Tootfinder

Public repo with text of a "Read Only License" and nothing else in the repo. So, can anyone else use that license text in their project? 🤔
(No license info -> no license grant, including no downloading, but would it kill to include a LICENSE.md?)
#technology #licenses #conundrum

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

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

License Plate Surveillance Logs Reveal Racist Policing Against Romani People | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/17/license-plate-surveillance-logs-reveal-racist-policing-against-romani-people/

Hello #FOSDEM crowd. If you know someone attending 2026 who creates some form of an #openart - under a free license, let them know that there could be a small community gathering for them. Theater producers, visual artists, actors, musicians, painters, photographers and more and more are welcomed.

FOSSArt
artists who create under a free license @FOSDEM

Mexico-based fintech Plata, approved for a banking license in December 2024, raised $250M at a $3.1B valuation, as it seeks to transition to a full-fledged bank (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-16/mexico…

Any lawyer who contributes to such a drafting effort should be quickly stripped of their license to practice law on the grounds that they have forgotten even the rudiments of our Constitutional system.
"Trump says lawyers are drafting executive order to end mail-in voting"
https://www…

Just a normal government employee
#uspol

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#JunkDrawerASongOrPoem

If you are a US citizen holding a #HamRadio license, please add your name to #AmateurRadio antennas with bills in both the house and senate,…

Critics say the Philippine government is prioritizing collecting online casino license fees, projected at ~$1B in 2025, over tackling online gambling addiction (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-14/on…

From Hugging Face to GitHub: Tracing License Drift in the Open-Source AI Ecosystem
James Jewitt, Hao Li, Bram Adams, Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur, Ahmed E. Hassan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09873

From Hugging Face to GitHub: Tracing License Drift in the Open-Source AI Ecosystem
Hidden license conflicts in the open-source AI ecosystem pose serious legal and ethical risks, exposing organizations to potential litigation and users to undisclosed risk. However, the field lacks a data-driven understanding of how frequently these conflicts occur, where they originate, and which communities are most affected. We present the first end-to-end audit of licenses for datasets and models on Hugging Face, as well as their downstream integration into open-source software applications…

Eröffnung unseres RepairHubs in Zürich am 8.November 2025 13 - 17 Uhr.
Ort: neue Hard 10
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/13238799333
Das Programm folgt auf

"Kenya court upholds cancellation of 1,050 MW coal plant license"
#Kenya #FossilFuels #Energy

Kenya court upholds cancellation of 1,050 MW coal plant license
Kenya’s Environment and Land Court has upheld a 2019 ruling that revoked the environmental license for the proposed 1,050-megawatt Lamu coal-fired power plant, effectively halting the controversial project. Justice Francis Njoroge dismissed an appeal from the Amu Power Company, finding the project’s environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) was inadequate and public participation deficient. The […]

I am thinking of asking my California state legislative reps to enact a law that would not recognize an Oklahoma driver's license until the applicant driver takes a test to demonstrate that he/she can distinguish up from down.
(Such tests would require payment of a non-refundable test fee of $100 and a mandatory three day study period, within the borders of California, to prepare for the test. Tests will be administered at one of three locations: Barstow, Alturas, or Morro Bay.)

just saw a Pennsylvania license plate that said NJ SUSAN
I hope you get to go home Susan

This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country https://www.404media.co/this-app-lets-ice-track-vehicles-and-owners-across-the-country/

Epic #semiconductors. I am part of a German-Taiwanese research collab: “Exploring Silicon Urbanism: Bilateral Workshops and Fieldtrips in Dresden and Hsinchu.” With trips to clean rooms and affected communities.
Photo-documentation upcoming! #sts

Hmm I kinda wish the #dirvish extension had submitted fixes and enhancements to the #upstream project rather than just lift and shifted the code. At least the license is the same:

New York fines auto insurers $19M over major data breaches
https://www.fingerlakes1.com/2025/10/14/auto-insurance-data-breach-ny-fines/

New York fines auto insurers $19M over major data breaches | Fingerlakes1.com
New York State has fined eight major auto insurance companies over $19 million after an investigation uncovered major cybersecurity failures that exposed the personal data of residents, including driver’s license numbers and birthdates. The settlement—announced October 14, 2025—follows a wide-ranging investigation led by Superintendent Adrienne Harris of the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS).… MoreNew York fines auto insurers $19M over major data breaches

ICE Arrest Illegal Alien Driving an 18-Wheeler with New York Commerical Driver's License Issued to "No Name" (Department of Homeland Security)
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/10/10/ice-arrest-illegal-alien-driving-18-wheeler-new-york-commerical-drivers-license
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p133#a251010p133

Ok #osint #geolocation folks...
1) What is this building?
2) Where was I standing?
3) What is the antenna mast on top for? Can you identify the exact license, frequency band, etc?
CW guesses or answers to avoid spoilers.

