Leftovers

• Carl Schwan ☛ Backpacking in the Balkans - Part 2

  Better late than never! After quite a few requests, here’s the second part of my backpacking adventure through the Balkans from back in July. If you missed the first part, you can check it out here.

  After leaving Croatia, I traveled to the central Balkan countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.

• Hackaday ☛ Know Audio: Distortion Part Two

  It’s been a while since the last installment in our Know Audio series, in which we investigated distortion as it applies to Hi-Fi audio. Now it’s time to return with part two of our look at distortion, and attempt some real-world distortion measurements on the bench.

• Hackaday ☛ Finding Simpler Schlieren Imaging Systems

  Perhaps the most surprising thing about shadowgraphs is how simple they are: you simply take a point source of light, pass the light through a the volume of air to be imaged, and record the pattern projected on a screen; as light passes through the transition between areas with different refractive indices, it gets bent in a different direction, creating shadows on the viewing screen. [Degree of Freedom] started with these simple shadowgraphs, moved on to the more advanced schlieren photography, and eventually came up with a technique sensitive enough to register the body heat from his hand.

• Science

  • Latvia ☛ Baltic Assembly announces its annual prizes

    The Baltic Assembly - an organization formed by the three parliaments of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, has announced its annual awards in arts, science and literature, though recipients will have to wait more than a month to get their hands on their trophies.

  • Futurism ☛ NASA Rover Appears to Catch Photo of Mysterious Interstellar Object From Surface of Mars

    Could it really be 3I/ATLAS?

  • New York Times ☛ We May Know Why Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance Really Sank

    The explorer’s journey to Antarctica was likely doomed before it began.

  • Science Alert ☛ One Major Pollutant in Fossil Fuels Has Been Linked With ALS

    We need cleaner air.

  • Science Alert ☛ An Ancient Infection May Play a Critical Role in Our First Moments of Life

    Viruses aren't all bad.

  • Science Alert ☛ 'Grue Jay' Spotted in a Texas Backyard Is First-of-Its-Kind Hybrid

    New bird just dropped.

  • Science Alert ☛ These 6 Common Habits Could Be Putting Your Bladder at Risk

    Don't wait too long.

  • Science Alert ☛ Several Psychiatric Disorders Share The Same Root Cause, Study Shows

    How are they linked?

  • Science Alert ☛ Your Life's Purpose Could Be Keeping Dementia at Bay, Study Finds

    Find yours.

  • Science Alert ☛ Surprising Immune Cell Discovery Wins 2025 Nobel Prize. Here's The Science.

    Congratulations!

  • Science Alert ☛ 126,000 Years Ago a Mammal Dragged Its Butt And Left a Unique Fossil

    Well this is different.

  • Science Alert ☛ Ancient Signal Confirms What The Very First Animals Truly Looked Like

    This looks familiar.

• Career/Education

  • New York Times ☛ A Harvard Professor Is Placed on Leave After Firing a Pellet Gun

    The episode initially raised concerns because it happened near a synagogue, but the police say it was unrelated to antisemitism.

• Hardware

  • The Straits Times ☛ China’s chip challenge: The race to match US tech

    Analysts say China will struggle to match the technical might of US' Nvidia within the current decade.

  • Hackaday ☛ Weaving Circuits From Electronic Threads

    Though threading is a old concept in computer science, and fabric computing has been a term for about thirty years, the terminology has so far been more metaphorical than strictly descriptive. [Cedric Honnet]’s FiberCircuits project, on the other hand, takes a much more literal to weaving technology “into the fabric of everyday life,” to borrow the phrase from [Mark Weiser]’s vision of computing which inspired this project. [Cedric] realized that some microcontrollers are small enough to fit into fibers no thicker than a strand of yarn, and used them to design these open-source threads of electronics (open-access paper).

  • Ruben Schade ☛ Recorded livestreams for retrocomputer stuff?

    This is a bit inside baseball as my American friends would say—or inside Banana Ball as Clara would say—but it’s something that’s been on my mind lately with regards to specific types of posts I’ve been struggling of late to collate and write. Go the Savannah Bananas!

