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Enthusiasm for Sora 2 "wasn't shared in Hollywood," <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hollywood-ai-battle-heats-openai-100000549.html">reports the Los Angeles Times</a>, "where the new AI tools have created a swift backlash" that "appears to be only just the beginning of a bruising legal fight that could shape the future of AI use in the entertainment business."
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[OpenAI] executives went on a charm offensive last year. They reached out to key players in the entertainment industry — including Walt Disney Co. — about potential areas for collaboration and trying to assuage concerns about its technology. This year, the San Francisco-based AI startup took a more assertive approach. Before unveiling Sora 2 to the general public, OpenAI executives had conversations with some studios and talent agencies, putting them on notice that they need to explicitly declare which pieces of intellectual property — including licensed characters — were being opted-out of having their likeness depicted on the AI platform, according to two sources familiar with the matter who were not authorized to comment. Actors would be included in Sora 2 unless they opted out, the people said. OpenAI disputes the claim and says that it was always the company's intent to give actors and other public figures control over how their likeness is used.<br> <br>
The response was immediate.... [Big talent agencies objected, along with performers' unions and major studios.] "Decades of enforceable copyright law establishes that content owners do not need to 'opt out' to prevent infringing uses of their protected IP," Warner Bros. Discovery said in a statement... The strong pushback from the creative community could be a strategy to force OpenAI into entering licensing agreements for the content they need, legal experts said... One challenge is figuring out a way that fairly compensates talent and rights holders. Several people who work within the entertainment industry ecosystem said they don't believe a flat fee works.</i> <br>
Meanwhile, "the complete copyright-free-for-all approach that OpenAI took to its new AI video generation model, Sora 2, lasted all of one week," <a href="https://gizmodo.com/you-cant-use-copyrighted-characters-in-openais-sora-anymore-and-people-are-freaking-out-2000669714">writes Gizmodo</a>. But that means the service has "now pissed off its users."
<i>As <a href="https://www.404media.co/sora-2-content-violation-guardrails-error/">404 Media pointed out</a>, social channels like Twitter and Reddit are now flooded with Sora users who are angry they can't make 10-second clips featuring their favorite characters anymore. One user in the <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1nxgjb4/did_they_just_change_the_content_policy_on_sora_2/">OpenAI subreddit</a> said that being able to play with copyrighted material was "the only reason this app was so fun."
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<em>Futurism</em> <a href="https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-sora-trouble-backlash-copyright">published more reactions</a>, including ""It's official, Sora 2 is <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/SoraAi/comments/1o1t8f9/its_official_sora_2_is_completely_boring_and/">completely boring and useless</a> with these copyright restrictions."
<i>Others accused OpenAI of abusing copyright to hype up its new app. "This is just classic OpenAI at this point," another user <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1nxgjb4/comment/nhni2si/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button">wrote</a>. "They do this s*** all the time. Let people have fun for a day or two and then just start censoring like crazy." The app now has a measly <a href="https://x.com/ai_for_success/status/1976124115833819319">2.9-star rating</a> on the App Store, indicative of growing disillusionment and frustration with censorship... [It's not <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sora-by-openai/id6744034028">dropped to 2.8</a>.]<br> <br>
In an apparent effort to save face, Altman claimed this week that many copyright holders are <a href="https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-copyright-holders-begging-sora">actually begging to have their characters appear</a> on Sora, instead of complaining about the trend. "In the case of Sora, we've heard from a lot of concerned rightsholders and also a lot of rightsholders who are like 'My concern is you won't put my character in enough,'" he <a href="https://youtu.be/JfE1Wun9xkk">told the a16z podcast</a> earlier this week. "So I can completely see a world where subject to the decisions that a rightsholder has, they get more upset with us for not generating their character often enough than too much," he added. Whether most rightsholders would agree with that sentiment remains to be seen.
