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Hundreds of musicians, including Tegan & Sara, have signed an open letter calling on major record labels to drop their lawsuit against the Internet Archive, the San Francisco nonprofit known for its Wayback Machine and digital preservation efforts.
Hundreds of musicians, including Tegan & Sara, Open Mike Eagle and Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill, have signed an open letter calling on major record labels to drop their lawsuit against the Internet Archive, the San Francisco nonprofit known for its Wayback Machine and digital preservation efforts.
The lawsuit, filed by industry giants such as Universal Music Group and Sony Music, targets the Archive’s Great 78 Project, a long-running initiative to digitize and preserve fragile archival records. 
The recordings, featuring historic performances by artists such as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, have been made freely accessible to the public to “ensure the survival of these cultural materials for future generations to study and enjoy,” according to the Archive.
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The labels’ legal action seeks $621 million in damages, claiming the Archive’s free public streaming of these rare recordings constitutes copyright infringement. 
Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, walks in 2021 outside its offices, which are housed in a former Christian Science church building in San Francisco.
However, the musicians’ open letter, organized by the nonprofit Fight for the Future, frames the lawsuit as a dangerous threat not only to the Internet Archive but to music preservation as a whole. The letter urges labels to move away from profit-driven litigation and instead support musicians and the preservation of cultural materials for future generations.
“We don’t believe that the Internet Archive should be destroyed in our name,” the letter reads. 
It also highlights the financial struggles faced by musicians, particularly in the digital age, where streaming platforms and monopolistic ticketing systems have made it increasingly difficult to make a living.
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“The music industry is not struggling anymore,” the letter states. “Only musicians are. We demand a course-correction now, focused on the legacies and futures of working musicians.”
The letter advocates for alternative approaches to support artists, including ensuring that musicians keep 100% of merchandise sales and reducing the dominance of platforms like Spotify, which many artists feel underpays them.
Other artists who signed the letter include Deerhoof, Julia Holter, DIIV, Eve 6, Real Estate, Kimya Dawson, Speedy Ortiz, Julia Holter, Spencer Tweedy, Ted Leo, Mary Lattimore and others.
The Internet Archive, based in the Richmond District, describes itself as a digital library dedicated to providing “universal access to all knowledge.” Its Great 78 Project has digitized over 400,000 recordings since it launched in 2016. 
The lawsuit, which is currently being heard in a San Francisco federal court, is part of a broader trend of increasing conflict between tech-driven preservation efforts and traditional copyright holders. 
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In May, a judge allowed the case to move forward, rejecting the archive’s request to dismiss parts of the claims based on outdated copyright violations. If the labels win, the nonprofit could face devastating fines, threatening the future of similar preservation efforts.
The Internet Archive’s headquarters in San Francisco’s Richmond District.
In a separate but related legal battle, the Internet Archive recently opted not to challenge a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that upheld a decision finding it in violation of copyright law for its e-book lending program.
In September, the Second Circuit affirmed a Manhattan federal court’s ruling, granting a permanent injunction against the archive’s “controlled digital lending” initiative, which had allowed users to access free copies of books, including works by Toni Morrison and J.D. Salinger. 
The lawsuit, filed in 2020 by major publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley & Sons and Penguin Random House, argued that the archive’s practices infringed on their copyrights. 
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Chris Freeland, the archive’s director of library services, posted a brief statement on its website saying he was “deeply disappointed” with the Second Circuit’s ruling. He added that the archive would continue to honor its agreement to “remove books from lending at their member publishers’ requests.”
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Bitcoin's (BTC) post-Fed price drop to $96,000 has activated a crucial contrary indicator that has historically marked the end of price pullbacks.
On Wednesday, the Fed cut the benchmark borrowing cost as expected but penciled in only two rate cuts for 2025, down from four projected in September. The central bank stressed that it's not interested in participating in a potential government plan to build a strategic BTC reserve.
Since then, BTC has dropped over 8%, hitting lows near $96,000 at one point. As of writing, the cryptocurrency changed hands near $97,500, down nearly 10% from the record high of $108,266 reached early this week, CoinDesk data show.
The losses have caused the 50-hour simple moving average (SMA) to dip below the 200-hour SMA, confirming a bearish crossover. The pattern suggests that the ongoing pullback could evolve into a deeper one, although it has failed to live up to its reputation during the recent bull run.
Bitcoin has experienced a few pullbacks during its post-U.S. election rally from $70,000 to over $100,000, and each of these dips has ended with a bearish crossover of the 50- and 200-hour SMAs.
The latest crossover, therefore, offers hope to bulls expecting a renewed move into six figures above $100,000.
A potential bounce could face resistance near $10,600, a level identified by the descending trendline, representing the recent price drop. A violation there would open doors for record highs.
It's important to remember that patterns don't always play out as expected, and the contrary indicator discussed above may fail, potentially leading to a deeper drop. The first sign of trouble will be if prices move below the overnight low of $96,000, which could expose the swing low of around $91,000 recorded on Dec. 5.

