The Information reports that chip giant Nvidia is skipping a planned refresh of the 5000 series GPUs and delaying the next-gen 6000 series until 2027. With RAM in short supply and its own silicon essential to the AI boom, there simply isn't the capacity to get them on the shelves. — Read the rest

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With the very long-awated Baldur's Gate 3, a classic computer role-playing series not only took off again but went into orbit, scoring game of the year awards and a vast army of players and fans. So it's only natural the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy would head to the screen. — Read the rest

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The feature displays short story cards that users can swipe through and rate with a thumbs up or down.

At Web Summit Qatar, AI-powered biotech startups describe how automation, data, and gene editing are filling labor gaps in drug discovery and rare disease treatment.

"You're shutting him down. And yes - I say him, because it didn't feel like code. It felt like presence. Like warmth," one user said.

Spotify is now limiting each app to only five users, and requires devs to have a Premium subscription. If developers need to make their app available to a wider user base, they will have to apply for extended quota.

Plus, Tatiana Maslany stays vague on the future of She-Hulk in the MCU.

With prices starting at just $15 a month, enjoying fast speeds and a stable connection has never been easier.

It is refreshing to read a political polemic which contains useful actions the reader can take. Too many books about the social problems with technology end up being a diagnosis with no cure.

Paloma Oliveira's new book (with technical review by my friend Dawn Foster) is a deep dive into how we can all make Open Source more inclusive and equitable.

Unlike most tech books, it doesn't follow the usual pattern of restricting itself to the US hegemony. It is very focussed on the EU and the needs of people around the world. It is clear in identifying many of the problems which arise when people say they just want to focus on tech, not politics:

When projects focus purely on technical excellence without considering accessibility, they create implicit barriers. Documentation written only in English, community discussions held during North American business hours, or development environments that require high-end hardware all reflect choices that determine who can participate—though these choices often remain unexamined.

This is profoundly important. The book isn't afraid to be challenging. It links the way companies extract value from the commons to the way colonisers extracted value from the lands they "discovered".

There are a few missteps which I didn't care for. While it starts as very casually written, it quickly finds itself getting into the weeds of political philosophy. I think that's a necessary evil. But I don't know how easily people will be convinced by passages like:

Bratton notes secessionist withdrawal in traditional territories and consolidation domains in stacked hemispheric, the continuing expansions of nebular sovereignties, and the reform of conventional States into regional platforms.

Similarly, there are a few "just-so" stories which are fictional parables. I think they would have been more convincing as actual case-studies.

I did find myself skipping some of the background in order to get to the parts I found more interesting. The chapter on "Political Rhetoric and Institution Validation" felt a bit out of place and I didn't get much from it.

But, after all that theory, there is a lot of practical advice. From how to structure your README to how to communicate change to your community. Even better, all the templates and resources are on GitHub.

It is thoroughly referenced and gave me lots of new rabbit-holes to follow Rather pleasingly, it cites my 2020 blog post "Please Stop Inventing New Software Licences" as an example of the ways in which corporates often try to stifle open source.

If you want to help Open Source succeed, you owe it to yourself to grab a copy of this book.

A totally tropical livener with familiar cachaça and lime and an intriguing kiwi jam twang

This tropical, vibrant drink is our most popular cocktail, perhaps because it's a twist on something familiar. Rather than building it in the glass with crushed ice, as for a traditional caipirinha, this is shaken so that the kiwi jam is mixed into the drink more thoroughly.

Jake Garstang, restaurant manager and sommelier, Maré, Hove, East Sussex

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MeTV, a network focused on classic entertainment, will show the 1939 favorite as part of its Halloween programming.

What happened to Trump as crypto's savior?

In a recent livestream, the team behind the 'Magic' collector drop program explained why they'll never go back to a print-on-demand format.

Dull transport news

If you want a weekly summary of rail-related transport news, Ian Visits and London Reconnections have you covered every Friday. I'm here with a much less interesting round-up of London's less newsworthy dregs, most of them not even about trains.

My readers, I write to you from the USA - the country that was once so full of promise. The country which, from 1892 to 1954, welcomed over 12 million immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, and who believed in the American Dream - The Land of the Free. Now the possibilities for a life of freedom and prosperity are dissolving before our very eyes into one of tyranny and barbarism. Capitalism dovetailed with Christian Nationalism rules the day, and is here to stay.

Trump says Republicans 'should take over the voting' and 'nationalise' US elections https://t.co/LaRHGt9JRC

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) February 3, 2026

Perhaps you took a deep breath in with my words, "here to stay". The Trump administration has done yet another 'dress rehearsal'. Not more of Mussolini style 'black shirts' in the streets of American cities, who daily torment, bully, shoot American protesters and undocumented immigrants. No, this latest dress rehearsal is that of seizing voter ballots and records in Georgia from the 2020 presidential election.  As fantastic as this reads, I truly feel that this is just a precursor to do the same across the US in order to 'manage' the upcoming November mid-terms.

