Amazon Is Making an AI-Animated ‘Good Advice Cupcake’ TV Show. Its Original Creator Is Furious

Author and illustrator Loryn Brantz never imagined that a popular cartoon character she created almost a decade ago would one day be the subject of an intellectual property dispute involving BuzzFeed, Amazon’s video streaming service, and generative artificial intelligence. But that’s exactly the situation she finds herself in today. “Nothing said in good faith by…

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Microsoft under fire for threatening security researcher with criminal investigation

After a security researcher published a series of unpatched bugs in Microsoft products, along with code to exploit them, the company is now threatening to take legal action and call the cops on them. Microsoft’s veiled threat reignites a long-running argument over what responsibility, if any, security researchers have to disclose vulnerabilities affecting large and…

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Syntasso’s COO Paula Kennedy: Why Platform Engineering Must Be More Than an Internal Tools Project

Syntasso Co-Founder and COO Paula Kennedy explains why platform engineering should be treated as a product discipline — not just a tooling project — and how AI-assisted development is raising the stakes for governance, developer experience, and software delivery. The post Syntasso’s COO Paula Kennedy: Why Platform Engineering Must Be More Than an Internal Tools…

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