OpenAI Files Complaint About Stolen IP
Also used hard drives and a trapped Pixel

The Inter-Office Memo on Stolen Lunch Data

OpenAI, in a surprising turn of events, is apparently furious. The complaint centers on DeepSeek, a competitor whose latest large language model allegedly resembles an OpenAI model far too closely; a claim that should probably come with an ironic laugh track given the current state of training data ethics. This is the corporate equivalent of filing an HR complaint because your stolen office stapler was stolen by a third party.

The irony continues, of course, because now DeepSeek has had its own "unforced error." Security researchers at Wiz have found an exposed database leaking sensitive customer chat histories, proving that when you rush a product to market based on, shall we say, "borrowed" foundational principles, the fundamentals of operational security are often overlooked. It turns out that a frantic grab for the open source crown can lead to some truly spectacular digital "oopsies" at the expense of user data.

The "New" Is a Relative Term Misunderstanding

Customers in Germany are reporting that the "new" hard drives they purchased from Seagate were, in fact, used hard drives. Reports suggest these drives had already accumulated tens of thousands of hours of operational time, which is essentially the entire lifespan of a typical modern tech worker.

The implication here is that quality control accidentally shipped a batch of pre-owned, possibly slightly haunted, data storage devices. Buying a "new" hard drive with the operational wear of a rental car is not ideal, but it does speak to a wonderful efficiency in the supply chain; why build a new drive when you can just re-label one that is already tired. This is how the magic of enterprise IT works.

Firmware Traps and the Infinite Reversion Loop

Google has once again moved the cheese, but this time they also sealed the door behind the mice. Pixel 4a owners who updated their phones with a particularly buggy battery patch are now effectively trapped on the bad version. Google removed the old firmware from its servers, preventing a rollback to the version that actually allowed the battery to function in a normal, non-panicked state.

This is a masterclass in planned obsolescence through accidental digital cruelty. It is the equivalent of the IT department pushing an update to the enterprise printer driver that only allows printing in a broken shade of cyan, and then deleting the installation file for the previous driver. Now, users must simply wait for a new patch that may or may not introduce an even worse problem; the circle of life for Android devices.

Briefs

• Legacy Tooling Nostalgia: Someone wrote an article explaining why they still like Sublime Text in 2025. It is a necessary reminder that every new, flashy IDE will eventually become the "I still use that" preference of a certain generation.
• Near-Earth Object (NEO) Planning: JPL's Sentry system is tracking an asteroid with a minor, but non-zero, chance of impacting Earth in 2032. We can all relax; the probability is only 1%, which is roughly the same probability a new VC-funded startup has of delivering a profitable quarter.
• Cross-Platform Emoji Issues: Chrome on Windows is having trouble rendering some flag emojis. The UN is not panicking yet; but the geopolitical stability of the internet is apparently only one poorly-coded Unicode implementation away from collapse.