Leftovers

• Vincent Bernat ☛ Vincent Bernat: Building a Soviet Nail Factory: how KPIs killed efficiency

  In 2008, I landed my second job, in the network team at Orange Portails, the division behind the websites and search engine of the French telecom operator Orange. The place ran like clockwork: a comprehensive technical setup, a dedicated team for every part of the business, and room to focus on what I do best. A few years later, none of that mattered: thanks to an obsession with the numbers, we could no longer deliver new services on time.

• Tim Chase ☛ Vim Carnival: Motion

  While boring, you get 6 motions for the price of one: f/F/t/T jump forward/backward landing on (or immediately short of) a target character; and ,/;. to repeat that motion in either the same or opposite direction. I use these all. the. time. And when I find myself using other $EDITORs that lack this functionality, it feels so slow moving around horizontally.

• Tim Chase ☛ Vim Knowledge Management

  While boring, I dump all my unstructured "knowledge" data in a simple notes.txt file within my "personal data/text files" repo stored in git for syncing between machines.

  This file contains a host of random thoughts and web-clippings. Disambiguations between words/spellings, URLs to interesting things with minor annotations, notes about VPS specs/pricing, book recommendations, some favorite jokes, short poetry-snippets I've composed, whatever…all tossed together with timestamps.

• Seth Godin ☛ The relentless math of the long tail

  The long tail may be exactly where you want to be. But don’t hang out there if you need to reach the masses. The goal of reaching the masses is rarely compatible with the math of the long tail.

• Robert Reich ☛ Friendly advice I refuse to take

  The fact is, I’m doing what I do because — and as long as — I’m still able to.

• Robert Birming ☛ My blog mess

  I love it! Maybe a bit too much. I tinker, fiddle, and create so many things that I get lost, hardly remembering what I've made. Creating experimental tweaks here and there.

• Chris O'Donnnell ☛ This blog has moved

  I managed to reunite ODonnellWeb and this temporary blog. [...]

• Chris Coyier ☛ How You Get the Mentos into the Diet Coke

  Listen, this activity is already wasteful enough, we might as well do it right.

  My idea is to drill a hole into each Mento and string them from a bit of wire.

• Dan Q ☛ Ad Infinitum

  But the arms race between people blocking or learning-to-ignore ads and advertisers trying to foist them upon us continues, and Google thinks this is an acceptable next step in escalating that. Using an insane amount of energy to recycle other people’s work without crediting them, in order to mash up the result with information they know about you in order to deliver you an unverifiable soup of words which might answer your question but with no clue how much or little commercial interest went into producing it, or by whom.

  That’s some proper Darkest Timeline shit, right there.

• Ava ☛ let's talk about your digital remains!

  When you die, there are lots of processes in place to deal with your body, your burial, your physical possessions, subscriptions and bank accounts. But what about your digital accounts and possessions?

• Desktop Environments (DE)/Window Managers (WM)

  • KDE ☛ Plasma 6.7 - KDE Community

    Plasma 6.7 brings powerful new features to KDE’s classic desktop, and refines its user experience to new levels.

    Enjoy thoughtfully-designed improvements that solve real problems, a sneak peak of future theming bliss, better performance, and more.

  • Filip Fila ☛ Oxygen 6.7 is here: a breath of fresh air for KDE’s classic theme

    The year started off bleak. As I was gallivanting through KDE themes at hand, I decided to stick with the Oxygen one. It didn’t take long to notice that this old theme, once the default in the KDE 4 era, wasn’t looking its best. A slew of little bugs had accumulated, and it was clear that Oxygen was in need of some love. Coupling that with a desire to get back into contributing to FOSS and KDE, my first step was to restore the Air theme – a light desktop theme that was the dark Oxygen’s counterpart. The developer response afterwards wasn’t all that positive. At that point, the outlook was still looking bleak.

    Giving up right there and then would have left Oxygen as it was. Instead, a different, wonderful timeline emerged. A restoration project was born, met with a surprisingly large and overwhelmingly positive response from users. That response brought with it new contributors, and perhaps most excitingly collaboration with Nuno Pinheiro, Oxygen’s original lead designer, was all of the sudden a thing. Through it all we created a series of fixes that make Oxygen better than it has been in a while. June 16th 2026 is the day some of them land, as part of the Plasma 6.7 release.

