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🚨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.

www.levernews.com/cryptos-new-...
June 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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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.

futurism.com/soundcloud-a...
May 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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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
December 27, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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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.
November 15, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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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/
November 14, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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The UN has now formally found Israel's genocide "consistent with genocide", including the use of weaponized starvation.

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
UN Special Committee finds Israel’s warfare methods in Gaza consistent with genocide, including use of starvation as weapon of war
NEW YORK (14 November 2024) – Israel’s warfare in Gaza is consistent with the characteristics of genocide, with mass civilian casualties and life-threatening conditions intentionally imposed on Palest...
www.ohchr.org
November 16, 2024 at 12:18 PM