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All talk, no show tunes: Three major labels are suing AI music company Suno for training its model on copyrighted songs. Suno’s defense? “Yep, we did it.” Suno says it’s “fair use” to use protected songs in their back-end tech to create something completely new. Now, that’s an interesting defense.

🧎‍♀️ This is bolo-knee: In videos with tens of millions of views, TikTokkers say the most comfortable way to sit on a plane is with your knees up to your chest and your feet on the edge of the seat, with the seatbelt fastened around your feet. This is a bad idea for a bunch of reasons — mostly because it could catapult you forward in severe turbulence.

Delta lost $500 million in the CrowdStrike Windows outage: It took down 8.5 million PCs. Delta CEO Ed Bastian said, “When was the last time you heard about a big outage at Apple?” Ouch. Insider secret: Apple gives developers much lower access to their key internal framework so it’s unlikely a single update could do big damage.

💳 Don’t fall for it: Scammers pretending to be bank employees are phoning and texting with fake account fraud warnings. They’ll tell you to cut up your credit cards, leaving the chip inside intact. They then send someone to pick it up. With just that chip, they duplicate your card. A friend of mine started chanting in Latin the last time a scammer called. The man screamed, “No, don’t put a curse on my family!”

📚 Spilling the tea: An upcoming book claims billionaire Bill Gates was like a “kid in a candy store” with interns — so much so that Microsoft banned them from being alone with him. Another hot rumor: Bill was allowed one weekend a year at his ex-girlfriend’s place while still married to his now ex-wife, Melinda. Gates’ reps say it’s all bologna from anonymous sources.

Actual mind control: Scientists did it using an external magnetic field. They can manipulate nanoparticle-activated “switches” in the brain to do things like boost a mouse’s appetite by 100%. Someday, it could treat human neurological disorders … or, you know, anything else.

The U.S. Justice Department is suing TikTok: Why? For violating children’s online privacy laws. They say the app with ties to Communist China collected data from millions under the age of 13, let them interact with adults and gave them access to 18+ content. Oh, and when parents asked for these accounts to be deleted, TikTok refused.

Your own worst enemy: A 21-year-old Harvard dropout made an AI necklace called Friend. For $99, it listens to everything and throws out comments or suggestions, like, “That conversation seemed awkward for you.” He blew nearly $2.5 million in investors’ money to buy the Friend.com domain. That was dumb … like the invention.