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Universal Music Group and TikTok renew their agreement to combat unauthorized AI music

Universal Music Group and TikTok renew their agreement to combat unauthorized AI music

đź’Ą Discover this awesome post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: AI,Apps,Media & Entertainment,TikTok,universal music group âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Universal Music Group (UMG) and TikTok recently announced the renewal of their licensing agreement, which includes a commitment to eliminate unauthorized AI-generated music from the platform to improve how artists and songwriters record. In their joint announcement, UMG stated that the agreement "expands TikTok and UMG's pioneering commitment to protecting AI that enhances human artistry and ensures platform economics flow effectively to artists and songwriters. TikTok and UMG will work together to remove unauthorized AI-generated music from the platform, while further…
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C64 BASIC: Game Map Overhead “Camera View”

C64 BASIC: Game Map Overhead “Camera View”

🔥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Games like Ultima have a classic overhead camera view rather than the moving character view that I have been showing in my retro roguelike. How is that implemented?Jay in the Commodore 64 Ultimate Development & Modifications Facebook group asked:Here is my answer (which on reflection wasn’t as helpful as it could have been):The way to do it with c64 characters is the map defines the whole potential area and the “camera view” is a slice of that starting at x, y of the map.So if…
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AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn

AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn

đź’Ą Discover this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: In August 2025, I wrote about AWS deleting my 10-year account without warning. Then I wrote about the one human who restored it. Tarus Balog, a 20-year open-source veteran who escalated my case to a Severity 2 ticket, got the CEO’s attention, and proved that even inside a machine the size of AWS, one person could still make a difference. AWS just fired him. This is the finale of a trilogy nobody asked for. The Blog Post That Hit Different¶ On May 23rd, Tarus published…
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Amazon fulfillment competitor Stord raises $250 million at a $3 billion valuation

Amazon fulfillment competitor Stord raises $250 million at a $3 billion valuation

🚀 Explore this insightful post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: TC,Venture,e-commerce,Startups,Stord,Strike Capital âś… **What You’ll Learn**: E-commerce logistics company Tawreed announced on Tuesday that it has raised a $250 million round at a valuation of $3 billion. This doubles its valuation compared to last year. The new financing was led by Strike Capital with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Franklin Templeton, Baillie Gifford, G Squared and Bond. Stord was founded in 2015 by then-University CEO Sean Henry and CTO Jacob Boudreau while they were still at Georgia Tech. It has been on a steady rise, run by the two…
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EAGLE 3.1: Advancing Speculative Decoding Through Collaboration Between the EAGLE Team, vLLM, and TorchSpec

EAGLE 3.1: Advancing Speculative Decoding Through Collaboration Between the EAGLE Team, vLLM, and TorchSpec

đź’Ą Explore this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: The EAGLE series — including EAGLE 1, EAGLE 2, and EAGLE 3 — has become one of the most widely adopted and practically deployed families of speculative decoding algorithms across both research and production systems. Today, the EAGLE team, vLLM team, and TorchSpec team are excited to jointly introduce EAGLE 3.1 — a major step forward in speculative decoding robustness, efficiency, and deployability. EAGLE 3.1 Innovations While speculative decoding performs well in controlled settings, performance often degrades under different chat templates, long-context inputs, or out-of-distribution…
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The cookware industry is seeing a big battle revolving around PFAS claims

The cookware industry is seeing a big battle revolving around PFAS claims

🔥 Explore this insightful post from WIRED đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Science,Science / Environment,Sticky Situation âś… **What You’ll Learn**: The forever war on chemicals in cookware has seen celebrity chefs, major cookware makers, and state legislatures enter the fray. Now, a new front has opened regarding advertising claims.Cookware company Caraway claims Big Cookware is using a lawsuit to try to "silence" the company, which rose to prominence in making chemical-free pans forever. Caraway recently launched a marketing campaign in response to a lawsuit filed in February by two major fryer makers, alleging that Caraway is damaging their reputations by marketing its…
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Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Daily links from Cory Doctorow

🔥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: One of the surprise breakout software products of the early web was Lotus Notes, a kind of primitive precursor to all-in-one office productivity suites like GDocs, Office365, etc. It was so important that its creator, Ray Ozzie, was promoted to Microsoft's Chief Software Architect, succeeding Bill Gates himself: https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/podcast/knowledge-at-wharton-podcast/the-man-who-would-change-microsoft-ray-ozzies-vision-for-connected-software/ People who remember Notes tend to deride it for its clunky user interface and demi-functional administrative tools. But what made Notes so central to Microsoft wasn't its polish – it was the fact that Notes represented…
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7 Ways to Be Good at AI People will think you’re an AI

7 Ways to Be Good at AI People will think you’re an AI

🔥 Read this awesome post from WIRED đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Business,Business / Artificial Intelligence,Power Up 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Sam Liang I was horrified when I admitted my method for recording the interview: launching the voice memos app on my iPhone and manually transferring the transcript to a Google Doc. The CEO of Otter, a transcription service for analyzing meetings, looks at me as if I'm trying to connect to a video chat with a rotary phone. He thinks, of course, that I should turn into an Otter. Maybe he's right.It's all part of a new identity at work (and…
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Flatpak will depend on systemd – OSnews

đź’Ą Discover this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: If you visit the Flatpak website today, it lists, as the very first advantage of the project: “Build for every distro: create one app and distribute it to the entire Linux desktop market.” If you then move on to the list of supported distributions, you’ll see the usual suspects, but also distributions like Void Linux, Guix, and Alpine. These last three all have one thing in common: they use an init system other than systemd, because Flatpak doesn’t care what init system you use. It…
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I never liked a laptop bag until I tried the Bellroy Laptop Bag

I never liked a laptop bag until I tried the Bellroy Laptop Bag

🚀 Read this trending post from WIRED đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Gear,Gear / Products,Gear / Trends,Gear / Products / Computers,Bag Check 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: As we got Outside of the home, WIRED's gear-obsessed reviews team writes about our favorite bags and electronic beauty products. Today's reviewer Luke Larsen He raves about his love for his Bellroy laptop case. You can also check out other Bag Check stories where Wired Writers share their right to choose.I never was Someone using a laptop sleeve. I've tried several of them over the years, but the laptop compartment inside my bag has always felt…
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