Leftovers

• The Register UK ☛ Two lost Doctor Who episodes turn up in private collection

  The outfit announced the find last Friday, saying the two episodes – “The Nightmare Begins” and “Devil’s Planet” – were part of “a deceased enthusiast’s private collection” and are “16mm telerecordings.” The collector “cherished the films for many years, and we owe him a huge debt of gratitude for preserving these episodes of Doctor Who.”

• Tex Jernigan ☛ Coolest Online Generators

  I looooove online generators. I love them so much, that I’ve started making them myself, both for fun and for clients. A few of mine even made it onto this list ;) I’ve always liked single-purpose sites that do one thing really well.

• The New Leaf Journal ☛ February 2026 at The New Leaf Journal

  It was a snowy February 2026 here in my birthplace and home, Brooklyn, New York City. But while it was snowing outside, I was typing inside, publishing a good collection of new articles and short posts here on The New Leaf Journal (“NLJ”) and over on The Emu Café Social (“ECS”) and The Newsletter Leaf Journal.

• MB ☛ From the great beyond… - jarunmb.com

  [...] I didn’t know much about his blog, but he deleted his Facebook and Instagram last like two weeks ago, so this was the best option to inform any online friends. [...]

• Matthew Brunelle ☛ Griffin McElroy On Writing His CYOA Book The Stowaway

  People often talk about how there are two types of writers: those who fly by the seat of their pants (pantsers) and those who carefully plan everything out (plotters). A CYOA is definitely a plotter's type of work.

• Mark Hysted ☛ happy with my blog - now what?

  Some of you may have noticed that I change blog platforms regularly, I love all the new ideas and how different blog providers have slightly different approaches. It allows us bloggers to find the tool that suits. Or that should be the idea, some of us move platforms regularly, often returning to one we have used before. Let’s be honest, we like to tinker with stuff.

• Science

  • Science Alert ☛ This New Clock Is So Precise It Could Soon Redefine The Second

    Known as a strontium optical lattice clock, the fancy timepiece can measure seconds to 19 decimal places. That means that if you ran it for 30 billion years – which is more than twice the current age of the Universe – the clock would only be out by one second, give or take.

  • Omicron Limited ☛ Archaeologists untangle how Bronze Age textiles were made

    Analysis and reconstruction of a warp-weighted loom from the second millennium BC site of Cabezo Redondo, Spain, provides an unprecedented glimpse into the development of textile technology in the Bronze Age western Mediterranean.

  • Computational Complexity ☛ Computational Complexity: For \(R^3\) the problem is open. That's too bad. We live in \(R^3\)

    BILL: I have a nice problem to tell you about. First, the setup.

    Say you have a finite coloring of \(R^n\).

    A mono unit square is a set of four points that are [...]

• Career/Education

  • Blain Smith ☛ Humanities in the Machine

    There is a pattern in these stories, and it is not subtle.

    The earliest figures in computing, Lovelace, Turing, Hoare, and Dijkstra, were either formally educated in the humanities or deeply immersed in philosophical thinking as a central part of their intellectual lives. Lovelace called herself a poetical scientist. Hoare studied Latin, Greek, and philosophy before he ever wrote a line of code. Dijkstra studied classical languages and wanted to be a diplomat before he became a programmer. Turing published in philosophy journals and spent his life asking questions about consciousness and the nature of thought.

    The next generation, Hopper and Ritchie, came through educational environments that still valued breadth. Hopper's Vassar education exposed her to economics, botany, physiology, and geology alongside mathematics. Ritchie's Harvard and Bell Labs years immersed him in a culture where intellectual curiosity across disciplines was the norm, not the exception.

    By the time we reach Kernighan and Stallman, the humanities influence has thinned to almost nothing in their formal education. Kernighan studied engineering physics. Stallman studied physics. Both are brilliant. Both are consequential. But Kernighan has spent the second half of his career actively seeking out the humanities connection he never had, and Stallman's philosophical contributions, while profound, have sometimes suffered from a lack of the communicative skill that humanities training cultivates.

    And after them? The pattern does not continue. It ends.

    Look at the technology leaders and influential engineers of the last twenty years. Look at the people building the platforms, the social networks, the AI systems, the attention economies. How many of them studied philosophy? How many of them read classical literature or engaged seriously with ethics or political theory or the history of human thought? How many of them could write an essay in the style of Dijkstra, or articulate a vision of human-centered computing like Hopper, or reason about consciousness and moral responsibility like Turing?

