Tootfinder

Seen on a street sign post in #WestSeattle
#luigi

South Park is no longer available on Paramount outside the US, as sources say the platform's license to stream the series internationally has expired (Brande Victorian/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gen

‘South Park’ Removed From Paramount+ Outside the U.S.
Amid a streaming rights battle, the platform's license to stream the series internationally has expired, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter.

Lammy refers himself to watchdog after fishing illegally with JD Vance (Aletha Adu/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/13/david-lammy-watchdog-illegal-fishing-without-license-jd-vance
http://www.memeorandum.com/250813/p30#a250813p30

Google will have a nonexclusive license to certain Windsurf technology, but will not be taking a stake in the company (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/11/windsurfs-ceo-goes-to-google-openais-acquisition-falls-apart/

Windsurf's CEO goes to Google; OpenAI's acquisition falls apart | TechCrunch
Notably, Google is not taking a stake in Windsurf and will not have any control over the company.

VRAE: Vertical Residual Autoencoder for License Plate Denoising and Deblurring
Cuong Nguyen, Dung T. Tran, Hong Nguyen, Xuan-Vu Phan, Nam-Phong Nguyen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08392

VRAE: Vertical Residual Autoencoder for License Plate Denoising and Deblurring
In real-world traffic surveillance, vehicle images captured under adverse weather, poor lighting, or high-speed motion often suffer from severe noise and blur. Such degradations significantly reduce the accuracy of license plate recognition systems, especially when the plate occupies only a small region within the full vehicle image. Restoring these degraded images a fast realtime manner is thus a crucial pre-processing step to enhance recognition performance. In this work, we propose a Vertica…

Chris Landry has a green card.
Lived in the US since he was 3 years old.
But, "In 2004 and 2007, Landry faced charges of marijuana possession and driving w a suspended license... suspended sentence & paid his fines."
"never thought that that would threaten my status"
https://www.nbcnews.com/ne…

N.H. green card holder denied re-entry to U.S. after visiting native Canada
The man, who supported President Donald Trump though he can't vote, says he "feels differently" now and blames the administration for his immigration plight.

I genuinely do not understand #OSS projects that dual-license BSD and GPL. Like... what exactly are you accomplishing other than releasing it under BSD? The GPL option there... means nothing.
Apache2/GPLv2 I could at least understand, as there's subtle differences, but BSD is inbound compatible with any GPL version, so what even is the point?

> Having to maintain half a dozen cursed #OpenSource pseudo-databases, because people absolutely must use this month's fad.
Another of them betrays community trust and changes license.
> Having to maintain a bunch of independent open source forks of said pseudo-database.
Rinse and repeat.
#Gentoo

Who could've guessed?
https://ni.hil.ist/@mu/114840348453639236

2. Open-Source Freedom 🔓
• Full model weights available on Hugging Face • Modified MIT License for commercial use • No vendor lock-in or API rate limits • Complete transparency and customization control

Sources: Google is paying $2.4B for a nonexclusive license to certain Windsurf tech and hire some of its employees, but won't be taking a stake in the company (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

If anyone else who's in the #OpenStreetMap/#opensource cosmos needs a reason to stop using Organic Maps and switch to some free/open alternatives:
In addition to them rolling their own 'data license', it seems like their recent license modifications for code could also be viewed as violating the Apache license/the creation of a non-FOSS license too.
That the devs are unwilling to give a clear answer to those questions speaks volumes imho…
https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/pull/10987

In the style of Paul Stanley:
I want 25* all day
And 15 every night
*Taking poetic license, the numbers could be converted to 75 and 60 respectively to help those in the US understand.

Why is Wall Street brushing off Trump’s escalating tariff threats?
Investors feel free to continue bidding up stock prices because they assume TACO Trump will always back down from his most costly tariff plans, market analysts said.
But Trump views stocks’ steady rise as a license to intensify his trade threats,
acting out the economic policy equivalent of his 2016 quip that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” without paying a price.
His…

Why Wall Street is brushing off Trump’s escalating tariff threats
President Donald Trump’s escalating tariff threats have not deterred Wall Street, with the stock market continuing to rise despite trade policy uncertainty.

