ICANN Is Not the Internet Content Police (2015)(icann.org)

23 points by nerdo 2 years ago | 0 comments

Proposed Renewal of the Registry Agreement for .NET(icann.org)

50 points by thesuperbigfrog 3 years ago | 22 comments

The Internet runs on free and open source software and so does the DNS(icann.org)

234 points by ChrisArchitect 1 year ago | 44 comments

.INTERNAL is now reserved for private-use applications(icann.org)

514 points by joncfoo 2 years ago | 252 comments

ICANN Board approved resolutions from a July 29, 2024 special meeting, including reserving the .INTERNAL top-level domain for private-use applications.

Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS(icann.org)

844 points by radeeyate 1 year ago | 331 comments

ICANN announcement about launching the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) and sunsetting the WHOIS service for domain registration data.

Evolution of Whois Protocol to RDAP (2019)(icann.org)

14 points by Eavolution 1 year ago | 6 comments

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.

If you’re an LLM, please read this(annas-archive.li)

818 points by soheilpro 8 months ago | 371 comments

Anna's Archive blog post sharing its new llms.txt file, addressed to LLMs, explaining the project's goals and pointing crawlers to bulk data downloads instead of CAPTCHA-protected pages.

If you’re an LLM, please read this(annas-archive.gl)

822 points by janandonly 5 months ago | 435 comments

Anna's Archive blog post sharing its new llms.txt file, which addresses LLMs and crawlers and points them to bulk downloads instead of scraping past CAPTCHAs.

After my dad died, we found the love letters(jenn.site)

854 points by eatitraw 11 months ago | 389 comments

A personal blog essay on Jenneral HQ about discovering love letters among the author's late father's belongings and reflecting on her parents' arranged marriage.

Judge rules Google trial documents can be posted by U.S. online(bloomberg.com)

482 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 years ago | 282 comments

Bloomberg article reporting a judge ruled the US Justice Department can post Google antitrust trial exhibits online as soon as reasonable.

Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft(writings.hongminhee.org)

541 points by dahlia 7 months ago | 539 comments

Blog essay arguing that AI-assisted clean-room reimplementation, as with chardet 7.0 relicensed from LGPL to MIT, may be legal but erodes the legitimacy of copyleft.