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Review: Coyote vs. Acme is an unabashed love letter to Looney Tunes

Director Dave Green’s live action/animated hybrid captures smart, subversive weirdness of the classic cartoons.
Trump tells FCC to punish journalist for calling his election results "mixed"

Trump furious at NBC’s Kristen Welker for saying he had mixed results in primary endorsements.
“Zlibrary my beloved”: Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit

Lawsuit: Anthropic’s torrenting totally screwed songwriters as AI songs top charts.
The Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI

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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.