US Air Force F-16 Crashes in Michigan After Pentagon Orders More Flyovers
The F-16 “experienced an incident,” the Texas Military Department said in a statement, adding that “The pilot successfully ejected the aircraft and is receiving care at a nearby hospital.”

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A Texas Air National Guard F-16 crashed in Michigan during a training mission on Thursday afternoon, sparking an hourslon … ⌘ Read more

Firefox 157 Beta Released With Latest Enhancements
The Firefox release train keeps on rolling. With Firefox 156 released, Firefox 157 is now in beta ahead of the planned release coming up at the end of September… ⌘ Read more

NASA and IBM Open Source Lunar Mapping Tools
NASA and IBM have released an open-source AI model trained on a large collection of lunar observations to help scientists analyze the Moon at scale. “The NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model gives scientists a foundation to explore the Moon at scale, connecting observations across instruments, revealing patterns that are difficult to see in isolation, and providing an open platform the gl … ⌘ Read more

Male Fruit Fly Brain Trained to Play Doom
Last week, Google announced that it managed to produce a detailed 3D reconstruction of an adult male fruit fly’s brain and central nervous system. A few days later a software engineer at Coinbase said the fly brain was being trained to play the original Doom. “Each Doom frame stimulates sensory neurons,” says Alex Wormuth. “Neural activity is mapped to game controls. Damage triggers a stimu … ⌘ Read more

Denshattack! review
Denshattack! is about becoming the greatest acrobatic train driver in Japan by competing in over-the-top battles by flipping trains like they’re skateboards.

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System76 Launches The Thelio Mira AI With AMD Ryzen + NVIDIA Or AMD Graphics
System76 today unveiled their newest desktop computer as the Thelio Mira AI. The System76 Thelio Mira AI is designed for multi-GPU AI training, model fine-tuning, AI inferencing, computer vision and image generation tasks on tthe AI side. Or with its AMD Ryzen 9000 series CPU and NVIDIA/AMD GPU options is also a good candidate for simulations and other HPC-type workloads… ⌘ Read more

Trump Creates a Space Academy and Honors the Artemis Astronauts
President Trump awarded the four-member Artemis II crew the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and signed an executive order directing the creation of a new U.S. Space Academy. The proposed academy would train engineers, scientists, technicians, operators, and astronauts for NASA, the Space Force, and the commercial space industry. Houston Public … ⌘ Read more

Inside the Warehouse Where Amazon Scans and Destroys Books For AI Training
Last week, 404 Media published a story that revealed an Amazon warehouse where the company scans and destroys thousands of books for AI training data. Today, the publication has released an interview with one of the Amazon employees at the warehouse. “The employee worked at Amazon’s VGT3 warehouse, which is housed in the same … ⌘ Read more

Twitch And Amazon Hit With Lawsuit for Training AI With Streamers’ Content
A class action filed this week accused Amazon’s Twitch gaming service of using video streams to fuel its AI products without licensing or obtaining permission, reports Engadget:

Earlier this month, Twitch Support posted on X that it added an option to opt out of “having your channel content used to train generative AI content m … ⌘ Read more

Japan to Require AI Firms to Disclose Training Data
Japan is preparing a nonbinding “comply or explain” code that would urge generative AI companies, including foreign firms operating in Japan, to disclose what models they use, what training data they rely on, and how that data was collected. The proposal would also let rights holders ask whether specific webpages were included in training datasets. The Japan Times reports: … ⌘ Read more

Music Publisher Round Hill Files $1 Billion Copyright Infringement Suits Against Suno, Anthropic
Independent music publisher Round Hill is suing Suno and Anthropic for allegedly using hundreds of copyrighted songs without permission to train their AI systems. The company says potential damages could exceed $1 billion, arguing there is “nothing fair” about building multibillion-doll … ⌘ Read more

Tracking Rare Books Leads to an Amazon AI Training Facility
alternative_right shares a report from 404 Media: Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying them in the process. A 404 Media investigation was able to reveal Amazon’s book buying operation, which hasn’t been previously reported, by placing a tracking device in a rare book we suspected would be acquire … ⌘ Read more

Amazon Will Train On Twitch Streamers’ Content By Default, Unless They Opt Out
Twitch will begin allowing Amazon to use streamers’ content to train generative AI models by default, requiring creators to manually opt out if they don’t want their videos and audio included. The decision has drawn backlash from creators, with Twitch’s own product chief acknowledging that an opt-in system would likely … ⌘ Read more

Most of this insane power consumption happens during the models training, so the additional cost of prompting, is minimal. Facebook invented cool ways to exted the environmental damage far beyond the training stage, by dumping the dirty data center water into nearby water sources, but that’s more so a Facebook problem, than a fault of AI.

