Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues
https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pirated-books-via-bittorrent-qualifies-as-fair-use-meta/
https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pirated-books-via-bittorrent-qualifies-as-fair-use-meta/
Torrentfreak
Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues * TorrentFreak
In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use.
Claude AI Helped Bomb Iran. But How Exactly?
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-03-04/iran-strikes-anthropic-claude-ai-helped-us-attack-but-how-exactly
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-03-04/iran-strikes-anthropic-claude-ai-helped-us-attack-but-how-exactly
Bloomberg.com
Claude AI Helped Bomb Iran. But How Exactly?
The same artificial-intelligence model that can help you draft a marketing email or a quick dinner recipe has also been used to attack Iran. US Central Command used Anthropic’s Claude AI for “intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating…
US economy sheds 92,000 jobs in February in sharp slide
https://www.ft.com/content/6542bd0c-59ca-493b-ab5d-2d69e4e00cae
https://www.ft.com/content/6542bd0c-59ca-493b-ab5d-2d69e4e00cae
Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours
https://www.moneycontrol.com/europe/?url=https://www.moneycontrol.com/world/how-palantir-and-anthropic-ai-helped-the-us-hit-1-000-iran-targets-in-24-hours-article-13853331.html
https://www.moneycontrol.com/europe/?url=https://www.moneycontrol.com/world/how-palantir-and-anthropic-ai-helped-the-us-hit-1-000-iran-targets-in-24-hours-article-13853331.html
PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/pc-processors-entered-the-gigahertz-era-today-in-the-year-2000-with-amds-athlon-amd-hit-marketing-gold-with-its-1-ghz-athlon-beat-intel-by-a-nose
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/pc-processors-entered-the-gigahertz-era-today-in-the-year-2000-with-amds-athlon-amd-hit-marketing-gold-with-its-1-ghz-athlon-beat-intel-by-a-nose
Tom's Hardware
PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon — AMD hit marketing gold with its 1 GHz Athlon…
Consumer PCs have long abandoned the multi-GHz race for core count and NPU inflation.
Verification debt: the hidden cost of AI-generated code
https://fazy.medium.com/agentic-coding-ais-adolescence-b0d13452f981
https://fazy.medium.com/agentic-coding-ais-adolescence-b0d13452f981
Medium
Verification debt: the hidden cost of AI-generated code
I’ve forgotten how to write code, or at least I think I have. Hard to be sure, I haven’t done it for a while. But then, I start to muse…
We're Training Students to Write Worse to Prove They're Not Robots
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/06/were-training-students-to-write-worse-to-prove-theyre-not-robots-and-its-pushing-them-to-use-more-ai/
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/06/were-training-students-to-write-worse-to-prove-theyre-not-robots-and-its-pushing-them-to-use-more-ai/
Techdirt
We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI
About a year and a half ago, I wrote about my kid’s experience with an AI checker tool that was pre-installed on a school-issued Chromebook. The assignment had been to write an essay about Ku…
War Prediction Markets Are a National-Security Threat
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/03/polymarket-insider-trading-going-get-people-killed/686283/
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/03/polymarket-insider-trading-going-get-people-killed/686283/
The Atlantic
Insider Trading Is Going to Get People Killed
War markets are a national-security threat.
Senators Launch Effort Ban Elected Officials Profiting from Prediction Markets
https://www.merkley.senate.gov/merkley-klobuchar-launch-new-effort-to-ban-federal-elected-officials-profiting-from-prediction-markets/
https://www.merkley.senate.gov/merkley-klobuchar-launch-new-effort-to-ban-federal-elected-officials-profiting-from-prediction-markets/
Merkley
Merkley, Klobuchar Launch New Effort to Ban Federal Elected Officials Profiting from Prediction Markets - Merkley
Effort comes after reports of individuals suspiciously earning massive payouts before Iran Strikes, Venezuela Military Actions Washington, D.C. – Today, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Minnesota’s U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar launched a new effort to…
Does Apple‘s M5 Max Really “Destroy” a 96-Core Threadripper?
https://slashdot.org/submission/17345398/does-apples-m5-max-really-destroy-a-96-core-threadripper
https://slashdot.org/submission/17345398/does-apples-m5-max-really-destroy-a-96-core-threadripper
slashdot.org
Does Apple's M5 Max Really "Destroy" a 96-Core Threadripper?
Tom's Hardware currently has a front-page article making some wild claims about the 18-core Apple M5 Max versus a 96-core Ryzen Threadripper.Reading the article, the comparison is based largely on Geekbench 6 multi-core scores. The author briefly mentions…
Why developers using AI are working longer hours
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-developers-using-ai-are-working-longer-hours/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-developers-using-ai-are-working-longer-hours/
Scientific American
Why developers using AI are working longer hours
Studies find AI helps developers release more software—while logging longer hours and fixing problems after the code goes live
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