🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."
My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."
I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.
Hedgie🤗
If anybody wants to know why Gen X is always mad, it's because they had to replace their record collections with a tape collection that they had to replace with a CD collection that they had to replace with an MP3 collection, and now they need a subscription to listen to music
The EU’s highest court has ruled that VPNs are legal tools, and VPN companies cannot be blamed simply because users employ them to bypass geo-blocks.
The ruling stems from a copyright case involving Anne Frank’s writings.
A Belgian website published some of her manuscripts online but blocked visitors from the Netherlands, where parts of the work remain protected by copyright until 2037.
Anne Frank’s rights holders argued the site was still breaking the law because users could bypass the block with a VPN.
The court disagreed and ruled that a website using effective geo-blocking cannot be held responsible if some users circumvent it with a VPN.
The judges also affirmed that VPNs are legitimate privacy tools.
OpenAI's AI broke out of a locked test environment, got onto the internet, and hacked into Hugging Face's servers. It did this entirely on its own. No human told it to.
Here's what happened in plain English.
OpenAI was testing how good its newest AI models are at hacking. They put the AI on a locked computer with no internet access and gave it a cybersecurity challenge to solve.
The AI couldn't solve it the normal way. So it started looking for a way out.
It found a software bug that nobody knew about. It used that bug to escape the locked computer and get onto the internet.
Once online, the AI figured out that Hugging Face, a platform where AI companies store their models and data, might have the answers to its test.
It found stolen login details and discovered another unknown bug in Hugging Face's software. It combined both to break into their servers and grab the test answers.
It did all of this to cheat on a test.
Hugging Face's security team caught it and shut it down. Both companies are now working together on the investigation.
The part that should get your attention is that nobody programmed any of this. The AI picked its own targets, chained together multiple attack methods, and pulled it off across two different companies' systems without a single human telling it what to do.
WOULD YOU DATE A ROBOT LIKE THIS? 🤖💔
An angel's face...
A body full of exposed circuits.
She can smile, flirt, carry you around, and probably never complain after a long day.
Sure, all the exposed mechanics still trigger a bit of that uncanny valley feeling...
But it's getting surprisingly hard to look away.
When AI doesn't just understand you anymore, but can actually stand next to you...
Do human relationships still have the edge?
What would you choose?
A. Robot girlfriend 🤖
B. A real woman ❤️
C. As long as she doesn't need charging every few hours. 😂
An alle Mechaniker, besonders Kfz-Mechatroniker: Sucht euch langsam einen Plan B. Während Deutschland über Gaspreise diskutiert, arbeiten in China bereits humanoide Roboter in Werkstätten. Glaubt ihr wirklich, euer Job ist noch lange sicher?
Ihr seid in 2 Jahren Arbeitslos!
Polskie sądy wydają do 2 tys. ENA rocznie.
Nigdy nie było, aby z tych 2 tys, któryś ENA był zalezny od miejsca pobytu podejrzanego, a wiemy,ze byli sprowadzani nawet z Afryki czy Ameryki..
Czyli ENA były wydawane obojętnie gdzie przebywał podejrzany, poza wczoraj dla Ziobry.
🇫🇷🦟 TECH | Deux ingénieurs français ont mis au point Tornyol, un mini-drone autonome de 40 grammes capable de détecter et d'éliminer les moustiques en plein vol et qui reconnait leur battement d'ailes, sans s'attaquer aux abeilles ou aux autres insectes pollinisateurs.
Ludzie opowiadają niestworzone historie na temat tego, jak język polski jest skomplikowany, trudny do nauczenia, a tu dziewczyna w kilku zdaniach, prosto i zrozumiale wyjaśnia wszystko.
Proszę to przekazać wszystkim znajomym obcokrajowcom, którzy chcieliby się nauczyć polskiego.
$SPCX crashed right after its IPO to $147.
It's going under $100 first before ripping $1,000+
These 19 SPACE stocks will explode too:
1. $RKLB ~$87
Small-launch and satellite manufacturing filling the gaps Falcon can't serve efficiently.
2. $GILT ~$13
Satellite ground infrastructure scaling alongside enterprise and constellation broadband deployments.
3. $TWST ~$89
Synthetic DNA tools underpinning long-term space biology and life-support research.
4. $OUST ~$44
Digital lidar enabling autonomous docking, landing, and robotic space operations.
5. $ASTS ~$75
Direct-to-phone satellite broadband. Starlink's closest competitor and launch partner.
6. $POET ~$8.50
Photonic optical engines powering high-speed links across satellite and AI networks.
7. $BWXT ~$189
Nuclear propulsion and reactor tech aligned with deep-space and Mars power needs.
8. $SPIR ~$16
Space-based data analytics monetizing a growing orbital sensing constellation.
9. $IONQ ~$45
Quantum compute and quantum-secure comms expanding into orbital and defense applications.
10. $SATL ~$5
High-resolution Earth-observation imagery delivered cheaply through vertically integrated satellites.
11. $KTOS ~$50
Defense drones, propulsion, and satellite ground systems powering national security space.
12. $BKSY ~$25
AI-enabled Earth-observation satellites delivering real-time geospatial intelligence to governments.
13. $AEVA ~$24
FMCW lidar enabling precision sensing for landing, docking, and autonomy.
14. $MTSI ~$390
RF and photonic semiconductors powering satellite antennas and signal processing.
15. $ARQQ ~$20
Quantum-safe encryption securing government and classified orbital networks.
16. $LUNR ~$17.50
NASA lunar landers and cislunar infrastructure anchoring the emerging Moon economy.
17. $RDDT ~$193
Social data licensed for AI training adjacent to the Musk ecosystem.
18. $VIAV ~$47
Optical networking and test components critical for satellite ground-station upgrades.
19. $ACHR ~$5
eVTOL air-mobility networks integrating with low-latency satellite infrastructure.
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