The justices, in a 9-0 ruling, threw out a lower court‘s decision…

Is it just me, or has there been an uptick in unanimous Supreme Court rulings lately? Could they be doing some behind-the-scenes vote trading in order to appear more unified in their dealings with the executive branch?

They’re busy researching new and exciting ways of denying coverage.

IIRC, they weren’t trying to stop them—they were trying to get the scrapers to pull the content in a more efficient format that would reduce the overhead on their web servers.

This is one thing I can see an actual use case for (as an external tool, not as part of WP): Create a summary, not of the article itself, but of the prerequisite background knowledge. And tailored to the reader’s existing knowledge—like, “what do I need to know to understand this article assuming I already know X but not Y or Z”.

The “SS Lightning Bolts” are often used as a white-supremacist / neo-Nazi symbol that is derived from the Schutzstaffel of Nazi Germany.

I’m sure it’s a coincidence, but it’s a bit odd reading that on a site whose favicon is a lightning bolt that looks very similar to the ones on the shirt.

Sure—the sales slump is due to tariffs that hadn’t even taken effect yet, and not to their highly-publicized repudiation of diversity initiatives.

Because advertisers want viewers to associate their products and brand with feelings of annoyance, aggravation, and frustration?

The basic idea behind the researchers’ data compression algorithm is that if an LLM knows what a user will be writing, it does not need to transmit any data, but can simply generate what the user wants them to transmit on the other end

Great… but if that’s the case, maybe the user should reconsider the usefulness of transmitting that data in the first place.

I guess Kamala Harris’s former campaign advisors found new employment.

AlphaEvolve verifies, runs and scores the proposed programs using automated evaluation metrics. These metrics provide an objective, quantifiable assessment of each solution’s accuracy and quality.

Yeah, that’s the way genetic algorithms have worked for decades. Have they figured out a way to turn those evaluation metrics directly into code improvements, or do they just keep doing a bunch of rounds of trial and error?

It’s just the name of Google’s AI division.

So the shareholders are declaring that Thompson’s killing successfully disrupted the company’s “aggressive anti-consumer tactics”.

It’s almost like they’re trying to encourage more of the same.

You can create an AI avatar before your death that will haunt them on your behalf.

Reducing Google’s monopoly on search is at least a marginal improvement in its own right, even if Apple’s search ends up being equally shitty.

Hopefully that just means using AI to find and index existing content, not to fabricate its own results.

No doubt Proton’s CEO will use this to justify his “Trump is better for regulating big tech” claim, while ignoring that the judge is an Obama appointee.

Idealistic people work harder than anyone—for idealistic causes.

They don’t work so hard for companies that betray their idealism.

I mean, they gave the sandwich a name that literally means “a gross or blatant lie”.

That’s fine, if he declares before the trials what results he would actually find convincing.

All they need to forecast hurricanes is a felt-tip marker and a very stable genius.