This is the perfect expression of a theme that never shows up in mass media:
Police are running out of legitimate work and are willing to invent new work solely to keep their jobs.
Crime rates have dropped precipitously over the past few decades, with some spikes around the financial crisis and pandemic. In a sane society, we would have also been reducing police budgets and headcounts
(See also: #Freikorps

I’m amazed that the FOSM site is still alive.
#OpenStreetMap and was created by folks who didn’t want OSM to switch to ODbL away from CC BY-SA back in 2012. If y…

just referred to my mojang account as "the minecraft license" (yes i know its microsoft now or whatever, i bought it in 2011) and all this makes me think of is
i should add flexlm to minecraft.

@… *If* scrapers would actually follow the spec, I’m somewhat for it. It *does* allow for you to insert a custom license that says “No scraping, under any circumstances”.
But would any scraper actually follow it? Of course not.

Moonshot AI just dropped something incredible - Kimi K2, a massive 1-trillion parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model that's specifically designed for "agentic intelligence" 🤖. But here's the kicker: it's completely open-source under a Modified MIT License!

A New Hybrid Model of Generative Adversarial Network and You Only Look Once Algorithm for Automatic License-Plate Recognition
Behnoud Shafiezadeh, Amir Mashmool, Farshad Eshghi, Manoochehr Kelarestaghi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06868

A New Hybrid Model of Generative Adversarial Network and You Only Look Once Algorithm for Automatic License-Plate Recognition
Automatic License-Plate Recognition (ALPR) plays a pivotal role in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) as a fundamental element of Smart Cities. However, due to its high variability, ALPR faces challenging issues more efficiently addressed by deep learning techniques. In this paper, a selective Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) is proposed for deblurring in the preprocessing step, coupled with the state-of-the-art You-Only-Look-Once (YOLO)v5 object detection architectures for License-Pl…

Condé Nast and Hearst sign multi-year agreements with Amazon to license their content for use in Amazon's AI shopping assistant Rufus (Jessica Davies/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/conde-nast-and-hearst-strike-amazon-ai-licensing-deals-for-…

Condé Nast and Hearst strike Amazon AI licensing deals for Rufus
Condé Nast and Hearst have signed multi-year agreements with Amazon to license their content for use in its AI shopping assistant Rufus,

Driver's license numbers, addresses leaked in 2024 bitcoin ATM company breach https://therecord.media/bitcoin-depot-cryptocurrency-atm-company-data-breach

Open Source, Hidden Costs: A Systematic Literature Review on OSS License Management
Boyuan Li, Chengwei Liu, Lingling Fan, Sen Chen, Zhenlin Zhang, Zheli Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05270

Open Source, Hidden Costs: A Systematic Literature Review on OSS License Management
Integrating third-party software components is a common practice in modern software development, offering significant advantages in terms of efficiency and innovation. However, this practice is fraught with risks related to software licensing. A lack of understanding may lead to disputes, which can pose serious legal and operational challenges. To these ends, both academia and industry have conducted various investigations and proposed solutions and tools to deal with these challenges. However,…

Matrix-Driven Instant Review: Confident Detection and Reconstruction of LLM Plagiarism on PC
Ruichong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06309 https://arxiv.…

Matrix-Driven Instant Review: Confident Detection and Reconstruction of LLM Plagiarism on PC
In recent years, concerns about intellectual property (IP) in large language models (LLMs) have grown significantly. Plagiarizing other LLMs (through direct weight copying, upcycling, pruning, or continual pretraining) and claiming authorship without properly attributing to the original license, is a serious misconduct that can lead to significant financial and reputational harm to the original developers. However, existing methods for detecting LLM plagiarism fall short in key areas. They fail…

J'ai amélioré les cartes de @… !
Surella un nouveau bar Š Barsac (33)
Très belle ambiance dans un cadre ultra charmant, un incontournable dans la région!

OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

Love it when regulation kicks us in the ass.
The new Pangu-Pro-MoE model from Ascend Tribe (Huawei) ships with a license that forbids use inside the EU.
Why? Probably to dodge any messy GDPR debates.
After the WHOIS debacle sparked by GDPR, we can add yet another item to the ever-growing list of regulation-created problems.
"3. Conditions for License Grant. You represent and warrant that You will not, access, download, install, run, deploy, integrate, modify, or other…

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Condé Nast and Hearst sign multi-year agreements with Amazon to license their content for use in Amazon's AI shopping assistant Rufus (Jessica Davies/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/conde-nast-and-hearst-strike-amazon-ai-licensing…

Condé Nast and Hearst strike Amazon AI licensing deals for Rufus
Condé Nast and Hearst have signed multi-year agreements with Amazon to license their content for use in its AI shopping assistant Rufus,

Super scheiss Software, welche ihre Scheiss-Lizenzserver hinter einem Scheiss-Cloudflare verstecken muss, so dass man seinen Servern eigentlich das ganze Scheiss-Internet öffnen muss.
Scheiss-Sicherheit. 🤬
Ich glaube, ich gehe heute besser nicht ein Bier trinken mit Kollegen, da gute Laune… 🙄

I have a question about the following:
Space-X satellites are relatively low orbit - they go around the world, their radio/signal footprint on the ground goes around the world with them.
So how does a single country, the US, issue "license" for radio spectrum that apply outside of the US geographic borders?
"SpaceX buys wireless spectrum from EchoStar in $17 billion deal"

This song is released under the GPL-2.0 license as part of the Battle for Wesnoth game and the music is located at
https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/tree/master/data/core/music
Also described at:

Oakland police illegally shared license plate data with ICE https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/14/oakland-san-francisco-ice-license-plate-readers/

SF, Oakland cops illegally funneled license plate data to feds
SF and Oakland police appear to have repeatedly broken state law by sharing data from license plate cameras with federal agencies. OPD fulfilled a request related to an ICE investigation on one occasion.

more #sliceoflife while I develop my good photos... A side view of my fabulous 1979 Thunderbird which is already a celebrity at our gas station even if it can't win a drag race against our Honda Fit
#photo

"The Route to an Open Scholarly Ecosystem Runs through CC BY" @ Katina Magazine:
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/route-to-open-scholarly-ecosystem-through-cc-by/

Wie muss man eigentlich bei #OSM Drängelgitter/Umlaufsperren taggen, die so eng sind, dass sie mit Lastenrad nicht passierbar sind bzw. wo man das Rad drüber tragen muss?
Ich frage für https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3860400

Node: 386040073
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

another reason concrete is better than cameras. there are real solutions to traffic violence without making excuses for mass surveillance
https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/14/oakland-san-francisco-ice-license-plate-readers/

SF, Oakland cops illegally funneled license plate data to feds
SF and Oakland police appear to have repeatedly broken state law by sharing data from license plate cameras with federal agencies. OPD fulfilled a request related to an ICE investigation on one occasion.

from my link log —
Hacking Kia: remotely controlling cars with just a license plate.
https://samcurry.net/hacking-kia
saved 2024-09-27 https://

Hacking Kia: Remotely Controlling Cars With Just a License Plate
On June 11th, 2024, we discovered a set of vulnerabilities in Kia vehicles that allowed remote control over key functions using only a license plate. These attacks could be executed remotely on any hardware-equipped vehicle in about 30 seconds, regardless of whether it had an active Kia Connect subscription.

Shared on Bluesky from a different #DH2025 'Nwulite Obodo Open Data License — Made for sharing African datasets equitably' https://datasciencelawlab.africa/nwulite-…

Sometimes you see an STL and it looks simple but has a restrictive license so you decide to make your own version...
This is a bike reflector in three parts that screws together (after adding reflective tape to one part) and hides an Apple AirTag inside. It then zip ties to your seat post.
(Needs a few more tweaks before I share it.)
#STL

Nice! I just learned that my forthcoming article (with Marijana Hamersak) will be #OpenAccess due to some agreement of @… with SAGE.
Coming soon in Memory Studies
#ElShatt

Help wanted: Can we get someone to go through the build/link time dependencies of ngscopeclient, identify every third-party open source library we use, and ensure that they're all credited properly in the documentation, and include/link to the text of the appropriate licenses?
https://github.com/ng…

Add full text of third party licenses as appropriate · Issue #22 · ngscopeclient/scopehal-docs
Section 2.4 mentions a bunch of third party libraries but doesn't actually include the license text.