I would still never waste my own money, paying for any AI subscriptions that my employer doesn’t already pay for, no matter if we use them, or not.

I am also against aggressive scraping and taking everything as training data, disregarding the authors wishes and license. I allow it on my website, mostly as proof that no matter how much they scrape my stuff, the real me remains both a superior webdev and artist.

I am well aware this makes me come across really egotistical, especially after developers far better than me, embraced vibe coding, arguably way too much. To give an example, all attempts to get Microsoft Copilot, that’s embedded into SharePoint, to generate an extension/uBlock filter to make SharePoint revert to the old superior UI failed, but I was able to do that in three lines of code ( https://thecanine.smol.pub/ublock-filters ), in half an hour, despite me never seeing the code of that page before. After a few of these comparisons, it is increasingly hard to see most of these tools, as my replacement.

I am not even going to talk about the people trying to imitate my art style with AI, until they can show me a result where all the squares are the same size, in a grid and actually square.

Suno Says It Will Start Watermarking Songs
Suno says it will begin watermarking and fingerprinting AI-generated songs, tighten download policies to curb mass distribution, and explicitly prohibit deceptive audio and unauthorized voice or likeness cloning. The changes come as the company faces mounting copyright lawsuits, a recent adverse ruling in Germany, and scrutiny over a past data breach that revealed training-data so … ⌘ Read more

ByteDance Is Training a 10-Trillion-Parameter Model To Chase the Frontier
ByteDance is reportedly training an AI model with roughly 10 trillion parameters as it tries to close the gap with leading frontier systems such as Anthropic’s Mythos. The model is still in early pre-training, and its eventual performance will depend on more than scale alone, but the project underscores how aggressively Chinese firms … ⌘ Read more

Company Offering Printed Books To Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Following 404 Media’s reporting that book database company ISBNdb claimed to source printed books to then sell to AI companies for AI training, the company deleted the part of its website offering the service and walked back claims that it would train AI models, and instead cal … ⌘ Read more

Catastrophic MoD Data Breach Caused By Lack of Training On Excel
A UK parliamentary inquiry found that a catastrophic Ministry of Defense breach exposing 18,700 Afghans could have been prevented with basic Excel training, after an employee unknowingly shared a hidden worksheet containing their details. The Independent reports: The leak, in February 2022, exposed the details of 18,700 Afghans who said they were … ⌘ Read more

AI Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters By the Thousands
An anonymous reader quotes a New York Times report on how AI companies are pouring money into training and recruiting electricians, carpenters, and other skilled tradespeople to build data centers: There is no parallel in American history for the boom underway in the construction of data centers, fueled by companies with functiona … ⌘ Read more

Bwahahaha, these security folks have a great sense of humor! :-D Got a phishing test e-mail disguised as an overdue anti-phishing training e-mail:

We receive these test phishing e-mails every now and then at work. When you follow the links and log in at the fake login, you probably get assigned another (real) training.

When I got this e-mail, I immediately thought of such a test. Since I actually do have some stupid training deadlines coming up soon, I wasn’t 100% sure, but still doubted that this was one of them. To make the timing even better, in the team meeting last week, our bosses reminded us to complete outstanding trainings before the deadlines. Ideally well in advance. Notifications about deadlines coming closer are sometimes not only sent to the individuals but also to the bosses and their bosses. And then things can get out of hands when somebody doesn’t read the e-mails properly and mistakes them for deadline exceeded reports.

