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• The Bookseller - News - Penguin Random House underscores copyright protection in AI rebuff: The world's biggest trade publisher has changed the wording on its copyright pages to help protect authors' intellectual property from being used to train large language models (LLMs) and other artificial intelligence (AI) tools
• Employee Experience - some workplace relationship advice: Unexpressed expectations are often pre-meditated resentments. That is, I expect you to do something that you don't know I want you to do, but I'll be resentful if you don't do it
• NSW Housing Minister Rose Jackson underestimates Sydney rent prices - ABC News: Ms Jackson said you could find two-bedroom apartments in Sydney for "a couple of hundred bucks". Meanwhile for people who live on the planet earth, the median price for a two-bedder in Sydney is $720/week.
• The Internet is Shrinking: The web was born as digital democracy: raw, open, infinite. A universe where anyone could build, create, and connect without permission. Now we're all just tenants in Big Tech's digital dystopia.
• Social Media Respond Health Insurance CEO Murder With Little Sympathy: Across social media, the response to the killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO was contemptuous of the industry he represented
• The Great Bedrock Clog Heist: How a small outdoor footwear company lost 5,000 pairs of shoes and found itself entangled in an international crime saga
• Australia, PNG unveil deal for Papua New Guinea team to enter NRL in 2028 - ABC News. The increasingly inaccurately named National Rugby League adds a third country.
• Dutton's nuclear plan a 'heroic', cherrypicked 'recipe for higher energy bills', experts say - ABC News: Some of the nation's top energy analysts have criticised the Coalition's nuclear plan, saying it will be more expensive, burn more carbon, result in a smaller economy and be more disruptive than Peter Dutton claims.