    I love reading, and I love writing. I enjoy writing about places I’ve been, and including photos illustrating it. It’s the most fun thing I do with computers and travel, sometimes to the point where writing about them is as enjoyable. I half joked here years ago that text editors were my favourite “games”, because I get as much fun out of using them.

    I want do the same thing with old computer exploration and repairs, but I run into mental road blocks each time. Merely pulling apart this SGI Indigo2 to clean it, see how it works, how it’s put together, and how I might go about repairing it, has generated almost 200 photos. Where do I begin compiling a succinct set of interesting images from this set to illustrate a post? How would I write text around it to make something logical and cohesive?

  • Hackaday ☛ Logitech POP Buttons Are About To Go Pop

    For those who missed out on the past few years of ‘smart home’ gadgets, the Logitech POP buttons were introduced in 2018 as a way to control smart home devices using these buttons and a central hub. After a few years of Logitech gradually turning off features on this $100+ system, it seems that Logitech will turn off the lights in two weeks from now. Remaining POP Button users are getting emails from Logitech in which they are informed of the shutdown on October 15 of 2025, along with a 15% off coupon code for the Logitech store.

  • Hackaday ☛ 2G Gone? Bring It Back Yourself!

    Some parts of the world still have ample 2G coverage; for those of in North America, 2G is long gone and 3G has either faded into dusk or beginning its sunset. The legendary [dosdude1] shows us it need not be so, however: Building a Custom 2G GSM Cellular Base Station is not out of reach, if you are willing to pay for it. His latest videos show us how.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Bridge Michigan ☛ Michigan cash aid program for moms and babies gets $270 million in new budget

    The additional funding will allow Rx Kids to expand in more low-income communities and reach about 100,000 babies over the next few years.

  • Stanford University ☛ University switches student health insurance carrier

    Students on Cardinal Care will face an annual premium increase under the new provider, Wellfleet Student.

  • Latvia ☛ Addiction pilot project launched at Latvia's Children's Hospital

    To provide timely help for children with severe substance abuse problems, the Children's Hospital has been running a pilot project since September. Treatment can now be provided even if the minor or his/her parents refuse it, Latvian Television reported on 5 October.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Malaysia’s durian exports to China hit $1.84 billion in seven years

    Statistics showed an upwards trend in the number of durian exports to China.

  • The Strategist ☛ Food security should inform Australia’s regional engagement

    The path to a truly safe and secure Indo-Pacific is not just through military interoperability; it requires a more holistic and enduring form of statecraft that recognises food security as a foundation of cooperation.

• Proprietary

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • The Straits Times ☛ ‘Easier than friendship’: South Korea’s Gen Z turns to Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot for emotional support

      For Generation Z, raised in an always-online culture, the idea of confiding in Hey Hi (AI) comes naturally.

    • Futurism ☛ OpenAI’s Huge New Project Is Running Into Trouble Behind the Scenes

      Hardware is hard.

    • Futurism ☛ Stalker Already Using OpenAI’s Sora 2 to Harass Victim

      "It is scary to think what Hey Hi (AI) is doing to feed my stalker's delusions."

    • Futurism ☛ Consultants Forced to Pay Money Back After Getting Caught Using Hey Hi (AI) for Expensive “Report”

      "Deloitte has a human intelligence problem."

• Defence/Aggression

  • The Straits Times ☛ Surge in domestic violence feared during long Chuseok holiday in South Korea

    Statistics show such cases tend to rise during traditional holidays when relatives gather for extended periods.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Vietnam’s top leader To Lam to visit North Korea this week

    It marked the first visit of a Vietnamese leader to the largely isolated nation in nearly 20 years.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Vietnam’s top leader To Lam’s visit to North Korea signals proactive role in global affairs

    This will be the first visit to the country by a Vietnamese general secretary in nearly 20 years.

  • Marcy Wheeler ☛ Governor Pritzker Argues Convicted Felon Is Invading Illinois Out of Animus

    Illinois' lawsuit against a Guard deployment argues that the deployment arises from long-standing animus, not recent events.

  • JURIST ☛ ICC convicts former militia leader of war crimes in Sudan

    The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday convicted Ali Kushayb, a former Sudanese militia chief, of 27 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in massacres and atrocities in Darfur region in 2003 and 2004.

