Publishers Target LibGen Domains, IPFS Gateways, Plus $30m in Piracy Damages
Library Genesis (LibGen) is one of the oldest shadow libraries on the Internet, offering free access to millions of books and academic papers people otherwise have...
33 Memoir Examples – Inspiration From Memorable Life Stories
Imagine holding a mirror to your life where every reflection tells a story, some so vivid and profound they could only be believed because they are...
Ex-Brex exec Sam Blond is already leaving Founders Fund just 18 months after he joined
Sam Blond is leaving Founders Fund, as well as the profession of venture capitalist, just 18 months after he joined the storied Silicon Valley firm. In...
Anthropic Says Its New AI Model Is Better Than ChatGPT and Gemini
The battle for the best AI language model is raging on. ChatGPT and its connected GPT language model might still be the most popular, but there...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s AI Chatbot Is Borked
Robert F. Kennedy Jr once said that artificial intelligence “could kill us all” if it were used improperly. Still, concern about the misuse of AI apparently...
PowerToys 0.79 Brings Custom Keyboard Shortcuts to Windows
PowerToys is a utility from Microsoft that adds some great productivity features to Windows. PowerToys 0.79 is now available to download with updates to keyboard mapping,...
RuPaul Launches an “Online Book Marketplace”
This originally appeared in our Today in Books daily newsletter, where each day we round up the most interesting stories, news, essays, and other goings on...
Why Signal ‘turned our architecture inside out’ for its latest privacy feature
Adding usernames to a messaging app may seem like a standard feature, but for Signal, such identifiers were anathema to its mission of total privacy and...
Denis Villeneuve Knows How to Dismount a Sandworm, and He’s Not Telling
There’s a lot of sandworms in Dune: Part Two. We even get to learn a lot about how to start riding them, thanks to an extended...
Anthropic claims its new AI chatbot models beat OpenAI’s GPT-4
AI startup Anthropic, backed by Google and hundreds of millions in venture capital (and perhaps soon hundreds of millions more), today announced the latest version of...
