• The Librarian of Congress has granted a DMCA exemption to allow franchise owners to repair their own ice cream machines.  (ExtremeTech)
  
  The requested exemption was much broader, but the Librarian only granted the part covering "retail-level food preparation equipment".  Still a step forward for soft-serve lovers everywhere.

• Siri now has an integration with ChatGPT.  (The Verge)
  
  Asked a simple question, it can return answers for things you didn't ask, just vague enough to be completely useless when they are not entirely wrong in the first place.
  
  
  
• Delta Air Lines has filed its long-awaited suit against Crowdstrike.  (Reuters)  (archive site)
  
  Delta wants damages of $500 million to cover its direct costs over CrowdStrike's colossal screwup, plus additional unspecified amounts for lost profits, reputational damage, and lawyers' fees.
  
  CrowdStrike says this is Delta's own fault for being stupid enough to use CrowdStrike.
  
  
  
• This page does not exist.  (Wikipedia)  (archive site)
  
  The judge in a defamation case in India has ordered Wikipedia to take down the page about the case - globally.
  
  Be a shame if this got Streisanded into the stratosphere.
  
  
  
• Cheaper Zen 5 laptops are on their way.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The current Zen 5 laptop chips are Strix Point, with twelve cores (four Zen 5 and eight Zen 5c).  The new Krackan Point chips trim that down to eight cores (four of each) and likely also trims down the GPU side to eight cores.
  
  Still waiting in the wings is Strix Point Halo, with sixteen Zen 5 cores and forty graphics cores.
  
  
  

Voices from the Distant Past Video of the Today

Voices from the Distant Past Video of the Tomorrow

If you know who this is, you won't want to miss it, even though she'll just be playing a game and chatting.



Same goes for this one.

It's a heck of a weekend for fans of...  A certain Japanese entertainment company.


And Rica is having her Live2d debut on the 31st, so it's a heck of a week too.