this-week-in-techdirt-history:-september-20th-–-26th

This Week in 2016 Indian Court Says ‘Copyright Is Not An Inevitable, Divine, Or Natural Right’ And Photocopying Textbooks Is Fair Use Former UMG Exec: Major Label Music Should Cost More And DMCA Safe Harbors Should Be Destroyed Will The Washington Post Give Back Its Pulitzer And Stand Trial WithContinue Reading

systemrescue-13.00:-release-highlights

SystemRescue 13.00 Released with Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS and Many Useful Improvements. SystemRescue 13.00 is now available. This is a significant update to the popular Arch-based live Linux distribution that many of us use for system repair and data rescue tasks. If you work with broken systems, need to recoverContinue Reading

A federal court in Michigan has tossed out a pioneering antitrust lawsuit brought by the state of Michigan against four major oil and gas companies and their largest U.S. trade association that alleged a conspiracy to forestall the transition to renewable energy and electric vehicles in order to maintain market dominance of fossil fuels…Continue Reading

ubuntu’s-minimal-cloud-images-lost xxd –-by-accident

Another package went missing from Ubuntu 26.04 LTS’s minimal cloud images, this time xxd , a CLI tool for viewing files as hexadecimals. It’s the second time this has happened, following the accidental removal of curl I reported on in August. Both packages vanished for the same reason. When CanonicalContinue Reading

8-cool-things-copilot-can-do-in-word

We all know by now that Copilot can help you write and rewrite text in Word, often with mediocre results. But there’s more to Microsoft’s generative AI tool than just slopping out words. In fact, Copilot’s most useful features in Word have more to do with editing, formatting, and researchContinue Reading