Five Indie Bands Quit Spotify After Founder’s AI Weapons Tech Investment Summary Five indie bands have removed their music from Spotify in quick succession after news that Spotify founder Daniel…
What Made Meta Suddenly Ban Tens of Thousands of Accounts? Summary The BBC and hundreds of users report widespread, apparently erroneous suspensions of Instagram and Facebook accounts over several months.…
Rick Beato vs UMG: Fighting Copyright Claims Over Music Clips on YouTube Summary Music educator and YouTuber Rick Beato has been hit with a fresh wave of copyright claims and…
‘Swatting’ Hits a Dozen US Universities. The FBI is Investigating Key Points • A wave of false active‑shooter reports targeted about a dozen US universities as students returned to campus;…
Smelling This One Specific Scent Can Boost the Brain’s Grey Matter Summary Researchers in Japan asked 28 women to wear a specific rose essential oil on their clothing every day…
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary At an InfoAge talk, 83-year-old Brian Kernighan — co-creator of Unix and long-time C advocate — described his one experience…
Summary The Register argues that modern AI web crawlers are far more aggressive than traditional bots, frequently causing severe traffic spikes and degrading site performance. Cloudflare reports that around 30%…
Beta Blockers for Heart Attack Survivors: May Have No Benefit for Most, Could Actually Harm Women Summary New clinical trial data challenge the long-standing practice of routinely prescribing beta-blockers after…
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary The federal climate information site climate.gov — long a public source of climate-science reporting and tools — saw its production…
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy Summary Generative AI is creating a new, if imperfect, market: people hired to clean up AI-produced work. NBC News…
