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Nintendo Wins $4.5 Million Default Judgment Against Reddit Moderator Accused of Running Switch Piracy Network

SEATTLE — A federal judge in Washington state has ordered a Reddit moderator accused of operating a network of online piracy shops to pay Nintendo $4.5 million, handing the gaming giant a decisive default victory after the defendant failed to respond to the lawsuit. Judge Lauren King issued the judgment Wednesday against James Williams, who operated under the handle "archbox" and served as a leading moderator of the r/SwitchPirates community. The court found that Williams promoted online shops offering pirated Nintendo game files and circumvention software, encouraged others to contribute pirated games to those shops, and assisted in distributing pirated Switch titles despite knowing the activity violated copyright law. Nintendo filed suit in 2024, alleging Williams was the "operator, overseer and driving force behind several Pirate Shops." When Williams did not respond to the complaint, Nintendo moved for a default judgment last October. The court granted the full...
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ChatGPT's Memory Upgrade Is Quietly Reshaping Your Answers. Here's How to Take Back Control

OpenAI's ChatGPT no longer waits for you to say "remember this." Since a major update rolled out in June, the chatbot has been building and refining a profile of you in the background, drawing on everything from your dietary preferences to the projects you've been working on for months. The feature, which OpenAI calls "dreaming," represents a fundamental shift in how the company's flagship product interacts with its hundreds of millions of users. And most of them have no idea it's happening. The original memory feature, launched in April 2024, was a blunt instrument. Users had to explicitly instruct the bot to retain a specific detail, and those memories were rigid. If you mentioned an upcoming party, ChatGPT would assume it was still in the future even after the date had passed. The new system, by contrast, is flexible and automatic. Memories are built up, edited, and synthesized over time, with ChatGPT deciding on its own what is worth remembering....