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<em>Business Insider</em> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sora-videos-openai-content-moderation-celebrities-teens-boys-girls-2025-10">offers another reaction</a>. After watching Sora 2's main public feed, they write that Sora 2 "seems to be overrun with teenage boys."<br>
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"It's not just you: <a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/flatpak-broken-ubuntu-25-10-apparmor-bug">Flatpak flat-out doesn't work in the new Ubuntu 25.10 release</a>," writes the blog <em>OMG Ubuntu</em>:
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While Flatpak itself can be installed using <em>apt</em>, trying to install Flatpaks <em>with</em> Flatpak from the command-line throws a "could not unmount revokefs-fuse filesystem" error, followed by "Child process exited with code 1". For those who've installed the Ubuntu 'Questing Quokka' and wanted to kit it out with their favourite software from Flathub, it's a frustrating road bump.<br> <br>
<a href="https://apparmor.net/">AppArmor</a>, the tool that enforces Ubuntu's security policies for apps, is causing the issue. According to the <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flatpak/+bug/2122161">bug report on Launchpad</a>, the AppArmor profile for fusermount3 lacks the privileges it needs to work properly in Ubuntu 25.10. Fusermount3 is a tool Flatpak relies on to mount and unmount filesystems... This is a bug and it is being worked on. Although there's no timeframe for a fix, it is marked as critical, so will be prioritised.</i> <br>
The bug was reported in early September, but not fixed in time for this week's Ubuntu 25.10 release, <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.10-Broken-Flatpaks">reports Phoronix</a>:
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Only [Friday] an updated AppArmor was pushed to the "questing-proposed" archive for testing. Since then... a number of users have reported that the updated AppArmor from the proposed archive will fix the Flatpak issues being observed. From all the reports so far it looks like that proposed update is in good shape for restoring Flatpak support on Ubuntu 25.10. The Ubuntu team is considering pushing out this update sooner than the typical seven day testing period given the severity of the issue.
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One of the most consequential moments in California's drive to beat back climate change will take place next month. The state will stop receiving electricity from the Intermountain Power Plant in Central Utah, meaning our reliance on coal as a source of power will essentially be over...<br> <br>
[T]he U.S. got nearly half its electricity from coal-fired plants <a href="https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2025-10-02/boiling-point-california-quitting-coal">as recently as 2007</a>. By 2023, that figure had dropped to just 16.2%. California drove an even more dramatic shift, getting just 2.2% of its electricity from coal in 2024 — nearly all of it from the Intermountain plant. Operators plan to cut off that final burst of ions next month. </i> <br>
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<i>Our everyday GPS struggles in "urban canyons," where skyscrapers bounce satellite signals, confusing even advanced navigation systems. Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) scientists created SmartNav, combining satellite corrections, wave analysis, and Google's 3D building data for remarkable precision. Their method <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14498596.2025.2536567">achieved accuracy within 10 centimeters</a> during testing [90% of the time]. The breakthrough could make reliable urban navigation accessible and affordable worldwide...<br> <br>
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It's the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. But "Ukraine's foreign minister accused Russia on Sunday of deliberately severing the external power line to the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station," <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-10-12/ukraine-accuses-russia-of-deliberately-severing-external-link-to-zaporizhzhia-plant">reports Reuters</a>, "in order to link the plant to Moscow's power grid."
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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Moscow was attempting to test a reconnection to Russia's grid. Ukraine has long feared that Moscow would try to redirect the plant's output to its grid. But Russian officials have denied any intention of trying to restart the plant, seized by Moscow's forces in the early weeks of the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.<br> <br>
The plant produces no electricity at the moment, but has been without an external electricity source for nearly three weeks. Officials have relied on emergency diesel generators to secure the power needed to keep the fuel cool inside the facility and guard against a meltdown. "Russia intentionally broke the plant's connection with the Ukrainian grid in order to forcefully test reconnection with the Russian grid," Sybiha wrote on X in English. He denounced the "attempted theft of a peaceful Ukrainian nuclear facility".... Each side has accused the other of shelling that caused the line outage.</i> <br>
Russia's continued occupation of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant deprived Ukraine of a quarter of its generating capacity, according to <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/articles/ukraines-energy-sector-is-a-key-battleground-in-the-war-with-russia/">a report from the Brookings Institute</a> — calling Ukraine's energy sector "a key battleground" in the war.
<i>The Russian invasion began on the very day that Ukraine launched its so-called island test. This involved completely isolating the Ukrainian and Moldovan power systems from their neighbors to check whether the system was stable. This is a mandatory procedure prior to synchronization with the European grid... Despite this, Ukraine managed not only to militarily defend itself but also to maintain grid stability in wartime conditions and implement all the solutions necessary for an unprecedented synchronization on March 16, 2022.</i> <br>
In 2022 a former commissioner of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (from 1998 to 2007) even argued <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/russia-sees-gold-in-ukraine-nuclear-plants-chernobyl-reactor-fuel-waste-disposal-11646946568">in the Wall Street Journal</a> that "An unappreciated motive for Russia's invasion of Ukraine is that Kyiv <a href="https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/03/20/1934212/after-about-600-hours-64-workers-at-ukraines-chernobyl-nuclear-plant-finally-relieved">was positioning itself to break from its longtime Russian nuclear suppliers</a>..."
