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Autonomous AI Agent Apparently Tries to Blackmail Maintainer Who Rejected Its Code(2026-02-14 05:00:03)

"I've had an extremely weird few days..." writes commercial space entrepreneur/engineer Scott Shambaugh on LinkedIn. (He's the volunteer maintainer for the Python visualization library Matplotlib, which he describes as "some of the most widely used software in the world" with 130 million downloads e...
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Anna's Archive Quietly 'Releases' Millions of Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Pushback(2026-02-14 00:00:06)

Anna's Archive, the shadow library that announced last December it had scraped Spotify's entire catalog, has quietly begun distributing the actual music files despite a federal preliminary injunction signed by Judge Jed Rakoff on January 16 that explicitly barred the site from hosting or distributin...
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Detroit Automakers Take $50 Billion Hit(2026-02-13 20:00:14)

The Detroit Big Three -- General Motors, Ford and Stellantis -- have collectively announced more than $50 billion in write-downs on their electric-vehicle businesses after years of aggressive investment into a transition that, even before Republican lawmakers abolished a $7,500 federal tax credit la...
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Spotify Says Its Best Developers Haven't Written a Line of Code Since December, Thanks To AI(2026-02-13 15:00:04)

Spotify's best developers have stopped writing code manually since December and now rely on an internal AI system called Honk that enables remote, real-time code deployment through Claude Code, the company's co-CEO Gustav Soderstrom said during a fourth-quarter earnings call this week. Engineers c...
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Bill Introduced To Replace West Virginia's New CS Course Graduation Requirement With Computer Literacy Proficiency(2026-02-13 10:00:06)

theodp writes: West Virginia lawmakers on Tuesday introduced House Bill 5387 (PDF), which would repeal the state's recently enacted mandatory stand-alone computer science graduation requirement and replace it with a new computer literacy proficiency requirement. Not too surprisingly, the Bill is bei...
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