BBC Studios partners with Panasonic Avionics to launch BBC Player, its first fully rights-cleared streaming platform specifically for the airline industry (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/04/bbc-studios-launches-bbc-player-air…
VW-Tochter Moia und Uber testen autonome ID. Buzz in Los Angeles
VW-Tochter Moia und Uber testen autonome ID. Buzz in Los Angeles. Erste Fahrten sollen Ende 2026 angeboten werden.
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Anthropic hired Google’s
book-scanning chief to
cut up and digitize hired Google’s book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize “all the books in the world.”
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-pr…
I do love Beethoven's 6th, my favourite of his symphonies, the first work I really listened to, on 78s, on a wind-up gramophone I bought at a CND jumblesale for 2 shillings, aged about 12.
On BBC radio 3 now: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live/bbc_radio_three
Apple throwing some time into bugs today…
• 240961: `position: relative` doesn't work as expected on table row, 26 May 2022, https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240961
• 305719: REGRESSION (iOS 26): Datalist options obscure text input, 18 January 2026,
Vielleicht, wenn wir alle mal an unsere Regierungsvertreter schreiben? Also … jetzt. In dieser Minute. Ein oder zwei Sätze. Kann doch nicht wahr sein, dass wir dem einfach untätig zusehen.
https://bsky.app/profile/tinido.bsky.social/post/3miw2xgurck27
Amazon withdraws from the Paris book festival, after the French booksellers' association said it will boycott the festival in protest at Amazon's involvement (Emma Loffhagen/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/ma…
ACLU asks full DC Circuit (en banc) to review 2-1 panel decision that stopped Chief Judge Boasberg's criminal contempt inquiry
https://bsky.app/profile/rgoodlaw.bsky.social/post/3mla4z2qgsc2e