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Sony deletes purchased StudioCanal films from PlayStation libraries, no refund
Customers who paid to own StudioCanal movies on the PlayStation Store lost them when Sony removed the titles, and no one got their money back. The mechanism sit
The Case for the Ritual Saturday Reboot
A personal essay makes a light argument for a habit that has become largely obsolete: deliberately restarting your computer on a regular schedule. The author re
Tidal Will Label and Demonetize AI Music, Stopping Short of a Ban
Tidal's new AI policy, effective July 15, 2026, takes a middle path on AI-generated music: the service will keep accepting it but will cut off its earning poten
US ambassador has Belgian police eject reporters from Brussels '250' event
Journalists from The European Correspondent were forcibly removed from the privately-funded "Freedom 250" celebration in Brussels' Parc du Cinquantenaire after
Webernetes: a partial Kubernetes port that runs a live cluster in your browser
ngrok's Sam Rose has released webernetes, a partial reimplementation of Kubernetes in TypeScript that runs entirely client-side in a browser. Rather than compil
30-Year Sentence for Hauling Zines Signals New Front in Crackdown on Dissent
A federal court sentenced Daniel "Des" Sanchez Estrada to 30 years in prison for moving a box of anarchist zines he didn't author — part of a batch of eight def
AI Found the Bug Fast — Then Tried to Fix It With Technical Debt
htmx creator Carson Gross walks through a real maintenance session on hyperscript, his JavaScript-based scripting language, to map where Claude genuinely helped
AI Knocks Down the Cost Barrier That Kept Formal Verification Niche
Formal verification—mathematically proving that a program satisfies its specification—has long been confined to safety-critical niches because the proofs were e
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 Closes the Gap on Opus at a Fraction of the Price
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5, positioning it as its most agentic mid-tier model to date. The pitch is that work which recently demanded larger, pricie
Building Wallace, a 6-inch f/2.8 grab-and-go telescope, and hiking it to a cliff
An amateur optician documents Wallace, a 153mm ultra-wide-field telescope he ground and built himself, and pairs the technical writeup with an unusual photo-and
Claude Code hides reseller-detection markers in its date prompt
A researcher disassembling the Claude Code 2.1.196 binary found a routine that quietly rewrites the date string injected into the system prompt. Depending on th
Claude Science: an AI research agent that runs on your own lab infrastructure
Anthropic has launched Claude Science, a public beta app—not a new model—that wraps its existing Claude models in tooling aimed at computational life-science wo