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KI versus Copyright: Hollywood schließt Frieden mit Bytedance
TV- und Filmstudios hat kritisiert, dass Bytedance Urheberrechte missachtet. Jetzt wird kooperiert.
https://www.heise…

KI versus Copyright: Hollywood schließt Frieden mit Bytedance
TV- und Filmstudios hat kritisiert, dass Bytedance Urheberrechte missachtet. Jetzt wird kooperiert.

Tipp: Flinkere Hilfe im Terminal
Wer selten die macOS-Kommandozeile nutzt, braucht oft eine schnelle Dokumentation. Dafür gibt es nicht nur die traditionellen man-Pages.
https://www.heise.de/ratgeber/Tipp-…

Tipp: Flinkere Hilfe im Terminal
Wer selten die macOS-Kommandozeile nutzt, braucht oft eine schnelle Dokumentation. Dafür gibt es nicht nur die traditionellen man-Pages.

Filings: Meta reduced its $65M midterms budget by $25M through refunds, primarily from a super PAC it launched in 2025 with $45M to fight state AI bills (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/technology/meta-midterms-funding.html

Meta Withdraws $25 Million from Its Midterms Push
The company outlined a $65 million budget last year when it embarked on an effort to elect state politicians friendly to the A.I. industry.

This butterfly landed on my partner’s hand during a hike in Hong Kong. We wondered about its damaged wings, and their cause soon revealed itself - moments later, after flying off, the butterfly was pursued by a hornet.🐝 [had packed phone away and just missed capturing it.] I knew they could be predatory, but for some reason never assumed hornets were given to chasing butterflies.

#ApiPlatformCon Day 2 is about to start!
Cannot wait for more FrankenPHP insights...

Filing: Newsquest now has 159,000 paying digital subscribers, up 18% YoY, with online subscription revenue up 20% in FY 2025; overall revenue fell 4.5% to £192M (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/newsquest-accounts-2025/

Newsquest grows profit as online subscribers rise to 159,000
Newsquest accounts 2025: Revenue declines year on year and profit up. Newsquest Community Media, formerly Archant, saw profit fall.

Indian tricolor flying over the Rhode Island State House. (Yesterday was Indian independence day, and there was a gathering in front of the state house.) Didn't get to see whether the other dome was flying the PK flag. (-:

Firefighters battling enormous wildfires in the United States say
the federal government is failing them at a time when supercharged blazes have made their jobs exponentially more dangerous.
While the US continues to grapple with a critical shortage of federal firefighters
– with especially large gaps in essential management positions
– the Trump administration has increased pressure on firefighting forces to rapidly and aggressively contain the flames.

‘We’re near a breaking point:’ firefighters say US government is failing them amid intense wildfire season
US grapples with federal firefighter shortage as crews say they’re spread thin and lack resources during unrelenting year of fire

Forgive these sleep-deprived rantings - they come from a happy, people-appreciating place! :D
It has become freshly amazing to me, the many ways of framing or encountering music. As a child it almost always provoked narrative experience; travel escapades - personalities arriving, things happening, a world generating itself. This disappeared fairly quickly from around ten onwards, and went to abstraction: sound as sound, music as music. In feeling out metaphors to try and give it langua…

Cloudflare plans a shift from a "pay-per-crawl" to a "pay-per-use" model, and blocking AI bots creates "reliable scarcity" that is fuelling publisher AI deals (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/c

Cloudflare says bot blocking is fuelling publisher AI deals
Chief strategy officer on scarcity leading to licensing deals, and move to "pay-per-use".