• Science / Mathematics / Computer Science

  • Latvia ☛ Children's math skills drop between grades 3 and 6, test suggests

    According to data from the student knowledge assessment tests conducted this spring and released by the Ministry of Education and Science (IZM), Latvian students’ average knowledge levels drop sharply in mathematics and science between grades 3 and 6, while their reading comprehension improves, Latvian Radio reported on June 16.

  • Latvia ☛ Latvia to push science and innovation during 2028 presidency stint

    During Latvia’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2028, the country will try to push an agenda that stresses scientific, research and innovation potential, according to a release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

  • Science Alert ☛ Radioactive Stardust From an Ancient Cosmic Blast Is Still Raining on Earth

    Don't catch those raindrops on your tongue.

  • Science Alert ☛ One Brain Chemical May Be Key to Breaking a Habit, Study Finds

    "Understanding the function of this neurotransmitter is essential."

  • Science Alert ☛ Strange Green Stones And a Child's Tooth Deepen a Pyrenees Mystery

    What went on here?

  • John D Cook ☛ Partial fraction decomposition

    Nearly everyone who as seen partial fraction decomposition was introduced to it as a way to compute integrals. If P(x) and Q(x) are polynomials, then you can break their ratio P(x)/Q(x) into a sum of terms that can each be integrated in closed form. As with most topics in a calculus class, partial fractions go by in a blur.

    This post will look at partial fractions more generally.

  • John D Cook ☛ Three examples suffice

    Note that the equation asserts that two quadratic polynomials are equal. If the two polynomials are equal at three points, then they’re equal everywhere. We might as well make life easy and choose n = 0, 1, and 2.

    If you’d like, you could do this in code.

  • Alperen Keles ☛ Representation-Free Editing

    Representation is an overloaded term in computer science. Colloquially, the term representation represents a concrete object that is the reflection of an abstract object. The representation carries over the properties of the abstract object into a new domain that is presumably more convenient for a purpose the representer has in mind. We use arrays to represent collections of items, we use adjacency lists to represent graphs, Unicode code pointers to represent written language, 64 bit integers to represent numbers. We use language to represent thoughts, programming languages to represent programs, so on, and on…

• Career/Education

  • Stanford University ☛ Google CEO addresses graduates amid student walkout

    Stanford’s 2026 commencement featured Surveillance Giant Google CEO Sundar Pichai, while some students protested his company’s ties to ICE and Israel.

  • Federal News Network ☛ Trump ramps up Education Department’s dismantling with changes on special education and civil rights

    The two Education Department offices involved — the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services and the Office for Civil Rights — defend the rights of children with disabilities and those who experience discrimination based on race, sex or religion. Advocates worry the change could mean lapses in communication for families and school officials who need help.

• Hardware

  • The Verge ☛ Qualcomm’s latest chip hints that more powerful smart glasses could be on the way

    Spec-wise, the new chip focuses on across-the-board performance upgrades. The GPU gets a 60 percent bump, the CPU gets a 30 percent increase, and the NPU gets “up to 160 percent higher performance.” It supports 4.4K resolution at 90 frames per second per eye and less latency. Battery life has also been improved by up to 20 percent, and Qualcomm was able to improve cooling as well by boosting power efficiency. Supposedly, while handling heavy workloads, the Reality Elite will remain up to 12 degrees Celsius cooler than Qualcomm’s last-gen XR chips.

  • Hackaday ☛ How Did They Make View-Master Slides?

    Staring with simple dioramas, View-Master eventually developed an entire team to work on fairy tales. One of the most influential members was sculptor [Florence Thomas]. She was instrumental in updating many of the original fairy tale reels from small scale miniatures to 1/6 scale dioramas for the scenes. Unfortunately, the department was eventually cut and all the original miniatures thrown away.

  • Hackaday ☛ The Problem Of Making A Good Metal-To-Glass Seal

    The problem is one of both chemistry and thermal expansion, as while a good seal can be made between glass and red copper oxide, it remains very difficult indeed to stop the glass cracking on cooldown due to differing thermal expansion properties. We’re led through a variety of experiments including surface treatments and flattening the metal to a sheet, with varying pros and cons. The most successful seal on the page comes from very thin tungsten wire, though hardly the most practical conductor for a vacuum tube.

