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KI-Kopien des Grüffelo: Illustrator Axel Scheffler will gegen Betreiber klagen
Nach OpenAI-Klagen deutscher Verlage zieht nun auch der Schöpfer des Kult-Monsters in Erwägung, gegen generative Künstliche Intelligenz vor Gericht zu ziehen.

KI-Kopien des Grüffelo: Illustrator Axel Scheffler will gegen Betreiber klagen
Nach OpenAI-Klagen deutscher Verlage zieht nun auch der Schöpfer des Kult-Monsters in Erwägung, gegen generative Künstliche Intelligenz vor Gericht zu ziehen.

Dream Labs, which offers an API for its Dream-1 robot foundation model trained on human videos, raised a $90M seed led by B Capital and Kindred Ventures (John Koetsier/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/

Robot Brains For 75 Cents/Hour? Former Nvidia Researchers Raise $90 Million
Want to make your dumb robot smart? $3 an hour is all it costs. Or 75 cents, if you’re okay with a slightly less capable physical AI model.

Carl Sagan once said that if you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. I believe that if you wish to make a social network from scratch, you must first invent the Fediverse :fediverse:

CNN's Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour plans to leave next June, after 43 years with the network (Brian Stelter/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/19/media/christiane-amanpour-leaving-cnn-june-2027

Christiane Amanpour announces she will leave CNN next June
CNN legend Christiane Amanpour, the network’s chief international anchor, said Monday that she will sign off from CNN next June.

Not bad, not bad:
Uses some new Swift 6.2, 6.4 APIs:

Ever seen a Phillips head nail before?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@widersetzen/117463496446021431
Wenn Söder mal wieder nach der Macht greift, dann erinnert euch daran, was er heute gesagt hat:
Und natürlich braucht es, wenn man mal über Brandmauern redet, dann braucht es…

You might be seeing in “news outlets” that Robert Kraft will be donating to Gaza.
It’s what we used to call “a lie”.
Not sure what the cool kids call it today.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Macklemore/s/nQAsFAhFHO

The #AI hype has resulted in very high #electricity bills for many Americans. As the NYT mentions: "About one in six U.S. households is already behind on its utility bills, according to federal data."
And it's getting worse.

Oklahoma Families Faced the Hottest Summer Ever and an Electricity Crisis
Record heat and a rising demand for electricity are closing in on Oklahoma families trying to keep the lights on and the AC running.

Offenbar verweist man normale Konsument:innen bereits auf whois-Abfragen, um Fake-Webseiten eventuell zu identifizieren: https://help.orf.at/stories/3237799
Soweit sind wir also bereits. 😔

Man hat auch als Experte zusehends weniger Chancen, auf Betrug rechtzeitig draufzukommen ...

The generation voting for the first time came of age after the Oslo process collapsed,
when the prospect of negotiating a political resolution to the Israel-Palestine conflict seemed to be fading.
They were teenagers during the Hamas attacks on 7 October 2023, which resulted in the deaths of about 1,200 people, the majority of them civilians.
Militants took 251 living hostages and dead bodies to Gaza, leading to a two-year hostage crisis.
“There’s a lot of people, esp…

‘There’s a lot of racism, a lot of hatred’: Far right gains predicted as Israel heads to the polls
Whether or not Netanyahu can hold on to power, Israelis are expected to vote in a more rightwing Knesset

☕ 🍵 Guten Morgen, liebe Communities, hier kommt Euer kuratierter wöchentlicher Überblick:
🔸Mo., 19.10.: @… Talk: Software Management Plans (DMP4NFDI), online
🔸Mo, 19.10.: Europeana Webinar: Bringing audiovisual heritage online
🔸Di., 20.10. – 21.10.: @…

The Secretary of War Crimes thinks the American Public loves him? But only 23% have a positive opinion, that's lower than potus (YouGov).
Delulu's gonna delulu, monstrously.
"Officials familiar with Hegseth’s thinking believe that he is considering a run for president or some other political office after his time in the Trump administration is over."
Gift article:

Hegseth travels to Iowa in his ‘personal capacity’ amid 2028 speculation
Officials familiar with the defense secretary’s thinking believe he is considering a run for president or some other office after his time in the Trump administration ends.

