Hayden Field, reporting for The Verge:

In what’s potentially the first major payout to creatives whose work was used to train AI systems, Anthropic has reached an agreement to pay “at least” a staggering $1.5 billion, plus interest, to authors to settle its class-action lawsuit. The amount breaks down to smaller payouts expected to be approximately $3,000 per book or work. Lawyers for the plaintiffs said it’s “believed to be the largest publicly reported recovery in the history of US copyright litigation.”

Hartley Charlton (Hacker News): reMarkable today unveiled the Paper Pro Move, a compact color E Ink tablet that brings its minimalist writing experience to a more portable form factor aimed at those seeking a focused alternative to full-featured tablets like the iPad mini. The Paper Pro Move features a 7.3-inch Canvas Color display based on […]

Craig Hockenberry (Mastodon): If you’re someone who’s only using email, a web browser, and some messaging apps to get stuff done, changes to your desktop appearance aren’t going to be disruptive. It’s also likely that you’ll appreciate changes that make it look like your phone.If you’re doing anything more complex than that, your response to […]

Ainsley Bourque Olson: OmniFocus 4.7 introduces three powerful enhancements: a new “Planned” date type (for specifying the date an item is scheduled for work), the ability to create mutually exclusive tags (handy in a variety of workflows, like prioritization and energy level assignment), and improved repeat functionality (including new support for setting a repeat to […]

Jonathan Johnson (2022): From my investigation, Apple’s version of SQLite instead replaces PRAGMA fullfsync = on’s implementation to use F_BARRIERFSYNC.SQLite users who are expecting PRAGMA fullfsync to provide durability guarantees in the event of power failures or kernel panics can override xSync via a custom VFS or build SQLite from source.[…]Apple’s documentation clearly states that […]