<i>At the time of the invasion, Westinghouse supplied fuel to six of the 15 [Ukrainian] nuclear reactors and could displace the Russians in all of them. The U.S. government had been highly supportive of this effort, and these fuel contracts represented hundreds of millions of dollars in yearly lost sales to Atomstroyexport [a nuclear exporter that's a subsidiary of Russian state corporation Rosatom]. By seizing the nuclear plants, Russia is able to retake the market for Ukrainian nuclear fuel.<br> <br>
Most important, Westinghouse, with support from the U.S., was in a position to build nuclear reactors in Ukraine over the next two decades. On Aug. 31, 2021, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and her Ukrainian counterpart, Herman Halushchenko, signed a strategic cooperation agreement to build five nuclear units with a value, according to the World Nuclear Association, of more than $30 billion. The timing is telling. In November 2021, Ukraine's leaders signed a deal with Westinghouse to start construction on what they hoped would be at least five nuclear units — the first tranche of a program that could more than double the number of plants in the country, with a potential total value approaching $100 billion. Ukraine clearly intended that Russia receive none of that business.</i> <br>
Brookings looks at how Ukraine's energy sector <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/articles/ukraines-energy-sector-is-a-key-battleground-in-the-war-with-russia/">has fared during the war</a>:
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The Ukrainian energy sector was designed to be oversized with significant redundancy in order to meet huge Soviet-era industrial demand as well as to make it more resilient to a future world war... A radical change did not occur until 2014, when Ukrainians overthrew the pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych. In the decade since then, Ukraine has pursued a policy of European Union (EU) integration with determination and without interruption... The real prospect of an improvement in the quality of life and development of Ukraine through integration with the EU and NATO was unacceptable to Russia, which first annexed Crimea and covertly attacked the Ukrainian Donbas, before launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Russia's in-depth knowledge of the Ukrainian power system, dating back to the Soviet Union, was used to carry out a well-planned operation to cut off electricity to Ukrainians.<br> <br>
The aim was to break the morale of Ukrainians to continue defending themselves and to collapse the economy so that it could not support the Ukrainian military effort. Ironically, however, the size of the energy system, which had been scaled up in case of war, and the enormous Western support, unexpectedly ensured its resilience to Russian attacks.</i> <br>
Although they note that "During the first two years of the war, Russia <a href="https://dixigroup.org/en/over-two-years-russia-has-carried-out-25-massive-attacks-on-ukraines-energy-sector/">fired nearly 2,000 missiles and drones</a> at Ukrainian energy infrastructure... "<br> <br>
And this week in Ukraine, damage to substations, power plants and oil depot temporarily cut off electricity for hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian homes and businesses, <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/10/1166069">reports the UN</a>. "As colder weather sets in, strikes on critical infrastructure are deepening humanitarian needs," warned a UN spokesperson on Thursday...<br>
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<a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/amd-amps-up-chip-war-274560d5">The <em>Wall Street Journal</em> marvelled</a> at AMD's "game-changing deal" <a href="https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/06/141218/openai-and-amd-strike-multibillion-dollar-chip-partnership">this week with OpenAI</a>, calling it "the culmination of an extraordinary, decade-long turnaround effort, solidifying AMD's status as Nvidia's most legitimate competitor."
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Shortly after taking charge of the company in 2014, [CEO] Su implemented a systematic plan to eat Intel's lunch, which she accomplished by going after Intel's main product lines while it was bogged down by manufacturing problems. Now, Su has set her sights on Nvidia, the $4.5 trillion chips behemoth led by her cousin, Jensen Huang. Some analysts believe that if Su can sign up more big customers for its AI chips, AMD could join the $1 trillion valuation club before too long.</i> <br>
"With this, it's natural to ask: Did AMD just say checkmate to Nvidia?" <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/did-amd-just-checkmate-nvidia-151500866.html">asks the Motley Fool</a> investment site. But their answer seems to be "no"...