    The answer is vanishingly few. And we can see the results.

• Hardware

  • Joel Chrono ☛ E-Ink is very cool

    This is, on hindsight, a rather obvious statement, but it really resonated with me and—even though the video itself is “just a review”—I thought this statement was worth sharing in written form.

  • John J Hoare ☛ A Piece of PIAS – Dirty Feed

    I don’t let the old Acorn/RISC OS fanboy in me out very much any more. At least, not in polite company. But I have to admit, when reading a blog post recently from somebody around my age1, which was complaining about how unsafe they felt buying computers from the US due to the Trump administration, a little voice popped into my head, unbidden.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Andrew Nesbitt ☛ Guided Meditation for Developers

    Go gently. The growing season is long and the soil does not care about your deadlines.

• Proprietary

  • Howard Oakley ☛ How to survive the loss of Rosetta

    One of the new features coming in the next update to Tahoe, taking it to macOS 26.4, is a Rosetta warning. When you run Intel code on an Apple silicon Mac, macOS will start warning you that you won’t be able to do that in the future. At first, those will be infrequent, but as time passes their cadence will increase. This article explains why, and what you can do about it.

  • Jeffrey Snover ☛ Microsoft Hasn’t Had a Coherent GUI Strategy Since Petzold

    That silence is the story. And the story goes back thirty-plus years.

    When a platform can’t answer “how should I build a UI?” in under ten seconds, it has failed its developers. Full stop.

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • Futurism ☛ The Military's AI Fever Is Leading Into Disaster, Critics Say

      As this extensive AI integration ramps up, so do the risks, with algorithmic errors opening the door for indiscriminate killings, wrongful arrests, and a general breakdown of civil liberties at the hands of the most powerful military in the world. Crucially, they note, humans are no foil to unsafe AI.

    • Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law ☛ The Business of Military AI | Brennan Center for Justice

      Further, there are few safeguards to ensure a proper accounting of the costs and risks of AI warfare. In addition to the acquisition overhaul that Hegseth is leading, the Pentagon has sharply curtailed agency-wide efforts to test and evaluate major weapons systems and assess the risks of civilian harm, making it more difficult to assure that AI-augmented systems will work as promised and without excessive collateral damage. Rules that President Joe Biden’s administration introduced to manage AI risk — which were inadequate to begin with — may be further weakened under President Donald Trump.

    • Futurism ☛ AI Mistake Throws Innocent Grandmother in Jail for Nearly Six Months

      The mother of three — and grandmother of five — says she’s lived her entire life in north-central Tennessee, roughly a thousand miles away from where the crimes she was accused of committing took place. US marshals showed up at her doorstep last July while she was babysitting four kids and arrested her at gunpoint.

      First, Lipps was booked in a Tennessee county jail as a fugitive from justice from North Dakota. And because she was considered a fugitive, she was held without bail and sat in the jail for nearly four initial months. Lipps received a court-appointed lawyer for the extradition process, WDAY reported, and was told she’d have to travel to North Dakota to fight the charges.

      “I’ve never been to North Dakota, I don’t know anyone from North Dakota,” Lipps told the station.

    • Futurism ☛ Woman Sues Tesla After Cybertruck Tries to Drive Her Off Bridge

      While running its “Full Self-Driving” feature, the unorthodox pickup truck “suddenly and without warning” flew towards the edge of a Houston overpass, according to the lawsuit filed by the owner, Justine Saint Amour.

    • Simon Safar ☛ Evolution vs. Alignment

      Is it possible to align an AI that is smarter than us? so that it does whatever we'd want it to do? or will ones that don't care about alignment always outrun / out-evolve the ones that do?

      Note that "alignment" would involve predicting at least some things about the AI's behavior.

    • Rui Carmo ☛ Large Language Models

      This page is a collection of notes and links related to large language models (LLMs), their applications, and the underlying technology. It serves as a reference for understanding the current state of LLMs, their capabilities, and their limitations, and is the result my cleaning up the main AI page and splitting it into more manageable sections. It is not exhaustive, but it should provide a good starting point for anyone interested in the topic.

    • Martin Alderson ☛ Why Claude's new 1M context length is a big deal

      Last Friday Anthropic released a new (production at least - has been in beta for a while) 1M context window variant of Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6. This is actually a big breakthrough from my initial experiments.