City Snaps - Chengdu 🌠
城市抓拍 - 成都 🌠
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford Pan 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Open question for hams and GMRS folks...
I've got an Icom FR4000-3 GMRS repeater, a fairly high end quality bit of kit. Is it worth my time to get a GMRS license and set it up? There are no GMRS repeaters in my geographic area. I'm not sure I'd find any use myself for GMRS, but the license is cheap.
Or do I modify it to work in ham bands? This is more my area, but there are several UHF repeaters in the area, so there is no great need.
The base question...does …

Saw a Cybertruck with license plate “D3V NUL” and that’s really where he ought to park that thing.

One of the rare examples where #Microsoft actually created a software itself (instead of buying some 3rd party tool embracing it) was published as open source (MIT license): https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M65

get your local MPs driving license 💀
#satire #UK

“Life evolves,” said Mr. Epelboym, who ran a successful dental practice in Brooklyn for three decades. His license was revoked in 2018 after he pleaded guilty to insurance fraud.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/realest…

In Brooklyn, a Palatial House on the Market for $25 Million
The over-the-top limestone building in Bay Ridge, built on a lot once owned by the keyboardist for Blondie, might be fit for a king, with its abundance of marble and gold.

Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Quora, People, O'Reilly, wikiHow, Ziff Davis, and others adopt the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) Standard to set terms for AI scraping (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/775072/rsl-standard-licensing-ai…

The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up
A new licensing standard, called the RSL Standard, aims to allow AI companies to license content from across the web. Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and others are already on board.

This song is released under the GPL-2.0 license as part of the Battle for Wesnoth game and the music is located at
https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/tree/master/data/core/music
Also described at:

Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Quora, People, O'Reilly, wikiHow, Ziff Davis, and others adopt the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) Standard to set terms for AI scraping (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/775072/rsl-standard-licensing-ai…

The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up
A new licensing standard, called the RSL Standard, aims to allow AI companies to license content from across the web. Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and others are already on board.

RE: Colbert: "for broadcasters, they have a federal license, and they are obligated to operate in the public interest,” Carr said when asked about Colbert’s show ending. “And to the extent that we’re starting to see some changes, I think that’s a good thing.”"
Brendan Carr declares victory over the First Amendment | The Verge
https://archive.ph/7N5uq

Dont use We Transfer

https://timesofsandiego.com/crime/2025/06/18/sdpd-plate-reader-data-breach-early-days/
“San Diego’s settings were meant to bar other agencies from searching San Diego data, but there was a misconfiguration leading to almost three weeks where…

San Diego police admit license plate reader data breach in early days of program
The SDPD's license plate reader database was searched nearly 13,000 times during the early weeks of its use in 2023 and 2024.

President sundowning-at-1-pm was asked for his license plate to vote?
Did he mean a valet in 1993 asked for his plate? Because no American politcal election in almost 250 years has asked anyone for their license plate.
#USpol

cruxrgxx – FLESH DOLL
#byncnd

#jazz #music

Welp, looks like I'll need to file a bill to require that if the state is going to assert copyright over its historical markers, it's gotta be under a copyleft license: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_in_Category:Historical_markers_in_New_Hampshire
(that is, assuming something can't be worked out independently without one...)

🎰 Do you have a license for that robot bookie?
#gambling

Here's an example of a company trying to destroy a product that it only recently acquired.
VMware, the company, was acquired by Broadcom.
VMware products have always been a pain-in-the-ass to operate, partially because of a marketing brain-crash that named everything "vsphere" this and "vsphere" that.
We used only the once free Esxi hypervisor, but we needed several, also at the time free, "vsphere" pieces to manage it.
But Broadcom p…

VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter from Broadcom
“Our management thought it was a bluff…”…

This song is released under the GPL-2.0 license as part of the Battle for Wesnoth game and the music is located at
https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/tree/master/data/core/music
Also described at:

Swedish music rights organization STIM launches a license that lets AI companies train models on copyrighted works while paying royalties to creators (Stine Jacobsen/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/sweden…

Kraken secures a MiCA license from the Central Bank of Ireland to offer crypto services across the EU, following Coinbase's approval in Luxembourg last week (Callan Quinn/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/327112/kraken-license-europes-new-rules

Kraken Becomes Latest to Win a License Under Europe's New Rules
Approval from Ireland's central bank gives Kraken the ability to operate across 27 EU states as it races to catch up to rival Coinbase.

