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A court just ruled that training an AI on someone else's editorial work isn't fair use (opens the original)
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What just happened? The Third Circuit has ruled that Ross Intelligence infringed Thomson Reuters' copyrights by using Westlaw headnotes to train a legal research system designed to compete with Westlaw. The decision gives a federal appeals court's perspective on a question that has become central to the AI industry: when does training a system on copyrighted material qualify as protected fair use, and when does it amount to unauthorized copying for a competing product? Ross developed an AI-based
A hack of Pentagon personnel data went undetected for nine months, exposing 3 million people (opens the original)
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TL;DR: The Pentagon's personnel data system was accessed for roughly nine months before officials discovered and patched the vulnerability, which exposed personally identifiable information tied to more than 3 million people. It contained a particularly sensitive combination of data: Social Security numbers and information about the jobs held by military and civilian personnel – a pairing that raises risks beyond conventional identity theft. The affected system was run by the Defense Manpower Da
AI is getting cheaper faster than almost any technology in history (opens the original)
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Bottom line: AI models are getting cheaper to use at a pace that could reshape the advanced software market. A report from research firm Epoch AI finds that the cost of reaching a given level of AI performance has fallen by nearly 50% per quarter, or about 13 times per year. That is a faster rate of decline than the cost curves seen in lithium-ion batteries, DNA sequencing and computing hardware. For companies building or buying AI systems, the change could make more capable models affordable fo
Some Google Pixel owners say September update is locking them out of their phones (opens the original)
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What we know so far: A growing number of Pixel owners say the September 2026 update has left them unable to unlock their phones, even when they enter the correct PIN or pattern. The problem appears to be in the lock screen itself. Some users say their pattern resets after they connect one or two dots, making it impossible to finish the gesture. Others report that the phone reads the first digit of a PIN as a complete entry, then immediately says the PIN is wrong. The result is the same in both c
You can now play the original Halo in your browser, 128-player multiplayer included (opens the original)
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First look: Halo: Combat Evolved can now be played in a web browser, complete with its full single-player campaign and a multiplayer mode built for up to 128 players. The project arrives just days after the 2001 shooter was decompiled, giving developers a new base for ports, modifications and other technical experiments, like this one. This browser Halo "release" shows how quickly recovered game code can become a working project, even when the original was built for a fixed console platform. Cre
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