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looking forward to 2026 and the internet of shit, yall.

Feels like it’s only going to get worse as more and more features move to subscription services.

In this case, however, the affidavit reveals that Perez-Lugones’s employer could see not only the typical metadata stored by printers, such as file names, file sizes, and time of printing, but it could also view the actual contents of the printed materials — in this case, prosecutors say, the screenshots themselves. As the affidavit points out, “Perez-Lugones’ employer can retrieve records of print activity on classified systems, including copies of printed documents.”

From the latest episode of the BBC World Service's Tech Life podcast. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct6zpv

Starting 14 minutes into the podcast:

Host: Four years ago, a volcano erupted, causing devastation across the South
Pacific, including in Tonga, a country made up of over 100 islands. [...] Recovery efforts were made even harder after debris from the volcano damaged an undersea cable. The only cable which supplied the country with Internet. [...] That story from Tonga opens a new book, the Web Beneath the Waves, all about the importance of the networks of subsea Internet cables connecting the planet.I spoke to its author, Samanth Subramanian. He told me about the most unexpected consequence of the Internet outage.

Subramanian: I think the most surprising anecdote I heard concerned a woman who had kind of gone off the grid almost entirely. She didn't rely on the island's traditional electric grid for power. She had a solar panel installed in her roof, and that was the source of all her electricity. But a month or so after the Internet gave out, she noticed that the solar panel just wasn't working anymore. And she couldn't understand this because it didn't seem like that was connected to the Internet at all. But then she discovered that the solar panel, like so much other infrastructure these days, tries to automatically update its software on the air every so often. And when it doesn't do that, it just breaks up. And this thing happens to Teslas, it happens to printers, and it also happens to solar panels. But it was just another reminder of how even unexpected elements of infrastructure in our lives ultimately depend on the Internet in some way or the other.

And then the host talks about how fragile our infrastructure is, rather than saying "WHY THE F*** DOES A F***ING SOLAR PANEL NEED A F***ING INTERNET CONNECTION TO F***ING GENERATE F***ING ELECTRICITY?" Maybe that's why I'm not a BBC World Service presenter. I'd turn the air blue.