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EARN IT Bill Is Back - The EARN IT Act removes 30-year protections for website owners and users, and allows suspicionless scans of every online message, photo, and hosted file. It even allows the mere use of encryption to be used as evidence of wrongdoing. This is the third attempt to erode American freedoms with this legislation.
PlayStation Eyes Kubernetes - PlayStation wants to bring the scalable, flexible, cloud-native goodness of Kubernetes to its game servers. This would reduce the costs of orchestrating multiplayer game servers, and potentially increase the cadence at which multiplayer games are able to hit the market.
GitHub Copilot Emits GPL. Codeium Does Not. - Codeium presents a compelling case that GitHub Copilot outputs non-permissive GPL code, which could have legal ramifications for users. Codeium offers an alternative service that is not trained with GPL code.
Supreme Court Judges Robots - SCOTUS will soon decide whether to weaken Section 230 protections that shield internet companies from liability for user content. The SCOTUS has expressed some doubt that the protections apply when companies use algorithms to target users with recommendations. This could have implications for generative AI, where the algorithmic organization of information arguably shapes the content itself to an extent that exposes companies to liability.
Telegram Web Apps - Telegram is a messaging application popular for its enhanced privacy and encryption features, and it now claims its in-app Web Apps can “completely replace any website,” with support for “seamless authorization, integrated payments via 20 payment providers (with Google Pay and Apple Pay out of the box), delivering tailored push notifications to users, and much more.”
Spinning Diagrams with CSS - Harold Cooper shows off some CSS sorcery by creating spinning diagrams that don’t use any JavaScript or animated image formats - just HTML and CSS. Super cool.
AI Drake Snares Google - An AI-generated song has triggered DMCA takedown notices from Universal Music Group, and put Google in the dilemma of having to choose between alienating YouTube’s copyright-holding partners and undermining fair use arguments for its own generative AI products.
Iconoir - A high-quality selection of free icons, distributed under the permissive MIT license. No premium options or sign-ups. Your new alternative to Noun Project, Flaticon, and all Figma resources. Available in SVG, Font, React, React Native, Flutter, Figma and Framer.
Evidence.dev - Evidence is a pretty incredible business reporting tool that “enables analysts to build a trusted, version-controlled reporting system by writing SQL and markdown. Evidence reports are publication-quality, highly customizable, and fit for human consumption.”
PyScript - PyScript is a framework that allows users to create rich Python applications in the browser using HTML’s interface and the power of Pyodide, WASM, and modern web technologies.