  • New York Times ☛ How Convicted Felon’s National Guard Deployments Break With Military Tradition

    By sending troops to U.S. cities that are not in active crisis, Hell Toupée is breaking with military tradition. Helene Cooper, who covers national security issues for The New York Times, compares his recent actions with earlier domestic military deployments.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Lawyer tries to hurl object at India’s chief justice over remark about Hindu god

    The lawyer tried to approach Gavai on stage and was stopped by security before throwing an object.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Chinese pressure shreds Taiwan’s relationship with South Africa

    Countries that do not recognise Taipei are becoming more inhospitable as they draw closer to China.

  • The Straits Times ☛ How China waged an info war against US interests in Philippines

    A Chinese-owned firm is accused of carrying out a cyber campaign paid for by China.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China takeover of Taiwan would threaten US too, Taiwan president says

    President Lai Ching-te said it will embolden Beijing to compete with Washington on the international stage.

  • The Straits Times ☛ EU says UN resolution only switched China representation, did not mention Taiwan

    The United Nations resolution that led to Beijing assuming China's seat from Taipei was about switching representation and did not mention Taiwan, the EU said, commenting on an escalating dispute over the interpretation of the key document.

  • The Strategist ☛ What to expect from Australia–PNG defence treaty

    Debate over the Pukpuk treaty has focused on China and whether Australia’s military might one day use Papua New Guinea’s geography or fight alongside PNG forces in a regional contingency involving Beijing and Washington.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Explainer: Hong Kong’s national security crackdown – month 63

    The month of September saw activist Nathan Law, who is wanted under Hong Kong’s security law, denied entry to Singapore over “national interests.”

  • France24 ☛ Madagascar president appoints army general as PM to defuse protests

    Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina on Monday named an army general as prime minister in a bid to calm growing unrest over his rule. Security forces fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters in the capital Antananarivo, injuring at least one, according to AFP reporters.

  • France24 ☛ Maduro says Venezuela thwarted 'false flag' plot to bomb US embassy amid drug dispute

    Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday security forces foiled a “false flag” plot by what he called local terrorists to plant explosives at the US embassy in Caracas and inflame tensions over drug trafficking. He cited unnamed sources alleging the plan sought to provoke Washington.

  • New York Times ☛ One Hostage’s Path to Healing and Advocacy

    Emily Damari spent 471 days in captivity in Gaza. Since being released, Ms. Damari, a British Israeli, has become a symbol of resilience and a voice for the release of all remaining hostages held by Hamas. Avishag Shar-Yashuv, a photographer for The New York Times, has been following Ms. Damari’s journey.

  • New York Times ☛ A Former Israeli Hostage Is Freed From Hamas, but Not Captivity

    In the tunnels of Gaza where she was held captive, Emily Damari learned how to survive. These photos show her learning to be alive again.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • LRT ☛ Several suspects detained after smuggler balloons disrupt flights at Vilnius Airport

      Ten of the 25 weather balloons that flew into Lithuania from Belarus over the weekend and disrupted flights at Vilnius Airport have been found and a number of suspected smugglers have been detained, an official said on Monday morning.

    • Meduza ☛ Long lines and empty pumps. Russia’s gasoline crisis in photos. — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ ‘It’s clear the system doesn’t need smart people’: Russian paramilitary group of soccer fans announces disbandment, angering some right-wing observers — Meduza

    • RFERL ☛ EU Edges Closer To New Visa Suspension Rules Amid Concerns Over Georgia

      The European Union is set to approve new rules that would make it easier to suspend visa liberalization for third country nationals traveling into the bloc, a measure aimed in large part at Georgia amid signs Tbilisi is drifting away from democratic reforms and back toward Moscow.

    • Meduza ☛ ‘No one will go unpunished’: Georgian prime minister vows crackdown after protesters try to storm presidential palace over disputed election — Meduza

    • Blacklisted Russian Il-76 carried non-military cargo to Upington

      An Abakan Air Il-76 transport aircraft that arrived in Upington last week was carrying general non-military cargo, including civilian helicopters [...]

