Wikipedia Operator Loses Court Challenge To UK Online Safety Act Regulations Summary The Wikimedia Foundation lost a High Court challenge in London to regulations made under the UK’s Online Safety…
The Engineering Marvel That China Hopes Will Help Wean It Off Foreign Energy Summary China has started building a vast hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) River in Tibet,…
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 single…
Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work At Chipotle. Summary The New York Times piece, republished on Slashdot, follows recent computer science graduates confronting a far tougher job market…
Ex-NSA Chief Paul Nakasone Has a Warning for the Tech World Summary Former NSA and US Cyber Command chief Paul Nakasone warned at Defcon that technology companies will find it…
Reddit Will Block the Internet Archive Summary Reddit says it has discovered AI companies scraping its content via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine and will stop the archive from indexing…
America’s Clean Hydrogen Dreams Are Fading, Again Summary US clean-hydrogen plans are stalling after Congress shortened the qualification window for a Biden-era tax credit by five years, forcing projects to…
As Electric Bills Rise, Evidence Mounts That U.S. Data Centres Share Blame Summary The Associated Press reporting, picked up by Slashdot, highlights growing evidence that the rapid expansion of Big…
WSJ Finds ‘Dozens’ of Delusional Claims from AI Chats as Companies Scramble for a Fix Summary The Wall Street Journal analysed about 96,000 ChatGPT transcripts shared online from May 2023…
Astrophysicist Proposes Paperclip-Sized Spacecraft Could Travel at Lightspeed to a Black Hole Summary Astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi (Fudan University) outlines a speculative blueprint in the journal iScience for sending gram-scale ‘nanocraft’…