Skriver om utegångsförbudet som träder i kraft i tootande stund. https://www.dn.se/varlden/erik-de-la-reguera-utegangsforbud-ar-riskabelt-kan-fa-motsatt-effekt/

Utegångsförbudet riskabelt – kan få motsatt effekt
Erik de la Reguera: Utegångsförbudet i Paris är riskabelt – kan få motsatt effekt

RE: #UnicycleLife

from my link log —
Rosemary Grant on the Galapagos finches: “Evolution happens much quicker than Darwin thought”.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/articl

Biologist Rosemary Grant: ‘Evolution happens much quicker than Darwin thought’
The evolutionary expert discusses the triumphs and challenges of the groundbreaking research on Galápagos Islands finches she undertook with her husband, Peter

This week is ridiculously overbooked and I don't like it.
I only got back from Sydney on Friday night and I don't feel like I've stopped running since (even helped the husband partially build a shed on Sunday)
Mon: work childcare (wee one) care team meeting about the wee one work (didn't finish until 8pm)
Tue: contact visit (wee one) childcare (wee one) dentist (me) catch-up lunch with interstate friend (me) work
Wed: psychologist (wee one)…

@… welcome to gardenstate.social!
This will be the first of a series of welcome posts with helpful information about this mastodon server.
To help weed out the bots let us know how you found us and picked this server to join? Be descriptive!

Freund aus der Windenergie schickt mir diese Petition. Finde ich unterstützenswert.
Wie geil wäre das, wenn Schwarz-rot dieses Mal weniger Jobs killt - man darf träumen. Unterschreiben hilft.
https://aktion-wind.de/

Aktion Wind — Energie sichern. Jobs verteidigen.
Windkraft-Petition: Stoppe Reiches Gesetzesvorhaben, sichere Jobs und die Energiewende. Jetzt unterschreiben – gemeinsam mehr Druck aufbauen! 🌬️

"1,000 people buried their underwear across Switzerland. The unusual study helped researchers gauge soil health"
#Switzerland #Environment #Soil

Scientists asked 1,000 people to bury their underwear. Here's what they learned
Farmers are “soiling their undies” — and it makes for better crops.

jbod is also what you get from smoking too much weed https://lemmy.world/comment/26404568

Bon, c'est quoi ca encore...

Wo ich Lebendiges fand, da fand ich Willen zur Macht.
-- Qui-Gon Jinn
#GameOfQuotes

Davante Adams injury: Rams WR to miss 6-10 weeks with ruptured hamstring https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7705718/2026/10/19/davante-adams-hamstring-injury-out-weeks/

Mein Trainingsplan will mich jetzt auf einen 16km Long Run schicken und meine Lust hält sich in Grenzen. Aber hilft ja nix...
#WeltenkreuzerLäuft

Late October in Northeast Scotland. It was down to 2 C last night; not as cold as it might be. Very few flowers are left; the Michaelmas daisies are finishing. But the ivy (Hedera helix) has its moment now: walls and trees covered with powerfully cloying, yellow-green asterisks. The last remaining insects are very grateful: Red Admirals (Vanessa atalanta) who have not yet found a place to hibernate, wasps who are postponing their starvation, and a few stubborn hoverflies (Eristalis tenax) su…

That new 1500 on the right is the smallest truck that Dodge makes and it absolutely dwarfs the old Dakota. Really a critique in how much larger vehicles have gotten.
I'd rather have the old one, it's going to be easier to park, own, cheaper fuel, and has a bigger bed!
#trucks #classicCar

@… Man bliver jo ligefrem i tvivl om det var det rigtige valg at opgive barndomsdrŸmmen om at være lokomotivfŸrer.

Mir ist heute kalt.
Und mir ist fast nie kalt.

#Apple gibt so gar keinen f auf Ressourcen, eh?
(Das sind Abrufe in 24 Stunden…)

Because of course they are.
✅ Google to buy Spirit Airlines business data for $10 million - Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/google-buy-spirit-airlines-business-data-10-million-2026-08-17/

Die #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 0,560 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
Diese #Balkonsolaranlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Einspeiseverlust: 5.89 %

Europe's e‑waste is a valuable resource—let's not throw it away #Europe

Europe's e‑waste is a valuable resource—let's not throw it away
Throwing something away that is urgently needed, expensive and difficult to source sounds crazy. Yet of the 60 metals contained in old electronic devices such as phones, screens and washing machines, only a few are recycled. That includes precious metals such as gold and silver and other metals such as aluminum and copper. The rest are effectively single-use metals, used once and then lost during collection or through incineration.