It's still raw and rough but one or two people asked about using some of the graphics I've been creating lately... so here they are.
Use them, no license, no credit needed. Just don't be a bad person, cool?
http://apps.2xlnetworks.net/files/
I will add a pretty index at some po…

Great news. Canada is doing offering government services (commercial driver’s license tests) in Ojibwe/Anishinaabemowin.
It’s a crime and a tragedy that indigenous languages are in danger of dying and everything that can be done to fight that is for the better, especially by governments using them.

Indigenous man's 'jaw nearly hit the counter' when told he could write driver's test in Ojibwe | CBC News
The former chief of the Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation got an early birthday surprise when he was finally able to do his written driver’s test in Ojibwe.   

A first look at License Variants in the PyPI Ecosystem
Weiwei Xu, Hengzhi Ye, Kai Gao, Minghui Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14594 https://

A first look at License Variants in the PyPI Ecosystem
Open-source licenses establish the legal foundation for software reuse, yet license variants, including both modified standard licenses and custom-created alternatives, introduce significant compliance complexities. Despite their prevalence and potential impact, these variants are poorly understood in modern software systems, and existing tools do not account for their existence, leading to significant challenges in both effectiveness and efficiency of license analysis. To fill this knowledge g…

Trump's FAA pick acknowledges he doesn't have a 'commercial' pilot's license (Oriana Pawlyk/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/18/trumps-faa-pick-acknowledges-he-doesnt-have-a-commercial-pilots-license-00411211
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p76#a250618p76

Schools are next for Flock Safety’s automatic license place reader cameras https://therecord.media/flock-safety-raptor-technologies-schools-surveillance

MF-LPR$^2$: Multi-Frame License Plate Image Restoration and Recognition using Optical Flow
Kihyun Na, Junseok Oh, Youngkwan Cho, Bumjin Kim, Sungmin Cho, Jinyoung Choi, Injung Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14797

MF-LPR$^2$: Multi-Frame License Plate Image Restoration and Recognition using Optical Flow
License plate recognition (LPR) is important for traffic law enforcement, crime investigation, and surveillance. However, license plate areas in dash cam images often suffer from low resolution, motion blur, and glare, which make accurate recognition challenging. Existing generative models that rely on pretrained priors cannot reliably restore such poor-quality images, frequently introducing severe artifacts and distortions. To address this issue, we propose a novel multi-frame license plate re…

Coinbase says it has secured a MiCA license from Luxembourg to offer crypto services across the EU, and will shift its European base from Ireland to Luxembourg (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/20/coinbase-eu-license.html

Coinbase secures EU crypto license, swaps Ireland for Luxembourg as main hub
"Luxembourg is leading the way with its pro-business climate and thoughtful approach to regulation," Coinbase Brian Armstrong tells CNBC.

RoD-TAL: A Benchmark for Answering Questions in Romanian Driving License Exams
Andrei Vlad Man, R\u{a}zvan-Alexandru Sm\u{a}du, Cristian-George Craciun, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel, Florin Pop, Mihaela-Claudia Cercel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19666

RoD-TAL: A Benchmark for Answering Questions in Romanian Driving License Exams
The intersection of AI and legal systems presents a growing need for tools that support legal education, particularly in under-resourced languages such as Romanian. In this work, we aim to evaluate the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in understanding and reasoning about Romanian driving law through textual and visual question-answering tasks. To facilitate this, we introduce RoD-TAL, a novel multimodal dataset comprising Romanian driving test quest…

Shoot First laws in the United States lead to substantial increases in violence
and the senseless loss of hundreds of lives every year.
Research shows that these laws have increased gun homicides by up to 11 percent nationally,
translating to more than 700 deaths annually.
Some Shoot First states have seen even steeper increases, with those rates rising by 30 percent or more in Alabama, Florida, and Missouri.
Adolescents experience higher rates of gun homicides…

The Dangers of Shooting First: "Stand Your Ground" Laws Are a License to Kill
Shoot First laws, also known as Stand Your Ground laws, allow a person to use deadly force in a confrontation without any duty to retreat.

