A court ruling heads towards the conclusion that simply training a neural network on a work does not infringe copyright on that work.

That is surely the correct conclusion. A neural network is not a representation of any of the works it was trained on.

Reportedly the bullshitter's lawyers asked to delay one of his trials because the people in the courtroom might catch Covid-19. The judge offered them N95 masks, but they didn't take the danger seriously enough to put masks on.

Albertsons and Macy's uses facial recognition on customers, but this article gives us little information on how.

We must reject the idea that businesses deserve the freedom to do facial recognition on video images in and around their premises, or the freedom to make videos and transmit them elsewhere, or regularly save them for more than a few weeks, This supposed freedom conflicts with the privacy that humans beings deserve, and it facilitates the repression than US cities and agencies are already eager to commit. These include Atlanta and Florida.

*Surveillance Britain: where police are quietly trying to access 50m photos for one mass lineup.*

Women's tears, and perhaps all humans' tears, contain a sort of pheromone that reduces aggression.

I think this is the first time that the existence of a human pheromone has been demonstrated.