Stukje op de #trike met ketting. Heerlijk weer. Ik kwam onderweg twee roddels BSOpeuters tegen die niet deden wat de juffen riepen: "ga van het fietspad af!!!!!!"
#regel17

https://www.tumblr.com/theonion/828130830874476544/cackling-as-the-steps-of-the-dastardly-plan?source=share

Post by @theonion · 1 image
💬 4  🔁 518  ❤️ 1432 · Cackling as the steps of the dastardly plan crystallized in her mind, local trans teen Brie Chandler told reporters Tuesday that she had hatched a nefarious plot to undergo ye…

#Australia's #Vegemite a breakfast staple, focus of rare #court case : NPR

When #Uruguay went 90 % #RenewableEnergy for its #electricity , bills fell sharply — and, the government was also able to take money out of the energy utility to help pay for services.
When …

Desculpa, gente, mas eu estou rindo da reação das pessoas a este vídeo do #Felca, achando que teria algo importante sobre a eleição. Uma amiga estava super ansiosa e tš aqui morrendo de raiva kkkk.
https://www.instagram.com/…

@… Sure enough, Tommy was a plant. https://www.rawstory.com/abdul-el-sayed-2678102480/

There's not been a stitch of clean laundry that Tails hasn't claimed as her own today. I'll spare you the one of her comfy on the family's undercrackers 🩲🧺 #cats #CatsOfMastodon

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/117457944643227299
So glad I deleted my TikTok account after the Ellisons took that shit over

Uääh, mår illa sådär out of the blue.

🎸 I made a free, open-source guitar tuner that runs right in your browser: nothing to install.
Give it a try on your instrument: #guitar

Apps sollen gegen Depressionen helfen – was digitale Therapien leisten können
Digitale Gesundheitsanwendungen können bei Depressionen helfen. Doch Software stößt an Grenzen – besonders bei Krisen und Datenschutz.

Apps sollen gegen Depressionen helfen – was digitale Therapien leisten können
Digitale Gesundheitsanwendungen können bei Depressionen helfen. Doch Software stößt an Grenzen – besonders bei Krisen und Datenschutz.

The US FTC clears Publicis' $2.2B LiveRamp acquisition, subject to a consent decree requiring equal access to LiveRamp's data connectivity tools for all clients (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Skydance extends Jon Stewart's contract to host Comedy Central's The Daily Show through December 2028, keeping him on through the next presidential election (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/10/19/media/jon-stewart-daily-show-2028-skydance-comedy-c…

Jon Stewart to stay at ‘The Daily Show’ through the 2028 election
Jon Stewart will remain at the helm of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” through December 2028, extending his once-a-week hosting role through the next presidential election.

Every day, trillions of dollars, oil and gas and 99% of the world’s web traffic move through undersea pipelines that bear no state’s protection.
With superpowers and corporations vying for control,
should we be worried about this new Wild West?
It’s impossible not to be struck by how oblivious most people are to the “undersea kingdom”.
“Well, it’s out of sight, out of mind, right?
And undersea cables and pipelines are really out of sight.”
Even the mo…

Inside the undersea kingdom: the secret, sinister battle to control what lies beneath the waves
Every day, trillions of dollars, oil and gas and 99% of the world’s web traffic move through undersea pipelines under no state’s protection. With superpowers and corporations now vying for control, should we be worried about this potential new wild west of geopolitical power?

Svenska Isabell i Paris: ”Alla mataffärer nära mig har förstörts” https://www.dn.se/varlden/svenska-isabell-i-paris-alla-mataffarer-nara-mig-har-forstorts/

Svenska Isabell efter kravallerna i Paris: ”Alla mataffärer nära mig har förstörts”
Efter en helg med de största kravallerna på många år i Frankrike försöker Paris invånare hitta tillbaka till vardagen.

Kanzler Merz hofft auf Nvidia als Wachstumsbeschleuniger
Der Gipfel „Invest in Germany“ startete in Berlin mit einer Plauderei zwischen Bundeskanzler und Nvidia-CEO. Beide wollen Industriedaten für KI nutzbar machen.