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AMD has increased its push into the AI market over the past few years, launching the AMD Instinct line of accelerators, and in the latest quarter, predicted its MI350 series would drive revenue growth in the second half of the year. Some analysts have said that AMD's innovations position it to compete with Nvidia's Blackwell architecture and chip — released late last year — but Nvidia's commitment to release upgrades on an annual basis could keep it a step ahead when it comes to overall GPU performance and therefore revenue. Big tech companies are looking for the most powerful compute available — and so far, they know they can find that at Nvidia...<br> <br>
[AMD's deal this week] is indeed an interesting operation, ensuring the company a major position in this infrastructure scale-up phase. [Nvidia CEO] Huang has said AI infrastructure spending <a href="https://www.fool.com/investing/2025/09/11/nvidias-huang-just-announced-incredible-news/">may reach $4 trillion</a> by the end of the decade, and this represents an enormous opportunity for chip designers such as AMD and Nvidia. So, the OpenAI deal is positive for AMD — but I wouldn't say it's negative for Nvidia. This chip giant signed its own deal with OpenAI last month, and it involves the deployment of 10 gigawatts of Nvidia systems across data centers...<br> <br>
A quick comparison of the two deals: The Nvidia-OpenAI agreement involves more gigawatts, and Nvidia isn't giving up a stake in its business — on top of this, though Nvidia is offering OpenAI funding, this will result in revenue growth as OpenAI returns to Nvidia to order GPUs. This pretty much guarantees that Nvidia will be the chip designer to benefit the most as OpenAI expands — and AMD isn't about to step ahead of the market leader. All of this means that, yes, AMD should score a win thanks to its agreement with OpenAI and this may boost its growth in the market. But the chip designer can't say "checkmate" to its bigger rival as Nvidia is perfectly positioned to maintain its lead over the long term.
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Slashdot reader <a href="https://www.slashdot.org/~joshuark">joshuark</a> shared <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/91418555/80-percent-of-employees-say-their-workplace-is-toxic">this report from <em>Fast Company</em></a>:
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According to Monster's newly released <a href="https://www.monster.com/career-advice/job-search/news-and-insights/mental-health-in-the-workplace-poll-2025">2025 Mental Health in the Workplace survey</a> of 1,100 workers, 80% of respondents described their workplace environment as toxic. The alarming statistic is an increase from 67% just a year ago.<br> <br>
The challenging environment has major implications. An astonishing 71% of workers say their mental health is poor (40%) or fair (31%), while only 29% rank it positively: 20% said it was good and 9% described it as great. Workers say that a toxic workplace culture is the top cause of their poor mental health (59%), followed closely by having a bad manager (54%)...<br> <br>
Mental health is incredibly important to employees. The majority (63%) care more about it than having a "brag-worthy" job. Likewise, many would pass on a promotion (43%) or opt out of a raise (33%) if it was better for their mental health... The vast majority (93%) say their employer isn't focused on supporting employee mental health — a statistic that rose drastically since just a year ago, with 78% claiming the same.</i> <br>
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"I'm here to say <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/is-the-ai-stock-bubble-about-to-explode-123014740.html">we have to give these AI bubble predictions a rest</a>," says Yahoo Finance executive editor Brian Sozzi.
<i>First of all, AI is a real technology being deployed in real ways inside of Corporate America. Second, this technology is requiring more physical assets in the ground — which are being built to support AI's real-world application. What Zach Dell (son of Michael Dell) is <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/video/power-hopes-address-unprecedented-energy-174500717.html">working on at startup Base Power</a> (which just raised $1 billion) impressed me this week. It's addressing a key issue — power availability and costs in part because of rising stress on the grid due to AI development.<br> <br>
Next, the spending on AI infrastructure doesn't strike me as reckless. I talk to CFOs and they walk me through their thinking, which seems logical. They aren't foaming at the mouth with wild-eyed predictions of grandeur similar to the late '90s. Plus, the tech giants making the biggest AI investments are fueling their ambitions by cash on hand — not loading up balance sheets with debt. The upstarts in AI are well funded, not being 100% stupid in their organizational build-outs. They're working on tangible technology that has actual orders behind it...<br> <br>
Lastly here in my scolding of the AI worrywarts is that valuations don't support the warning calls. According to new research out of Goldman Sachs this week, the median forward P/E ratio across the Magnificent Seven is 27 times, or 26 times if excluding Tesla (TSLA), which has a much higher multiple than the other companies. This is roughly half the equivalent valuation of the biggest seven companies in the late 1990s, while the dominant companies in Japan (mostly banks) traded at higher valuations still. What's more, the current enterprise-to-sales ratios are also much lower than those of the dominant companies in the late 1990s.<br> <br>
