Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You ‘Buy’ a Long-Term Streaming Rental Summary A lawsuit challenges Amazon Prime Video for labelling long-term streaming licences as “buy” purchases. Plaintiffs say…
Blizzard’s ‘Diablo’ Devs Unionize. There’s Now 3,500 Unionized Microsoft Workers Summary Over 450 developers working on Diablo at Blizzard have voted to form a union under the Communications Workers of…
WIRED Roundup: Meta’s AI Brain Drain Summary WIRED’s Uncanny Valley podcast (host Zoë Schiffer, guest Leah Feiger) rounds up five major stories from the week. The episode highlights: AI already…
Latam-GPT: The Free, Open Source, and Collaborative AI of Latin America Summary Latam-GPT is an open-source large language model being developed by the Chilean National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA)…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An independent research duo built an automated offensive research pipeline (dubbed Auto Exploit) that leverages large language models, CVE advisories and source…
Do social-media bans benefit young people? These data could offer clues Summary Australia’s Online Safety Amendment Act, coming into force in December, will bar under-16s from accounts on major platforms…
Summary The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding system is becoming markedly more competitive: between 2017–18 and 2024–25 applications to UKRI rose from 16,355 to 29,927 (an increase of more…
Who is afraid of quantum mechanics? Books in brief Summary Andrew Robinson offers brisk, short reviews of recent science books (five picks in the full piece). The excerpt available highlights…
Traffic to government domains often crosses national borders, or flows through risky bottlenecks Summary New research by Rashna Kumar under an Internet Society Pulse fellowship mapped network paths to government…
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA Summary A reader, pictured as ‘Derek’, worked as a part-time DBA for a company running two…
