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Artist sues AI meme generator for selling deeply personal comic as ad template
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (765+ words) Meme generator may have screwed up by using templates in outputs, expert says. Artist Elmer Saflor, who goes by the online handle “Superelmer,” loves that millions of people have shared his “Running Away Balloon” comic since it became a popular…...
First teaser for Apple TV's Neuromancer debuts at SDCC
16+ hour, 17+ min ago (296+ words) Plus Mike Flanagan’s Carrie teaser, trailers for Dark Matter S2 and Matchbox the Movie, and Marvel news. Saturday’s various SDCC panels also gave us a teaser for Prime Video’s Carrie; trailers for Dark Matter S2 and Matchbox: The Movie; and a bit…...
SDCC teaser gives us our first good look at Blade Runner 2099
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (448+ words) Also: Forging the One Ring in Rings of Power S3 teaser; new Lanterns trailer; Spaceballs: The New One panel. Fifty years after the events of Blade Runner 2049, Los Angeles has been reborn, just not by humanity. Cora, a fugitive in a…...
SpaceX eyes tower catch for next Starship after auspicious end to 13th flight
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (1035+ words) SpaceX will likely attempt to catch Starship back at the launch pad on its next flight. SpaceX was more than lucky Friday, sending its 13th full-scale Starship test flight halfway around the world from South Texas to an on-target, intact splashdown…...
Wildfire forces evacuation of NASA's Deep Space Network complex in Spain
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (477+ words) “Any potential damage will be assessed when it is safe to do so.” A fast-moving wildfire, one of many raging across Spain, bore down on the Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex on Friday, forcing an evacuation and temporarily suspending operations…...
After court loss, Paramount agrees to delay Warner Bros. merger until trial
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (522+ words) “Halting this merger while our case proceeds is a critical victory,” NY AG said. Paramount Skydance agreed to a longer-term delay of its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, preventing the companies from combining until after a judge rules on…...
Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (253+ words) Serving the Technologist since 1998. News, reviews, and analysis. Anyone who has used the Internet in recent years is probably used to encountering telltale signs of LLM prompting that lazy users sometimes forget to remove from their AI-generated pabulum But a…...
Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (424+ words) Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough. Today, Anthropic rolled out Opus 5, the newest update for the model that has recently become a popular choice for coding and other software development tasks, among other things....
RFK Jr.'s hand-picked committee approves manufacture of peptides he uses
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (215+ words) There’s no human safety or efficacy data, but that no longer seems to matter. The move had been telegraphed months earlier as peptide enthusiast and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took steps to ensure this outcome....
Judge rebuffs Trump admin demand for phone records from NYT reporters
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (781+ words) “We can quash the subpoenas, or you could withdraw the subpoenas,” judge told US. After criticism from a federal judge, the Department of Justice yesterday withdrew demands for phone records and grand jury testimony from New York Times reporters who…...