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Getty Images CEO Craig Peters says Getty is spending "millions and millions" on its Stability AI lawsuit in the UK and the US, accusing it of copying 12M images (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/28/getty-ceo-

Getty Images spending millions to battle a 'world of rhetoric' in AI suit, CEO says
Getty Images is spending "millions and millions of dollars" on its legal case against Stability AI, the photo licensing company's CEO Craig Peters told CNBC.

Source: India orders ISPs and app stores to block 25 streaming services, like Ullu and ALTT with millions of downloads, for allegedly promoting obscene content (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/25/india-bans-streami…

India bans streaming apps you’ve never heard of — but millions watch | TechCrunch
India has ordered the blocking of 25 streaming services — many with millions of viewers and even paying subscribers — for allegedly promoting "obscene" content.

‘A timebomb’: could a French mine full of waste poison the drinking water of millions? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/23/french-mine-stocamine-waste-drinking-water-chemicals-alsace-aquifer-aoe

Single-photon sources created by nature millions of years ago
D. G. Pasternak, A. M. Romshin, R. A. Khmelnitsky, G. Yu. Kriulina, A. A. Zhivopistsev, O. S. Kudryavtsev, A. V. Gritsienko, A. M. Satanin, I. I. Vlasov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20405

Single-photon sources created by nature millions of years ago
Single photons source (SPS) is a key component required by quantum communication devices. We report the finding of bright diamond-based SPS created by nature millions of years ago. It is shown that narrow ($\leq$ 2 nm) lines observed within the 500-800 nm range in photoluminescence (PL) spectra of the surface layer of untreated Yakut diamonds rich in nitrogen and hydrogen belong to SPS. Moreover, unknown narrow-line PL observed earlier in nitrogen- and hydrogen-rich diamonds from various deposi…

https://san.com/cc/millions-of-cars-at-risk-from-flipper-zero-key-fob-hack-experts-warn/
Millions of cars at risk from Flipper Zero key fob hack, experts warn

Millions of cars at risk from Flipper Zero key fob hack, experts warn
Hackers are using a custom Flipper Zero firmware to bypass security protections in automotive key fobs, putting millions of vehicles at risk.

Extraordinarily Expensive Costs Force Getty to Pick Its AI Legal Battles (Ars Technica, 28 May 2025)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/extraordinarily-expensive-costs-force-getty-to-pick-its-ai-legal-battles/…

It’s too expensive to fight every AI copyright battle, Getty CEO says
Getty dumped “millions and millions” into just one AI copyright fight, CEO says.

In Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Man of the People" (part of "Four Ways to Forgiveness") there's a scene where the Hainish protagonist begins studying history. It's excellent in many respects, but what stood out the most to me was the softly incomprehensible idea of a people with multiple millions of years of recorded history. As one's mind starts to try to trace out the implications of that, it dawns on you that you can't actually comprehend the concept. Like, you read the sentence & understood all the words, and at first you were able to assemble them into what seemed like a conceptual understanding, but as you started to try to fill out that understating, it began to slip away, until you realized you didn't in fact have the mental capacity to build a full understanding and would have you paper things over with a shallow placeholder instead.
I absolutely love that feeling, as one of the ways in which reading science fiction can stretch the brain, and I connected it to a similar moment in Tsutomu Nihei's BLAME, where the android protagonists need to ride an elevator through the civilization/galaxy-spanning megastructure, and turn themselves off for *millions of years* to wait out the ride.
I'm not sure why exactly these scenes feel more beautifully incomprehensible than your run-of-the-mill "then they traveled at lightspeed for a millennia, leaving all their family behind" scene, other than perhaps the authors approach them without trying to use much metaphor to make them more comprehensible (or they use metaphor to emphasize their incomprehensibility).
Do you have a favorite mind=expanded scene of this nature?
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The #BigTech boom in #ArtificialIntelligence usage has also boomed the prices of #ElectricBills for millions, whether they had anything to do with it or not ..

Source: India orders ISPs and app stores to block 25 streaming services, like Ullu and ALTT with millions of downloads, for allegedly promoting obscene content (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/25/india-bans-streami…

India bans streaming apps you’ve never heard of — but millions watch | TechCrunch
India has ordered the blocking of 25 streaming services — many with millions of viewers and even paying subscribers — for allegedly promoting "obscene" content.

Scientists find millions of tons of nanoplastics in the North Atlantic Ocean https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/scientists-find-millions-of-tons-of-nanoplastics-in-the-north-atlantic-ocean/
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Scientists find millions of tons of nanoplastics in the North Atlantic Ocean
Scientists have measured the amount of nanoplastics in the open ocean for the first time and found they make up the vast majority of marine plastic pollution. Plastic debris in the ocean can be of varying sizes. Nanoplastics are the tiniest, about 1,000 times smaller than the smallest microplastics — small enough to go through […]