  • Jim Grey ☛ My Kodak Brownie Starmatic is showing its age - Down the Road

    I put a roll of Shanghai GP3 100 film through my Kodak Brownie Starmatic not long ago. I was testing this film before I committed to using it next 127 Day, coming up July 12. Along the way, I discovered that my Starmatic, now 67 years old, has a hitch in its getalong that affects the images.

  • Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

    • Brooke Barker ☛ Do I really want a dumb phone?

      Have you thought about getting a regular phone, without smart features, or do you have one already? Do you think your relationship with your phone is healthy? Or do you have an unhealthy relationship with something else, something unexpected? When I was in seventh grade, my friend wanted to give up something for Lent, and she decided to give up tucking her hair behind her ears. I think about that a lot. I know one person with a non-smart phone, and they have to call a taxi via a call center if they need a ride somewhere, since they can’t access maps or rideshare apps. That detail has always turned me off.

    • Jamie Zawinski ☛ Callback

      Headphone jack; removable battery; microSD; no AI; blocks web browsers and social media. From the FAQ: [...]

Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

• European Commission ☛ Commission welcomes political agreement on seeds and other plant reproductive materials

  European Commission Press release Brussels, 16 Jun 2026 The European Commission welcomes the political agreement reached by the Council of the EU and the European Parliament on the revision and simplification of EU rules for plant reproductive material.

• Hong Kong Free Press ☛ HK$6.29m in compensation for Mirror dancer left with ‘catastrophic’ disabilities after stage accident

  A Hong Kong court has granted HK$6.29 million in compensation to a dancer who suffered “catastrophic” disabilities and permanent, total incapacity after he was hit by a giant falling screen during a concert by the popular boy band Mirror nearly four years ago.

• Science Alert ☛ Magic Mushrooms And Alzheimer's: One Remarkable Case Raises New Questions

  It's important to get the full story.

• Science Alert ☛ Butterflies That Eat Pollen May Hold Clues to Extreme Longevity

  This butterfly lives up to 25 times longer than its relatives.

• New York Times ☛ Ebola Outbreak Could Become Worst on Record, Africa C.D.C. Chief Warns

  Health workers have warned that the outbreak, already one of the worst in decades, could take as long as a year to contain if infection rates do not flatten.

• Futurism ☛ Clavicular’s “Botched” Nose Job Illustrates the Dangers of Looksmaxxing

  "You’re lowkey descending."

• Science Alert ☛ Scientists Reveal Why Mosquitoes Bite Some People More Than Others

  "It's not a misconception."

• Science Alert ☛ Breakthrough to Make Bones Stronger Could Reverse Osteoporosis

  A potential treatment for millions.

Proprietary / SaaS

• Qt ☛ Commercial LTS Qt 6.8.8 Released

  We have released Qt 6.8.8 LTS for commercial license holders today. As a patch release, Qt 6.8.8 adds no new functionality but provides bug fixes and other improvements.

• WCCF Tech ☛ Analyst Says Xbox CEO Asha Sharma’s Next 100 Days Are About Making Xbox Smaller

  Xbox chief executive officer Asha Sharma went from being the new face of Team Green, leading the platform into a new era, to being no different from the last in the eyes of players in the blink of an eye. After making Game Pass cheaper, re-centering console hardware and bringing exclusives back, Xbox fans praised her quick action and transparency. Now, however, with multiple studios reportedly being closed and more mass layoffs looming, she and her regime are no different from Spencer's. Industry veteran and analyst Joost van Dreunen calls it "the job she was actually hired to do": making Xbox smaller, as it had grown too much.

• So-Called 'Artificial Intelligence' ('AI') / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

  • Futurism ☛ OpenAI Is Taking the “Crack Cocaine” Approach to Pricing

    "They've kind of taken the crack approach to AI. Give it to people for free, get them hooked, then jack up prices."

  • Futurism ☛ Consensus Grows That China Is Crushing the United States at AI

    Global opinion is starting to turn.

