Should a Stargate show be an MGM+ production? I’d say yes. MGM+ is a cable broadcaster with a streaming service attached. Spider-Noir is an MGM+ show, it had several viewing marathons two days before it hit streaming. And they could sell international streaming rights to the highest bidder.
I understand why Stargate fans are yelling at Amazon, but Stargate Universe’s final ratings probably ended up in a six page document and someone in an Amazon doc read underlined them in red pen. MGM going bankrupt in 2010 during the second season of SGU didn’t get it cancelled, it kept it cancelled.
Anecdotally, I’m seeing DeepSeek and Moonshot pop up a lot more in EU based software development. I wouldn’t underestimate how annoyed some people got after the cack handed attempt to prevent “foreigners” from accessing Fable.
The short listed designs for the new Euro bank notes are some of the most soulless things I’ve seen in a while. Each nation should get one side of the note for a design they choose, that would be more interesting and people would want to see all the other notes.
We’re Squandering LEDs’ Potential to Save Our Night Skies:
this may be the most meaningful potential of LEDs: the ability for a community to control when, where, at what levels, and in which colors its lights shine.
We can program our streetlights. We don’t yet, but we should.
I’ve seen all the Evil Dead movies and the modern ones suffer from the same problem. The protagonists are dull. Evil Dead Burn, abused wife trapped with abusive in-laws. That’s terrible, and miserable to watch. Where’s the spit and vinegar?
Ireland & U.K. were some of the last countries to get HBO Max. You subscribe and find HBO shows like Westworld aren’t on it. But I can “buy” it from Prime Video. Legal streaming is just three-card monte. The show you want could be there, on a different service or only available for purchase.
Nintendo Switch 2 gets user replaceable batteries in the EU
It comes at the cost of the original Nintendo Switch being withdrawn from sale in Europe but Switch 2 systems, Joycons and controllers will soon have user replaceable batteries.
While I enjoy watching The Vampire Lestat it does miss having a human POV character. The vampires are intense with each other all the time. Having not read the books I don’t know if they are capable of human friendship, but they could do with not having 300 years of baggage with everyone.
The time for a European Social Stack is now
The breadth of support behind this declaration reflects a growing consensus: a European social stack is not a luxury. For European digital sovereignty, it is a necessity.
Missing from this op-ed and the open letter it links to is who is building what and when will they deliver it?
I’m still paying for a Microsoft Office home subscription and I wonder why. Habit? I’ve stopped using Outlook and probably open Word on my home machine twice a year. If I opened it now, the Copilot crapware would be waiting for me.
Russia to import gasoline as Ukrainian strikes force Putin to use reserves :
Ukraine has been obliterating the hydrocrackers in Russian refineries using targeted drone strikes. Hydrocrackers are so difficult to replace that Russia now needs someone else to refine Russian oil for them.
Today I learned Russia once sought $350/1000m³ from China for natural gas, but now sells at ~$259. China wants ≤$100 or it won’t sign off on the massive new Siberian pipeline. Selling fossil fuels to the world’s top renewable energy manufacturer isn’t a winner.
Irish Rail blowing €50M over five years on traffic management software that doesn’t work makes for wild reading. They signed the contract with the vendor in June 2020, and were then told the software they thought they’d be getting would be replaced in 2021. And no one asked to see a build of code?
Years ago I had a meeting at the HQ of one of the main Irish banks. The day before was the goodbye party for the IT team who were shifted to an outsourcing provider. The bank was going to boost profitability by reducing tech spend. Today 80% of Irish adults use Revolut. That party was a domino.
Australia to double social media ban fines for tech firms:
Australia has said it would double the maximum penalty it can impose on tech firms that fail to uphold a ground-breaking social media ban for children, as evidence mounts that the ban has had little effect on teen use.
Oh no, teenagers are sneaky! Look, social media sites know your age because you and your data are their product. They sell you to advertisers. They could solve this if they wanted to.
Commodore are launching a flip phone, the idea of which I like. But no eSIM option so not practical for my international travel.
They are hyping up the fact they’ll be defaulting to eco-remanufactured RAM. It’s not a shortage, it’s a recycling oppertunity.
Europe has spent decades on building standards that ensure every Joule of heat possible is held in a home to drive down energy use in winter. Now it needs standards to ensure people can survive heatwaves in the summer. It doesn’t cool here at night. We move into twilight and the sun rises again
With the GPT-5.6 launch restriction the window is closing on the global use of US AI. Nations need to build their own domestic models, compute infrastructure and lean into open source and collaborative development. That last part is the only way smaller nations can stay in the game.
On RAM sales, Micron now pocket 84 cents of every dollar. The highest gross margin in tech at the moment. We’re not getting out of the component hole until supply starts meeting demand. For the next 18 months supply will not meet demand.