F**k US tech, as seen all those from big corps with an kill switch in the hands of an orange asshole

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/1051734 > [Comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777894)

Spotify and several major record labels, including UMG, Sony, and Warner, secured a $322 million default judgment against the unknown operators of Anna's Archive. The shadow library failed to appear in court and briefly released millions of tracks that were scraped from Spotify via BitTorrent. In addition to the monetary penalty, a permanent injunction required domain registrars and other parties to suspend the site's domain names. Anna’s Archive did not show up in court, and the operators of the site remain unidentified. The judgment attempts to address this directly, by ordering Anna’s Archive to file a compliance report within ten business days, under penalty of perjury, that includes valid contact information for the site and its managing agents.

Google, the owners of YouTube, has removed a channel on the platform belonging to a pro-Iran group producing Lego-themed videos mocking Donald Trump. "Upon review, we’ve terminated the channel for violating our Spam, deceptive practices and scams policies," a YouTube spokesperson told Middle East Eye. "YouTube doesn’t allow spam, scams, or other deceptive practices that take advantage of the YouTube community." Explosive Media's content largely consists of animations ridiculing the US war effort against Iran and poking fun at the US president.

This month, USA Today published an excellent report that revealed how US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement delayed disclosing key information about the impacts of its detainment policies. The authors used the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to compile and analyze detention statistics from ICE and track how the agency had changed under the Trump administration. The story is one of countless examples of how the Wayback Machine, which crawls and preserves web pages, has helped preserve information for the public good. It was also, Wayback Machine director Mark Graham says, “a little ironic.” USA Today Co., the publishing conglomerate formerly known as Gannett that runs both its namesake paper and over 200 additional media outlets, bars the Wayback Machine from archiving its work. “They're able to pull together their story research because the Wayback Machine exists. At the same time, they're blocking access,” Graham says. A number of other major journalism organizations have also recently moved to restrict the Wayback Machine from archiving their stories, including The New York Times. According to analysis by the artificial-intelligence-detection startup Originality AI, 23 major news sites are currently blocking ia_archiverbot, the web crawler commonly used by the Internet Archive for the Wayback project. The social platform Reddit is too. Other outlets are limiting the project in different ways: The Guardian does not block the crawler, but it excludes its content from the Internet Archive API and filters out articles from the Wayback Machine interface, which makes it harder for regular people to access archived versions of its articles.

https://archive.ph/lqg68

[Source](https://x.com/awkwardgoogle/status/2043333818099417171)

The story originally surfaced on a Taiwanese forum similar to Reddit, before being picked up by tech outlets. “When I was squatting in the toilet, I suddenly heard the cat keep screaming, and when I opened the door, I saw the smoke and smell of plastic,” the user explained. While the cat’s alert likely prevented a worse outcome, the incident highlights an issue that has followed NVIDIA’s flagship GPU since launch. The RTX 4090 has been plagued by reports of its 16-pin 12VHPWR power connectors overheating or melting under certain conditions. Investigations previously suggested that improper cable seating or uneven power distribution across pins could lead to dangerous heat buildup.

https://archive.ph/SY7fy

> The United States FCC recently announced a ban on new consumer-grade routers produced outside of the US. This does not affect existing devices that were already authorized, and there is a carve-out for manufacturers to apply for a conditional approval. It's difficult to say what the medium or longterm effects of the ban will be. > > This got me thinking about what could be used as a makeshift router in a pinch. As it so happens, any computer that can run Linux and has networking interfaces can function as a router. This blog post by Noah Baily documents the process using various old computers and components as custom routers over the years. > > These makeshift routers are not going to win any bandwidth speed races, but they're perfectly capable of routing traffic for IoT devices or basic browsing. They're also useful for capturing traffic to analyze or sharing internet access from WiFi to Ethernet or vice-versa. > > This guide documents the setup process and capabilities of using a Raspberry Pi as a router. It does not require a particularly powerful computer, even the older Pi 3 B+ that lots of us have tucked away in an old parts bin works fine for this.

Ben Werdmuller, a tech leader at ProPublica, discusses the trust crisis in Meta's Threads app after his comment about the Internet Archive's legal issues unexpectedly attracted a hostile audience. He was surprised by accusations of engagement farming, prompting him to question the assumptions behind such claims. Werdmuller discovered that Meta has been paying certain creators up to $5,000 for viral posts, leading to a climate where all content is viewed with suspicion.

https://archive.ph/9bsD1

It only has to be able to rip music CDs, nothing else. EDIT: Thx to [@[email protected]](https://lemm.ee/u/account_93), [@[email protected]](https://lemmy.ml/u/zod000), [@[email protected]](https://lemmy.world/u/scrubbles), [@[email protected]](https://kyu.de/u/aard), [@[email protected]](https://lemmy.ml/u/GeraltvonNVIDIA), [@[email protected]](https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/Kongar), [@[email protected]](https://feddit.nl/u/ByteWelder), & [@[email protected]](https://lemmy.ml/u/harsh3466) 👍

A continuation of this: https://lemmy.ml/post/427773/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31251815 > I asked teachers to tell me how AI has changed how they teach. > > The response from teachers and university professors was overwhelming. In my entire career, I’ve rarely gotten so many email responses to a single article, and I have never gotten so many thoughtful and comprehensive responses. > > One thing is clear: teachers are not OK. > > They describe trying to grade “hybrid essays half written by students and half written by robots,” trying to teach Spanish to kids who don’t know the meaning of the words they’re trying to teach them in English, and students who use AI in the middle of conversation. They describe spending hours grading papers that took their students seconds to generate: “I've been thinking more and more about how much time I am almost certainly spending grading and writing feedback for papers that were not even written by the student,” one teacher told me. “That sure feels like bullshit.”

The approvals were required under Israel’s Land Law because Nvidia is a foreign-controlled company. The deal will allow the global technology giant to establish a new development campus on state land, allocated without a public tender and at a 51% discount. The proposed 51% land discount is valued at tens of millions of shekels. Officials cited the significant economic impact on northern Israel, noting that thousands of employees would work directly at the campus and that hundreds of additional businesses are expected to benefit from providing services to the site. According to the plan, Nvidia will build a unique, large-scale campus unlike any previously seen in Israel, modeled in part on the company’s headquarters in Santa Clara, California. The project is expected to span approximately 160,000 square meters and employ about 8,000 workers.

Really cool blog post with beautiful photos and starts with a fun and interesting intro, here captured in an image for the the tl;dr but-want-to-comment-anyway among you :