“Zlibrary my beloved”: Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit

Lawsuit: Anthropic’s torrenting totally screwed songwriters as AI songs top charts.
Raindrops are tiny lightning bolts, and they’re corroding cars, study finds

Finding reveals an overlooked way that water can damage surfaces.
Think twice before installing this device promising free movies

In exchange for free stuff, devices make home connections part of a proxy network.
El Niño is now stronger than at any point in the last 1,000 years, study finds

“One more warning sign here of what we’re facing in a warmer world.”
Google Maps renames "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" even faster than US government

Google rolled out the Lake America change on Saturday, while the official US government maps are still waiting.
Pocket's AI made my game ideas real. Now Meta controls the results.

Interactive mobile “gizmos” are easy to make, hard to share outside Meta’s platform.
A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history

Cut content from Portal 2, hints of Half Life 2: Episode 3, and so much more.
Why it matters that President Trump just dialed into a NASA news conference

With just one more major mission upcoming, NASA’s science programs need a boost.
I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.

Testing 100 companies found privacy requests often led to confusion and dead ends.
Court rules Kalshi sports bets aren't "swaps," just gambling with a different name

Kalshi can’t evade Nevada gambling laws by calling bets “swaps,” judges rule.