Neowin News Feed for: Authors

Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5 billion to settle author copyright lawsuit

Paul Hill — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:58:01 +0000

Anthropic has settled with authors of books it allegedly pirated to train its AI models. This will set a precendent for other AI firms that have trained on copyrighted material. Read more...

Das Keyboard unveils new model with media keys

Paul Ferson — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 16:18:03 +0000

Mechanical keyboards represent a significant step-up from the normal membrane based keyboards. Now, the Das Keyboard family has a new model featuring media keys, to the delight of music lovers. Read more...

Do you know who you write like?

Paul Ferson — Sat, 05 May 2012 21:49:03 +0000

We take a look at I Write Like: a site dedicated to helping you identify who your writing style most resembles. We also take some of Neowin's authors to the site to see what it makes of their works. Read more...

Zotob authors jailed

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:30:58 +0000

Two Moroccan men have been jailed for releasing the Zotob computer worm, which wreaked havoc on an estimated 250,000 Windows PCs last year. Farid Essebar, 19, of Morocco was sentenced to two years in prison... Read more...

Authors sue Google

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:54:40 +0000

The Authors Guild, along with a former US poet laureate, is suing Google for copyright infringement. Google operates two programs intended to incorporate print material into its search index, one of which, the Google Print... Read more...

UNIX Authors Rush to Patch Telnet Flaw

Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:46:01 +0000

Several high-profile distributors of the BSD version of the Telnet protocol have rolled out patches for a critical bug that could cause system-hijack attacks. The bug, which was reported by iDefense Inc., is a remotely... Read more...