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Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft

This latest lawsuit is particularly broad and homes in on accusations of illegal piracy.

At TechBBQ, Europe’s AI conversations kept coming back to: Who’s actually in control?

Investors, founders, and operators from across Europe arrived for the annual Nordic TechBBQ conference to talk about how humans can have agency over AI.

“We’re not doing 30 bets a year”: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z

Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a "discovery" science to an "engineering" one, why…

Hollywood celebs are getting into microdrama apps

Several Hollywood celebs are ditching the massive eight-figure checks and exotic movie sets for a rising format: microdramas.

The Theragun Sense makes everyday recovery surprisingly easy

As my 20s are set to come to an end later this year, I’ve officially reached the age where sleeping in the wrong position or stretching just a little too far can cause aches and pains. I’ve always been somewhat…

AWS mumbles about its cost-busting networking tech when it should be shouting

A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's

Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU

The new generation of data center systems is increasing efficiency with smarter traffic control instead of just more processor cycles.

I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.

Testing 100 companies found privacy requests often led to confusion and dead ends.

Startup bags $7M to build drone-interceptor-in-a-backpack systems

Spike drone defense system is designed to be carried in a rucksack or mounted on top of a vehicle

Xbox respawns IKEA furniture with gaming range

At last, somewhere comfy to sit while your PlayStation 5 game loads

The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

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Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms

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Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras

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I co-founded Burning Man. The festival has lost its soul

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There's no such thing as Just a Tool

Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online

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Bug blindness

Hy4 preview

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Domain-Driven Agents

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A safe MySQL upgrade that wasn't so safe

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