    • Meduza ☛ As gaps widen along the front, Ukraine is reportedly struggling to hold back Russia’s advance — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ A high-stakes gamble Ukraine has successfully slowed Russia’s advance in central Donbas — but at the cost of its defenses elsewhere — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Dangers of a self-fulfilling prophecy: Historian Alexey Uvarov warns against looking for a ‘Franz Ferdinand moment’ in the Russian–Ukrainian war — Meduza

    • New York Times ☛ Ukraine’s Secret Weapons Spending Faces Questions After Internal Review

      The government reviews show the country’s challenge as U.S. support wanes and Kyiv pivots to production from a domestic arms industry with a long history of corruption.

    • LRT ☛ Lithuania to cooperate with ICC on protecting witnesses in Ukraine war crimes cases

      Lithuania will cooperate with the International Criminal Court in The Hague to protect witnesses involved in investigations of war crimes committed in Ukraine, the Interior Ministry said Monday.

    • JURIST ☛ France prosecutors launch war crimes investigation after photojournalist death in Ukraine

      French prosecutors on Sunday announced the opening of a “war crimes” investigation following the death of French photojournalist Antoni Lallican in southeastern Ukraine, according to the state-owned international news television network France 24.

    • LRT ☛ UK’s former ambassador to Russia on provocations: retaliate on your terms, not theirs

      “In Mr Putin's understanding of the world, if I win, you lose and if you win, I lose,” former long-serving UK diplomat Laurie Bristow said in an exclusive interview with LRT.lt, describing the mindset inside the Kremlin. So, is there any hope for progress in negotiations to end the war in Ukraine? And what message do Russia’s provocations send to NATO’s eastern flank?

    • New York Times ☛ Russia Welcomes Convicted Felon’s Blessing of Proposal to Extend Caps on Nuclear Weapons

      Hell Toupée said a Russian proposal to extend by one year the limits on long-range nuclear weapons sounded “like a good idea to me.”

    • The Straits Times ☛ Russia welcomes Convicted Felon's remark on Putin's offer to preserve nuclear arms limits

      The Kremlin on Monday welcomed remarks by U.S. President The Insurrectionist who said that President Vladimir Putin's proposal to voluntarily preserve nuclear arms limits set out in the New START treaty for another year sounded like a good idea.

    • Atlantic Council ☛ Putin rejected Convicted Felon’s generous deal. Time to try peace through strength.

      Hell Toupée's efforts to end the war in Ukraine by offering Putin Kremlin-friendly peace terms have failed to convince the Russian dictator. It is now time to speak to Putin in the language of strength, the only language he truly understands, writes Sergiy Solodkyy.

• Environment

  • The Straits Times ☛ One hiker dead, hundreds rescued after heavy snowfall in China

    The hiker in north-west Qinghai’s Tiger Valley died from hypothermia and altitude sickness.

  • France24 ☛ Snowstorm traps hundreds of hikers on Mount Everest during China's national holiday

    Rescuers were helping hundreds of hikers trapped by heavy snow at tourist campsites on a slope of Mount Everest in Tibet, Chinese state media said. Speaking on FRANCE 24, Carl Cater, Associate Professor in Tourism Marketing at Swansea University, says many of the tourists caught in the storm were ill equipped and lack the outdoor skills necessary to face the challenge of hiking up the world's tallest mountain.

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Ruben Schade ☛ Feedback regarding AA batteries

      Yesterday I posted about a couple of teenage Australians standing in the isle of a supermarket discussing batteries. Rather than pronouncing them as “Double A” and “Triple A” as I’d grown up hearing, they were spelling out the letters instead as “A-A” and “A-A-A” batteries.

    • European Commission ☛ Commission approves Austrian scheme to support security of electricity supply

      The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, an Austrian scheme to safeguard security of electricity supply.

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • The Straits Times ☛ Bear cub attacks, injures Spanish tourist at Japan’s Shirakawa-go Unesco site

      The man was reportedly taking photos with his friend when he was attacked by a bear cub.

    • The Revelator ☛ Jane Goodall Will Live Forever

    • New York Times ☛ Marine Park in Ontario Warns It May Euthanize Beluga Whales Without Cash Infusion

      The government has barred Marineland from shipping its whales to an aquarium in China so the park is threatening to put the whales down.

    • New Yorker ☛ The Guts and Glory of “Indian Rodeo”

      For more than a decade, Jeremiah Murphy has been trying to capture the beauty of a deeply American sport.

