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The 2026 Bulgarian parliamentary elections were held on April 19, 2026, following the resignation of the previous government due to protests.
The elections were marked by significant public discontent over issues like corruption and the cost of living,
with the Progressive Bulgaria coalition emerging as the victor

Von der Leyen congratulates Radev on victory in Bulgarian election
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has congratulated former president Rumen Radev on his victory in Bulgaria's parliamentary election...

It's kind of shocking how many long-time lwn subscribers are willing to hand their wallet over to the wallet inspector (based on the comments on https://lwn.net/Articles/1063735/#Comments).

Eagles' Lane Johnson 'excited' for Sean Mannion offense: I think it will be 'easier' on OTs https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-lane-johnson-excited-for-sean-mannion-offense-i-think-it-will-be-easier-on-ots…

Cowboys Lose Key Offensive Line Depth to Steelers in NFL Free Agency https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-lose-key-offensive-line-depth-steelers-nfl-free-agency

OK, so apparently I shouldn’t have said “beyond the obvious,” and the obvious needs stating:
(1) Copyright licenses very clearly •do• allow the copyright holder to determine who may use a work and for what purposes, at least when such use would be otherwise prohibited without a license. That is how the law works. Rightly or wrongly, empires are built on this: “Streaming service XYZ may offer this song for streaming but not for download until this date.” Copyleft is one example of this principle in action.
(1a) Thing the thing presents discriminatory licensing (such as in Daniel’s strawmen) is anti-discrimination law, not copyright law.
(2) The reason copyleft specifically might prevent LLM usage is that •if• LLM output can be considered a derived work of the training material, then the output must also be licensed in the same way. That seems to me a thin reed: courts so far haven’t been willing to treat LLM output as derived work, even when the output includes things that would surely be considered plagiarism and grossly illegal if done by a human. But I don’t see another path to protection, and courts are still sorting this out…so.
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@dlakelan/116267990581623218

Is building an LLM inherently problematic? Not necessarily, but there's no good way to do it under capitalism. Is using an local LLM funding these evil companies? No. It's not.
Spelling and grammar checking is one of the few uses of LLMs that is not based on fundamentally failing to understand what an LLM actually is. A statistical model is gonna be *really good* at flagging things that are probably typos (low probability areas). There will be false positives, which is fine if you're actually paying attention...

Dank zwei Zufällen: Hubble fotografiert unerwartet zerbrechenden Kometen
Nur weil das eigentliche Beobachtungsziel nicht ins Visier genommen werden konnte, hat Hubble einen anderen Kometen fotografiert – mit spektakulärem Ergebnis.

Cowboys Lose Key Offensive Line Depth to Steelers in NFL Free Agency https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-lose-key-offensive-line-depth-steelers-nfl-free-agency

Starliner-Scheitern gehört zu schwerwiegendsten Vorfällen der NASA-Geschichte
Die NASA hat den gescheiterten bemannten Starliner-Flug zur ISS als schwerwiegenden Zwischenfall eingestuft. Das entspricht der Columbia-Katastrophe.