400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Summary Nearly 400 students and entrepreneurs have gathered in Forest City to attend Network School, a programme founded by Balaji Srinivasan to…
First ‘AI Music Creator’ Signed by Record Label — More Ahead, or Just a Copyright Quandary? Summary Oliver McCann, a 37‑year‑old British creator who says he has “no musical talent”,…
Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You ‘Buy’ a Long-Term Streaming Rental Summary Ars Technica and Slashdot cover a California lawsuit claiming Amazon Prime Video misleads customers by labelling…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An Israeli research duo built an automated offensive pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, that uses prompts to a large language model (Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0),…
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA Summary A part-time DBA, “Derek”, looked after two MySQL instances mirrored by symmetrical replication — one…
What Made Meta Suddenly Ban Tens of Thousands of Accounts? Summary The Slashdot piece summarises reporting (principally from the BBC) about thousands of Facebook and Instagram accounts being suspended, often…
Rick Beato vs UMG: Fighting Copyright Claims Over Music Clips on YouTube Summary Music educator and YouTuber Rick Beato has received a string of copyright Content ID claims and strikes…
‘Swatting’ Hits a Dozen US Universities. The FBI is Investigating Summary A wave of false active-shooter reports targeted about a dozen US universities as students returned to campus. The FBI…
Smelling This One Specific Scent Can Boost the Brain’s Gray Matter Summary Researchers in Japan (Kyoto University and the University of Tsukuba) ran a month-long experiment where 28 women applied…
Summary Who: Brian Kernighan, co-creator of Unix (age 83), speaking at InfoAge in New Jersey. What: He described trying to write a single Rust programme and found the experience frustrating…
