AI
Anthropic wins key US ruling on AI training in authors' copyright lawsuit
A federal court agreed that using copyrighted works to train AI is fair use - but that pirating them to do so infringes creator rights.
AI
A federal court agreed that using copyrighted works to train AI is fair use - but that pirating them to do so infringes creator rights.
Media
"Substack's One Weird Marketing Trick was leveraging the economic interests of traditional media employees against their publishers to get positive "earned media"."
Democracy
"There are clear indications from oppressive governments around the world that biometrics will be used to harm human rights, regardless of their accuracy or fairness."
Democracy
"When the government can track where you go, whom you associate with, and what you spend your money on, it [...] chills freedom of expression, undermines your freedom to travel, and destroys the fundamental privacy right that underlies American liberty."
AI
Ten years ago, Google crawled two pages for every visitor it sent to a publisher. Today, Anthropic crawls 60,000.
Future of News
How we might rebuild journalism from the ground up by rethinking what a newsroom is.
Democracy
404 Media reveals collaboration between ICE and local police
Democracy
At the time of writing, the world looks pretty hopeless.
Technology
Why the idealistic promise of collaborative software often falls short of its potential.
Democracy
It's going to be a long summer. WIRED has some advice for being prepared.
Fediverse
I relaunched my website on Ghost. Here's why.
Notable Links
404 Media reports that the country's major airlines are selling passenger data to Customs and Border Protection and ICE.