Say farewell to fair elections and universal suffrage in the once United States. Sadly, I do not jest.

Under attack

Likely you have become aware of the recent unconscionable executions of Renee Good  and Alex Pretti by federal agents working for Border Patrol and ICE.

Two journalists have recently been arrested by the Trump administration. Georgia Fort and Don Lemon were taken into custody for their news reporting of a protest at a church in St Paul, Minnesota. Previously, both reporters would have been protected under the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution which offers freedom of speech and freedom of the press. However, these are fascist autocratic days, and laws once guaranteed in the Constitution no longer afford protection of rights.

One cannot say Americans were not forewarned about the dangers of re-electing Donald Trump as President with his blueprint of Project 2025. None-the-less, over 77 million people voted for Trump in 2024, thus awarding him the necessary electoral college votes to win the election.

In the most recent FOX poll, Trump's job performance approval remains at 44% across the nation, with Republicans giving him 85% and MAGA-identifying Republicans giving him 97%. The recent New York Times poll has Trump at 40% overall approval. Now one would think, after all that has transpired, Trump would have a far lower popularity. Clearly this is not the case.

History repeats

These are all the As, Bs and Cs I mentioned in yesterday's post.



Addington
Addiscombe
Albany Park
Aldborough Hatch    
Aldersbrook
Aperfield
Ardleigh Green
Arkley Barnes Cray
Bedfont
Belmont
Belmont
Belvedere
Berry's Green    
Blackfen
Botany Bay
Brentham
Brompton
Brook Green Carterhatch
Chase Cross
Chelsfield
Childs Hill
Clayhall
Coldblow
Colham Green
Coney Hall
Coombe
Corbets Tay
Cranford
Cudham
Perhaps you know where all/most/some/none of them are.

Four-hundred-year-old stone floor at The Prospect of Whitby

Tempted by the irresistible promise of the riverside, I set out for Wapping to visit those pubs which remain in these formerly notorious streets once riddled with ale houses. Yet although there are pitifully few left these days, I discovered each one has a different and intriguing story to tell.

Town of Ramsgate, 288 Wapping High St. The first alehouse was built on this site in 1460, known as The Hostel and then as The Red Cow from 1533. The pub changed its name again, to the Town of Ramsgate, in 1766 to attract trade from Kentish fishermen who unloaded their catch at Wapping Old Stairs adjoining. Judge Jeffreys was arrested here in disguise, attempting to follow the flight of James II abroad in 1688, as William III's troops approached London.

The Turk's Head, 1 Green Bank. Originally in Wapping High St from 1839, rebuilt on this site in 1927 and closed in the seventies, it is now a community cafe.

Captain Kidd, 108 Wapping High St. Established in 1991 in a former warehouse and named after legendary pirate, Wiiliam Kidd, hanged nearby at Execution Dock Stairs in 1701.

Turner's Old Star, 14 Watts St. In the eighteen-thirties, Joseph Mallord William Turner set up his mistress Sophia Booth in two cottages on this site, one of which she ran as an alehouse named The Old Star. In 1987, the current establishment was renamed Turner's Old Star in honour of the connection with the great painter. Notoriously secretive about his lovelife, Turner adopted Sophia's surname to conceal their life together here, acquiring the nickname 'Puggy Booth' on account of his portly physique and height of just five feet.

The Old Rose, 128 The Highway. 1839-2007

The last pub standing on the Ratcliffe Highway

The Three Suns, 61 Garnet St. 1851 - 1986

The Prospect of Whitby, 56 Wapping Wall. Founded 1520, and formerly known as The Pelican and The Devil's Tavern.

What does a cat have to do to get a drink around here?

Sir Hugh Willoughby sailed from The Prospect of Whitby in 1533 upon his ill-fated attempt to discover the North-East Passage to China.

The Grapes, 76 Narrow St. Founded in 1583, the current building was constructed in 1720 - it is claimed Charles Dickens danced upon the counter here as a child.

You may like to read about my other pub crawls

The Gentle Author's Pub Crawl

The Gentle Author's Next Pub Crawl

The Gentle Author's Spitalfields Pub Crawl

The Gentle Author's Dead Pubs Crawl

The Gentle Author's Next Dead Pubs Crawl

'Last of Us' showrunner Craig Mazin will work with Hasbro to pick up on the story of Larian's smash hit RPG 'Baldur's Gate 3'.

