Supreme Court rejects Sony's attempt to kick music pirates off the Internet
Sony's 1984 Betamax win helps Cox beat Sony in important online piracy case.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/supreme-court-rejects-sonys-attempt-to-kick-music-pirates-off-the-internet/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Absolute peak late stage capitalism.

LLM code is the lead pipe of our generation of software engineers. They’re going to be replacing it for decades and wondering how we were so foolish

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul’s press office has entered the fray in the best way.

I can’t believe we’re doing this again. It’s just a bot that generates the text you ask it for. If you put it in charge of critical decisions, it will kill people. Not because it’s secretly evil, but because it’s a word generator. It’s like putting your toaster in charge of air traffic control.

“Human intelligence is more than predicting words” was a completely uncontroversial statement 10 years ago.