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The (proposed) #Anthropic settlement is a good reminder that #copyright registration can be worth the hassle. (Although, even at 3000 $/work, most money will be eaten by transaction costs and middlemen.)

Anthropic’s $1.5 Billion Speeding Ticket
It’s the largest copyright settlement in history. But for Anthropic, it’s a toll booth, not a stop sign.

A Reinforcement Learning-Driven Task Scheduling Algorithm for Multi-Tenant Distributed Systems
Xiaopei Zhang, Xingang Wang, Xin Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08525 https://

A Reinforcement Learning-Driven Task Scheduling Algorithm for Multi-Tenant Distributed Systems
This paper addresses key challenges in task scheduling for multi-tenant distributed systems, including dynamic resource variation, heterogeneous tenant demands, and fairness assurance. An adaptive scheduling method based on reinforcement learning is proposed. By modeling the scheduling process as a Markov decision process, the study defines the state space, action space, and reward function. A scheduling policy learning framework is designed using Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) as the core …

from my link log —
Grid-scale batteries in Scotland stabilize power with grid-forming inverters.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/grid-scale-battery-scotland
saved 2025-08-05

Grid-scale Batteries in Scotland Stabilize Power
Grid-scale batteries in Scotland are stabilizing power supply with advanced grid-forming inverters.

„Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that "there will be no Palestinian state."
Netanyahu made the remarks during a visit to the Maale Adumim settlement in the occupied West Bank.
He formally signed a proposal that will see thousands of new homes built nearby (..).
"We are going to fulfill our promise that there will be no Palestinian state, this place belongs to us," Netanyahu said.“
Immer noch: Es findet keine Vertreibung stat…

Lamb, in street garb, trucked by ref, then flagged https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45934617/ceedee-lamb-flagged-getting-hit-ref-wr-street-clothes-sideline

Time for more occasional self-promotion
This one is a free/pwyw solo game. It's an RPG point crawl but played in the browser. It was an experiment around writing games in markdown.
https://seedling.itch.io/what-remains-on-copper-island

What Remains on Copper Island by seedling
An HTML solo "tabletop" RPG

Don't miss today's Metacurity for ongoing reports from hacker summer camp and all the other critical infosec developments you should know, including
--US feds clawed back $1 million from BlackSuit and Royal gangs,
--US seeks to recoup $1m from DPRK hackers,
--US charges four Ghanian nationals for romance scams and BECs,
--Personal data of 500K cervical cancer victims stolen,
--FCC issues new rules for subsea data cable security,
--Erlang/OTP vulnerab…

US feds clawed back $1 million from BlackSuit and Royal gangs
US seeks to recoup $1m from DPRK hackers, US charges four Ghanian nationals for romance scams and BECs, Personal data of 500K cervical cancer victims stolen, FCC issues new rules for subsea data cable security, Erlang/OTP vulnerability exploited in the wild against OT networks, much more

The Atlantic settled a defamation lawsuit by Ruth Shalit Barrett for $1M , resolving a dispute over the magazine's 2020 retraction of her story on youth sports (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12…

Atlantic Settles Writer’s Suit Over Article It Retracted
The writer, Ruth Shalit Barrett, had accused the magazine of defaming her in a lengthy editor’s note.

FanDuel to pay Jacksonville Jaguars $5 million after former team employee deposited stolen money, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/fanduel

FanDuel to pay Jaguars $5M after ex-Jacksonville employee's betting funds theft: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6624243/2025/09/12/fanduel-pay-jaguars-stolen-funds/