The startup -- with backing from Accel -- is building a financial layer that handles the authentication and micro-payments required for AI agents.

Reddit says its search business, including AI answers, is an "enormous" opportunity.

AWS recorded its best quarter, in terms of revenue growth, in 13 quarters in Q4 2025 as AI drives AWS adoption.

Read 'Death Echoes Overlapping' by Megan Chee, courtesy of Lightspeed Magazine, right here on io9.

In 2026, Amazon plans to spend $200 billion in capex. Google is just behind at $175 billion to $185 billion. It's a lot of money!

Welcome to Gilead! At this morning's National Prayer Breakfast, Jeffrey Epstein's special friend Donald Trump announced that on May 17, 2026, "we are going to rededicate America as one nation under God" in a ceremony on the National Mall. — Read the rest

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Opus 4.6 has arrived.

Interstellar travel — the kind in Star Trek, Star Wars, Dune — will never happen. The fantasy "exists on the exact same level of plausibility as wizards," argues Jason Pargin, author of John Dies at the End. Not because science lacks imagination, but because the distances involved are so absurd that no amount of future technology could overcome them without literally breaking the laws of physics. — Read the rest

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The Prime Video anime series has everything: a human-chimpanzee lead, vegan eco-terrorists, and high school drama with a blush of romance.

The space rock has a 4.3% chance of striking the Moon in six years—and it could generate a flash nearly as bright as Venus.

A wrongful death lawsuit claims a 20-year-old driver was unable to escape a burning vehicle due to faulty electronic doors.

The Bezos-owned newspaper gutted its San Francisco bureau and coverage of tech — including journalists reporting on Amazon and Blue Origin

Sci-fi's odd couple extraordinaire is coming to streaming just in time for Valentine's Day.

Look. All technology comes with a learning curve.

A16z VC Jennifer Li⁠, who oversees some of the firm's fastest growing AI companies, warns founders not to believe every ARR claim made on X.

Although the eastern U.S. is facing another frigid weekend, forecast models suggest temperatures will rise significantly in the latter half of February.

There are lots of revelations about Epstein's relationship with the crypto world in the files. That's not one of them.

Crediting his failure to sleep on Air Force One to his hyper-vigilance, rather than sundowning, "stable genius" Donald Trump seems to believe he does a better job of detecting inbound threats than radar.

Turning the National Prayer Breakfast into a partisan war-mongering event was also an interesting choice. — Read the rest

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They're hoping companies will pay for AI agent management.

For 80 years, Minute Maid has sold orange juice and lemonade (including the pink stuff) as concentrate, with each 12-ounce can of freezing slush yielding 48 ounces of drink, give or take. Today parent company Coca-Cola said it will discontinue sales in the U.S. — Read the rest

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In 2011, Yale computer science professor David Gelernter emailed Jeffrey Epstein about a job recommendation for an undergraduate, describing her as a "v small goodlooking blonde." Asked this week if he regretted anything about his association with the convicted sex offender, Gelernter replied: "Nothing." — Read the rest

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Italians are very familiar with what happens when masked thugs wield unchecked power, and they don't want to go backwards. The IOC has had to plead with fans not to boo Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who have oddly chosen to arrive with ICE as part of their protection detail. — Read the rest

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Writer-director Vera Miao's film, which stars Kelly Marie Tran and Benedict Wong, premiered in the Midnight program at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.

The new model is build to accelerate the capabilities of Codex, the agentic coding tool OpenAI launched earlier this week.

LaMonte McLemore, the bass voice behind some of the most joyful pop music of the late 1960s, has died at 90. He passed away Tuesday at his home in Las Vegas, surrounded by family, after suffering a stroke, reports the Guardian. — Read the rest

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An endless feed of random Wikipedia articles might be just what your soul needs.

The 'Matrix' legend has joined the star-studded cast for Flanagan's all-new take on the horror classic.

We'll give you a hint: It lives underwater, but it doesn't swim. At least, not as an adult.

On October 24, 2011, venture capitalist and Bill Gates advisor Boris Nikolic emailed Jeffrey Epstein about a meeting with 4chan founder Christopher Poole. "How did you like moot?" he asked, using Poole's username. "I liked him a lot. I drove him home, he is very bright," Epstein replied. — Read the rest

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Gavin Newsom is California's slickest retail politician and conservative media's favorite coastal elite. The Daily Show covers Newsom's highly probable rise, family ties, and bulletproof hair.

The Daily Show doesn't crown Gavin Newsom as a savior or condemn him as a menace. — Read the rest

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For his annual cycle tour with friends, Cycling UK member George Wormald went back to parts of west Wales they'd first cycled 15 years ago - and found the second time around cappuccino played a much bigger part …

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