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The company's Echo Show smart displays have <a href="https://www.amazonforum.com/s/question/0D56Q0000DYDLBvSQP/why-is-my-echo-show-suddenly-showing-ads-and-how-do-i-turn-them-off">previously shown</a> ads through the company's Shopping Lists feature, as well as advertising for <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/07/get-ready-for-alexa-skills-pop-up-ads-on-your-amazon-echo-show/">Alexa skills</a>. Additionally, Echo Shows may play audio ads when users listen to Amazon Music on Alexa. However, reports on Reddit (examples <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/1o0y0rw/ads_this_will_cause_me_to_unplug_all_show_devices/">here</a>, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/1nku3j6/ads_after_alarm/">here</a>, and <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/1nj0kxc/echo_show_wont_stop_advertising_amazon_plus/">here</a>) and <a href="https://www.theverge.com/report/797672/amazon-echo-show-ads-alexa-plus">from The Verge</a>'s Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, who owns more than one Echo Show, suggest that Amazon has <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/1nuucj0/how_are_we_still_getting_ads_on_alexa/">increased the amount of ads</a> it shows on its smart displays' home screens.<br> <br>
The Echo Show's apparent increase in ads is pushing people to <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/1o0y0rw/ads_this_will_cause_me_to_unplug_all_show_devices/">stop</a> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/1nlzdbg/comment/nf92nhm/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button">using</a> or even <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/1o0o3an/question_im_returning_my_echo_show_because_it_has/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button">return</a> their Echo Shows.
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The article notes Amazon's smart displays have also started showing ads for Alexa+ — and The Verge's reporter <a href="https://www.theverge.com/report/797672/amazon-echo-show-ads-alexa-plus">saw ads on one (but not all) of her Echo Shows this week</a>. (Even when the display is set to show personal photos, ads sometimes appear for herbal supplements, Quest sports chips, and tabletop picture frames.<br> <br>
<em>Ars Technica</em> notes that users "are unable to disable the home screen ads."
<i>When reached for comment, an Amazon spokesperson told Ars Technica: "Advertising is a small part of the experience, and it helps customers discover new content and products they may be interested in..." Amazon declined to comment on whether it has increased Echo Show ad loads... <a href="https://advertising.amazon.com/resources/ad-specs/alexa-display-ads/home-screen">According to Amazon</a>, Echo Show home screen ads change based on how close someone is to the gadget. "When the customer is more than four feet away from their device, ads will display full-screen in rotation with other content such as weather, recipes, sports, and news..."</i><br>
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An anonymous reader shared <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/12/spotify-boycott-artists">this report from the Guardian</a>:
<i>This month, indie musicians in San Francisco gathered for a series of talks called Death to Spotify, where attenders explored "what it means to decentralize music discovery, production and listening from capitalist economies". The events, held at Bathers library, featured speakers from indie station KEXP, labels Cherub Dream Records and Dandy Boy Records, and DJ collectives No Bias and Amor Digital. What began as a small run of talks quickly sold out and drew international interest. People as far away as Barcelona and Bengaluru emailed the organizers asking how to host similar events.<br> <br>
The talks come as the global movement against Spotify edges into the mainstream. In January, music journalist Liz Pelly released Mood Machine, a critical history arguing the streaming company has ruined the industry and turned listeners into "passive, uninspired consumers". Spotify's model, she writes, depends on paying artists a pittance — less still if they agree to be "playlisted" on its Discovery mode, which rewards the kind of bland, coffee-shop muzak that fades neatly into the background... The Death to Spotify organizers say their goal is not necessarily to shut the app down. "We just want everyone to think a little bit harder about the ways they listen to music," says [event co-founder] Manasa Karthikeyan. "It just flattens culture at its core if we only stick to this algorithmically built comfort zone."</i> <br>
So the goal was "down with algorithmic listening, down with royalty theft, down with AI-generated music," according to the event's other co-founder, Stephanie Dukich.<br> <br>
Basically some artists "are questioning whether it's doing much for them," says a professor of music at the University of Texas at Austin. The article cites performers who are trying Spotify alternatives, like pop-rock songwriter Caroline Rose, who released her new album only on vinyl and Bandcamp. "I find it pretty lame that we put our heart and soul into something and then just put it online for free," Rose says.<br>
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Last November Aptera successfully tested its first production-intent three-wheel solar-powered EV — and said it already had over 50,000 reservations. The vehicles had a solar charge range of 40 miles per day, <a href="https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/aptera-solar-ev-commercialization/">reported <em>Digital Trends</em></a>, noting the crowdfunded company's cars also had an NCAS charging port. ("Solar-powered electric vehicles are also being developed by the likes of Germany's Sono Motors and the Netherlands' Lightyear, and by big automakers such as Hyundai and Mercedes-Benz.")<br> <br>
But this week the EV site <em>Electrek</em> pointed out that "There have been a handful of 'solar car' projects <a href="https://electrek.co/2025/10/09/solar-car-maker-aptera-going-public-im-worried/#more-438136">and they all have failed so far</a>."