• Social Control Media

  • LRT ☛ TikTok outrage in Japan leads to a work probe in Lithuania

    A viral Japanese Fentanylware (CheeTok) video has led to nine Lithuanian public employees footing the bill for their work trip, the prosecutor's office announced on Monday.

  • NYPost ☛ Florida suing Fentanylware (CheeTok) for allegedly exposing kids to harmful content and deceiving parents

    State seeks court order forcing ByteDance to modify its platform and up to $50K in penalties per violation.

Security

• Privacy/Surveillance

  • JURIST ☛ Canada bill would shift private-sector privacy enforcement to new data regulator

    Canada introduced new privacy legislation on Monday to regulate the handling of personal information in commercial activities. But concerns have been raised concerning the bill’s expansion of the Digital Safety Commission’s regulatory powers. The Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act, also known as Bill C-36, recognizes privacy as a fundamental right.

  • PC Mag ☛ Your PC Might Soon Demand Proof of Age Before Letting You Browse. Here's What to Know

    Age verification laws are no longer limited to porn sites. Two US states have already passed laws requiring your operating system to collect your age, and a federal law is under discussion. After more than two dozen states passed laws targeting adult websites like PornHub—and Utah moved against VPN use—the next battleground is your operating system.

    Starting in 2027, California's Digital Age Assurance Act will require operating systems, including Windows, macOS, Android, ChromeOS, and Linux distributions, to ask users for their age during device setup and share an age range with apps. Depending on how future laws evolve, that process could eventually involve government IDs, credit cards, or biometric verification.

Defence/Aggression

• The Straits Times ☛ China says it will take countermeasures to new Taiwan intelligence gathering site

  Taiwan and China have long spied on each other.

• CS Monitor ☛ ‘Cambridge Five’ spies relied on their pedigrees to evade suspicion

  Scions of wealthy families in Britain, the men known as the “Cambridge Five” wreaked havoc on U.S.-British intelligence missions, agent networks, and lives.

• The Straits Times ☛ South Korea to shift civilian restricted line at border with North Korea

  The civilian access line will be shifted by an average of 6km from the Military Demarcation Line.

• Satellite images suggest North Korea is upgrading ports for new, larger destroyers

  Shipyard upgrades are part of North Korea’s 5-year plan to modernize its naval forces, experts told RFA.

• The Strategist ☛ How CCP’s ‘peaceful reunification’ bodies push its line globally

  At the centre of the web is the China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification.

• The Strategist ☛ Preserving South China Sea rights means exercising them

  Last month’s Shangri-La Dialogue again showed that the real task of sustaining maritime rules in the South China Sea had fallen to those states willing and able to uphold them. Japanese Defence Minister Koizumi underscored ...

• Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

  • Latvia ☛ Rīga's largest hospitals say they have plans in case of air threat

    None of Rīga’s major hospitals has an underground shelter where people can seek refuge during an air raid or other emergency. However, this does not mean that patients are left to fend for themselves. Hospitals have developed other plans, Latvian Television reported on June 15.

  • LRT ☛ Lithuanian parliament to consider ban on artists working in Russia, Belarus

    A legislative proposal to ban cultural and entertainment figures working in Russia and Belarus from entering Lithuania will be considered by parliament on Tuesday.

  • ADF ☛ Africa Corps Shifts Tactics in Mali

    Russia’s Africa Corps is shifting fighters out of Mali’s northern regions to protect the capital and the ruling junta while providing air support and intelligence to Malian soldiers in the field.

  • New York Times ☛ Russian Navy Ship Accused of Firing Warning Shots at U.K. Yacht

    Britain’s Defense Ministry said it was investigating a report that a Russian vessel fired warning shots near a U.K.-registered yacht in the English Channel on Tuesday.

  • France24 ☛ Russian warship fires 'warning shots' at UK yacht in Channel

    Russia said one of its warships fired warning shots Tuesday at a yacht making a "dangerous approach" in the Channel, as the UK said it was investigating the incident. It involved the frigate Admiral Grigorovich and a UK-registered yacht around 20 nautical miles south of the Isle of Wight just outside British waters. FRANCE 24's Bénédicte Paviot reports from London.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China protests UK sanctions on Chinese entities over Russia

    The Chinese embassy in Britain said on Tuesday it had lodged a protest with British authorities after London announced sanctions on several entities, including four from China, for allegedly supplying key military equipment to Russia.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Finland charges Russian captain and crew member of ship suspected of damaging undersea cables — prosecutors claim ship had eight more targets before it was stopped by coast guard

    Finnish prosecutors charged two crew members of a cargo ship suspected of deliberately damaging two undersea cables at the turn of the year, with two more remaining detained in Finland. This is the second investigation to result in charges, although the first case failed to secure a conviction, with the case still on appeal.