• Finance

  • Pro Publica ☛ Seattle Paid for Shelter Beds That It Left Vacant Despite a Massive Need for Housing

    When Brenna Poppe moved into the Civic Hotel off the damp streets of Seattle in late 2022, she cried with joy. During her next year at the city-sponsored homeless shelter, she’d meet other guests who felt the same way — overwhelmed by the sudden realization that tonight, they would not sleep outside.

    The Civic got quieter last year, however. Rooms around her, their doors still painted bright yellow from when the hotel was a boutique property, started to empty out. A “deafening silence” crept in, she recalled.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • The Straits Times ☛ Sabah dissolves state assembly, paving way for election led by PM Anwar’s ally GRS

    The Sabah polls are seen as a mid-term popularity test for the Malaysian premier as head of the GRS-PH alliance.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China Premier Li Qiang to visit North Korea for ruling party anniversary

    Chinese Premier Li Qiang will lead a Chinese delegation to North Korea to participate in celebrations of the 80th anniversary of its ruling party on Friday, North Korean state media KCNA reported.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China exiles in Thailand lose hope, fearing Beijing’s long reach

    With tears rolling down his cheeks, detained Chinese political exile Zhou Junyi struggles to make his voice heard over dozens of families visiting Bangkok’s main immigration detention centre.

  • New Yorker ☛ Pan-African Dreams, Post-Colonial Realities

    Two new books, on Kwame Nkrumah’s promise and Idi Amin’s tyranny, capture the soaring hopes and bitter aftermath of Africa’s age of independence.

  • New York Times ☛ Shutdown Politics Has Republicans Singing Government’s Praises

    As Republicans try to pin blame for shutdown damage on Democrats, they are hailing a federal bureaucracy they normally bash as wasteful and overreaching.

  • France24 ☛ Few women and minorities win seats in Syria's first parliament since fall of Assad

    Women and religious minorities were underrepresented on Monday in Syria’s first elected parliament since Bashar al-Assad’s ouster. Electoral commission spokesperson Nawar Najmeh said only four percent of members of the new transitional assembly are women and just two are Christians, calling it a “weak” representation given the country’s demographics.

  • Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

    • New York Times ☛ Political Violence. Threats to Free Speech. A Disinformation Crisis. We’ve Been Here Before.

      To see a way out of our destructive spiral we should look to the innovation of the 1920s.

    • France24 ☛ Is Emmanuel Macron building a luxury bunker "in preparation for World War III"?

      A viral post on social control media claims Emmanuel Macron is spending almost 150 million euros in State funds on a luxury underground bunker to "shield the French elite from a looming World War III". The video claims to have solid proof coming straight from Tracfin, a service of the French Ministry of Finances that fights money laundering. In reality, this fake news probably comes from a Russian covert influence network called Storm-1516.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • France24 ☛ Moroccan court upholds prison term for feminist over T-shirt slogan

    A Moroccan court on Monday upheld a 30-month prison sentence for feminist Ibtissame Lachgar on blasphemy charges, an AFP journalist said. Lachgar was arrested in August after posting a photo of herself online wearing a T-shirt with the word "Allah" in Arabic followed by "is lesbian".

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • BIA Net ☛ Imprisoned journalist Fatih Altaylı pauses ‘Empty Chair’ YouTube broadcasts

    During the three months he spent in prison, Altaylı continued his YouTube broadcasts and news coverage without interruption. Following a court decision to extend his detention, he announced that he will not be publishing or broadcasting for a while.

  • Press Gazette ☛ GB News comment about LGBTQ+ including ‘paedos’ in breach of Ofcom code

    Complaint considered resolved with no further sanction due to apology and discussion broadcast on GB News.

  • Public Knowledge ☛ Is the JCPA Coming Back? Why We Still Oppose the Journalism Competition & Preservation Act

    It’s been reported that news media lobbyists are heading to the Hill to make their case for protective legislation, which may include the Journalism Competition & Preservation Act. Just in case, we’re providing this refresher list of the reasons we oppose this legislation.