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…

Sources: President Trump is being deployed against the BBC by those who want to defund the broadcaster, as its mandated license fee expires at the end of 2027 (Joel Simon/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/how-donald-trum…

How Donald Trump blew up the BBC.
The president set out to undermine public broadcasters in the US. Now, with help from British allies, he’s taking his strategy global.

The Human Only Public License: #genAI

The Human Only Public License
A copyleft software license that restricts AI usage

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Heliozoans are a group of amoeboid protists found commonly in both fresh and saltwater. They were termed sun-animalcules due to their spherical shape and distinctive radiating microtubules, which support axiopods used to capture food and facilitate movement. Some will also capture symbiotic algal cells which provide energy through photosynthesis. Heliozoa is &quo…

Today, Fat Putin threatened #Disney & #ABC's broadcast license thru his #FCC puppets for #JimmyKimmel…

Asserting a License to Kill: Why the Caribbean Strike is a Dangerous Departure from the “War on Terror”
https://www.justsecurity.org/120568/caribbean-strike-departure-war-on-terror/

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… 🙄

Everyone has their own risk profile and security posture, but these "mobile IDs" are a bad idea. In order to show your mobile ID to, say, a cop who pulls you over, you have to hand them your _unlocked phone_. #ItsATrap

Arkansas mobile ID now available in Samsung, Google Wallets
Access to your Arkansas driver’s license is just a tap away.

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…

Large Language Models Are Effective Code Watermarkers
Rui Xu, Jiawei Chen, Zhaoxia Yin, Cong Kong, Xinpeng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11251 https://a…

Large Language Models Are Effective Code Watermarkers
The widespread use of large language models (LLMs) and open-source code has raised ethical and security concerns regarding the distribution and attribution of source code, including unauthorized redistribution, license violations, and misuse of code for malicious purposes. Watermarking has emerged as a promising solution for source attribution, but existing techniques rely heavily on hand-crafted transformation rules, abstract syntax tree (AST) manipulation, or task-specific training, limiting …

Reading this article as I listen to Joan Baez (coincidentally): https://archive.is/pky5Q And I think: is it a bad thing that it's almost impossible for AI companies to license music for training their models…? I don't think it is, actually. Perhaps they should look for business models that don’t in…

Police searched national network of automatic license plate reading cameras in abortion investigation https://therecord.media/police-searched-license-reading-cameras-abortion-investigation

@… *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.

GPL licenses are viral, but not eternal.
If all authors agree, the code can be relicensed under whatever conditions they want.
Granted the original publications stay GPL, is only future releases that will have a different license.

DHS Wants States to Hand Over Driver's License Data for Citizenship Checks (Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-wants-states-to-hand-over-drivers-license-data-for-citizenship-checks
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p112#a251103p112

Zenbo Patrol: A Social Assistive Robot Based on Multimodal Deep Learning for Real-time Illegal Parking Recognition and Notification
Jian-jie Zheng, Chih-kai Yang, Po-han Chen, Lyn Chao-ling Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04190

Zenbo Patrol: A Social Assistive Robot Based on Multimodal Deep Learning for Real-time Illegal Parking Recognition and Notification
In the study, the social robot act as a patrol to recognize and notify illegal parking in real-time. Dual-model pipeline method and large multimodal model were compared, and the GPT-4o multimodal model was adopted in license plate recognition without preprocessing. For moving smoothly on a flat ground, the robot navigated in a simulated parking lot in the experiments. The robot changes angle view of the camera automatically to capture the images around with the format of license plate number. F…

Interesting question on road.cc: is there a bit of road that you just hate #cycling on?
For me, a short stretch of southbound Mearns Rd at Mearns Kirk. Slight rise, poor surface, from Eaglesham Rd to the roundabout:
https://www.…

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

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.

"The Free Software Foundation has been sliding into irrelevance more and more by entirely failing to address its big Creepy Uncle problem. Open-Source has turned into a form of unpaid internship to be hired to make shitty apps that bring more surveillance and ads to our world."
https://aria.dog/barks/forklift…

Introducing the Forklift Certified License—Aria’s Barks
It's not following the OSI definition of open-source because i don't give a damn how capital defines its needs.

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.

Moody Urbanity - Relations III 🧶
情绪化城市 - 关系 III 🧶
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️ Shanghai GP3 400 Pan
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

I'm sad so it's mostly cranking for me lately.

