Spotify's free tier has ads, just like radio; so they are getting paid for free users and the more they have the more ad revenue potential.

Spotify wants you to pay but whines when they have to pay Apple to be on the App Store; at least Spotify pays artists well.

(For the sarcasm impaired the text after the semi colon is sarcasm.)

Pretty difficult to find a worse choice, I'd say.

Zynga. A name that makes everyone who knows what it means turn around and run the other way. An exploitative evil empire.

If after Unity got extensive flak for trying to push through a hostile pricing model someone asked what kind of person to choose as the next CEO to remove that stain from your reputation - I think "CEO of Zynga" came dead last by a wide margin and then some intern sorted the list the wrong way around.

My confidence that Unity is going to do the right thing just dropped from zero to absolute zero.

It's not that big, 700 TEU, equivalent to 1400 40ft trailers, vs 5000 - 20000 TEUs for container ships. It appears to bee coastal freighter given TFA said it plys between Shanghai and Nanjing.

More relevant is that the US Supreme Court has ruled that copying the entire internet and storing it is not copyright infringement if the amount of data displayed at one time is de minimus. This is why search engines like Google, Bing, and Duck Duck Go are legal.

The question is going to be why is the use of LLMs not okay when search engines are okay. The basic reasoning that people don't want to admit is that search engines increase the value of copyrighted works while LLMs diminish the value of the works, despite doing less with the work.

I'd say this lawsuit was no chance, but our current Supreme Court majority seems to have concern for neither precedent nor the intent of the Constitution, so who knows how it will go? I guess who ever buys off the most judges.

I can believe that these people want their AI to be ethical because they don't want to be sued over it's sociopathic nature.

However, if you can't define ethics by what it is as opposed to what it isn't you'll never get something as amoral as an AI to follow along with your ethics.

or a dog..

Yeah. I'd expect journalists to know basic grammar and not use present tense when talking about last year.

She claims she was pressured to ignore the rules set out by Amazon's legal team.

Those rules may or may not have had anything to do with violating copyright law. Much like Apple's legal team has very strict rules against using GPLv3 even though there would be no problem with them doing so. It would however limit Apple's ability to counter-sue and sue, which Apple's legal team/management seems to care strongly about.

Could the midday solar power glut be used to spin up flywheels, then be used with generators to provide the late afternoon air conditioning power?

It's not morons.

It's people overwhelmed with multiple crisis scenarios that they can't handle. Most of us wish for a stable society and environment because it makes it easier to plan a future. You wouldn't build a house if you're not sure it's still going to be there in five years.

Calling people morons instead of understanding the actual problem is also a way to avoid looking at it too closely, probably because the complexity is overwhelming to you, too. Easier to just call people morons and be done with it.

Climate change is very much a social, cultural and political problem and the scientists have only looked at the meteorological and biological side of it.

We don't.

It's just not necessary in 90% of Europe. We didn't build mega-cities in near tropical climate. A week or two of really hot weather during the summer is not a problem and you wouldn't install an AC just for that.

Maybe some are, but both in my place and where my parents live (1200 km away, that's 750 miles for the metrically challenged) temperatures have plummeted to near freezing at night and single-digits during the day (in Celsius, that's the 35 to 45 range in Fahrenheit for the temperature scale challenged).

I don't doubt climate change at all. But shoddy journalism that creates headlines where those allegedly affected go "what? not at all, why are you lying?" only helps the deniers.

If you look at a weather map of Europe, like this one stuck in the early 2000s - https://www.weatheronline.co.u... - you'll see that at least right now only the very, very southern tips of Europe (in Spain and Greece, that's in the bottom-left corner and the bottom-right corner, no not the very corner that's already Africa, damn where were you in geography?) has temperatures above 20ÂC predicted for today, and that's not unusually hot for those regions.

We did have unusually hot weather 2-3 weeks ago, but they were unusual only for the season and still well below ordinary summer days.

Please get your reporting right, or you're only feeding the trolls that claim climate change is made up.

Which would make things like Tesla power walls incredibly profitable. The problem is that the rate plan that is provided to the owners of solar panels pays them for electricity during peak production times, which is stupid.

Most newer solar panel installations that I know of have power walls installed with them so that you can sell your electricity to the grid during peak periods.

It's almost like they don't want to suggest a solution of simple economics. If the rate is negative, fine the rate is negative and people will collect money charging their batteries, and if the rate is $0.95 a kwhr people will dump power into the grid. I'm not sure what the fascination beyond making sure people don't cheap out and skip the battery packs.

I wish, and I would welcome it if they did.

However, as one of the foremost SELinux advocates in its early days, I doubt that the government of all places has the capability to do so. Few sysadmins can configure SELinux halfway decently (i.e. beyond the default policies) and the government (outside the military and secret services) isn't a good tech employer.

Also, MS is far more than the OS. With Office and a bunch of other tools, plus lots of custom software made only for Windows, the entrechnment is really, really deep.