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • Papers Please ☛ The weaponization of travel blacklists

    [A Federal Air Marshal (FAM) tasked with surveillance of an airline passenger targeted by Quiet Skies lists and/or rules followed the traveler out to the curb and recorded the license plate number of the vehicle in which she left the airport, so that her airline reservations could be integrated with license plate reader data into an uninterrupted multi-modal travel history.]On September 30, 2025, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs held a hearing on Examining the Weaponization of the Quiet Skies Program.

    Coming just hours before the partial shutdown of Federal government operations, this hearing was sparsely attended, even by members of the committee, and got little press attention. The hearing opened with the Chair and Ranking Minority Member of the committee talking over each other at length.

    Much of the argument between Senators and the questioning of witnesses focused not on the general problems of the Quiet Skies traveler surveillance program program or government travel blacklists (referred to euphemistically as “watchlists” throughout the hearing) but on whether these programs have been weaponized to a greater extent under Democratic or Republican administrations.

  • The Dissenter ☛ Lawsuit Challenges ICE's Brutal Silencing Of Press, Protesters In Chicago

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • Public Knowledge ☛ Public Knowledge Promotes Nat Purser to Senior Policy Advocate To Support Growing Hey Hi (AI) Portfolio [Ed: Public Knowledge jumps the shark with a Ponzi scheme and Microsoft inside the Board]

    Public Knowledge is pleased to announce the promotion of Nat Purser, formerly a Government Affairs Policy Advocate, to Senior Policy Advocate for her work championing consumers on Capitol Hill. 

  • Public Knowledge ☛ Digital Inclusion Week Policy Webinar: Strategies for Advancing Broadband Affordability and Broadband Adoption [Ed: And advancing Microsoft]

    Join Public Knowledge, the National Digital Inclusion Alliance, UnidosUS, and The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights for a Digital Inclusion Week policy webinar about broadband affordability, broadband adoption, and the urgent need for Universal Service Fund reform.

• Digital Restrictions (DRM)

  • Digital Music News ☛ Bay Area Musician Event ‘Death to Spotify’ Gains Steam as Daniel Ek Pivots Away — Is This an Emerging Snowball for Spotify?

    Spotify’s ‘AI war machine’ problem doesn’t seem to be going away, despite Daniel Ek stepping down as the company’s CEO—musicians still hate Spotify. Spotify founder and former CEO Daniel Ek’s investments in military technology continue to hover like a grim specter over Spotify’s business.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Trademarks

  • TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog Test: Is KARMA KRACKERS for Crackers Confusable with KARMA for Nuts?

    Karma Nuts opposed applications to register the mark KARMA KRACKERS and the logo mark shown below left, for seasoned soda crackers, alleging a likelihood of confusion with the registered mark KARMA, in standard character and logo form (below right), for "Nut butters; Nut-based milk; Nut-based snack foods; Prepared nuts; Roasted nuts; Shelled nuts." Are the goods related? Are the marks confusingly similar? What do you think? Karma Nuts, Inc. v. Karma Crackers, Opposition No. 91281846 (October 3, 2025) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Mary Beth Myles).

• Copyrights

  • Digital Music News ☛ RIAA Singles Out Discord and Telegram as ‘Primary Mechanisms’ of Pre-Release Piracy in US Government Report

    The RIAA has shone a light on Telegram and Discord as key facilitators of pre-release piracy in its latest submission to the US government. In the U.S. Trade Representative’s (USTR) yearly review of “Notorious Markets” facilitating copyright monopoly infringement, the RIAA submitted its latest assessment to aid in identifying this year’s biggest offenders.

  • Digital Music News ☛ Suno Fires Back Against Major Labels’ Proposed Amended Complaint: ‘A Gambit to Try to Evade Application of the Fair Use Doctrine’

    Suno has fired back against the majors’ amended copyright monopoly suit, the central stream-ripping claim in which is allegedly a “futile” attempt to pivot due to the “burgeoning consensus” that training on protected works constitutes fair use.

  • Digital Music News ☛ Scam Altman Reverses Sora’s Opt-Out Copyright Structure—‘We Have Been Learning Quickly’

    Scam Altman’s Proprietary Chaffbot Company reverses its opt-out copyright monopoly structure for its Sora model, giving rights holders more control and requiring opt-in.

  • Futurism ☛ OpenAI’s Sora 2 Already Melting Down Into Outrageous Drama

    How did they not see this coming from miles away?