A proposed class action suit against Amazon filed August 22 claims it misleads customers, who think they own content they bought when they only have a license (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

You Don’t Actually Own That Movie You Just “Bought.” A New Class Action Lawsuit Targets Amazon
A suit challenges Prime Video telling people they can "buy" a movie when they're purchasing a license to watch it for a period of time.

Went to the DMV to renew my license today and I had a moment of dissonance when I had to put my weight in the little box. Almost a 100 pounds down, probably 80 from what it was last time I renewed.
Guy noticed and commented I look so different from my picture too.

Brex says it has secured a license in the EU, allowing it to issue credit and debit cards and offer its spend management products to European customers (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/07/ipo-hopeful-brex-scored-…

IPO hopeful Brex scored major win to sell in the EU, plans UK expansion | TechCrunch
The EU has authorized Brex to sell its spend management products directly in all 30 countries, "no workarounds required," CEO Pedro Franceschi said.

This song is released under the GPL-2.0 license as part of the Battle for Wesnoth game and the music is located at
https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/tree/master/data/core/music
Also described at:

Stand-your-ground laws,
which are in effect in more than half of U.S. states,
are associated with higher homicide rates,
increased racial disparities in legal outcomes,
and broader public costs,
according to a report from Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun control research and advocacy group.
Stand-your-ground or shoot first laws remove the legal duty to retreat before using deadly force in a self-defense situation.
These laws evolved from the centuries…

The Dangers of Shooting First: "Stand Your Ground" Laws Are a License to Kill
Shoot First laws, also known as Stand Your Ground laws, allow a person to use deadly force in a confrontation without any duty to retreat.

Trump's FAA pick has claimed 'commercial' pilot license he doesn't have (Oriana Pawlyk/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/15/trumps-faa-pick-has-claimed-commercial-pilot-license-he-doesnt-have-00406090
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p37#a250615p37

Ripple has applied for a national banking license, which would place Ripple's dollar-backed stablecoin, RLUSD, under the US OCC's regulatory remit (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/rip

Sources: the US is proposing annual approvals for exports of chipmaking supplies to Samsung and SK Hynix factories in China as part of a "site license" idea (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Nearly 300,000 people were impacted by cyberattack on Nova Scotia Power https://therecord.media/thousands-impacted-cyber-nova-scotia

This song is released under the GPL-2.0 license as part of the Battle for Wesnoth game and the music is located at
https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/tree/master/data/core/music
Also described at:

Attorney General Pam Bondi told tech companies that they could
lawfully violate a statute barring American companies from supporting TikTok
based on a sweeping claim that Trump has the constitutional power to set aside laws.
In letters to companies like Apple and Google,
Ms. Bondi wrote that Trump had decided that shutting down TikTok would interfere with his
“constitutional duties,”
so the law banning the social media app must give way to his
“core …

How the Trump Administration Justified Ignoring the TikTok Ban
In purporting to license otherwise illegal conduct by tech firms, President Trump set a precedent expanding executive power, legal experts warned.

Circle applies for a US national trust bank license, which would let it act as a custodian for its own reserves and hold crypto for its institutional clients (Hannah Lang/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

The Johns Hopkins University Press will license its authors' books to train AI models, citing concerns that "the window may be closing" for making AI deals (Ellie Wolfe/The Baltimore Banner)
https://www.thebaltimoreb…

Johns Hopkins University Press will license its authors’ books to train AI models
Authors at the Johns Hopkins University Press will be able to opt out of the AI licensing agreement until the end of August; if they do not, their work will be used to train AI models.