  • New York Times ☛ Ukraine Targets Moscow Oil Facility With Drones as G7 Leaders Meet

    A day earlier, Russia bombarded Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities with missiles and drones, killing at least 11 people and damaging a holy cathedral.

  • New York Times ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man Says U.S. Has ‘Nothing to Do’ with Ukraine War at G7 Summit

    Hell Toupée’s remarks underscored a new security reality for U.S. allies in Europe, who for eight decades relied on American protection.

  • New York Times ☛ After a Bitter Split, European Leaders Play Nice With Convicted Felon

    A peace framework with Iran, and hope for cooperation with Ukraine, softened the tone on Tuesday at a Group of 7 gathering in France.

  • RFERL ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man Hints At Renewed Ukraine Focus, Iran In 'Rear-View Mirror'

    The Insurrectionist held a “very good meeting” with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the G7 summit in France, adding that “Russia should make a deal” while hinting that Europe’s largest conflict since World War II might be moving up his priority list.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ EU says it verified China trained Russians fighting in Ukraine; Beijing denounces ‘slander’

    China denounced on Tuesday European Union claims that Beijing had trained Russian troops sent to Ukraine as “pure slander”, after the bloc’s top diplomat became the latest to raise the issue.

  • France24 ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man suggests US can swiftly reimpose sanctions on Russian oil

    As the war in Ukraine took centre stage at the G7 summit in Evian, France, US President The Insurrectionist said Moscow should make peace with Kyiv and suggested that the US could bring back sanctions on Russian oil now that the Strait of Hormuz is expected to reopen. Also in the segment, the iconic BHV department store in Paris has announced it will end its partnership with ultra-fast-fashion giant Shein, as it changes ownership.

  • New York Times ☛ Russian Artist Critical of Putin Is Fatally Shot in Poland

    Two Belarusian men were in custody as part of an investigation into the killing of the exiled painter Robert Kuzovkov.

  • LRT ☛ Baltic pro-Russian activists flee to Belarus, embark on propaganda mission

    Antanas Kandrotas, who is currently on trial in Lithuania and unexpectedly travelled to Minsk in early May, has surfaced in Belarus alongside controversial Latvian politician Aleksejs Rosļikovs. The two men first established ties during the Covid-19 pandemic and, together with associates in Estonia, helped organise pro-Russian movements.

Environment

• Press Gazette ☛ Survey reveals gap between climate change concern and actual news coverage

  Some 89% of journalists surveyed agreed climate reporting needs new approach.

• Energy/Transportation

  • New York Times ☛ D.O.J. Seeks to Halt Pollution Lawsuit Against MElon’s Data Center

    The department cited national security concerns, saying MElon’s company had played a crucial role in the Iran war. It also argued it has the authority to stop environmental lawsuits brought by citizens.

  • The Straits Times ☛ South-east Asia needs bold steps to boost energy security, cut costly fuel imports: IEA

    As the region grows, so does its fuel import bill and vulnerability to energy shocks.

Finance

• The Straits Times ☛ Myanmar inflation hits 25% on US-Iran fuel shock: World Bank

  The bank’s report also said 2025 poverty levels hit 29.9 per cent.

• Futurism ☛ Mark Kapo-berg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues

  "I’m not sure that this company supports a hackathon culture anymore."

• New York Times ☛ Japan tries to put China’s aggressive trade policies on the G7 agenda.

  Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi wants the group to develop a coordinated response to Beijing’s effort to use export restrictions as a geopolitical weapon.

• New York Times ☛ Beijing’s New Message to Its Citizens: Your Money Belongs at Home

  Eager to keep capital within its borders, China is restricting the ways individuals can engage with global markets.

