Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement: For their use of pirated books in training their AI.
Books
2026-03-22: π Finished reading OSINT Techniques: Resources for Uncovering Online Information by Michael Bazzell and Jason Edison.
2026-03-22: π Finished reading Cult of the Dead Cow How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World by Joseph Menn.
2026-03-19: π Finished reading The Cut Throat Trial by S J Fleet.
2026-03-08: π Finished listening to V for Vendetta by Steve Moore.
2026-03-04: A GUI for the Substack archiving process
2026-02-26: π Finished reading Julia by Sandra Newman.
2026-02-25: π Finished reading This Is for Everyone by Tim Berners-Lee.
2026-02-16: How to archive even paid Substacks - converting them into an eBook
2026-02-14: πFinished listening to Exterminate/Regenerate by John Higgs.
2026-02-03: π Finished reading Artificial Wisdom by Thomas R Weaver.
2026-01-24: π Finished reading: Year of the Rat by Harry Shukman.
2026-01-23: π Finished reading Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari.
2026-01-11: It looks like some clever coders have figured out how to remove DRM from newer Kindle books now. β¦
2026-01-11: πFinished reading Poverty Safari by Darren McGarvey.
2026-01-01: Books I read in 2025
2025-12-23: π Finished reading: The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown.
2025-11-23: π Finished reading Deadline by Steph McGovern.
2025-11-08: π Finished reading Minority Rule by Ash Sarkar.
2025-11-05: π Finished reading Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams.
2025-10-25: π Finished reading Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin.
2025-10-02: π Finished reading The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks.
2025-09-06
2025-08-25: π Finished reading Putinβs People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West by Catherine Belton.
2025-08-25: π Finished reading Butler to the World by Oliver Bullough.
2025-08-16: π Finished reading America, AmΓ©rica by Greg Grandin.