Anyway, the URL also looked kinda legit. It really doesn’t help a single bit that domain names change all the fucking time. So, still with the test program in mind, I thought, I just give it a quick shot out of curiosity. Since I just had logged in before, the empty SSO username field was totally obvious then. Looking at the e-mail headers confirmed that this was indeed one of security’s field checks. :-)

Google’s Anti-search-scraping Lawsuit Dismissed
A U.S. district court “has dismissed Google’s case against SerpApi over that company’s scraping of search results to train AI models,” reports Computerworld. Google had claimed that it was protecting copyright holders — and that SerpApi’s actions breached America’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA):

[Google] made two claims: first, that no person shall circumvent a technol … ⌘ Read more

Humans Can Learn To Echolocate In Just 10 Weeks, and It Rewires the Brain
alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: A study published in PLOS One in 2021 by researchers from Durham University in the UK showed that with 10 weeks of training, both blind and sighted people could learn to echolocate using verbal clicks. While the technique is already used by a number of people with impaired v … ⌘ Read more

South Korea Plans To Train Entire Military As ‘Drone Warriors’
“South Korea plans to train every single member of its nearly half-million-strong military to operate drones as easily as they handle personal firearms,” reports Ars Technica:

The goal is to make drones a “universal combat tool” for all troops by training them to use drones like a “second personal weapon,” said Ahn Gyu-back, South Korea’s Minister of … ⌘ Read more

Ford Rehires 350 Engineers After AI Fails To Preserve Expertise or Train Juniors
After Ford’s automated quality-control systems and AI tools fell short, the automaker hired 350 veteran engineers over the past three years to mentor younger staff and reprogram the underperforming technology. “Artificial intelligence is a fantastic tool, but it’s only as good as the information you use to train it,” Ch … ⌘ Read more

Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak
Meta has paused its Model Compatibility Initiative that tracked employee mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and screen content to train AI agents, after some of its collected data became accessible to more employees than intended. Meta says it has no evidence the information was improperly accessed and will not restart the program until it is … ⌘ Read more

A German Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI Overviews
The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an AI system must assume legal liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates. ⌘ Read more

Gibbons looks to ride Cups path with promising Baker stayer
Bjorn Baker-trained Thebudgiesmugla will follow the path of Half Yours after winning the listed Queen Elizabeth II Cup. ⌘ Read more

Casey McLean ruled out of Origin II after training injury
Mark Nawaqanitawase is poised to make his NSW debut after Penrith centre McLean strained his right quad at training on Saturday morning. ⌘ Read more

Pokemon Go als KI-Training für Drohnen
Das Kultspiel Pokemon Go hat auch knapp zehn Jahre nach seinem Erscheinen noch Millionen Nutzerinnen und Nutzer. Diese lieferten bei ihrer virtuellen Suche nach den kleinen Fantasiewesen in dieser Zeit über ihre Handys so viele Geodaten über ihre reale Umwelt, dass das auch Entwickler von Systemen künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) interessiert. Besonders brisant: Laut einem Bericht des „Guardian“ vom Freitag könnten diese Daten auch für die Steuerung von Drohnen in Kriegsgebieten genutzt werden. ⌘ Read more

Gauntlet AI will fly you to Austin, train you in AI, give $200k+ job
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Pokemon Go Data Was Used To Help Train AI Systems Being Developed For Military Drones
Pokemon Go players’ optional location scans reportedly helped train Niantic Spatial’s visual positioning system, which uses camera imagery and 3D maps to navigate when GPS is unavailable or jammed. According to DroneXL, that technology is now being paired with Vantor’s drone navigation software for milita … ⌘ Read more

Comment l’épargnant européen finance assidument les licornes américaines qui vont l’écraser
Le constat est connu, répété, et toujours aussi déprimant : la croissance a déserté l’Europe. Le World Economic Outlook d’avril 2026 du FMI le confirme sans ménagement, avec une croissance mondiale autour de 3,1 %, des États-Unis à 2,3 %, une Inde à 6,5 %, une Chine qui tient à 4,4 %, et une zone euro qui se traîne à […] ⌘ Read more

Finanzämter: BfDI sieht KI-Training mit echten Steuerdaten kritisch
Die Finanzbehörden wollen KI-Modelle mit echten Steuerdaten trainieren. Die Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragte warnt vor einer Memorisierung. ( Datenschutz, KI)

