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Wolff to sell stake valuing Mercedes F1 at £4.6bn

Yesterday at 23:03 PM, via BBC News

Toto Wolff is in advanced talks to sell part of his shareholding in the Mercedes Formula 1 team, with the proposed sale valuing the team at a record £4.6bn.

Education

Teaching History in the Trump Era

Yesterday at 16:00 PM, via New York Times

Readers respond to an article about how the teaching of U.S. history is changing. Also: Democratic pragmatism; emergency care at risk.

Lifestyle

How TAX eats into US PowerBall jackpot winnings

Yesterday at 17:09 PM, via The South African

US PowerBall winners can choose between taking the prize across 30 annual installments or a lump sum – the preferred option for most winners.

Science/Tech

OpenAI Used Song Lyrics In Violation of Copyright Laws, German Court Says

Today at 00:10 AM, via Slashdot

A Munich court ruled that OpenAI violated German copyright law by training its models on lyrics from nine songs and allowing ChatGPT to reproduce them. OpenAI now faces damages as it considers an appeal. Reuters reports: The regional court in Munich found that the company trained its AI on protected content from nine German songs, including Groenemeyer’s hits “Maenner” and “Bochum.” The case...

Science/Tech

Google Announces Even More AI In Photos App, Powered By Nano Banana

Yesterday at 23:30 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Big G is finally making good on its promise to add its market-leading Nano Banana image-editing model to the app. The model powers a couple of features, and it’s not just for Google’s Android platform. Nano Banana edits are also coming to the iOS version of the app. […] The Photos app already had conversational editing in the “Help Me...

Science/Tech

FFmpeg To Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs

Yesterday at 22:48 PM, via Slashdot

FFmpeg, the open source multimedia framework that powers video processing in Google Chrome, Firefox, YouTube and other major platforms, has called on Google to either fund the project or stop burdening its volunteer maintainers with security vulnerabilities found by the company’s AI tools. The maintainers patched a bug that Google’s AI agent discovered in code for decoding a 1995 video game but...