Omkar Godbole is a Co-Managing Editor on CoinDesk's Markets team based in Mumbai, holds a masters degree in Finance and a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) member. Omkar previously worked at FXStreet, writing research on currency markets and as fundamental analyst at currency and commodities desk at Mumbai-based brokerage houses. Omkar holds small amounts of bitcoin, ether, BitTorrent, tron and dot.
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Google has released a significant update for its Chrome browser, addressing multiple high-severity vulnerabilities that could potentially allow unauthorized memory access and other exploits.
The Stable channel has been updated to version 131.0.6778.204/.205 for Windows and macOS and 131.0.6778.204 for Linux, with the rollout expected to span the coming days and weeks.
The latest update includes five critical security fixes, many identified by external researchers. These vulnerabilities primarily impact Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine and other components, posing risks such as memory corruption, unauthorized access, and potential exploitation through malicious web pages.
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1. CVE-2024-12692: A Type Confusion issue in the V8 JavaScript engine, reported by Seunghyun Lee (@0x10n) on December 5, 2024. This vulnerability could lead to heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
2. CVE-2024-12693: An Out-of-Bounds Memory Access in V8, reported by researcher “303f06e3” on December 4, 2024. This flaw could allow attackers to access restricted memory areas, posing significant security risks.
3. CVE-2024-12694: A Use After Free vulnerability in the Compositing component, reported anonymously on September 19, 2024. This issue can cause unexpected behavior or crashes by accessing memory after it has been freed.
4. CVE-2024-12695: Another critical Out-of-Bounds Write in V8, reported by “303f06e3” on December 12, 2024.
Google has withheld detailed information about these vulnerabilities to prevent exploitation until most users have updated their browsers.
In addition to external contributions, Google’s internal security teams have implemented numerous fixes identified through audits and advanced tools like AddressSanitizer and MemorySanitizer.
These efforts aim to address potential vulnerabilities before they can be exploited proactively.
Given the severity of these vulnerabilities, users are strongly advised to update their Chrome browsers immediately. Failure to do so could leave systems exposed to potential attacks that exploit these flaws.
To update Chrome:
Google expressed gratitude to all external researchers who contributed to identifying these vulnerabilities and emphasized its commitment to rewarding such efforts through its bug bounty program.
This update underscores the importance of keeping software up-to-date to mitigate risks associated with increasingly sophisticated cyber threats targeting widely-used platforms like Chrome.
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Hot on the heels of an emergency update to Google’s Chrome web browser comes yet another security update for billions of users across multiple operating system platforms. This time, the update urgency remains the same, but the number of vulnerabilities does not: four high-rated vulnerabilities have been confirmed by Google; here’s what you need to know and do.
Google has confirmed that the Chrome web browser is being updated for security reasons, an update that will roll out in the coming days and weeks. The reason? A total of four high-rated security vulnerabilities which between them have earned the security researchers who discovered them a whopping $75,000 in hacker bounties.
The four vulnerabilities that Google has confirmed are:
“Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix,” Prudhvikumar Bommana from the Google Chrome security team said, “We will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third-party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven’t yet fixed.”
Chrome has been updated to the following versions:
The more than 3 billion users of Google Chrome who are potentially impacted by these security vulnerabilities need to make sure that they are protected as soon as possible. If you are in that number, and the chances are high that you are, then you need to kickstart the updating process and then activate the updated browser itself to enable the protection to be in place. Google does automatically update the Chrome browser, but this relies on users restarting the client, which lots of people with lots of open tabs don’t like doing. So, please follow these steps now:

Head for the Help|About option in your Google Chrome menu to kickstart an automatic security update download.