Kanzler Merz hofft auf Nvidia als Wachstumsbeschleuniger
Der Gipfel „Invest in Germany“ startete in Berlin mit einer Plauderei zwischen Bundeskanzler und Nvidia-CEO. Beide wollen Industriedaten für KI nutzbar machen.

from my link log —
Analyzing data 180,000x faster with Rust.
https://willcrichton.net/notes/k-corrset/
saved 2023-10-21 https://dotat.…

Sean Payton sticking with Bo Nix. Will improving ‘finer things’ jolt Broncos QB? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7705348/2026/10/19/sean-payton-bo-nix-broncos-starting-qb/

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: BELLRING少女ハート (67) CARRY LOOSE (28) Phantom Siita (28) 戸川純 with Vampillia (23) Frank Zappa (21). #myweekcounted 612 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

@… @… Is that a bet you’re offering?
I’m ready to put down $100/€100.

@… Those forearms, though.

Second Dog is recovering from surgery. It's been a week since her spay, and we've been wondering when High Energy Collie would return.
As for us, younger child brought back a fever and sore throat from school, as they always do after about a month. They gave it to me.
So yesterday, having taken a few days off work, I had finished a round of Feeding Kids and Administering Medicines and was settling down for a very much needed nap. Second Dog appeared, in a perky mood, and…

We've just watched #BedknobsAndBroomsticks - what a great film! I now know where "what's that got to do with my knob?" comes from, and that the books it's based on are by the same author as wrote The Borrowers, Mary Norton. Englantine Price is a stylish woman. I now have a powerful urge for a smart pair of court shoes.

🎸 J'ai créé un accordeur gratuit et open source qui fonctionne directement dans votre navigateur : rien Š installer.
Essayez-le avec votre instrument
https://laurentperrinet.github.io/guitoune/
Il convient Š la guitare, Š la basse et au ukulélé, et l'interface existe en angl…

C-SPAN will add two livestreams to its November 3 election night coverage, featuring progressive and conservative YouTube creators, on its secondary channels (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/10/c-span-taps-youtube-creators-for-election…

C-SPAN taps YouTube creators for Election Night coverage
The YouTube creators will host separate programs on C-SPAN 2 and C-SPAN 3, contributing to the network's commercial-free coverage on Election Night.

Disney hires former Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand as its first CTO; about a year ago, Disney accused Character.AI of infringing its copyrights (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/disney-cto-karandeep-anand-character-ai-1236866528…

Disney Hires First CTO: Karandeep Anand, Former CEO of Character.AI
Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro hired Karandeep Anand, ex-CEO of Character.AI and former Facebook and Microsoft exec, as its first chief technology officer.

Bau von KI-Rechenzentren kommt in den USA ins Stocken
KI ist in den USA der größte Boom aller Zeiten – doch der Bau von Rechenzentren stockt. Das liegt nicht nur an Blockaden von Gemeinden.
https://www.

Bau von KI-Rechenzentren kommt in den USA ins Stocken
KI ist in den USA der größte Boom aller Zeiten – doch der Bau von Rechenzentren stockt. Das liegt nicht nur an Blockaden von Gemeinden.

RE: https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:we7sidyj3b5or2r7trtpfzt7/post/3my6ipxjrcc24
Melanie D'Arrigo:
Elon Musk spent
$277 million buying the election for Trump in 2024

"Wi-fi" is pronounced "whiffy". I will not be taking questions.

from my link log —
Index 1,600,000,000 keys with finite state automata and Rust.
https://blog.burntsushi.net/transducers/
saved 2021-08-21 https://

Chinese DRAM chipmaker CXMT says its new fifth-gen technology platform enters mass production and unveils two 24Gb LPDDR5X phone memory products built on it (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chinas-cxm…

The New York Times is advertising in its Instagram Stories, a notable move for NYT, which enforces hard lines between its editorial and commercial operations (Ben Smith/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/newsletter/10/18/2026/semafor-media-sema-four

🟡 Semafor Media: Sema-four | Semafor
In this evening’s edition: Conflict over CBS News’ reporting in the Middle East and Michigan.

Davante Adams (hamstring) expected to miss 6-10 weeks as injuries pile up for Rams https://www.nfl.com/news/davante-adams-hamstring-expected-to-miss-6-10-weeks-as-injuries-pile-up-rams

RE: https://flipboard.com/@wsj/politics-dp5779kqz/-/a-HwNM9rrYSJWyFzVeTpINVA:a:248213600-/0
While this would normally be an outrage, I'm at least encouraged by Trump's track record of hiring America…

So that's that, the final episode ever of #Outlander watched. End of an era. It's been a great romp.