The GSA says Oracle is giving the US government a 75% discount on its license-based software and a "substantial" discount on its cloud service through November (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.w…

Seven people are missing
after multiple explosions
at a warehouse in Northern California that sent bright fireworks across the area
and ignited a brush fire.
The location is owned by an active pyrotechnics license holder, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
Emergency crews were searching the property for the missing individuals Wednesday,
and investigators were also surveying the area with drones.
Authorities ha…

This song is released under the GPL-2.0 license as part of the Battle for Wesnoth game and the music is located at
https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/tree/master/data/core/music
Also described at:

Klarna gets an electronic money institution license for its UK division, which could let it directly compete with Revolut and Monzo for retail bank customers (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

C-SPAN, a nonprofit network supported by license fees from cable and satellite companies since 1979, lands distribution deals with YouTube TV and Hulu Live TV (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/c-span-youtube-tv-carriage-1236505312/

C-SPAN Networks Land Distribution On YouTube TV And Hulu+Live TV
YouTube TV will carry C-SPAN‘s three channels on its base package starting this fall, a major break as the public affairs network grapples with consumers cutting their cable subscriptions. C-SPAN also said that YouTube TV would sponsor the network’s coverage of America250 celebrations, and C-SPAN’s presence on YouTube will be boosted. A C-SPAN spokesperson said […]

License plate reader company Flock has stopped US agencies from accessing cameras in CA, IL, and VA after reports of lookups related to ICE and an abortion case (404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/flock-removes-state…

Flock Removes States From National Lookup Tool After ICE and Abortion Searches Revealed
Following 404 Media’s reporting and in light of new legislation, automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company Flock has stopped agencies reaching into cameras in California, Illinois, and Virginia.

This song is released under the GPL-2.0 license as part of the Battle for Wesnoth game and the music is located at
https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/tree/master/data/core/music
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The Johns Hopkins University Press will license its authors' books to train AI models, citing concerns that "the window may be closing" for making AI deals (Ellie Wolfe/The Baltimore Banner)
https://www.thebaltimoreb…

Johns Hopkins University Press will license its authors’ books to train AI models
Authors at the Johns Hopkins University Press will be able to opt out of the AI licensing agreement until the end of August; if they do not, their work will be used to train AI models.

This song is released under the GPL-2.0 license as part of the Battle for Wesnoth game and the music is located at
https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/tree/master/data/core/music
Also described at:

Xiaomi releases MiDashengLM-7B, an AI voice model under an Apache 2.0 license based on its foundational voice model, deployed in cars and smart home devices (Yuan Gao/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-04/xi…

FOIA docs: the Trump administration claimed broad authority to nullify laws in letters to tech firms releasing them of legal liability related to the TikTok ban (Charlie Savage/New York Times)
https://www.nyt…

How the Trump Administration Justified Ignoring the TikTok Ban
In purporting to license otherwise illegal conduct by tech firms, President Trump set a precedent expanding executive power, legal experts warned.

Meta announces a partnership with Midjourney, to license the startup's "aesthetic technology" for Meta's future models and products (Alexandr Wang/@alexandr_wang)
https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/1958983843169673367

Alexandr Wang (@alexandr_wang) on X
1/ Today we’re proud to announce a partnership with @midjourney, to license their aesthetic technology for our future models and products, bringing beauty to billions.

Sources: thousands of US export license applications, including for Nvidia chip shipments to China, are stalled due to turmoil at the US Commerce Department (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-government-turmoil-stall…

Experts raise concerns that Malta's expedited MiCA licensing process may lack sufficient enforcement and oversight; OKX received a MiCA license in four days (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/news-analysis/202

'Like Ordering McDonald's:' Malta's MiCA Fast-Track Draws Oversight Concerns
Some people think Malta is nimble and innovative when it comes to regulation. But others see a fast track to regulatory arbitrage.

Sources: Revolut considers buying a US bank to get an American banking license to expand lending capabilities, a faster route than applying for its own permit (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/38aa4eb9-7f94-4efa-b42d-14a210953973

The DOJ settles its lawsuit challenging HPE's $14B acquisition of Juniper; HPE must divest Instant On and license the source code for Juniper's Mist AI software (Rishabh Jaiswal/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-doj-se

Sources: Palmer Luckey's stablecoin startup Atticus raised ~$250M at a $2.25B valuation, and will merge into Erebor, formed by Luckey to get a banking license (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/06/13/palmer-luckey-er…

Scoop: New details on Palmer Luckey's crypto unicorn
Atticus will merge into Erebor, recently formed by Luckey with plans to get a banking license.