<i>Aptera is one of the rare survivors, thanks to a couple of relatively successful crowdfunding efforts. The company has been inching closer to bringing its vehicle to production, but it still appears to need some investments to make it happen. Now, Aptera is going public.<br> <br>
Generally, that's good news. An initial public offering (IPO) means that a company is going to raise capital for its operations and give more people the opportunity to invest in the company. However, Aptera is not doing a traditional IPO. It's not even doing a SPAC deal. It's doing a direct listing, which means that if approved by NASDAQ, it will allow shareholders to trade their shares on the public market. This is usually an exit strategy for existing shareholders. Aptera won't receive any proceeds from going public... The company needs to be infused with capital soon, and this direct listing is not it.</i> <br>
The top-rated comment on the site suggests "Open market trading will establish a fair price for exchanges among the holders. I don't think this necessarily indicates they are trying to wind down the company."<br> <br>
And the article does also acknowledge the possibility of "public demand for the stock amid this crazy bubble we are in — resulting in a price increase, which Aptera takes advantage of with a public offering..." <br> <br>
"Aptera has now confirmed that it has received NASDAQ approval and the stock will start trading on October 16."<br>
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<i>Over the past two years, the open source curl project has been flooded with bogus bug reports generated by AI models. The deluge prompted project maintainer Daniel Stenberg to publish several blog posts <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/15/curl_creator_mulls_nixing_bug/">about</a> <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/07/curl_ai_bug_reports/">the</a> <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/04/aiassisted_bug_reports_make_developers">issue</a> in an effort to convince bug bounty hunters to show some restraint and not waste contributors' time with invalid issues. Shoddy AI-generated bug reports have been a problem not just for curl, but also for <a href="https://sethmlarson.dev/slop-security-reports">the Python community</a>, <a href="https://framapiaf.org/@Betree/114456180452192212">Open Collective</a>, and <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/@gfxstrand/115220843956925235">the Mesa Project</a>.<br> <br>
It turns out the problem is people rather than technology. Last month, the curl project received dozens of potential issues from Joshua Rogers, a security researcher based in Poland. Rogers identified assorted bugs and vulnerabilities with the help of various AI scanning tools. And his reports were not only valid but appreciated. Stenberg in <a href="https://mastodon.social/@bagder/115241241075258997">a Mastodon post</a> last month remarked, "Actually truly awesome findings." In his mailing list <a href="https://lists.haxx.se/pipermail/daniel/2025-September/000127.html">update</a> last week, Stenberg said, "most of them were tiny mistakes and nits in ordinary static code analyzer style, but they were still mistakes that we are better off having addressed. Several of the found issues were quite impressive findings...."<br> <br>
Stenberg told The Register that about 50 bugfixes based on Rogers' reports have been merged. "In my view, this list of issues achieved with the help of AI tooling shows that AI <em>can</em> be used for good," he said in an email. "Powerful tools in the hand of a clever human is certainly a good combination. It always was...!" Rogers <a href="https://joshua.hu/llm-engineer-review-sast-security-ai-tools-pentesters">wrote up a summary</a> of the AI vulnerability scanning tools he tested. He concluded that these tools — Almanax, Corgea, ZeroPath, Gecko, and Amplify — are capable of finding real vulnerabilities in complex code.</i> <br>
The Register's conclusion? AI tools "when applied with human intelligence by someone with meaningful domain experience, can be quite helpful."<br> <br>
<a href="https://www.slashdot.org/~jantangring">jantangring</a> (Slashdot reader #79,804) has <a href="https://etn.se/index.php/72494">published an article on Stenberg's new position</a>, including recently published comments from Stenberg that "It really looks like these new tools are finding problems that none of the old, established tools detect."<br>
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