If you think the fact it's "digital" will stop me burning my ID card in protest then you can think again!
Phones burn up nicely if you get them right.
They recently decided that company directors have to prove their digital ID. My company turnover is like 500 quid but I'm still a director of it.
So I had to prove my digital ID.
To do this, I had to take my driving license to a post office.
Which means it's no more secure than the driving license I already had, surely?
Wonder if I can sell a digital ID on the black market and then keep getting a new one.
#digitalID #ukpol #creepingAuthoritarianism

minimizing the literal nazi talk from a potential key Trump person… again.
I don't think the American media will ever learn. The day they 'resist' as they are taken off the air by the fully authoritarian regime they'll probably say something like:
"today, in a controversial act, the administration declared that this news channel broadcast license has been changed. The new license will only allow reruns of the Presidents past speeches to play 24/7. After an immediate stay was requested by this station, the Supreme Court has ruled the change to be lawful. Goodnight America.”
#trump #TheAmericanFascist
https://flipboard.com/@npr/politics-v8m4p3ukz/-/a-L0fqOCw2R9S7wUBllP74TQ:a:3195441-/0

Where do people publish images such that they are citable, FAIR and browsable?
I‘d like to publish my drawings under a CC-BY license for reuse but I am struggling finding a good place for that.
#FAIRprinciples

Donald Trump believes he has a license to kill - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/04/donald-trump-believes-he-has-a-license-to-kill/

ⓘ This user watches TV in the UK without a license 📺

Indonesia restores TikTok's local operating license after the company provided government-requested user activity data for August 25-30, when protests happened (Prima Wirayani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

#jazz #music

@… I have a question about the https://howsmydrivingny.nyc/ site? I just ran a plate on it for a car that was illegally parked and had a stack of summons under the wipers and it only t…

DHS Wants States to Hand Over Driver's License Data for Citizenship Checks (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/dhs-citizenship-checks-drivers-license-data
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p126#a251031p126

It's time for San Francisco to follow Austin's and Evanston's lead and end its Flock contract.
https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/115273074215468855

Today I learned about the Nwulite Obodo Open Data License (NOODL).
https://licensingafricandatasets.com/

In the past, I've tried registering for a specialist doctor appointment over the Internet a few times. The results were roughly:
• e-registration available for gynecologist only
• license expired
• e-registration available only for new patients (I needed a followup visit)
• the only available time is 6 AM on Saturday — not that I'd mind, but I wasn't sure it was a real appointment
#Poland #HealthCare

TIL about the Octobass as a result of my random YouTube-live-music feed stumbling into a performance of Gounod’s “Messe Solonelle” which is pretty good and, well, has an octobass in the orchestra.
#music

Just received an email from Jetbrains about data collection in their IDE
> We’re now adding the option to allow the collection of detailed code‑related data pertaining to IDE activity, such as edit history, terminal usage, and your interactions with AI features. This may include code snippets, prompt text, and AI responses.
> If you’re using a non-commercial license, detailed code‑related data collection will be enabled as part of your next IDE update – you will be notified …

"Creative Commons is a license that lets the creators of intellectual property define how that property may be used by others. Partially this license is a reaction to the poor way #copyright law is being viewed today...
...gives creators a way to provide for more interaction with their ideas. And this interaction is a great way to market, in the right circumstances. More managers shou…

I'm not even a developer (used to be), I'm the technical writer - so I know as much, sometimes more (been here a while) than they do. So I am frequently Tier 2 support.
If I had $1 everytime _"they"_ came upstream with "its not working", I'd be retired.
What, specifically, isn't working? What product? Version? Clean install or upgrade? logs? diagnostic dump? snap of the license page? Does it start or not? If it starts, is a particular feature n…

Sources: Netflix is in talks to license video podcasts from iHeartMedia and is seeking exclusivity, meaning full episodes would no longer be uploaded to YouTube (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Why can your driver’s license not be used for voting without registration? You must prove citizenship to obtain a government-issued ID to vote. Why do you still need to register? Think about it.
Trump Announces Executive Order Plans on Voter ID Requirements https://ground.news/article/trump-announces-executive-order-plans-on-voter-id-requirements_df492d

Woman Wrongfully Accused by a License Plate-Reading Camera - Then Exonerated By Camera-Equipped Car - Slashdot
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/11/01/2359245/woman-wrongfully-accused-by-a-license-plate-reading-camera---then-exonerated-by-camera-equipped-car?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