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) on Saturday
warned many fellow Republican lawmakers will no longer be supporting the president’s agenda.
The Nebraska Republican continued, “The President has an agenda:
supplemental, reconciliation, Ballroom, etc…
⭐️ I think the agenda is dead.
Many of us won’t fund these things knowing he is propping up a dictator’s invasion and throwing an ally under the bus.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyyhas urged supporters to fight …

GOP Rep. Pronounces Trump Agenda 'Dead': 'He Is Propping Up A Dictator's Invasion'
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) on Saturday warned many fellow Republican lawmakers will no longer be supporting the president’s agenda.

ah yes, it's that time of year again: mandatory X-day rotation of passwords on a critical service in violation of NIST best practice guidelines.
And they make me re-enter answers to all of my security questions too. I guess I need to meet my wife in a new city again...

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Open-Data-Experten: Offene Daten helfen Bürgern – und der Verwaltung selbst

Open-Data-Experten: Offene Daten helfen Bürgern – und der Verwaltung selbst
Für Open Data bei Behörden gibt es kaum Geld, obendrein drohen neue rechtliche Schranken. Doch aus Sicht von Experten sind offene Daten grade in Krisen wichtig.

Experts say AI kill-switch legislation is far harder to implement than lawmakers assume, warning a rogue AI could actively try to dismantle the mechanism itself (New York Times)
https://www.

Creating a Kill Switch to Shut Down a Rogue A.I. Is Harder Than It Sounds
A bipartisan group in Congress and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California have floated ideas for building a mechanism that would instantly power down an A.I. system. Only no one really knows how.

The BBC suspends a placement scheme in which UK civil servants wrote BBC News articles and fact-checked for BBC Verify after an investigation exposed the scheme (Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10/18/bbc-suspends-civil-service-fac…

Shane Steichen shoulders some blame, says Colts' failures aren't all on Chris Ballard https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7705631/2026/10/19/colts-shane-steichen-chris-ballard-firing/

This is how day one of my week off is going 😄 To be fair I worked all morning and have a meeting later, but I'm squeezing in a cat-based interlude.

LinkedIn is trying to get me demoted lol.
This was my starting position in 2015, which I was promoted out of a couple years later.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
„Größter Diebstahl von Arbeitskraft“: Intern Kritik bei Microsoft an KI-Training

„Größter Diebstahl von Arbeitskraft“: Intern Kritik bei Microsoft an KI-Training
Die New York Times hat gegen OpenAI und Microsoft wegen unerlaubter Verwendung von Texten fürs KI-Training geklagt. Intern werden die Argumente dort geteilt.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law that will penalize influencers who do not properly disclose paid political content, with fines of up to $5K per post (Ken Bensinger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.co…

California Cracks Down on Influencers’ Undisclosed Political Ads
Under a new law, creators could face fines of $5,000 per post if they don’t disclose that they were paid to make political content.

The fall of once-mighty McClatchy newspapers underscores California’s news crisis
Dan Walters describes working for the Sacramento Bee several decades ago as “like living in Sweden.”
The newspaper had a bustling office in California’s capital replete with a cafeteria,
a gas station,
a credit union,
and a medical clinic, where staff could get their vaccinations and seek care for typing-related hand injuries,
recalls the longtime columnist,
who worked…

The fall of once-mighty McClatchy newspapers underscores California's news crisis
The union that represents McClatchy journalists said that more than 90 unionized journalists and media workers across 17 publications had been laid off.

SCOTUS rejects an appeal by BMG, Sony Music, UMG, and Warner Music, upholding a decision that copyright termination rights apply globally, not just in the US (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/u

How Jalen Hurts' superficial blood clots turned into a season-ending situation for Eagles QB https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7705552/2026/10/19/jalen-hurts-eagles-superficial-blood-clots-situation/

Newsom signs bills to shield California elections from Trump interference, and increase transparency
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a sweeping package of election-security bills Saturday,
vowing California will block any attempts by Donald Trump and law enforcement allies to meddle with November’s vote.
New laws make it a felony to seize ballots or voting machines,
restrict police activity near polling places,
and expand early ballot drop-off locations and multilingua…

Newsom signs bills to shield California elections from Trump interference, increase transparency
In an effort to guard against potential interference in the Nov. 3 election, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation to boost security for state’s voting systems and voters’ ability to cast ballots.

