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Q&A with Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro on her new report, to be published next week, which argues local news funders should pick winners, scale up, and force mergers (Richard Tofel/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/its-time…

It’s time for local news funders to pick winners, scale up, and force mergers, a new report argues
"I don’t think we’re in a stage, any longer, of innovation. It really is a challenge of what are the scaling solutions."

Lol.
Face Š la Chine, les géants américains de l’IA s'unissent pour contrer la copie de leurs modèles - RFI
https://www.rfi.fr/fr/amériques/20260407-face-à-l…

Face à la Chine, les géants américains de l’IA s'unissent pour contrer la copie de leurs modèles
C’est un fait très rare : les géants américains de l’intelligence artificielle (IA) ont décidé de s’allier pour contrer la copie de leurs modèles, notamment en Chine. Selon l’agence Bloomberg, OpenAI, Google et Anthropic collaborent désormais au sein d’un forum appelé Frontier Model Forum, créé en 2023 avec Microsoft.

A big reason why I'm AntiAI is explained here:
(Disclaimer: I can't tell you how much of this article is accurate.)
«Software — 43 comment bubble on white
Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens:
Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk.
In doing so, he may have killed "copyleft."»
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Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens
: Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk

In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.
13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.
The law didn't change.
https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pir…

Why does Canada’s $20 bill look like it has a scene from a horror flick on it?

Government argues ICE facility protest was actually left-wing terrorist plot
The prosecutor displayed photos on a courtroom television of evidence seized from the garage of defendants on trial for alleged involvement in a radical left-wing conspiracy:

Photocopiers, a bookbinding machine and leaflets called “zines.”

Assistant U.S. Attorney Shawn Smith asked the FBI agent on the witness stand to identify the evidence.
Special Agent Morris Boatner said he had found the…

Government argues ICE facility protest was actually left-wing terrorist plot
A first-ever trial against an alleged ‘antifa cell’ in Texas could be a playbook for cracking down on administration critics.

Und weil ich es länger nicht mehr gesagt habe: Die Aufgabe von Universitäten, Schulen usw. ist Konzepte und Fähigkeiten zu vermitteln. Die Aufgabe ist nicht: Produktschulung.
Wir bringen Schülys und Studies den Umgang mit Produkten von MS Word/Excel/PPT, iPads, … bis hin zu ESRI ArgGIS, IBM SPSS, Atlassian Jira, ANSYS, Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop/InDesign, SAP, … bei – weil „die Wirtschaft das fordert“. Und die Wirtschaft setzt die Produkte ein, die die Absolventys können.
Just d…

Ceasefire they said...
Israeli attacks have killed at least 254 people and wounded 1,165 across Lebanon today, according to Lebanonon’s civil defence.
#StopIsrael

Anthropic reported the first known AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign. Not theoretical — detected and disrupted in real time. The details are worth reading closely. https://www.poppastring.com/blog/an-aiorchestrated-espionage-campaign

An independent journalist argues against using AI to help journalists write, saying "the process is the purpose" even if you don't always enjoy it (Marisa Kabas/The Handbasket)
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-to-accept-big-t…

Refusing to accept big tech's AI-poisoned 'future of journalism'
There is no pride in relying on a machine to do deeply human work.