Now is another great moment to ponder if making your business rely on Amazon is a great idea.
My favourite #NoKings poster so far (from New York)
‚Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app
Musicians have long criticized the streaming service’s paltry payouts, but a new wave of boycotts is emerging
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/12/spotify-boycott-artists
'Artists have long complained about paltry payouts, but this summer the criticism became personal, targeting Spotify’s billionaire co-founder Daniel Ek for his investment in Helsing, a German firm developing AI for military tech. Groups including Massive Attack, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Deerhoof and Hotline TNT pulled their music from the service in protest....'
For 15 years, F-Droid has been the antidote to Google Play: no trackers, no ads, just open source apps. Now, Google wants to kill it.
Under the guise of "security", Google is forcing devs to register, pay, and surrender control. F-Droid can’t comply without betraying its principles. Thousands of apps could vanish overnight.
Fight back: demand sideloading rights, pressure regulators/Parliament, and defend one of the safe harbors for ethical tech.
https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html
The year is 2025
There are five browser cores:
- webkit
- chromium
- gecko
- servo
- youtube-dl, which ended up implementing a full-fledged browser in python to keep successfully downloading videos
"The AI bubble is the only thing keeping the US economy together, Deutsche Bank warns
When the bubble bursts, reality will hit far harder than anyone expects"
https://www.techspot.com/news/109626-ai-bubble-only-thing-keeping-us-economy-together.html
Some of us have been warning of this all year, but no doubt when it hits "no one could have seen it coming" will be the refrain.