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Mega-dairy farms may be coming to #NorthDakota - Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation CAFO permit approved | Public News Service
https://app.publicnewsserv…

An analysis of AI training datasets, compiled by The Atlantic, shows AI models were trained on hundreds of thousands of YouTube videos from news publishers (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/hundred…

Hundreds of thousands of videos from news publishers like The New York Times and Vox were used to train AI models
YouTube channels from major news publishers and creators were in video data sets used by Microsoft, Meta, Snap, Runway AI, and Bytedance.

Monero Developers Discuss ‘Publish or Perish’ Proposal to Mitigate Qubic Attacks
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/monero-developers-discuss-publish-perish-215514707.html

Monero Developers Discuss ‘Publish or Perish’ Proposal to Mitigate Qubic Attacks
Monero has been suffering from what is called a selfish mining strategy, or attack, perpetrated by the Qubic Pool—led by Sergey Ivancheglo, also known as...

If you’d like U.S. forest lands to remain unpaved, speak now or forever hold your peace. 
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins just opened a 21-day public comment period on her proposal to ❌ rescind the Roadless Area Conservation Rule,
which has safeguarded 58 million acres of undeveloped national forest land from development and logging since 2001. 
Public lands at risk include 635,000 acres of “some of the most remote and ecologically intact landscapes in Los Padr…

Public Invited to Comment on Paving Los Padres National Forest
Forest Service accepting comments on rollback of Roadless Area Conservation Rule that protects undeveloped forest lands.

OpenAI removes a ChatGPT feature that let users make their conversations discoverable by Google and other search engines, calling it a "short-lived experiment" (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/31/your

Your public ChatGPT queries are getting indexed by Google and other search engines | TechCrunch
Search engines are indexing links to ChatGPT conversations that have been made sharable with a link.

The Human Only Public License: #genAI

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

Making Slavery Great Again (Tom Schaller/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-make-slavery-great-again
http://www.memeorandum.com/250830/p33#a250830p33

Breaks the law: "the policy is aimed primarily at organizations that work with immigrants and transgender youth"
Trump administration completes new rules on public service loan forgiveness | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/public-service-loan-forgiveness-debt-cancellation-62536bdb25f04b5138d2d0a2aeec4e58

The FT says it increased subscription conversion rates by ~280% by using AI to personalize its paywall messaging, resulting in a 7% increase in lifetime value (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

FT says AI-personalised paywall messaging has quadrupled conversion rate
How publishers including Reach and The Independent are - and aren't - using personalisation.

In the US v. Google ad tech trial, Google says it's willing to provide publishers with the data for how its ad server decides what online display ads to show (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-30/…