Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors(nytimes.com)

904 points by acomjean 1 year ago | 686 comments

New York Times article on Anthropic agreeing to pay $1.5 billion to settle a copyright class action brought by book authors; the capture shows a captcha page.

U.S. and El Salvador Say They Won't Return Man Who Was Mistakenly Deported(nytimes.com)

30 points by dougb5 1 year ago | 4 comments

Police Break Up Lego Theft Ring, Recovering Hundreds of Beheaded Figurines(nytimes.com)

50 points by sanj 1 year ago | 39 comments

Meta Unveils Wristband for Controlling Computers with Hand Gestures(nytimes.com)

18 points by Anonboxis 1 year ago | 7 comments

Rubio Orders U.S. Diplomats to Scour Student Visa Applicants' Social Media(nytimes.com)

14 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 6 comments

Lewis Lapham has died(nytimes.com)

181 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 55 comments

Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says(apnews.com)

669 points by cbg0 2 years ago | 734 comments

AP News article reporting that the European Union found Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams with its Office software.

Microsoft Chose Profit over Security, Whistleblower Says(propublica.org)

565 points by tyleroconnell 2 years ago | 269 comments

ProPublica investigation reporting a whistleblower's claim that Microsoft ignored a Golden SAML security flaw later exploited in the SolarWinds hack, prioritizing profit.

Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash(wired.com)

444 points by georgehill 2 years ago | 397 comments

Wired article reporting that Microsoft will make its AI Recall screen-recording feature opt-in and add privacy protections after security criticism.

The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement(theverge.com)

466 points by ssgodderidge 2 years ago | 594 comments

The Verge news article reporting that The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging millions of its articles were copied to train ChatGPT and Copilot models.

Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses(theverge.com)

446 points by robertkarl 5 months ago | 430 comments

News report that Microsoft is canceling internal Claude Code licenses, reportedly after AI tool spending exceeded its budget.

Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program(apnews.com)

811 points by alephnerd 18 days ago | 1390 comments

News article reporting that the US Trump administration suspended a visa/green card program for tech firms including Microsoft.