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AI Firms Say They Can't Respect Copyright. But A Nonprofit's Researchers Just Built a Copyright-Respecting Dataset(2025-06-07 20:00:11)

Is copyrighted material a requirement for training AI? asks the Washington Post. That's what top AI companies are arguing, and "Few AI developers have tried the more ethical route — until now. "A group of more than two dozen AI researchers have found that they could build a massive eight-ter...
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Student Discovers Long-Awaited Mystery Fungus Sought By LSD's Inventor(2025-06-07 15:00:10)

LSD "is used to treat conditions like depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction," notes Science Daily. And now a microbiology student "has found a long sought-after fungus that produces effects similar to the semisynthetic drug..." Morning glory plants live in symbiosis with fungi ...
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Cybercriminals Are Hiding Malicious Web Traffic in Plain Sight(2025-06-07 10:00:09)

Cybercriminals have been increasingly turning to "residential proxy" services over the past two to three years to disguise malicious web traffic as everyday online activity, according to research presented at the Sleuthcon cybercrime conference. The shift represents a response to law enforcement's g...
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Apple Warns Australia Against Joining EU In Mandating iPhone App Sideloading(2025-06-07 05:00:04)

Apple has urged Australia not to follow the European Union in mandating iPhone app sideloading, warning that such policies pose serious privacy and security risks. "This communication comes as the Australian federal government considers new rules that could force Apple to open up its iOS ecosystem, ...
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Cambridge Mapping Project Solves a Medieval Murder(2025-06-07 00:00:09)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In 2019, we told you about a new interactive digital "murder map" of London compiled by University of Cambridge criminologist Manuel Eisner. Drawing on data catalogued in the city coroners' rolls, the map showed the approximate location of 142 h...
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