Consumer Rights Wiki

Creating the internet’s largest dedicated repository of information on anti-consumer practices, one edit at a time. Speaking of moderators and moderator tools, if you’re a regular wiki contributor please remember to check out ourmoderator applications page! Thanks for reading, and happy editing! Pleased to announce that we’re shipping a big new update for the wiki … Devamını oku

The August 17 outage, and the work ahead

Recovery required several coordinated actions. Teams rerouted traffic, isolated affected infrastructure, and restored services in stages. Most GitHub services recovered earlier that day, but some Copilot services took longer. Errors in those services triggered a client-side retry loop that increased traffic during recovery. We had to mitigate that behavior before we could safely restore traffic. … Devamını oku

Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI

If you’re a software engineer like me, the first few months of 2026 were incredible. Coding agents suddenly became good enough that we no longer needed to manually write code. But if you’re like me, then sometime later you hit a wall. The honeymoon period ended, and the novelty wore off. No more dopamine hits. … Devamını oku

Ok, can we actually cool data centers with our pee?

“AI data centers waste millions of gallons of water,” Kelce quips in the video campaign. “That’s why Liquid Death and Garage Beer have teamed up. We want your pee to cool these data centers.” Then, as a crowd of people walk through a field sipping their branded beverages, they sing in unison: “Let’s pee on … Devamını oku

Stop Eating Lady Gaga’s Oreos

Here’s a story from 30 years ago that would make no sense today. It’s 1992. Pearl Jam’s debut albumTenis selling well. But then MTV puts the music video for their song “Jeremy” in heavy rotation, and the band rockets into superstardom—shows suddenly sold out, fans smashing record store windows, the whole shebang. That’s familiar enough, … Devamını oku

Runlayer, Rippling drop lawsuits. But the brouhaha is still a cautionary tale for founders.

On Wednesday night, Runlayer and Rippling dropped their respective lawsuits against each other. No settlement was made. No money changed hands. Not even lawyers’ fees, according to court documents seen by TechCrunch. Rippling celebrated by instantly releasingits MCP gateway,the product at the heart of the dueling lawsuits and the one that competes with Runlayer’s offering. … Devamını oku

Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI-driven traffic losses

As AI continues tokill trafficto websites, Google on Thursday threw a bone to those publishers negatively impacted by the change. It’s now allowing readers to push a button on a publisher’s website to indicate it’s a “favorite source” they’d like to see highlighted more often across Google Search, Discover, and Google News. The tech giant … Devamını oku

I should have loved biology

I should have loved biology but I found it to be a lifeless recitation of names: the Golgi apparatus and the Krebs cycle; mitosis, meiosis; DNA, RNA, mRNA, tRNA. In the textbooks, astonishing facts were presented without astonishment. Someone probably told me that every cell in my body has the same DNA. But no one … Devamını oku