      If you struggle to visualise what a token is - a good rule of thumb I use is that a standard A4/letter-sized page tends to contain around 500-1000 tokens of English[1]. So, 1 million tokens is roughly 1,000-2,000 pages - or about 4-5 novels worth of text.

    • Murtuzaali Surti ☛ A Million Token Context Window Isn't What You Think It Is

      Anthropic recently announced that "1 Million token context window" is now generally available to all users for Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 models. It's amazing that in a couple of years, we went from GPT-3 with a 4K token context window (feels ancient), to Google becoming the first AI company to introduce a 1M token context window AI model, and Meta taking it as far as introducing a 10M token context window model "Llama 4 Scout".

      Now all of this looks good on paper, but is it actually good or are the AI companies cashing in on the idea of a larger context window? There's a catch, let me explain.

    • Jim Nielsen ☛ Food, Software, and Trade-offs

      Also a hot take, not a serious statement. It’s impossible to apply such a generic prediction to everything everywhere all of the time. But also: “software” hand-written by humans is not the same as “software” generated by a machine. To presume the two are equivalent is a mistake. There are trade-offs.

    • Ben Werdmuller ☛ BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI

      The content was underwhelming, and this shift coincided with Buzzfeed shutting down its award-winning news division.

      There’s a lot AI can do, but it can’t replace the judgment and taste of human beings. It can’t be a great writer or a great creative. It can take on drudge-work and be a good copilot, like a grammar checker or other supportive tools can be good copilots, but it’s not a replacement for a skilled workforce. (I would also argue that there’s no such thing as unskilled labor: almost every job you can think of benefits from human nuance and judgment.)

    • Ben Werdmuller ☛ Businesses rush to rehire staff after regretted AI-driven cuts

      Say it with me: AI can’t replace the skill, judgment, creativity, and taste of real people. Replace the word “AI” with “spreadsheet” and the nonsense behind AI-led layoffs becomes even clearer. AI is a potentially very powerful tool, but it’s just a tool, and it works better when more highly-skilled people are using it.

      Which organizations are beginning to find out: [...]

    • S-Config ☛ Microslop

      This article will more than likely buy us a blacklist on the Bing network. For those people younger in the crowd, asking, "What's a Bing?" Ohh, bless you, child, for nature is healing.

• Security

  • Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

    • Bogdan Chadkin ☛ Try not to get scammed while looking for work

      Couple weeks ago a CTO contacted me about a role at their company. After three failed calls, I figured they are trying to access my machine.

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • India Times ☛ Palantir uses Anthropic’s Claude despite Pentagon's 'supply chain risk' tag: CEO Alex Karp

      Anthropic had partnered with Amazon Web Services and Palantir in 2024 to support the military with AI capabilities.

    • Ludlow Institute ☛ The Culture Shift That Broke Tech

      Once upon a time, if a company secretly followed you across your digital life, it would have sounded like a dystopian thriller. But now it’s basically a product requirement.

      In this newsletter, I want to talk about how tech culture has radically shifted, how that shift has changed the relationship between companies and users, and why so much of the public still does not see what is happening. In particular, I want to show you some egregious examples of this culture in action. Once you see how dangerous and adversarial this approach is, it becomes much clearer why we need to push back.

    • Don Marti ☛ So much crime, so little pay

      Surveillance advertising hasn’t been good for brands, agencies, or the people it tracks. (Even the literature that proponents cite doesn’t really support it, if you read the body copy.) It’s going to be harder and harder to justify the risks. Oh well, see you in the comment files for the next state privacy law.

  • Confidentiality

    • Unmitigated Risk ☛ Introducing the WebPKI Observatory

      For as long as I have been in this industry, the WebPKI compliance conversation has run on impressions. People with long memories and regular conference attendance have built up a picture of which CAs are well-run, which are struggling, and where the oversight gaps are. That picture has generally been accurate. It has also been almost entirely unmeasured.

      The WebPKI Observatory at webpki.systematicreasoning.com, a project from Systematic Reasoning, is an attempt to change that. It’s a public dashboard covering 1,690 compliance incidents drawn from Mozilla Bugzilla between 2014 and 2025, cross-referenced with CCADB membership data, certificate issuance volumes from CT logs, root program trust store compositions, and the complete history of CA distrust events. The goal was simple: replace the shared intuition with actual data, and see what the data shows that intuition missed.

