progress report on thylacine efforts

MEDIA CANDY

Shrinking S2 - Out now

The Diplomat S2 - Oct 31

Star Trek: Lower Decks S5 - Oct 24

Silo S2 - Nov 15

Dune: Prophecy - Nov 17

Star Trek: Section 31 - Jan 25, 2025

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S3 - 2025

‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Gets Early Season 2 Renewal, Adds Tatiana Maslany As Recurring

‘Black Mirror’: ‘Outer Banks’ & ‘She Hulk’ Actor Nicholas Cirillo Joins Cast Of Season 7

‘Good Omens’ To End With One 90-Minute Episode As Neil Gaiman Exits Following Sexual Assault Allegations

Midnight Mass

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Is Finally Streaming for Free in Time for Halloween

The Lincoln Lawyer Season 3

Lioness | Season 2 Sneak Peek | Paramount+ - Oct 27th

Cruel World Fest

Devo Has the Uncontrollable Urge to Retire

APPS & DOODADS

Adobe made its painting app completely free to take on Procreate

Midjourney launches AI image editor: how to use it

Startup School: Gen AI

AI in Marketing: Fast-track your skills

Perplexity AI app for macOS now available on the Mac App Store

Bluesky Teases Creator Payments While New Sign-Ups Explode After Elon Musk’s Destruction of Twitter

New AirPods Pro 2 firmware now available for iOS 18.1’s hearing health features

Apple’s macOS Sequoia lets you snap windows into position — here’s how

Web Design Museum

Diff Text - Compare Text Online

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San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks

AT THE LIBRARY

Penguin Adds a Do-Not-Scrape-for-AI Page to Its Books

Bookcase by Astropad

CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS

Philip G. Zimbardo, the Stanford psychologist behind the controversial 'Stanford Prison Experiment' dies at 91

Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78

Dodgers icon Fernando Valenzuela is gone. But 'Fernandomania' will live forever.

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