The US FTC clears Publicis' $2.2B LiveRamp acquisition, subject to a consent decree requiring equal access to LiveRamp's data connectivity tools for all clients (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

AI inference chip startup Etched raised $700M led by its new server rack customer Jane Street at a $21B valuation, up from $10.3B after raising $300M in July (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/…

From bad to worse for Rams: Davante Adams to miss 6-10 weeks with ruptured hamstring

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rams-davante-adams-to-miss-6-10-weeks-ruptured-hamstr…

Hmm...
Assuming I designed some kind of 3D printed fixture to hold them upright and keep them from banging into each other, and try to avoid sudden acceleration or braking, what are the odds of me successfully driving a post-PnP board (0402 chip components on un-reflowed solder paste, no ICs or high-mass parts) about 10 minutes across town without knocking anything out of alignment?
For some of the process development tests I'm planning it would be really nice if I could take…

You might have to wait a while for your $5,000 check.
But that doesn’t mean that the Trump dividend hasn’t already been paid out.
To the contrary, the president and his congressional enablers have been handing out money left and right.
They’ve made people very rich, in fact.
It’s something that they’re quite good at doing—at least for a few.
Once upon a time, Trump claimed that shared prosperity would come in the form of tariffs,
which he believed woul…

The Trump Dividend Checks Have Already Gone Out. Just Not to You.
Here are some things to remember while you’re waiting for that $5,000 the president is promising.

Sources: Dan Lin was dismissed as Netflix's head of film at the start of the weekend, after almost three years in the role (Matt Donnelly/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/netflix-film-chair-dan-lin-leaving-netflix-1236913606/

Netflix Film Chair Dan Lin Out After Two Years
Film chair Dan Lin is out at Netflix after two years of leadership

Alibaba's Damo Academy open sources RADAR, a medical vision-language model it says can read CT scans and identify ~150 abdominal conditions, including cancers (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/artic…

Alibaba open-sources AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions
Tested on nearly 40,000 real-world exams, the model outperformed most radiologists, according to a new study published in Science.

UK left-wing news website The Canary is closing, saying "malicious lies" by ex-staffers made its situation "unsustainable, both financially and operationally" (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/oct/1…

The Canary news website announces closure after ‘vicious campaign against us’
Leftwing outlet said it had faced ‘multiple attacks’ and ‘malicious lies’ which made its situation unsustainable

Sources: Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan dismissed concerns after fraudsters tried to launder $10M from stolen cards to clean accounts via its wagers in February (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/polymarkets-f

Donald Trump said he will soon appoint an artificial intelligence czar
amid heightened scrutiny of whether the technology is progressing at a dangerous pace, he announced Saturday on Truth Social.
In a long post defending the industry, Trump said he would create an
“AI Force” without specifying its exact functions.
He added that in his capacity as president, he would “not stand by” and allow its “decimation, or destruction.”
Lawmakers and tech leaders have soun…

Trump Pledges to Appoint an ‘AI Czar’ as He Defends the Technology
The president did not detail what the office’s responsibilities would look like or who he could appoint to the role.

Meta challenges Ofcom's OSA categorization of WhatsApp and Instagram imposing additional regulations; Roblox and Quora are also challenging their categorization (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c1ba743f-7330-4419-bc8d-a8b5ce4420a0

Character.AI's Chapter 11 court filings indicate a two-part deal with Disney to transfer talent and tech while insulating Disney from mounting legal liabilities (Maddy Varner/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/disney-asked-characterai-t…

Disney Asked Character.AI to Go Bankrupt for a Get-Out-of-Lawsuits Card
The entertainment giant hopes to get trust and safety tech, among other IP, from a startup whose chatbots dozens of states allege encouraged minors to self-harm and kill their parents.

Peacock raises prices for the fourth time in four years: Premium Plus to $19.99/month from $16.99, Premium to $12.99 from $10.99, and Select to $8.99 from $7.99 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
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Peacock Raises Prices Again, Fourth Price Hike in Four Years
NBCUniversal's Peacock is raising prices for all customers, marking the streamer's fourth fee increase in four years.