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These ballet dancers eat hundreds of bananas a day. Here’s why
Australian Ballet stars have never trained harder than they have for Copland Dance Episodes. Weirdly, peak fitness has also made them vulnerable. ⌘ Read more

Interview: “Heute werden selbst feinste Gesichtsausdrücke erfasst”
Lara-Croft-Schauspielerin Alix Wilton Regan spricht über Performance Capture, körperliches Training und die Arbeit der Animatoren. Ein Interview von Peter Steinlechner ( Tomb Raider, Interview)

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Moses skips training again
NSW halfback Mitchell Moses sits out another training session due to his troublesome hamstring. ⌘ Read more

Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
Article URL: https://dronexl.co/2026/06/09/pokemon-go-scans-niantic-vantor-military-drone-navigation/

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Daley wanted Moses going ‘full clip’ on Thursday. It didn’t happen. So what now?
Blues playmaker trained away from the main group on Thursday – with Ethan Strange running at No.6 – as he continues his rehabilitation from a hamstring strain. ⌘ Read more

All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)
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NSW Blues stars sit out of training
Mitchell Moses and Casey McLean were spotted sitting out of training the day before Origin II, but both are adamant they’ll be ready for the MCG clash ⌘ Read more

Adam Driver’s Movie Future Isn’t Star Wars, It’s Fighting James Bond
Adam Driver wants to continue playing Kylo Ren in the Star Wars universe. However, his real future as a movie villain should be with the James Bond franchise. In the Star Wars sequel trilogy, Driver played Kylo Ren, born Ben Solo, the son of Han Solo and Leia Organa. Kylo trained to be a Jedi […]

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Show HN: We post-trained a model that pen tests instead of refusing your code
I’m Dimitrios at Cosine. Quick orientation first: the read-only scan is free and you can run it right now: that’s the part to try. The pen-test mode is gated behind written authorisation, because it’s live offensive testing against real systems; I’ll explain that below, it’s not a paywall thing.

The reason `cos` exists: most “AI security” tools wrap a general model, so they inherit its refusals — point one at a real offensive task and it hedges or declines, b … ⌘ Read more

Australian Football Hall of Fame - A Haydn Bunton jnr-coached publican who trained tied to his wife’s ute: Footy’s newest Legend
Bill Walker is the newest Legend of the Australian Football Hall of Fame, on the night some of the game’s biggest names were inducted. ⌘ Read more

**Turquie: «La nature du régime politique est en train de changer» **
Alors que le dirigeant du principal parti d’opposition vient d’être destitué, le chercheur Yohanan Benhaïm décrit la dérive suivie par le pouvoir présidentiel de Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Il analyse également le positionnement de la Turquie dans la recomposition en cours du Moyen-Orient. ⌘ Read more

Netflix Drops New Human Vapor Trailer From the Creator of Train to Busan
Netflix has released the trailer for Human Vapor, an upcoming series from Yeon Sang-ho. The Train to Busan creator reimagines Toho’s 1960 movie as an eight-episode thriller, releasing July 2. How Yeon Sang-ho is reimagining Human Vapor for Netflix The trailer introduces a killer who can transform his body into gas, slipping through any barrier […]

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Zombie master’s new film flags a modern virus that has already infected us all
In Train to Busan, Yeon Sang-ho warned us of the dangers of unchecked capitalism. His new film, Colony, tells us we may already be too far gone. ⌘ Read more

Lara’s 25-year fight for better rail safety in WA just took a big step forward
The WA opposition has announced it will introduce a bill to state parliament to legislate mandatory train lighting, a safety measure that aims to save lives at passive rail crossings across Western Australia. ⌘ Read more

Machete fight breaks out at Melbourne train station
A man has been charged over a machete fight involving teenagers at Melbourne’s Flinders Street Station. ⌘ Read more

340 Local News Outlets Now Blocking the Internet Archive
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Techdirt: Earlier this year Nieman Lab broke the story that major news publishers, including The New York Times, The Guardian, and USA Today Co., had started blocking the Internet Archive for fear that AI companies might scrape the nonprofit’s repositories for training data. As one of the last bastions of archival history … ⌘ Read more