    • [Old] Cryptography Engineering ☛ What’s the matter with PGP?

      As transparent and user-friendly as the new email extensions are, they’re fundamentally just re-implementations of OpenPGP — and non-legacy-compatible ones, too. The problem with this is that, for all the good PGP has done in the past, it’s a model of email encryption that’s fundamentally broken.

• Defence/Aggression

  • Interesting Engineering ☛ KC-135 refueling plane that crashed in Iraq had no parachutes

    Following the crash of a US Boeing KC-135 “Stratotanker” refueling jet in Iraq on Thursday (March 12), it came to light that the crew likely lacked any parachutes. According to reports, these pieces of kit were removed in 2008 to save time and money.

  • New York Times ☛ TikTok Investors Set to Pay $10 Billion Fee to Trump Administration

    The new investors paid the Treasury roughly $2.5 billion of the fee when the deal closed in January. They plan to pay the rest of the fee in an additional set of payments, one of the people said. The investors include the software giant Oracle; MGX, an Emirati investment firm; and Silver Lake, another investment firm, which each own about 15 percent of the company.

  • The Verge ☛ Trump administration is collecting $10 billion on the TikTok deal

    If the reporting is accurate, the fee would represent over 70 percent of the deal’s value, which saw a group of investors take a majority stake in TikTok for $14 billion.

  • Robert Reich ☛ Sunday thought: Who’s Winning from Trump’s War? Follow the Money

    The ballooning profits of military contractors are helped by their near monopoly on defense production. Since the 1990s, the number of prime contractors for the Defense Department has shrunk from 55 to five.

    Keep following the money.

  • Sightline Media Group ☛ Army ROTC instructor killed by ex-National Guard member in campus shooting

    Dominique Evans, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Norfolk field office, identified the suspect as Mohamed Bailor Jalloh. He yelled “Allahu Akbar” before opening fire, killing Shah and wounding two others, according to the FBI.

    Jalloh had been in the Army National Guard and pleaded guilty in 2016 to attempting to aid the Islamic State. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison and was released from federal custody in December 2024.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • BBC ☛ Russia's deportation of Ukrainian children amounts to crime against humanity, UN says

      The UN Commission has so far identified 1,205 cases of children who were taken from Ukrainian territories by Moscow in 2022.

      Eighty percent of these children have not yet been returned, the report says, and many parents and guardians are to this day unaware of the whereabouts of the minors.

      This amounts to enforced disappearance and unjustifiable delay in repatriation, which are crimes against humanity and war crimes respectively, according to the UN.

    • Atlantic Council ☛ UN: Putin's deportation of Ukrainian children is a crime against humanity

      The report provides fresh insights into Russia’s comprehensive wartime program of child deportations. Moscow is accused of abducting tens of thousands of Ukrainian children since 2022 and forcibly transferring them to Russia as part of a “carefully organized plan” coordinated at the highest levels of the Russian Federation state apparatus. Many victims are reportedly subjected to ideological indoctrination designed to strip them of their Ukrainian identity and impose Russian nationality. This process often includes name changes and adoption into Russian families.

    • The Barents Observer ☛ Russian reconnaissance aircraft flew for hours inside NATO exercise area

      The aircraft was detected over the Barents Sea at around 09:30 and “was flying with its transponder switched off,” the Norwegian authorities said.

    • Associated Press ☛ Moscow struggles with cellphone internet outages | AP News

      Many foreign websites were blocked Friday on mobile phones in central Moscow under restrictions that have gripped the Russian capital for more than a week, derailing the routine of millions of residents and slamming businesses that rely on cellphone internet.

      [...]

      [O]wners of Moscow cafes, restaurants and shops that rely on mobile internet have suffered massive losses as customers have been unable to pay for the services. The ATMs and parking meters that rely on cellphone internet stopped working.

      Taxi apps have offered clients the option of calling a taxi by phone and paying cash.

      [...]

• Transparency/Investigative Reporting

  • Arkansas Advocate ☛ Arkansas’ open records law turns 60 next year. Let’s give FOIA the birthday it deserves.

    After Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller signed Arkansas’ Freedom of Information Act in 1967, the Arkansas Democrat newspaper ran the entire text of the law in its pages.

    “Freedom of Information law secures rights of everyone, not just the press,” the headline proclaimed.

