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Some US states pass or explore laws aimed at reining in the cost of e-books for libraries, which often pay 10x more for e-book licenses than print copies (Erik Ofgang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/books/l…

Some States Are Pushing Back on Library E-Book Licensing Fees
Proposed legislation would pressure publishers to adjust borrowing limits and find other ways to widen access.

An interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky, one of the first people to warn of AI risks, on AI benefits, using violence to stop AI, Rationalism, his new book, and more (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/tech…

A.I.’s Prophet of Doom Wants to Shut It All Down
Eliezer Yudkowsky has spent the past 20 years warning A.I. insiders of danger. Now, he’s making his case to the public.

Later, I'll be giving a talk at #IANLS25 on some quantitative analyses of Latin book prodcution in Germany (and Italy in part) from 1500 through 1800. Slides, code and data can be found here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15878272

This was always how it was going to end, just a financial settlement and AI companies can continue.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/technology/anth…

Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors
The settlement is the largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright cases and could lead more A.I. companies to pay rights holders for use of their works.

The Forgotten Code: Validating a Century-Old Translation System with AI
Jean-Marie Le Ray
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02506 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.02506…

The Forgotten Code: Validating a Century-Old Translation System with AI
A pioneering rule-based mechanical translation system (precursor of modern RBMTs) was first presented in December 1929 by its inventor, Federico Pucci, who later published the full method in a book titled "Il traduttore meccanico ed il metodo per corrispondersi fra Europei conoscendo ciascuno solo la propria lingua: Parte I", in Salerno (Italy), in 1931. This study illustrates how AI breathes new life into the system of international keys and ideograms devised by Pucci to translate from/into an…

It’s a bummer this bundle ends before my PyCon UK keynote (~mild spoiler~), but why don’t y’all get these 25 books on software architecture just in case?
(OF COURSE it has Architecture Patterns with Python)
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/software-archite…

Humble Tech Book Bundle: Software Architecture 2025 by O'Reilly
Pay what you want for the latest Humble Tech Bundle: Software Architecture 2025 and help support Code for America with your purchase!

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