New York Times sues maker of Brave web browser over copyrights
The New York Times sued Brave Software, alleging the browser maker infringed its copyrights. The lawsuit concerns Brave’s use of Times content in its products. (reuters.com)
This is a snapshot of Hacker News’ front page, not a description of the “HackerBooks” project named in the title. It lists 30 ranked submissions, showing each item’s points, submitter, age and comment count. The leading discussion is about Astra, a tool for reading and writing model weights to improve Qwen, followed by Subvocal, which lets people control a computer by speaking silently. Other prominent subjects include Ubuntu’s delayed security patch, Anthropic’s growth and possible IPO, electric-vehicle sales, and backing up websites.
The front page mixes technical news, research, product launches and community prompts. Its entries include an interactive 3D map of central Warsaw, a guide to cybersecurity for self-employed people, a study of language models working with legacy PHP, Cloudflare’s DNS performance improvements, and a discussion of moving a warehouse off DuckDB. It also features hiring notices, an Ask HN monthly jobs thread, and historical and mathematical essays. The ranking and comment totals suggest which submissions are attracting attention, with the Ubuntu complaint and Astra discussion drawing especially large responses. Navigation links offer access to other sections, while the page itself provides no details about HackerBooks or how it might collect HN posts.
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The New York Times sued Brave Software, alleging the browser maker infringed its copyrights. The lawsuit concerns Brave’s use of Times content in its products. (reuters.com)
uBlock Origin filters can stop TechCrunch’s autoplay videos by blocking JW Player and Connatix scripts and hiding the empty player boxes. The filters work in full uBlock Origin on Firefox, not uBlock Origin Lite. (cornfieldlabs.github.io)
ReBirth 338 is a browser-based version of the ReBirth music software. It lets users create electronic music with virtual synthesizers and drum machines. (margeux.com)
Cloudflare is investigating network performance issues in the Asia-Pacific, Japan, and China region. A separate Container issue is resolved, while maintenance is underway at several data centers. (cloudflarestatus.com)
Researchers compared the open-source 5G RAN platforms OpenAirInterface and srsRAN, assessing supported features and deployment flexibility. They also measured setup procedures, data rates, and performance with video streaming and cloud gaming workloads. (arxiv.org)
OVHcloud will charge separately for public IPv4 addresses and local storage on B3, C3, and R3 instances starting October 1, 2026; an IPv4 address will cost about €1.97 per month. Instance hourly rates stay unchanged, but total costs will rise by 1.4% to 21.9% depending on configuration. (blog.ovhcloud.com)
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