    It’s a statement that’s been repeated often by transparency advocates, press groups and others ever since Rockefeller signed the law protecting the public’s access to meetings and records.

  • Maine Morning Star ☛ Maine Morning Star earns dozen awards in New England journalism competition

    Maine Morning Star was awarded first place for best multimedia coverage for the investigative series “A firehose of ‘forever chemicals,” which utilized video and other digital storytelling features to highlight the prevalence of toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, in firefighting. The project, which was authored by independent journalist Marina Schauffler and produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s StoryReach fellowship, looked at firefighters’ exposure from turnout gear and firefighting foam as well as the threat to local water supplies.

  • Jacobin Magazine ☛ The “Epstein Class” Investigates Itself

    The investment portfolio of the interim US Attorney for the Southern District of New York shows financial stakes in Epstein-associated financial institutions and Venezuelan oil interests. The Trump appointee stands to win big from his own investigations.

• Environment

  • Court House News ☛ Jet fuel prices are rising. That could make summer flights more expensive

    Some airlines are partially protected from sudden price spikes through fuel hedging, a strategy that allows them to lock in fuel prices months or even years in advance. But not all airlines hedge, and those that do are usually only protected for a portion of their fuel needs, meaning prolonged price surges may cause more carriers to raise fares.

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Connor Tumbleson ☛ Apocalyptic Traffic

      You need a live Google Maps set of algorithms to reroute people, but at some point there is too much traffic and things can't resolve themselves in any quick pace. I remember in the news a long time ago how a traffic jam lasted over 10 days in China - so I know things can blow out of proportion.

      It's just so interesting to me how fragile our infrastructure is because at the end of the day fragile people operate among it.

    • Idiomdrottning ☛ Bitcoin

      I’m writing this a few years before Bitcoin’s twentieth anniversary as one of humanity’s biggest mistakes.

      Bitcoin is three things:

      a. The ledger (perhaps useful)
      b. The tokens (artificial scarcity)
      c. The mining (an unprecedented environmental disaster making Chernobyl, Deepwater Horizon, or Exxon Valdez look like jokes by comparison)

      I’ll try to be brief on why the token thing is bad.

  • Overpopulation

    • The Telegraph UK ☛ Bribing women to have more babies doesn’t work

      Only in miserable, unfree societies do women breed to the levels desired by the natalist loudmouths

• Finance

  • Jamie Zawinski ☛ The TBOTE Project

    This is some boss-level forensic accounting demonstrating that Facebook secretly wrote and is shepherding the various "age verification" bills.

  • TBOTE Project ☛ The TBOTE Project

    How corporate lobbying, think tank infrastructure, competing model legislation, and obscured funding networks are shaping age verification policy across 45 states and Congress.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Mike Brock ☛ The Philosopher Kings

    Andreessen’s wager has precisely this structure. The potential upside of technological acceleration is infinite — post-scarcity, indefinite life extension, abundance beyond any previous human imagining. The potential downside of deceleration, of regulation, of democratic deliberation over the pace and direction of development, is stagnation, poverty, death. Therefore, surrender governance to the people building the future. Do not ask what they are building it for, or for whom. Do not ask whether the distribution of its benefits is just. Do not ask whether the people making these decisions were elected, or accountable, or even correct. The upside is infinite. The bet must be taken.

    It cannot be overstated how tragically absurd this is.

  • Michael Green ☛ Greedflation -- Yes, it exists

    For the last two years, a fierce debate has raged over why. Now that the dust is settling, the macroeconomic establishment is busy writing the official post-mortem. But a close look at the recent literature reveals that academia and the Federal Reserve are relying on contaminated statistics and accounting illusions to explain away what actually happened. And, of course, they are doing it to benefit the elite and corporate interests that increasingly dominate the discussion.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • The Atlantic ☛ Salman Rushdie Is Tired of Talking About Free Speech

    “I don’t feel symbolic,” he told Packer in front of a full crowd. “I feel actual. I feel like I’m a working writer trying to make his work,” he said. “When you’ve written 23 books, it’s a little frustrating to be known not even for a book, but for something that happened to a book in 1989—when that was my fifth published book and this is my 23rd. Can we please talk about books? I keep trying to say.”

  • International Business Times ☛ Jimmy Kimmel Slams CBS at Oscars Over Free Speech, Sparks Outrage With Trump and Melania Jokes

    Jimmy Kimmel delivered pointed remarks about CBS and free speech while presenting the documentary categories at the Oscars, drawing significant attention from viewers and media observers.

