Impoverished Streaming Services Are Driving Viewers Back to Piracy Summary The Slashdot item links to a Guardian report showing a clear resurgence in piracy as streaming services fragment, raise prices…
Daily briefing: Bird flu is ‘everywhere’ on dairy farms Summary Nature Briefing (12 August 2025) — A lead item summarises a preprint suggesting H5N1 avian influenza is widespread across dairy-farm…
Ex-PlayStation Boss Says Game Subscription Turns Developers Into ‘Wage Slaves’ Summary Former Sony Worldwide Studios chairman Shawn Layden criticised subscription gaming services such as Xbox Game Pass and similar models,…
Apple Returns Blood Oxygen Monitoring to the Latest Apple Watches Summary Apple has reintroduced blood oxygen (SpO2) monitoring for certain Apple Watch models in the United States by moving the…
PayPal No Longer Available for Steam Purchases Outside Major Currency Zones Summary Valve has confirmed that PayPal has been unavailable as a payment option on Steam in most countries since…
Trump Administration Considers Stake In Intel Summary Intel’s shares jumped about 7% after reports that the Trump administration is considering taking a stake in the chipmaker to support U.S.-based manufacturing.…
Impoverished Streaming Services Are Driving Viewers Back to Piracy Summary The Slashdot item links to a Guardian piece showing a resurgence in TV and film piracy as streaming services fragment,…
Brazilian PhD students opt out of US research opportunities Summary At least 96 Brazilian PhD students who had planned to conduct research in the United States this year have changed…
The £9 billion question: To Microsoft or not to Microsoft? Summary The UK government’s five-year Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA24) with Microsoft will see public sector bodies commit about £1.9bn a…
Back to being FOSS, Redis delivers a new, faster version Summary Redis 8.2 is generally available and — this time — released under the GNU AGPL, returning it to an…
