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Anthropic Agrees To Pay Record $1.5 Billion To Settle Authors' AI Lawsuit(2025-09-07 00:00:05)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Deadline: Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion into a class action fund as part of a settlement of litigation brought by a group of book authors. The sum, disclosed in a court filing on Friday, "will be the largest publicly reported copyright rec...
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Boffins Build Automated Android Bug Hunting System(2025-09-06 20:00:29)

Researchers from Nanjing University and the University of Sydney developed an AI-powered bug-hunting agent that mimics human vulnerability discovery, validating flaws with proof-of-concept exploits. The Register reports: Ziyue Wang (Nanjing) and Liyi Zhou (Sydney) have expanded upon prior work dubbe...
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Firefox Ending 32-bit Linux Support Next Year(2025-09-06 15:00:05)

Mozilla announced today that they will end 32-bit Linux support for Firefox in 2026, with version 144 being the last release and ESR 140 as the fallback option. Phoronix reports: Firefox has continued providing 32-bit Linux binaries even with most other web browsers and operating systems going all-i...
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Canada Delaying Plan To Force Automakers To Hit EVs Sales Targets(2025-09-06 10:00:06)

Longtime Slashdot reader sinij shares a report from CBC News: Prime Minister Mark Carney is delaying a plan to force automakers to hit minimum sales levels for electric vehicles. The move is part of a series of measures the government announced Friday to help the sectors most affected by U.S. Presid...
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America's First Sodium-Ion Battery Manufacturer Ceases Operations(2025-09-06 05:00:04)

Grady Martin writes: Natron Energy has announced the immediate cessation of all operations, including its manufacturing plant in Holland, Michigan, and plans to build a $1.4 billion "gigafactory" in North Carolina. A company representative cited "efforts to raise sufficient new funding [being] unsuc...
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