  • Ben Werdmuller ☛ FCC Chair Threatens to Revoke Broadcasters’ Licenses Over Iran War Coverage

    The irony is that it was the FCC under Reagan in 1987 that withdrew the fairness doctrine, a policy that had required broadcasters to reflect different viewpoints on controversial matters of public interest since 1949. If the current FCC felt like there was a persistent liberal bias, they could reinstate it. Regardless, painting US broadcast media as overwhelmingly liberal is a stretch in a post-Bari Weiss CBS era; perhaps Carr sees a problem with there being any liberal-leaning media.

  • New York Times ☛ FCC Chair Threatens to Revoke Broadcasters’ Licenses Over Iran War Coverage

    The comment from Brendan Carr came on the heels of a social media message from President Trump criticizing the news media’s coverage of the war with Iran.

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • RFERL ☛ Journalists Detained As Kazakhstan Holds Controversial Referendum

    Legal experts warned that such actions could constitute interference with journalistic work.

    “If a journalist has an editorial assignment and official accreditation, no one has the right to restrict their work,” said Gulmira Birzhanova, head of the legal department at the press freedom group Legal Media Center. “The only circumstance under which a journalist could be accused of breaking the law is if they interfere with the secrecy of the vote.”

  • LabX Media Group ☛ TS Turns 40: Celebrating Decades of Regaling Readers with Human Stories

    We are just at the start of this introspective 40th year, but one thing is clear—The Scientist was, is, and will remain a publication that values scientists. We will continue our mission of partnering with scientists, reporting on the latest trends and research, and showcasing inspiring researchers. We promise to continue bringing human stories written by human writers to our human readers. Lastly, a tip for those searching for AI-written content indicators: The lack of human emotion—not the innocent em dash—is the real giveaway.

  • The Barents Observer ☛ “Everything inside me tightened”: Journalist Anna Yarovaya was detained by the FSB

    The journalist, who once wrote about attempts to erase the history of political repression, was taken in for questioning by the Federal Security Service (FSB) when she travelled from Finland to visit her parents. Russian security officers were waiting for her outside her family home and hinted that she could face a criminal case for high treason.

• Civil Rights / Policing / Accessibility

  • The Guardian UK ☛ AI job layoffs are here: it’s time to revive the push for shorter working hours

    By 1980, the Australian Council of Trade Unions launched a push for a 35-hour working week. But the balance of power had changed, with unions much weaker, and governments, both Labor and Liberal, taking the side of employers. Standard hours were reduced to 38 per week, where they have stayed ever since. Annual leave, increased to four weeks under the Whitlam government, has also remained unchanged.

    Forty to 50 years later, these conditions have been in place so long that they seem like the natural order of things. As a result, discussions of the impact of AI take for granted that any reduction in total hours worked translates directly into a loss of jobs.

  • The Barents Observer ☛ “They decided to come after us. Almost like in 1937”

    Sámi activist Valentina Sovkina, originally from the town of Lovozero in Russia’s Murmansk region, was forced to leave the country after a wave of searches targeting indigenous rights activists.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • APNIC ☛ IPv6 deployment at APRICOT 2026: Scanning, generative AI, a home network, and a city

    The APNIC IPv6 Deployment session at APRICOT 2026 highlighted how and where IPv6 is being deployed in our region, the innovations driving deployment, and the challenges holding it back.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Copyrights

  • India Times ☛ ByteDance suspends launch of video AI model after copyright disputes: Report

    Reuters could not ‌immediately verify ⁠the report. ⁠ByteDance did not immediately respond to a request for comment. ByteDance said last month it would take steps to prevent the unauthorized use of intellectual [sic] property [sic] on its AI video generator Seedance 2.0, following threats of legal action from U.S. studios, including Disney.

  • Torrent Freak ☛ Rightsholders Crowdsource Piracy Link Reporting With 'Online Hunter' Game

    Online piracy continues to be a major problem for rightsholders, especially those who rely on exclusive live streaming content. This challenge is worsened by dedicated sharing communities on Telegram, Discord, and elsewhere, which can be harder to spot. To tackle this, the Czech anti-piracy company Warezio is offering the public rewards for snitching on pirates through the new gamified "Online Hunter" portal.