Tuesday, July 21, 2026
ArchiveJudge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude
Roughly three thousand dollars a book, across half a million of them. It's the first price a court has set on training data taken without asking, and everyone is reading it.
"Cover-Up" Unravels as Pentagon Admits Nearly 100 Injured in Iran Strikes
Yesterday the admitted number was dozens. Today it's close to a hundred — and the official casualty tally still hasn't caught up with the department's own disclosure.
Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa
Benin's reef was written off decades ago. It turns out to be alive and extensive, and the only reason nobody knew is that nobody had gone to look.
Stop Saying Kids Can't Read
The Mississippi Miracle gets told as a phonics victory. Inside the classrooms, teachers say sounding out the words was never the hard part — understanding them is.
177: National Public Data
USDoD started with a grudge against the U.S. government and finished by leaking a database holding most of the country. Rhysider gets him to walk through how that happened.