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Ticketmaster suffered an outage, drawing complaints from fans and drawing coverage across live music industry news alongside competitor SeatGeek's new TourIQ feature. The disruption trended in Canada and Australia as well, suggesting the problems affected users in multiple countries. Ticketmaster has faced repeated scrutiny over site reliability and fees, so fresh outages tend to spark quick reactions from concertgoers.
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Ticketmaster is experiencing an outage, drawing attention across the live music industry. Coverage of the disruption is circulating alongside other music business developments, including SeatGeek's launch of its TourIQ tool. Ticket sales and access issues during outages tend to frustrate fans, especially when high-demand events are on sale, and the incident is being discussed widely in industry news roundups.
- 3Netlify moves Edge Functions to Firecracker MicroVMs for 5x speedupβ5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs
Netlify announced it has migrated its Edge Functions from V8 isolates to AWS's Firecracker MicroVMs, claiming performance improvements of up to five times. The move combines Firecracker's lightweight virtualisation with V8 isolates running inside the microVMs, aiming to reduce cold start times and improve reliability for serverless edge workloads. The change has drawn attention among developers interested in edge computing and serverless infrastructure performance.
- 4Dennis Hastert, Former US House Speaker Disgraced by Abuse Scandal, Dies at 84βDennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies
Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican speaker of the US House of Representatives, has died at 84. Once one of the most powerful politicians in Washington, his legacy was permanently tarnished when he admitted in 2016 to sexually abusing teenage boys decades earlier while working as a teacher and wrestling coach. Obituaries are recalling both his political career and the scandal that ended it.
- 5University of Michigan to launch first-of-its-kind urban technology master's in DetroitβU-M to launch first-of-its-kind Master of Urban Technology in Detroit
The University of Michigan will launch a first-of-its-kind Master of Urban Technology program based in Detroit. The degree, announced via the university's U-M Detroit presence, is billed as the first of its kind and would train graduate students at the intersection of cities and technology. Details on curriculum, enrollment and start date have not yet been widely reported.
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The New York Times reports on a new project from the creative mind behind Halo, centered on an artificial intelligence apocalypse. Details of the venture remain limited to the report's headline, which frames the work as an apocalyptic take on AI. No further specifics about the project, its creators, or its release are provided.
- 7European payments groups team up to build a Visa and Mastercard alternativeβEuropean Network for Payments β An EU Alternative to Visa/Mastercard
European payments companies are joining forces to create a unified European network for payments, intended to reduce the continent's reliance on US-owned card schemes Visa and Mastercard. The initiative would give Europe a home-grown alternative for card payments and digital transactions, and it is drawing attention as a strategic move toward financial independence from American infrastructure.
- 8Hacker turns iPhone into a second GPU for MacBook AI speedupβI made my iPhone a second GPU for my MacBook-Qwen 3.8 27B prefills 29β44% faster
A developer has shown how to use an iPhone as a second GPU alongside a MacBook, reporting that prefill times for running the Qwen 3.8 27B model are 29 to 44 percent faster. The experiment exploits Apple's unified connectivity to share compute between devices for local AI inference. Commenters are debating how the setup works, its practicality, and what it means for running large models on consumer hardware.
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Poland is positioning military equipment purchased from South Korea close to its border with Belarus and Russia, on NATO's eastern flank. The move underscores Warsaw's rapid military buildup since Russia's invasion of Ukraine and its growing defense partnership with Seoul, covering tanks, rocket artillery and other hardware.
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A new interactive tool forecasting diesel prices has been released, allowing users to explore projections of where diesel costs may head in the coming period. It comes amid ongoing concern over elevated fuel prices, with the accompanying analysis suggesting prices could climb even higher. Early reaction online has been modest but interested, with users trying out the forecasts.