• The Straits Times ☛ G7 leaders tackle reliance on China for critical minerals

  G7 host France is pushing partners to agree a statement on critical minerals on Wednesday that could include measures to help the West reduce its reliance on China and shield investors from counter-measures and dumping, diplomats said.

AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

• European Commission ☛ Remarks by Commissioner Serafin at the General Affairs Council in Luxembourg

• Bridge Michigan ☛ Lee Chatfield’s wife avoids prison with guilty plea in Michigan corruption probe

  Stephanie Chatfield is expected to serve probation but no jail time after pleading guilty to embezzling from a nonprofit fundraising account alongside former House Speaker Lee Chatfield.

Censorship/Free Speech

• Federal News Network ☛ NDA proposal draws concerns of ‘chilling effect’ on federal employees

  Whistleblower protection advocates and a member of Congress said an NDA proposal may cause federal employees to stay silent instead of reporting disclosures.

Civil Rights / Policing / Accessibility

• ACLU ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man Administration Hijacks Police Grants to Leverage Local Police For Its Authoritarian Ends

  We’ve already seen what that looks like in places like Memphis; New “Model Cities Initiative” would spread it to other cities

• Project Censored ☛ Big Tech's Campus Takeover, ICE's Expanding Reach

  First up, cohost Mickey Huff sits down with media analyst Nolan Higdon to dig into big tech’s hold on higher ed – namely, their aims to surveil, extract, and breach. Nolan digs into a recent hacking scandal, how big tech aligns with the likes of Epstein, and a dark history of eugenics, big tech propaganda, and authentic resistance.

Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

• APNIC ☛ DNS query duplication

  In the DNS, name resolution space queries are free. To what extent do we see over-querying on the part of recursive resolvers in the DNS?

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Patents

  • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ The Federal Circuit’s Expanding Grip on Dismissed Patent Claims

    A nominally without-prejudice patent monopoly dismissal functioned as with prejudice under § 286, keeping Insulet's trade secret appeal in the Federal Circuit.

  • Unified Patents ☛ $6,000 awarded for Gaea data storage patents prior art

    Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $6,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Gaea LLC, an NPE. The patents relate to storage devices with controller and memory that enforce storage policies for content handling. They have been asserted against Samsung and Meta.

    We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on these patents. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests.

  • JUVE ☛ Next loss for Simmons as UK Head of IP moves to Carpmaels

    Kevin Cordina joins Carpmaels & Ransford as a partner in the engineering and tech group. As a UK and European patent monopoly attorney with a background in electronic engineering, he advises clients in the electronics, telecoms, software, and medical devices sectors on patent monopoly prosecution and enforcement, including standard essential patents.

  • Unified Patents ☛ $4,000 for Transparent Wireless wireless patents prior art

    Unified Patents added two new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by Transparent Wireless Systems, LLC, an NPE. The '034 patent monopoly relates to a wireless parking payment and enforcement system for both street parking and closed garages. The '506 patent monopoly relates to smartphone-based access control for facilities, especially parking garages.

• Copyrights

  • Digital Music News ☛ Is Anyone’s Music Safe? Newly Identified ‘Giant Datasets’ Containing Millions of Songs Raise Fresh Questions About Music Hey Hi (AI) Training Processes

    Are gen Hey Hi (AI) companies actively developing their music models with the same collections of copyrighted tracks? And despite ongoing discussions about free-for-all training, is this process far more systematic than we’ve been led to believe?

  • Digital Music News ☛ It’s Not Just AM Radio—FM Radio is Being Nixed From New Vehicles, Too

    Rivian’s new R2 electric SUV will (concerningly) require an internet connection to listen to music or radio, omitting AM and FM radio entirely. Vehicles from some of the biggest manufacturers in the world no longer ship with AM radio, which has been a thorn in the side of many buyers and lawmakers.

  • Digital Music News ☛ $109M Lawsuit Against Meta Filed by Eminem’s Publisher Moves Forward

    A federal judge denies Meta’s motion to dismiss a copyright monopoly infringement claim from Eminem’s publisher, allowing the case to move forward. After Meta filed to dismiss Eminem publisher Eight Mile Style’s direct copyright monopoly infringement claim, a federal judge has denied the motion, allowing the case to head into discovery.