Microsoft-backed boffins show mega speed boost with hollow-core fibre Summary A Microsoft-backed team (including researchers from the University of Southampton and Lumenisity) has published a Nature Photonics paper reporting a…
Laravel inventor tells devs to quit writing ‘cathedrals of complexity’ Summary Taylor Otwell, creator and long-time maintainer of the Laravel PHP framework, urges developers to avoid over‑engineering and ‘clever’ workarounds…
Summary A new set of clinical analyses reported on Slashdot (summarising reporting from CNN and the original papers) challenges routine use of beta-blockers after myocardial infarction for the majority of…
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary The US government climate portal climate.gov — long a central source of climate-science information — had its production team dismissed…
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy Summary Generative AI is producing a flood of quick drafts — logos, illustrations, copy and even code — but…
OpenAI Is Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police Summary Futurism reports that OpenAI quietly acknowledged in a blog post that it scans ChatGPT conversations and routes interactions…
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Summary Nearly 400 students and entrepreneurs have gathered at Forest City — a largely empty Malaysian megaproject built on artificial islands —…
First ‘AI Music Creator’ Signed by Record Label. More Ahead, or Just a Copyright Quandry? Summary A British “AI music creator” credited to Oliver McCann has reportedly signed with an…
Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You ‘Buy’ a Long-Term Streaming Rental Summary The article covers a lawsuit alleging Amazon Prime Video misleads customers by using the word “buy”…
Blizzard’s ‘Diablo’ Devs Unionise. There’s Now 3,500 Unionized Microsoft Workers Summary Over 450 members of Blizzard’s Diablo development team have voted to form a union under the Communications Workers of…
