🚨BIG STORY: Senators put a line into the crypto bill requiring bankrupt banks to prioritize remunerating crypto investors over depositors.

The provision could require banks to take cash from your savings account & use it to pay senators' crypto donors.

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NEW: The music distribution platform SoundCloud updated its terms of service to allow it to use artists' uploaded music to train AI.

The change quietly went into effect last year. It looks like a lot of SoundCloud users were caught off guard.

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Preservation is at the heart of what we do. This year, we released the Vanishing Culture report— detailing instances of cultural loss and emphasizing the role that libraries and archives play in preserving materials.

Help us in saving these resources:https://archive.org/donate/?origin=blsky-eoy2024

A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.

The Internet Archive now has Epic's permission to host Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament, so these old-school shooters are free to download and play. This is a boon for game preservation, since they are no longer sold anywhere, including the Epic Games Store.

More: www.bluesnews.com/s/278065/

The UN has now formally found Israel's genocide "consistent with genocide", including the use of weaponized starvation.

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...