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Study: Meta AI model can reproduce almost half of Harry Potter book
The research could have big implications for generative AI copyright lawsuits.
https://arstechnica.com/features/2025/06/study-metas-llama-3-1-can-recall-42-percent-of-the-first-harry-potter-book/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

"Internet is becoming more and more centralized in the hands of a few evil tech companies. Our project aims to change that! Join our discord and…"

Video Dispatch: A Use Case is a Trojan Horse

A use case is a solution to a problem they wish you had

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3JdvqGafAk

Video Dispatch: A Use Case is a Trojan Horse

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Self hosting your own media considered harmful (according to YouTube...). https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/self-hosting-your-own-media-considered-harmful
Self-hosting your own media considered harmful | Jeff Geerling

RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.
Curl vs AI with Daniel Stenberg

Daniel Stenberg, the maintainer of Curl, discusses the increase in AI security reports that are wasting the time of maintainers. We discuss Curl’s new policy of banning the bad actors while establishing some pretty sane AI usage guidelines. We chat about how this low-effort, high-impact abuse pattern is a denial-of-service attack on the curl project (and other open source projects too). Episode Links Daniel Curl Curl project founder snaps over deluge of time-sucking AI slop bug reports Curl AI usage guide This episode is also available as a podcast, search for “Open Source Security” on your favorite podcast player.

Open Source Security

Intercepted radio and drone footage obtained by CNN show Russian soldiers receiving orders to execute Ukrainian POWs

https://theins.ru/en/news/281480

Intercepted radio and drone footage obtained by CNN show Russian soldiers receiving orders to execute Ukrai...

Intercepted radio communications and drone footage appear to show Russian forces receiving direct orders to execute surrendering Ukrainian soldiers, according to Ukrainian intelligence shared with CNN.

The Insider

AIfication

They managed to make "AI" feel no better than "crypto" when used in a sentence.

Mastodon has taken the strategic decision not to accept venture capital investments for growth, but rather restructure to a European non-profit organisation. 👏

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/evolving-the-team/

Evolving the Team

An update on Mastodon’s core team and organisation.

Mastodon Blog

So it begins... Bambu Lab's latest X1C firmware no longer works with OrcaSlicer. See: https://github.com/bambulab/BambuStudio/issues/6726

Best solution for current X1C owners: don't upgrade your firmware.

Please remove anti-debugging code in BBL network plugin · Issue #6726 · bambulab/BambuStudio

Since 1.10.2 the BBL network plugin ships with debugger detecting code that will terminate the application when a debugger is attached. This makes it impossible to run the slicer from Visual Studio...

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