Restart your Google Chrome browser after the update has been installed, or it will not activate, and you will still be vulnerable to attack.

Repeat step one to ensure that the Google Chrome update is installed and activated, and that you are now fully protected against these latest security threats.

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As more teams get the opportunity to play in the College Football Playoff, so do more announcers.
Each of the first two rounds of the playoff is made up of four games, forcing networks to expand their coverage of the playoff and bring in some new faces to make their playoff debuts in the booth.
Playoff expansion has turned late December into a football bonanza. Who will be narrating it?
Here’s a look at the College Football Playoff announcers and which games they will be calling.
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Six broadcast teams are set to call College Football Playoff games, according to ESPN:
The duo of Fowler and Herbstreit has been a staple of the College Football Playoff since its inception. Fowler and Herbstreit were in the booth when Ohio State won the first playoff after the 2014 season, and they are set to call games in all four rounds in this expanded playoff, starting with Tennessee-Ohio State.
Jones and Jones, no relation, have been calling games together throughout the season and are set to make their College Football Playoff debuts in the booth when Penn State hosts Clemson in the first round. Mark Jones is a longtime play-by-play broadcaster who also calls NBA games for ESPN and ABC, while Roddy Jones played football at Georgia Tech and joined ESPN as an analyst in 2017.
McDonough is a jack-of-all trades, calling everything from college football to the Stanley Cup Final, and he is no stranger to the College Football Playoff. He called Washington’s semifinal win over Texas last week. McElroy, a longtime analyst at ESPN, served as Alabama’s starting quarterback from 2009-10 and had a brief NFL stint with the Jets. They will call Indiana-Notre Dame in the first round. 
Pasch joined ESPN more than two decades ago and is making his College Football Playoff debut after calling games throughout the regular season. Pasch is also a staple of ESPN’s college basketball coverage along with the NBA. Dvoracek, a former player at Oklahoma, spent the season working alongside Pasch. They’ll be on the call for Texas-Clemson in the first round.
Tessitore has plenty of big-game experience, including a stint as the “Monday Night Football” play-by-play broadcaster, and he got a tune-up for the playoff when he called Georgia’s eight-overtime win over Georgia Tech in November. Palmer, of “The Bachelor” fame, has been an analyst at ESPN since 2007. They will be on the call for Arizona State’s second-round game against either Texas or Clemson.
Wischusen joined ESPN in 2005 and has long been a play-by-play broadcaster for both college football and college basketball. Also the radio voice of the Jets since 2002, Wischusen will work alongside longtime ESPN analyst Louis Riddick. Riddick happens to be interviewing for the Jets’ general manager job, as well, so he and Wischusen could soon have another connection. They’ll call Boise Sate’s second-round game against Penn State or SMU.
MORE: Full list of locations for College Football Playoff locations
Dan Treacy is a content producer for Sporting News, joining in 2022 after graduating from Boston University. He founded @allsportsnews on Instagram in 2012 and has written for Lineups and Yardbarker.

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Over the past 60 years or so of space exploration, humans have left some things behind: bits of satellites, moon buggies, Mars rovers, even human excrement. It’s all part of the countless bits of human-made material that some people have dubbed “space junk.”
But what if, many, many years from now, archeologists wanted to trace the chronology of space exploration by examining the items we left in our wake? A new paper in the journal Nature Astronomy argues just this, that artifacts should be considered heritage, rather than trash.
Lead author Dr. Justin Holcomb, assistant research professor at the University of Kansas, joins Ira to discuss shifting our mindset on “space junk.”
Dr. Justin Holcomb is an assistant research professor at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.
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