Originally released for the Nintendo GameCube console in 2005, Super Mario Strikers will be available exclusively for the Switch 2 on July 3rd via the Switch Online Expansion Pack membership. That relegates original Switch owners to sticking with Mario Strikers: Battle League, which is a bit of a ball-kicker.
The Danish government is proposing a copyright law amendment to give citizens ownership rights to their body, facial features, and voice, theoretically allowing them to demand companies to remove any AI-generated content that uses their likeness and fight for compensation.
“Human beings can be run through the digital copy machine and be misused for all sorts of purposes, and I’m not willing to accept that,” said Danish culture minister Jakob Engel-Schmidt.
Several writers have launched a lawsuit against Microsoft over claims it used a collection of nearly 200,000 pirated books to train its Megatron artificial intelligence model to respond to user prompts. Judges have shot down similar cases that authors raised against Meta and Anthropic this week — perhaps the third time’s the charm?
Launching 22 years after its last major update, the latest PNG spec now includes native support for HDR, APNG animations, and Exif metadata for embedding information into image files. W3C PNG Working Group chair Chris Blume says Chrome, Safari, Firefox, iOS, macOS, and Adobe Photoshop already support the new standard, and that upcoming updates will improve compression and dynamic range support.
[programmax.net]
