How Python is Fighting Open Source’s ‘Phantom’ Dependencies Problem Summary The Python Software Foundation’s Security Developer-in-Residence has published an 11-page white paper and a recently-accepted PEP (PEP 770) addressing “phantom…
It’s Steve Wozniak’s 75th Birthday. Whatever Happened to His YouTube Lawsuit? Summary In 2020 scammers used video footage of Steve Wozniak in a bitcoin fraud on YouTube. Wozniak sued YouTube…
AOL Finally Discontinues Its Dial-Up Internet Access – After 34 Years Summary AOL, now part of Yahoo, has announced it will retire its dial-up internet service at the end of…
Microsoft Sued Over Plans to Discontinue Windows 10 Support Summary A California man, identified in court papers as Klein, has filed suit against Microsoft over its plan to end support…
Rust’s Annual Tech Report: Trusted Publishing for Packages and a C++/Rust Interop Strategy Summary The Rust Foundation’s 2025 technology report highlights major ecosystem and security advances across the year. Key…
A Huge $2 Billion ‘Solar + Storage’ Project in California Powers Up Summary Arevon Energy’s Eland Solar‑plus‑Storage Project in the Mojave Desert is now fully online. The two phases combine…
KDE Calls Microsoft’s Copilot Key ‘Dumb’, Will Let You Remap It Soon Summary KDE is preparing changes across Plasma and KDE Frameworks to handle Microsoft’s new Copilot key that appears…
As Electric Bills Rise, Evidence Mounts That U.S. Data Centres Share Blame Summary The Associated Press reports growing evidence that the rapid build-out of energy-hungry data centres in the United…
WSJ Finds ‘Dozens’ of Delusional Claims from AI Chats as Companies Scramble for a Fix Summary The Wall Street Journal analysed roughly 96,000 ChatGPT transcripts shared online between 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 for gram-scale “nanocrafts” — tiny probes with microchips…