There are light years between (1) “I thought this code was useful, so I shared it online and slapped an OSS license on it” and (2) “We set up a foundation to fund ongoing maintenance of this critical OSS project while guaranteeing its independence.”
The “dependency, fork, or rewrite?” question looks very, very different for (1) vs (2).
Yet how many of us think about where any given library dependency sits on that continuum when we add a dependency? Even if we try, how can we ••tell••?
5/

Indonesia suspends TikTok's local operating license, saying it failed to share complete livestream activity data during protests following a government request (Chandra Asmara/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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…

CodeGenLink: A Tool to Find the Likely Origin and License of Automatically Generated Code
Daniele Bifolco, Guido Annicchiarico, Pierluigi Barbiero, Massimiliano Di Penta, Fiorella Zampetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01077

CodeGenLink: A Tool to Find the Likely Origin and License of Automatically Generated Code
Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely used in software development tasks nowadays. Unlike reusing code taken from the Web, for LLMs' generated code, developers are concerned about its lack of trustworthiness and possible copyright or licensing violations, due to the lack of code provenance information. This paper proposes CodeGenLink, a GitHub CoPilot extension for Visual Studio Code aimed at (i) suggesting links containing code very similar to automatically generated code, and (ii) whenever …

Cities reverse course on automated license plate reader cameras amid privacy concerns https://therecord.media/cities-reverse-course-on-automated-license-plate-reader-cameras

A Munich court sides with Germany's music rights society GEMA in a case against OpenAI, saying OpenAI can't use song lyrics without a license; OpenAI can appeal (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/german-court-sides-with-p…

DHS Plans to Collect State Driver’s License Data for Citizenship Checks — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/dhs-citizenship-checks-drivers-license-data

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.

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"

Washington folks: anybody know the history of WAC 308-330-500 and adjacent statutes? What was the rationale?
When did it stop being enforced? And why? It's clearly a dead law, I've never seen a bicycle license plate in the ten years I've lived here. Although I guess a cop in a bad mood could probably still ticket you for violating it if they really wanted to.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
In the spirit of the season, Let's play!
#FactCheckAShowOrFilm

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.

Seriously that text goes so hard, I love it:
"[My new license] is not following the OSI definition of open-source because i don’t give a damn how capital defines its needs."
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115230422460611013

California AG sues city for allowing out-of-state searches of license plate reader database https://therecord.media/california-lawsuit-el-cajon-police-out-of-state-searches-flock-database

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

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…

UK filings: Revolut CEO and largest shareholder Nik Storonsky has shifted his residency from the UK to the UAE; Revolut is awaiting a full UK banking license (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/54348782-abc4-4345-a939-f8606103109e

License plate surveillance company Flock Safety faces bipartisan pressure from lawmakers and local organizers over its data handling and cybersecurity practices (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Flock haters cross political divides to remove error-prone cameras
Lawmakers’ calls for Flock probe may help kill local contracts, expert says.

'The FCC should look into the license': Trump threatens ABC and NBC over negative coverage - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2674156738/

ActiveMark: on watermarking of visual foundation models via massive activations
Anna Chistyakova, Mikhail Pautov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04966 https://a…

ActiveMark: on watermarking of visual foundation models via massive activations
Being trained on large and vast datasets, visual foundation models (VFMs) can be fine-tuned for diverse downstream tasks, achieving remarkable performance and efficiency in various computer vision applications. The high computation cost of data collection and training motivates the owners of some VFMs to distribute them alongside the license to protect their intellectual property rights. However, a dishonest user of the protected model's copy may illegally redistribute it, for example, to make …

License plate reader company Flock launches new product that detects human voices https://therecord.media/flock-surveillance-technology-gunshot-voice-detection

Sources: Monzo is considering a new application for a US banking license, hoping for approval amid Trump's deregulation push, after dropping a 2021 attempt (Laith Al-Khalaf/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5e5853b9-a631-4248-ae83-18388765ff47

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 […]

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: Nvidia spent more than $900M to hire Enfabrica CEO Rochan Sankar and other employees at the AI hardware startup and to license the company's technology (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/18/nvidia-spent-over-900-million-…

Nvidia just spent over $900 million to hire Enfabrica CEO, license AI startup's technology
In a deal reminiscent of acquihires by Meta and Google, Nvidia hired Enfabrica's CEO and other employees of the startup, and licensed its technology.

FDA pulls biologics license for chikungunya vaccine
https://archive.ph/fyM2G

Cyprus's financial regulator grants a crypto license to Revolut, allowing the startup to offer crypto services across the EU under new regulations (Elizabeth Howcroft/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa