Rightsholders have linked piracy to terrorism and organized crime for several decades. The framing first emerged in the late 1990s, when IFPI raised concerns about criminal networks smuggling pirated CDs across borders. The terrorism angle was added in 2003, when the U.S. House held a hearing on piracy’s “links to organized crime and terrorism.” Around … Read more
The US government is trying to get Elon Musk and his social media platform X out of a $137 million fine by the European Union in an escalation of its criticism of the bloc’s tech rules. The US Department of Justice said it had filed an application with the help of the Department of State … Read more
11 September 2026 It’s late in the night. The espresso cup didn’t provide the alertness I was hoping for. I’m struggling to find the proper words to present my app in another Reddit post. Suddenly my phone lights up and interrupts me mid-sentence. I furiously pick it up and I stop in disbelief. Levely has … Read more
Let’s just get this out of the way: Mark Wahlberg is as A-list as it gets. He broke out in 1997’s “Boogie Nights,” and in the nearly three decades since, he’s built one of the highest-wattage careers in Hollywood: two Academy Award nominations, a Golden Globe nod for “The Fighter,” multiple Emmy nominations as a … Read more
For many years, Vietnamese football fans who wanted a free Premier League stream with local commentary knew exactly where to go. ‘Xoi Lac TV’ and its sister sites offered pirated streams featuring all major leagues, switching to new domains each time a blocking order caught up with the last one. For the operators involved, these … Read more
In September 2015, the Founders Fund hosted a retreat at an eco-resort in British Columbia. Most of the attendees were VCs and people from the companies the firm was backing, but they also invited a few outsiders, including computer pioneer Alan Kay, writer Neal Stephenson, and me. One morning at breakfast I was sitting across … Read more
Overview Nemotron-3-Diarization is an open-weight speaker diarization model from NVIDIA that identifies who spoke when in real-world audio. Its most important distinction is that one checkpoint supports offline processing and streaming operation with up to eight speakers, with configurable output resolution in multiples of 10 ms and chunked inference that removes a maximum-duration limit. The … Read more
Anthropic will spend $11.6 billion over seven years on Akamai’s cloud infrastructure, Akamai said Thursday. That’s more than six times the size of a $1.8 billion deal between the two companies that Bloomberg reported in May. The commitment isn’t ironclad; according to Akamai’s securities filing, it depends on Akamai meeting certain delivery and service-availability requirements, … Read more
Over the past two years, rightsholders of all kinds have filed lawsuits against companies that develop AI models. Meta is among a long list of companies now being sued for this allegedly infringing activity. This includes a class action lawsuit filed by authors including Richard Kadrey and Sarah Silverman, which accused Meta of training its … Read more
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