Summary The Wikimedia Foundation lost a High Court challenge to parts of the UK’s Online Safety Act that could impose stringent duties on platforms. Wikimedia argued that being designated a…
The Engineering Marvel That China Hopes Will Help Wean It Off Foreign Energy Summary China has begun construction of a US$167 billion hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo (the upper…
GitHub No Longer Independent at Microsoft As CEO Steps Down Summary GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has announced he will step down to pursue entrepreneurial endeavours. Rather than naming a new…
Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work At Chipotle. Summary The Slashdot item links to a New York Times report on the tough job market facing recent computer science…
Ex-NSA Chief Paul Nakasone Has a Warning for the Tech World Summary Former NSA and U.S. Cyber Command director Paul Nakasone told the Defcon security conference that technology companies will…
Summary Reddit says it has discovered AI companies scraping Reddit content via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, and will stop the Archive from indexing most Reddit pages. The change limits…
America’s Clean Hydrogen Dreams Are Fading, Again Summary US clean-hydrogen projects are being cancelled after Congress shortened the qualification window for a Biden-era tax credit, now requiring projects to be…
Promising Linux Project Dies After Dev Faces Harassment Summary Kapitano, a GTK4 frontend for the ClamAV scanner intended to make virus scanning on Linux more user-friendly, has been abandoned by…
Biochar From Human Waste Could Solve Global Fertiliser Shortages, Study Finds Summary A Cornell University study published in PNAS finds that producing biochar from solid human excrement could supply up…
Ford Announces Investment To Bring Affordable EVs To Market Summary Ford has unveiled a new Universal EV Production System and a Universal Electric Vehicle Platform aimed at bringing lower-cost electric…
